We should not overestimate what can be achieved by a workshop. During a good workshop, the atmosphere is often very nice and people leave feeling empowered and enthusiastic. However, this feeling can quickly be counteracted by the workload of an intensive job in a war zone that makes it very difficult to implement the learning of the workshop. As facilitators we need to be aware of this. We can be happy when we have supported a good process, yet should not be too flattered by a good workshop evaluation with a lot of praise for our great facilitation. On the contrary, we must raise people’s awareness that the process must be continued and that a workshop does not tell us anything about the utilization of the results and the final impact of the learning. Therefore, we should develop – with the involved stakeholders – a clear and realistic implementation and follow-up plan with concrete tasks assigned to the involved stakeholders.
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