Facilitation Guide

Coming into Part 2 of the long-term Training of Trainers “Facilitation Guide” (04–12 October 2025, Tenerife, Spain), I had a clear feeling: this was not going to be a continuation in the usual sense. Part 1 in Weimar gave us foundations and language. The local phase forced us to test that language in real contexts. […]

When we say facilitation in youth work, we often mean “making things run smoothly”: keeping time, managing energy, ensuring everyone speaks, closing the day on a good note. After our first training course of the Long-term Training of Trainers “Facilitation Guide”, I would describe facilitation a little differently: it is the craft of creating the conditions where