Handbook of Professional Facilitation

Clarifying Goals with
Me-We-Us and Dartboard

What’s in this chapter:

• Case study: The first stage of a 3-stage workshop. The objective in this stage is to clarify goals.

• Tools: Wishing, Dartboard, Dot Voting, Silent Moving, Me/We/Us

How this helps you:

The structure of Me/We/Us is found in many group-level tools, and for good reason. By familiarising yourself with Me/We/Us, you are not only adding a solid tool to your toolbox, but also indirectly familiarising yourself with other group decision-making tools and the principles behind them. In addition, you will learn a practical set of tools you can use for creating shared goals.

Handbook of Professional Facilitation

In the Handbook of Professional Facilitation: Theory, Tools, and Design, Pepe Nummi—a facilitator with decades of experience working with groups - introduces a unique approach to group decision-making based on structured dialogue. People tend to shoot down new ideas, especially if the idea is not their own. Pepe Nummi is a seasoned facilitator who has dedicated his life to studying human interaction. He has solved the decision-making problem by creating a technique where people need to understand other perspectives and points of view while sharing their own. As a result, people make decisions together and engage in breakthrough decision-making. In this process, the interchange of ideas leads to new insights and a shared understanding about how to move forward as a group.

Author

Pepe Nummi

Pepe is a trailblazer of facilitation in Finland. He is the first certified professional facilitator in the country, one of the founders of Grape People – Finland’s first company focusing on facilitation – the inaugural chairman of the Finnish Association of Facilitators, developer of the Idealogue method, and author of the first Finnish books on facilitation and virtual facilitation.

In the course of his long international career, this seasoned professional has provided facilitation in over 20 countries and trained over 10,000 facilitators. Pepe holds a BBA and an MA, and is a Certified Professional Facilitator.