CB.4:4.5 - Facilitate the work and respond to change

Open by making the purpose, current conditions and next action clear. Give an example when participants cannot cheaply infer how to contribute. Allow a person to pass or take another relevant form of participation where the activity permits it. Do not require personal disclosure or an emotional performance as proof of involvement.

OCE.12 supplies a developed construction for a brief before work, a short reassessment when the situation changes and a debrief afterwards. Use its relevant contribution: confirm what people will do, make an obstacle or change intelligible, and return the needed adjustment to the person who can make it.

During the activity, intervene at the actual difficulty. Ask for the observation behind a conclusion, give a quieter contributor a usable entry, recover a lost question, clarify which configuration an answer concerns or separate clarification from advice. If the selected form is preventing the work, change it openly and preserve the intended result. Breaking a large discussion into smaller groups also requires a way to bring their relevant results back.

For joint practice or role-play, name the representative situation, available materials, participant roles and the action being tried. Observe what happened and compare it with the applicable criteria before trying a variation. A demonstration can include the practitioner’s explanation of a choice that would otherwise remain invisible. Use HCD when the intended result is a person’s learning or capability; attendance, enthusiasm and seeing an expert perform are insufficient evidence of that result.

Keep emotionally sensitive material within the participants’ consent and the organiser’s competence. A person may decline to tell a story or continue an exercise. If the activity requires specialist support that is unavailable, change the activity or obtain that support. The purpose and limits of an ordinary practice discussion remain visible even when participants care deeply about it.