FACILITATION DEVELOPMENT AND FACILITATION IN RUSSIA
While in developed countries technology of works with groups developed since the 60s and are widely used in the last few decades, in Russia this process is not developed. Over the last decade, developed dozens of facilitation methods for small and large groups, which are successfully used in the process of institutional and social change in various communities around the world. Pioneers in the field of the facilitation development as a special process are North American and Australian psychologists. For example, Marvin Weisbord, Ronald Lippitt, Eva Schindler-Rainman, Eric Trist and Fred Emery, etc. In European countries are widespread next facilitation methods created in America since 2000s — Future Search, Open Space Technology, Real Time Strategic Change, Appreciative Inquiry Summit [15]. At the same time European researchers and practitioners created new technologies, e.g. Project Retrospectives by Norman Kerth [7].
Unfortunately, in Russia facilitation technology are known only to a limited number of practitioners. Although some methods of facilitation begin to spread in Russia because of their efforts since 2000s. Periodically in Moscow held training and practical conference dedicated to the issues of facilitation. The most common technologies used by domestic consultants and business coaches are Open Space Technology, Future Search, Dynamic Facilitation, World Café.
