Miel Nora, MD, MBA

Facilitation Skills for Impact is a practical, field-tested guide for community and nonprofit leaders who already show up in rooms with groups - and want to show up better. Drawing on more than two decades of public health and community development work across the Philippines, author Miel Filomeno Nora, MD, MBA distills the essential skills of effective group facilitation into a clear, immediately usable framework.
From building trust in the first five minutes to navigating conflict, from designing for full participation to growing a reflective practice after every session - this guide covers the full arc of facilitation work with honesty and warmth. Inside, you will find the G. I. F. T. Framework (Guide, Inspire, Foster, Teach), the 7-Step Facilitation Flow, practical tools for every participation challenge, a Head/Heart/Feet reflection system, and a 30-Day Action Plan to put it all into practice.
This is not a theoretical text. Every framework, tool, and technique has been tested in real rooms - with barangay health workers, NGO program teams, faith community leaders, and civil society organizations across Southeast Asia and beyond. Whether you are preparing to run your first workshop or looking to deepen a practice you have built over years, Facilitation Skills for Impact gives you the structure, language, and confidence to create the conditions where something real can happen.