Feedback - The facilitator can frame whatever comes up as potentially instructive for the group's understanding of its own dynamics or the impacts of its actions (Which it often is, quite directly)
People needs lots of positive signals back to feel that their contribution is valued. Groups need positive signals back to feel like their effort is worthwhile. --Tree (and Tom) .... Appreciative assumptions actually raise people's awareness, energy and creativity, especially when combined with inquiry, purpose, and emergence. Feedback is a group dynamic that TENDS to be negative, so if you want to have an appreciateive atmosphere, you need to attend to helping feedback be appreciative. -- Tom
Key point for feedback. --Tree ... This is THE primary time for feedback about the whole event, either through group reflection or individual comments or feedback forms. Don't miss it. (Tom)
It definitely takes courage to give feedback, especially negative feedback, and if we can do that compassionately, it invites and helps others to do the same.
Feedback given in a public way is information for the group mind. -- Tom
Technically, feedback is an iterative process rather than a one-time, one-way process. The results of one action feed back to its source, generating a new action. Ongoing feedback loops like this fundamental to intelligence and learning. -- tom
This provides Grist for the Mill of reflection on what was done. (I agree. -- Tom) ..................... It provides a Feedback loop through the reflection and evaluation stages of the cycle. - Wiki
Take seriously people who resist a process; consider whether the group is ripe for it. -- Tom. It is by gathering feedback from the group that you discern what the season is. --Tree
One of the best ways to gain Self-Awareness is to be open (and responsive) to feedback --Sue
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