What is Whole Person Process Facilitation?

“A satisfied client noted with laughter that the phrase ‘Whole Person Process Facilitation’ describes the success of this meeting methodology when the phrase is broken down into working with the ‘Whole Person’ and working with the ‘Person Process’ and working via ‘Process Facilitation’.”
Birgitt Williams, creator of WPPF (Genuine Contact Program™)

Meetings of any kind are only useful if learning is taking place

Highly participative and engaging meeting methodologies allow people to connect with potential that has often lain dormant. Our work is to assist our clients in achieving their goals by creating meetings that tap into the individual and collective genius of the participants and access both intuitive and intellectual knowledge.

Success in various contexts

Whole Person Process Facilitation works well with groups from 6-150 people and in meetings from 3 hours in length to several days. It has a proven track record for:

  • development of strategies and implementation plans for successful communication, teambuilding, improving quality of work life, internal/external client service, labor/management relations, successful work process redesign
  • addressing gender or diversity issues
  • finding solutions to violence and conflict in the workplace
  • strategic planning including implementation plans
  • visioning including identification of key strategic directions
  • policy development and implementation strategies including procedural protocols

Attention to climate and “whole person”

Many components are attended to in designing the meeting, among which:

  • Creating an accepting rather than defensive climate through the placement of chairs, food, other décor, attitude and responses and being conscious of the implications of actions and behaviours of the facilitator.
  • The difference between authenticity and icebreakers.
  • Hopes and fears as a way of identifying objectives.
  • Right placement of your statement of objectives for your meeting/teaching session.
  • Various adult learning styles.
  • Integrated use of right and left brain as well as intuition for learning and problem solving using all capacities.
  • Working beyond the information that is provided by the five senses and intellectual knowledge.