Facilitator

Meetings with impact

You have had many meetings. Conversations, business strategy or away days, you name it. But they are not very productive and you hardly make any progress. You are far from agreement and integration. Everyone is working in their own silo, saying “yes” but still going back to business as usual. Your goals seem further away than ever.

As a facilitator, I make sure that participants are on the same page and take action and responsibility. My focus is collaboration across the borders of disciplines and organisations.

As a collaboration architect, I design and facilitate a meeting to build your collaboration or evaluate it, a team session, a good conversation, a strategy meeting or a working session. Together, we work on content and mutual connection at the same time. I mainly use Liberating Structures conversational structures to ensure an impactful and productive session. With Deep Democracy, and the occasional touch of sociocracy, we take broadly supported decisions. My meetings are inspiring, connecting, productive and constructive. Collaboration becomes action-oriented and delivers more than the sum of its parts. We work in co-creation. All participants are equal, everyone’s perspective is given attention. Shared understanding arises while we are working on the content.

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First, we explore your goals and intended outcome for the meeting. Sometimes I also talk to one or several meeting participants. With that input, I create a draft design for the session.

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Discovering Liberating Structures

Do you first want to experience what Liberating Structures can do for your team or organisation? Then book a 2-hour introductory workshop. Together we will decide on the programme content. If the group is large, I will bring very experienced co-facilitators.

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Want to learn how to design and facilitate a meeting or event yourself?
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conference workshop - Moniek Lijster

Facilitation of interdisciplinary integration

I facilitated an interdisciplinary science team in integrating their disciplinary perspectives. I used multimodal communication (Shapes Language) for this: by laying down the disciplinary perspectives with shapes we discussed the research variables, the relationships between them and focus of the joint research.

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What others say

'It was amazing how quickly a vibrant energy ran through the room and how we really got something done in a short time (on multiple levels). A result we haven't had before in a team meeting.'

Peter Middelkoop – Royal Dutch Visio

‘You can communicate easily and quickly with Moniek prior to the session. She pleasantly and proactively thinks along with the assignment and, at the same time, quickly makes it her own with appropriate, inspiring and active work forms. Moniek knows how to create an open and pleasant atmosphere in which people feel at ease. At the same time, she is sharp in monitoring the meeting goals and the dot on the horizon to achieve the desired content and output.'

Liz Bloemheuvel – Bartiméus

'Moniek facilitated a social event with our team. The meeting was well experienced by the participants. Thanks to the chosen working methods, everyone had a voice, everyone remained captivated throughout the session and people made contact easily (including those who did not yet know each other). This created a pleasant and inspiring dynamics. Also, the outcome of the meeting provides opportunities for future collaborations between our group members.'

Thomas Hoogeboom – IQ Healthcare – Radboud UMC

'Moniek works proactively in her preparations, comes up with proposals and suggestions and creatively adjusts them if the conversation calls for it. She is a constructive thinker with vision and a listening ear. You can confidently leave it to Moniek to realise the goals you discussed with her beforehand. She adapts her approach to the needs of the group, switching gears when necessary. She provides a relaxed setting and uses creative interventions in a goal-oriented way to achieve results under her clear guidance. The combination of casual, creative, businesslike and goal-oriented approach is very strong.'

Alice Dallinga – Koninklijke Visio

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