Holding Space A Guide to Mindful Facilitation

The work of skilled facilitators has never been more necessary or important.

Opening up the space for dialogue for all is needed now, more than ever. Holding Space: A Guide to Mindful Facilitation is a starting point, intended to make it easier for coaches, facilitators, and leaders to step forward with confidence. Authors Kate Ebner, CEO of The Nebo Company and her colleague Izzy Martens, a certified facilitator, writer and yoga teacher, share stories, lessons, strategies for facilitating important conversations and gatherings.

Within the pages, you’ll discover tools, checklists and new ideas to keep in mind as you think about planning your facilitated events.

• Learn what it means to “hold space” from a variety of perspectives and insights about how to ensure a welcoming, inclusive and culturally attuned experience.
• Read about the concept of mindfulness and how mindfulness is not only relevant, but necessary to facilitation.
• Discover your authentic presence and see what it “looks like” when you bring yourself fully to your facilitation work.
• Read about what happens when a facilitation doesn’t go well and how to “pivot” in order to get things back on track.
• Gain well-tested pointers that can turn a virtual event into a thoughtfully designed, heartfelt, and engaging experience.

Holding Space begins with the insight that becoming a great facilitator requires a willingness to look within, including an examination of one’s own beliefs and biases, presence, unique traits and trigger points. Discover how to tap into the practice of mindfulness to “hold space” for others and create extraordinary-even transformational-experiences and outcomes.