Facilitation

High-Impact Workshops: Actionable Outcomes

At Levende Streg, we offer professional event facilitation and process consultation. We help you manage processes from idea to action, preventing wasted time and ensuring you achieve your concrete visions.

As a core part of our DNA, we naturally integrate graphic recording (also known as visual facilitation), transforming heavy strategies into clear, visual summaries.

What is facilitation?

The word ‘facilitation’ originally coms from the Latin ‘facilis’, simply meaning ‘to make easy’.

Solid process management involves the techniques and tools used to ease collaboration and group processes, allowing teams to effectively achieve their planned goals.

As professional facilitators, we act as neutral catalysts. This means we do not take a stance on your company’s actual content; instead, we are razor-sharp specialists in the process. We keep the group focused on the three most important core elements of a successful meeting: purpose, engagement, and concrete outputs.

Why chose a professional facilitator?

Bringing in an external expert for professional facilitation ensures:

  • Clear direction: We set clear goals and expectations that boosts motivation and engagement.
  • High energy: We take responsibility for the room’s energy to ensure the right tempo.
  • Inclusive process design: We tailor our process management so that the workshop speaks to all learning styles.
  • Managing resistance: A skilled facilitator makes sure every voice is heard and can effectively handle the dysfunctional behavior that might arise.

Workshop Facilitation: Success is Built Before, During, and After

When Levende Streg provides professional facilitation, we leave absolutely nothing to chance. Outstanding results require a conscious and deliberate process design.

Before (Process Design)

We tailor a detailed roadmap (or script) and carefully align expectations regarding the purpose, deliverables, and success criteria together with your team.

During (On the Day)

We take full charge of the process. We ask open-ended questions, and manage the room’s energy —all while capturing everything visually through graphic recording.

After (Follow-up)

We help you anchor the results and follow up on events, ensuring that the decisions actually live on and are implemented within your organization.

Graphic Recording: Helping Participants Understand and Remember

At Levende Streg, we tailor our professional facilitation and live drawing to perfectly fit your company’s unique needs.

Whether we are supporting meeting management, classic process management, or delivering visual summaries for a large conference, we design a solution that captures the key points and allows your important messages to live on long after your event has ended.

Why is Visual Facilitation so Powerful?

Combining visual facilitation with expert meeting management provides:

  • Higher Engagement: Participants maintain their focus when words are simultaneously transformed into pictures.
  • Shared Understanding: Your discussions are gathered in a graphic record that acts as a strong visual testament to the shared decisions you have made together.
  • Long-Lasting Memory: Complex information becomes much easier to remember when it is anchored visually.

From Everyday Meetings to Large-Scale Event Facilitation

Meetings come in countless formats, and there is no one-size-fits-all template. Whether you need to breathe new life into fading department meetings, structure networking groups, or host a large, prestigious conference, we can design the right solution.

We cover a wide range of needs and help you regardless of the platform—from classic physical presence to well-planned virtual facilitation and hybrid meeting facilitation that works flawlessly across screens and locations

Professional Meeting Management

Effectively managing processes requires the facilitator to act as a neutral catalyst who takes full responsibility for the room’s energy and forward momentum.

To ensure that crucial decisions and conclusions are actually remembered and live on within the organization long after the event, many choose to combine professional facilitation with graphic recording.

Through visual facilitation, the process is simultaneously visualized into an engaging, hand-drawn graphic record that anchors the results.

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Virtual facilitation: Elevate Your Event with Visual Magic on Screen

Just because your meeting takes place digitally doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice the visual dimension.
 
At Levende Streg, we seamlessly integrate our core competency—graphic recording and visual facilitation—directly into your online meetings and virtual events.
 
Even though we aren’t in the same physical room as you, we can easily draw and visualize your complex ideas and conclusions simultaneously on the screen. This ensures that all participants gain a shared visual understanding of the goals you are trying to achieve.
 
We call this digital discipline Remote Live Drawing, and it is the perfect tool to boost your overall virtual facilitation.

Why Choose Levende Streg for Your Next Event?

You are guaranteed a thoroughly prepared and structured process:

  • Cross-Industry Experience: We have extensive experience providing professional facilitation and graphic recording across a wide range of industries and fields.
  • Structured Process Design: We meticulously plan every step of the journey to ensure your goals are met.
  • Active Participant Engagement: We maintain a strong focus on participant involvement, utilizing active formats.
  • Strong Process Management: We ensure concrete, actionable, and visual outcomes.
  • Flexible Solutions: We tailor our workshop facilitation solutions entirely to fit your specific needs.

What Events Can Levende Streg Help Facilitate?

We combine sharp process management with engaging graphic recording to help you execute a wide variety of events, including:

  • Workshop Facilitation: Idea generation, strategy, innovation, and collaboration.
  • Strategy Rollouts: Successfully launching and visually anchoring your new corporate strategy.
  • Leadership Seminars: Expert leadership facilitation designed to align your management teams.
  • Employee Engagement Days: Energizing your staff, building team cohesion, and ensuring shared understanding.
  • Team and Networking Meetings: Professional meeting management with a strong focus on knowledge sharing.
  • Sprint Processes: High-intensity sessions.
  • Theme Days and Professional Events: Comprehensive event facilitation.

 

No two events are exactly alike. Contact Levende Streg today to learn how we can elevate your next gathering with professional facilitation and powerful visual summaries.

Professional Facilitation That Anchors Your Results

Are you ready to replace unproductive time-wasting with expert process management that creates true meaning and delivers measurable bottom-line results?

Get a non-binding quote on event facilitation and process management from us.

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FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions About Professional Facilitation

  • The word 'facilitation' is originally from the Latin word 'facilis', which simply means 'to make easy'.

    In practice, professional facilitation involves a range of techniques and process management tools used to ease group collaboration, allowing teams to effectively achieve their planned goals.

  • A facilitator acts as a neutral catalyst for your meeting or event. Specifically, the facilitator takes full responsibility for:
    • Process Management: Safely guiding the group from point A to point B and ensuring everyone stays focused on the shared purpose.
    • Energy and Engagement: Reading the room's atmosphere and strategically introducing energizers or breaks whenever concentration drops.
    • Participant Involvement: Asking the right open-ended questions and ensuring that every voice is heard.
    • Managing Resistance: Effectively intervening to handle any dysfunctional behavior and ensuring a constructive dialogue.
  • Yes, and no - as it places incredibly high demands on the leader.

    The biggest challenge is that an ideal facilitator must be completely neutral
    . As a manager, project leader, or internal expert, you almost always have an opinion on the content and the specific decisions being made. Bringing in an external expert for leadership facilitation frees up the leader to actively participate in the professional discussions on equal footing with the rest of the team.

  • Graphic recording (also known as visual facilitation) means that we simultaneously draw and visualize your presentations and ideas as they happen in the room.

    The advantage is that it creates shared learning and understanding during the meeting itself, and that complex points are anchored in a powerful visual testament when the day is done. Experience and research show that visual elements make the content much easier to remember, allowing the decisions to live on longer within the organization.

  • Professional facilitation can add value to almost any format where a group of people gathers with a purpose. We provide expert assistance with:
    • Workshop Facilitation: Idea generation, strategy, and innovation.
    • Meeting Management: Project meetings, networking groups, and standard department meetings that need to break away from the "business as usual" culture.
    • Large-Scale Event Facilitation: Strategy seminars, theme days, and major conferences.
    • Virtual and Hybrid Meeting Facilitation: Expert virtual facilitation of meetings working flawlessly across screens and locations.