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	Developing good facilitation skills encompasses the ability to encourage positive participation within a group session. A<strong> good facilitator can enhance participation </strong>despite the personal spotlight on them while hosting sessions of various natures. Facilitation skills incorporate a development of facilitation styles as each group session facilitated will have different needs, levels of advancement, as well as group dynamics. This means <strong>facilitators need to understand the stages of group development</strong>. Like a good educator, facilitators need to plan, design &amp; prepare their group sessions with research and consultation. Facilitation skill is a tool to assist in community development in terms of integration and individual participation with community sessions. <strong>Facilitation skills is a vehicle for social change</strong>, often inspiring group session participants to read up more on facilitation techniques as they see the potent reality of change from a social justice perspective. For participants, they may see facilitation skills as <strong>helping others cross the divide</strong>, a gulf of an ocean via translantic sessions or sea sessions that no doubt entail some choppy waters during the voyage.&nbsp;</p>
