Nkum Associates provides services in the facilitation or moderation of workshops and multi-stakeholder dialogue processes. With many years experience in mapping multiple realities towards the delineation of common ground and embracing differences, Nkum Associates are able to facilitate complex multi-stakeholder dialogues towards win-win situations and a focus on joint action.
Facilitation
Our Approach
In Nkum Associates we believe that dialoguing enables the conjoining of different stories and realities, and a weaving of a tapestry of narratives that becomes a “story told by more than one person/party.” Our approach is to provide and manage a healthy container where dialogue partners are able to join and differentiate in their perspectives and realities in mutually respectful and supportive ways.
We teach and model dialogue as different from debate. We, therefore, seek to work with clients to enable them enrich their own, and one another people’s perspectives on issues through healthy and constructive joint-exploration of new and mutually beneficial possibilities and options.
Our Approach
In Nkum Associates we believe that dialoguing enables the conjoining of different stories and realities, and a weaving of a tapestry of narratives that becomes a “story told by more than one person/party.” Our approach is to provide and manage a healthy container where dialogue partners are able to join and differentiate in their perspectives and realities in mutually respectful and supportive ways.
We teach and model dialogue as different from debate. We, therefore, seek to work with clients to enable them enrich their own, and one another people’s perspectives on issues through healthy and constructive joint-exploration of new and mutually beneficial possibilities and options.
- Facilitation enriches dialogue and minimizes debate
- Facilitation leads to shared appreciation of common ground and differences
- Facilitation supports concerned parties to find healthy ways forward for themselves
- The facilitator’s primary role is to provide and maintain a healthy container for dialogue