The “6-Cat” (Six Category Intervention Analysis) model developed by John Heron provides a useful framework for any facilitator who has ever asked themselves the question “So, what do I do now?”  An intervention can be any verbal or non-verbal behaviour offered in service to a group or individually – ideally – the right intervention, at the right time.

In this session, we will introduce a range of possible interventions, and consider together, practically and experientially, what best serves our groups, which interventions we might personally overuse or avoid, and how the content (what is said and done) and manner (timing, tone, mood, non-verbal behaviour) is part of the whole.

Some time will also be given to recognising and identifying unhealthy and unskilled interventions, and habitual grooves that we might lapse into as facilitators such as the facilitator as politician, saboteur, drama queen or ‘emotional ferret’.  Handling our own feelings (from shame to squirming and everything in between) when we recognise our selves is an important function of awareness and essential for good self-regulation.