Facilitation Guide

The Group Discussion Guide

How to Do This With Your Friends — A 12-Week Facilitation Guide

The work holds longer when the people doing it made the rules together.

This is for:

For the person taking a Name It First workbook into a small group — friend group, book club, or cohort — who needs a 12-week facilitation structure, not a prompt list.

You'll produce:your The Group Truth Guide

The Name It First Experience

Group discussion without structure produces performance. The Group Truth Guide gives your gathering a 12-week frame, explicit rules, decision processes, and the avoided truth finally on the page — signed by every member. The output is not a better conversation. It is a signed document.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. What has this group built together over the weeks of discussion — not the content of the conversations, but the trust, the honesty, the patterns of showing up?
  2. What has someone else in the group said that you have been thinking about since — the thing that shifted something?
  3. What would The Group Record capture about these 12 weeks of conversations that you would want to be able to return to?

Research basis

Gottman's research on social networks and relationship stability / NVC / Peer facilitation research

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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

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Built for two. You each work your own copy, on your own time — then you bring them together and compare, one answer at a time.

The comparison is the conversation.

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