Bringing Together Facilitation Micro-practices and Studies on Groups and Meetings
The aim of this paper is to propose how different visions of the group and of meetings are linked to the objectives of meeting facilitation interventions. It answers to the problem of the lack of integration between scientific studies and “know-how” publications. After having shown the importance of groups and meetings in organised environments and presented the convergences between both, it poses the meeting as the necessary route for intervention in an organised environment and the specific interventions for running these meetings as basic micro-interventions. It proposes a theoretical articulation permitting the identification of “fields of intervention” at the junction of a complex modelling of the group and meetings and a simpler and more prescriptive modelling focused on intervention. This articulation contributes to a better integration of theory and practice, and opens up new avenues of research to verify the linkages proposed by the model, to fill possible gaps in usual practices and to promote the emergence of new ways of considering training and professional development in facilitation.