SAAL Assessment Shared Stories (SASS)

Centering Voices: Facilitating Focus Groups or Listening Circles

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders Season 3 Episode 2

A training designed to share components of a facilitator role, provide strategies and comfort in facilitating a focus group or listening circle, and sharing tips on opening, exploring, and closing sessions. The goal is to nurture disclosure and center participants' experiences and voices. A review of navigating multiple personality types that may show up along with simulating components of a facilitator role will be discussed.