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A meeting usually means everyone is together in the same room at the same time and this is the major situation in which facilitation is practiced. With the introduction of modern telecommunications the field has grown to embrace other forms of meetings: Same time same place The traditional meeting in a room with all parties present at the same ...
There are a variety of definitions for facilitator: "An individual who enables groups and organizations to work more effectively; to collaborate and achieve synergy.He or she is a 'content neutral' party who by not taking sides or expressing or advocating a point of view during the meeting, can advocate for fair, open, and inclusive procedures to accomplish the group's work" – Michael Doyle [2]
Facilitation may refer to: . Facilitation (organisational), the designing and running of successful meetings and workshops in organizational settings Ecological facilitation, the process by which an organism profits from the presence of another, such as nurse plants that provide shade for new seedlings or saplings (e.g. using an orange tree to provide shade for a newly planted coffee plant)
Social facilitation is a social phenomenon in which being in the presence of others improves individual task performance. [1] [2] That is, people do better on tasks when they are with other people rather than when they are doing the task alone.
Facilitated communication (FC), or supported typing, is a scientifically discredited technique [1] which claims to allow non-verbal people, such as those with autism, to communicate. The technique involves a facilitator guiding the disabled person's arm or hand in an attempt to help them type on a keyboard or other such device that they are ...
Commons-based peer production is a term coined by Yale Law professor Yochai Benkler to describe a new model of economic production in which the creative energy of large numbers of people is coordinated (usually with the aid of the internet) into large, meaningful projects, mostly without hierarchical organization or financial compensation.
A person's livelihood (derived from life-lode, "way of life"; cf. OG lib-leit) [1] refers to their "means of securing the basic necessities (food, water, shelter and clothing) of life". Livelihood is defined as a set of activities essential to everyday life that are conducted over one's life span.
Ecological facilitation or probiosis describes species interactions that benefit at least one of the participants and cause harm to neither. [1] Facilitations can be categorized as mutualisms, in which both species benefit, or commensalisms, in which one species benefits and the other is unaffected.