Many of us struggle to find our facilitation style. In this video Wilson Okello talks about finding out who you are, how you enter this work, and the importance of being you.
Major take-aways:
- take time to investigate your positionally
- trust your story
- be you
Check out more of Wilson’s facilitation, social justice, and spoken word poetry work here.
Transcript
Question: How do we find a style of facilitation that suits us?
WO: “I think individuals start off, rightfully so I think imitating what they see, and imitating expertise…perceived experts in the field. But all of our life experience brings us to the space and who we are as facilitators.
So I don’t know if there is anything that anyone particularly needs to have as much as trust your story. And know that who you are, where you’ve been is informing who you are when you step in front of a space. Knowing who you are, as an educator, as a teacher, as a facilitator is tremendously important. I think that having a good sense of how you’ve arrived at what you’re teaching or what you’re learning, your positionality essentially, I think is something that is critical to the work that you’ll do. So I think spending time doing the tough personal work is what I would encourage individuals to do. And
I think that having a good sense of how you’ve arrived at what you’re teaching or what you’re learning, your positionality essentially, I think is something that is critical to the work that you’ll do. So I think spending time doing the tough personal work is what I would encourage individuals to do. And then to, how are we always connecting our truth in powerful ways, is something that we end up seeing as the facilitator educator right. Figuring out how to make that connection in authentic ways. So be you.”
So be you.”
