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A Film Group Guide Starting a Film Group |
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The other essential component of a successful group is a good facilitator (or facilitators). The facilitator ensures that discussions are focused, lively and respectful and that everyone participates equally. Facilitation can be done by members who rotate in the role, a single member with the skills and the time for the job, or a professional facilitator hired by the group. Having someone with talent and experience regularly facilitate can ensure consistency and quality, but it might be difficult to find a person willing and able to assume that permanent role. Rotation gives everyone the opportunity and responsibility to facilitate. This is a fair distribution of work, but might mean that some meetings will be better run than others. It's
a good idea to have a skilled facilitator run the initial discussion.
It is important that the first few meetings are well-moderated so
that participants will want to commit to the group. Even if someone
isn't eager to serve as the facilitator permanently, he or she may
be willing to handle the beginning sessions. While some groups do rely on permanent or professional facilitators, most share the position. When recruiting members, the organizer should remember that each person may be periodically facilitating. Facilitator
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