Handbook of Professional Facilitation

Goal-Setting Workshop:
Finding solutions with Café

What’s in this chapter:

• Case study: The second stage of a 3-stage workshop. The objective in this stage is to find solutions to current challenges.

• Tools: Café, Investment Activity, Silent Moving, Group Ranking

How this helps you:

Café lets a group discuss multiple topics at once and is an ideal tool for emergence. This chapter shows you an example of a successful Café method and teaches you how to incorporate it into your meetings and workshops.

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.