Facilitation (from the English facilitate — to help, facilitate, promote). Facilitation differs from management in that its method is non-directive and does not go beyond the self-organization of the system. Facilitation, as a psychological technique, helps to reveal in the group and the client the natural abilities that they use unconsciously.
Open forums are public meetings aimed at developing public dialogue and addressing issues that cause polarization, creating a community by bringing together different people and points of view.
This space is created in order to listen, agree and disagree, and support direct nonviolent interactions between participants. Open forums draw attention to the need for relationships between people with opposing viewpoints to increase understanding of others ' experiences and reduce hostility in society.
The methodology for facilitating open forums was developed in detail by Arnold Mindell, a Doctor of psychology from the USA. The facilitator's focus is on realizing that helping the world is about learning about yourself, not seeking change.
Open forums are one of the most powerful forms of dialogue that have come from ancient times. This is a free space between "truth" and "untruth", "right" and "wrong", "bad" and "good", "our" and "enemy", where each person involved has the opportunity to express their thoughts and emotions, express their pain, aggression, depression, joy, anger, gratitude is everything that will allow the group to express different voices and opinions, discover hot spots, clarify polarities, overcome conflicts, get closer to each other and move on. Open forums are internal work for groups. Maintaining an open forum requires a special skill of the moderator.
You can read about how to prepare and conduct open forums in A. Mindell's book "DEEP DEMOCRACY OF OPEN FORUMS".