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Figure 4.10. Facilitation Before, During and After a Community Conversation Session

Additional qualities of skilled facilitation are:

• Understanding/experience of the security and well-being concerns of all participants;

• Experience of and skill in participatory, peer-to-peer facilitation methods;

• Openness;

• Understanding of group dynamics;

• Flexibility;

• Love of the work;

• Awareness of activist causes

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