This badge will present an overview of facilitation and facilitation skills placing facilitation in context with community development and community engagement work. Non-verbal, verbal, and administrative facilitation skills will be outlined and developed. Additionally, participants will learn strategies to lay the groundwork for successful facilitation such as timlining, parking lots, developing shared expectations, the art of the question, and meeting intake. An introduction to convergent and divergent tools will also be provided, and ideas for incorporating facilitation in to community engagement and development will be generated.

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June 5, 2023 to July 28, 2023