Feeling Facilitator Pillows

'Yes, well, in my practice patients are encouraged to express their feeling to the fullest.'

"Shall we start with an icebreaker?"

Inclusive speech

'Complete sentences?? Jeez, how verbose can you get?'

Networking

'Here's another one that'll make you blow your stack.'

The Importance of Planning Thoroughly in Advance

'All those in doubt, raise your eyebrows.'

"This is the communications workshop, right? Let’s get started, I’m prepared!"

"This isn't the big city anymore, Jim. I'm the facilitator now."

'I thought people were quite receptive to the change seminar.'

The first week of the brainstorming session went slowly.

'Come on, Walter, you're wasting out time! Stop using complete sentences!'

"You're wondering why I've called you here."

"Despite years of management training john still found it difficult to give negative feedback."

How to engage an audience

'I'm feeling a sense of conclusion here, so let's draw things to a close.'

'He has a very open mind. Everything goes in one ear and out the other.'

'The customers' suggestions make a lot of sense. I say, let's hire the customers and fire the staff!'

Start the session by doing something unusual.

'This training session is all about challenging assumptions. For example you see someone looking depressed, dishevelled, unkempt it's easy to jump to conclusions. But they may not be a social worker, they may be a client!'

'Is that why our games of hide and seek are over so quickly?'

"We can't even agree what to argue about any more!"

The meeting will start a little late, intelligence is lost in the building somewhere.

As the Chief Corporate Adrenal Gland of the company, Fred's recommendations were rarely a surprise.

The facilitator from hell.

'Ladies and gentlemen, today we're going to get down to nuts and bolts.'

'And now, Gentlemen, that we have our thinking caps on, let us continue.'

Gestalt Therapy: The first layer of neurosis is the game playing or phony layer, the second is the phobic or dissatisfaction with self layer,third is impasse,forth is the implosive layer and fifth is where the neurotic finally releases pent up feelings.

'Benson will you stop trying to dominate the meeting.'

'We're running late and I have much to cover. Can you hold your eight-part question for later?'

"Nothing beats work events to mingle, build relationships, and backstab fellow colleagues."

"Hey - let's not us re-invent wheel."

"Let's welcome our new member, Bob!" "You, too!" "'You, too'? Idiot!"