Facilitation is essentially a very powerful tool in enabling and promoting equality amongst people; all facilitators believe that genuine participation is an essential means to effective group, community, organisational and societal development. In this sense, promoting Inclusion should be the business of all facilitators; indeed, this is clearly spelled out as one of the IAF Core Values and in IAF Core Competence C2, which states that facilitators should “honour and recognise diversity, ensuring inclusiveness.”

This Special Interest Group was started in 2018 and grew out of a larger network of Social Inclusion Facilitators, mostly based in Africa, that have been working for many years to use Facilitation as a means of tackling discrimination, exclusion and oppression in order to promote Social Cohesion and Inclusion.

The group currently has more than 40 members from the following countries - Canada, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Netherlands, Romania, Rwanda, South Africa, Turkey, Uganda, UK, and USA. The group has the following objectives::

• To act as a means of organising for Social Inclusion facilitators globally
• To promote Social Inclusion facilitation amongst IAF members
• Development of Facilitation methods and Techniques in relation to Social Inclusion and for specific groups, e.g. people with disabilities (deaf, blind etc.), illiterate people, LGBTIQ communities, etc.
• To promote Diversity, Equity and Inclusion through the work of the Special Interest Group.
• Sharing of learning, information, resources and services

Facilitation and Disability Inclusion

December, 2022

Learning about the work of Rangbhumi Applied Theatre, India

July, 2021

Social Inclusion via Facilitation, the case of Ankara, Turkey

May, 2021

What Facilitation can do in the Most Unequal Country in the World, South Africa

August, 2021