How to be a Thriving Facilitator: Recent Episodes
Sheila Preston
How to be a Thriving Facilitator - Exploring what thriving looks like and feels like for facilitators who work in community and educational settings. Supporting practitioners to unlock their wisdom in the challenge of in work in community and education settings. Locating the mindset issues that can get in way of unlocking our thriving potential. Series one invites you in for a glimpse of what happens in the Thriving Facilitators membership.
We're exploring in thriving facilitators, the possibilities for conscious facilitation and we are looking at this lens through the them of collusion.
Questions arising.
What are the tight ropes for facilitators?
If wecan become more aware of collusion, what kind of fresh thinking might be enabled forpeople that we work with?
How might we respond to an invitation to collude?
That would be really interesting to unpick that we've got that invitation. So what might ourresponse be?
How could a compassionate non-attachment help us to feel more ease and avoid falling into these traps?
Can we bring our superpower to situations that feel uncomfortable or are new?
Does awareness of our super power depend on feeling at ease and in flow?
How to we find our grounding?
Locating some key understandings that help us realise our power is always available to us.
I wonder, what stories do you have about visibility / showing up? Does this ever limit your work and your contribution, or perhaps even your authenticity in your work.
**Perhaps you are in a transition to something new and the challenge of visibility is showing up big time via imposter syndrome
Or, what other people might think tends to censor a part of you and you hold back, losing confidence in your own authentic way of doing things.**
I wonder
What stories you have about visibility and showing up in your practice as a practitioner?
What impact does this have on your presence as a professional?
What impact does this have on YOU?
How much of YOU are you withholding in your work.
Im aware of a reticence to visibility is showing up for me right now as I travel through life and work transitions - building Thriving ing Facilitators, develop a health, fitness and wellbeing practice, as I age and change as an older woman.
- imposter syndrome
- will I ever know enough?
- is my experience enough?
- am i fit enough ? will be people judge me
This sort of thinking tells me something about my own insecurities.
What are the limiting beliefs that sit below your stories of visibility?
What could be possible for you if you felt able FULLY show up as you - perfectly imperfect, and un apologetically YOU, with your quirks,
I know deep down that I am enough, and I know that you are too, you have everything you need as you in all your quirkiness and individuality.
What could be possible for YOU and your practice, and your business if you REALLY believed this - no longer let your beliefs about what others think limit you?
Let's create a compassionate space to acknowledge our challenges with visibility, share how they are part of our common humanity and explore what can be possible for us!
Let me know how you get on?
And if you would like some support with visibility and showing up in your fullness, you're welcome to join Thriving Facilitators and its wonderful community. https://sheilapreston.com
You can also work with me 1-1 to make some real transformations.
Continuing our exploration of topics that have arisen following reading Brene Browns Atlas of the Heart.
Questions to reflect on - What emotions or feelings states that you struggled with that you wouldn't care to admit to others?
If we can name them in the presence of others, of compassionate witnesses, can we find a way of being okay with that?
Can we see our common humanity in this and what opens up for us? When we do that, is there a different layer of information that becomes available to us? Can we find new understanding?
Forming part of our exploration of exploration arising from Brene Browns Atlas of the Heart
Here are some question that I'm inviting us, to explore - does our response or reactivity to things that happen when we have emotional reactions come from a pre-existing belief about how we deal with things emotionally?
So a trait, or maybe an identity that we've adopted, like 'the' one who gets anxious about, or the one who, is the procrastinator.
Or does our response come from an understanding that it's our state of mind in the moment? If we see our emotional experience as a trait, something we were born with or we're saddled with that we just have to manage or, can we see our emotional experience as a state? What opens up for us when we do that?
This is the third in a series of three workshops in Thriving Facilitators exploring our commitment and accountability - to ourselves (particularly our self care), and our practice (including our community).
In this series we explore what gets in the way of our intentions to make changes that we know in our hearts will be healthy for us. We look at authentic goals and those that are more extrinsically driven (and less successful).
This session we explore the cycle of change first proposed by Prochaska and DiClemente and members are invited to explore where they feel they sit. This enables us to uncover the extend of our commitment to making changes.
We then explore what action will be taken and what is needed in terms of support and accountability, such as from Thriving Facilitators.
We have been looking at the the topic of accountability as a form of commitment to ourselves and our intentions, a loving one at that.
This session focusses on practice. So i'm thinking about our commitment to ourselves as practitioners and also our work with others - our accountability to our community. Topics to consider include.
- Honouring your agreements to yourself as a practitioner.
- Supporting others in their commitments, accountability, agreements.
- What does that look like for you as a practitioner?
- What support do you need to realise your intentions?
from - "How to be a Thriving Facilitator" by Sheila Preston. In season one we are sharing glimpses into the Thriving Facilitators Membership
What gets in the way of our intentions and commitments to ourselves? What do you need to hold yourself in loving accountability? How important is your self care?
How important is it for you that you are supported in your practice? What could be possible if you did?
Exploring the core beliefs that get in the way of our intentions.
What could be possible for your practice if you committed to take care of you?
This is really about cementing our commitment to taking authentic action around the things that are important to us.
Excerpts from "How to be a Thriving Facilitator" by Sheila Preston - Season One is sharing glimpses into the Thriving Facilitators Membership