Facilitate Meetings

This page was part of a completed stage of Destination 2040 and is now part of the project archive.

Destination 2040 depends on many people coming together to talk through their differing ideas and work toward a sense of common purpose for our community's long term future. This is democracy in action. In order to make this project as successful as possible, facilitators guide each meeting, using a standard format shared throughout the community.

To "facilitate" means "to make easy." As facilitator, your actions will make it easy for every person present to have a fair chance to make a contribution to Lexington-Fayette County's future. Thousands of people in our community will have their say in each round of meetings:

  1. Round One, January 22 – March 14, 2008: "The Destination Conversation: Many Ideas, One Vision"
  2. Round Two, April - July, 2008: "Focusing on the Powerful Strategies and Great Ideas That Help Answer the Root Question" (Round Two meetings build on work accomplished during Round One.)

Facilitating the meetings is engaging, but not hard. Productive meetings result from your willingness to take the following actions:

  1. Before facilitating a Round One meeting, attend a two hour training to learn the facilitator role and get the materials needed to guide the meeting. All facilitators will be trained in a standard meeting format, which will be used in all meetings throughout the community.
  2. Before facilitating a Round Two meeting, attend a 90-minute training that will equip you to facilitate that meeting.
  3. Facilitate the Round One and Round Two meetings, each of which will take 90 minutes. At each meeting, you will play a neutral role, encouraging others' opinions while keeping your own views private.
  4. Within two days after facilitating each meeting, submit a simple report (approximately 20 minutes) and mail or deliver participants' written products to LFUCG.