MAFN is a non-profit regional professional development and business network, (501(C)(6), supporting business facilitators in the Mid-Atlantic States of the Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia, or where ever you are when your orbit encounters ours. Because we are such a unique regional organization with a national reach, facilitators from across the USA have joined our network.
We have an increadibly rich membership with people that have discovered the wonders of group facilitation and facilitators that have discovered the wonders of people working collaboratively together.
Our Mission is to help group facilitators:
- Grow Professionally: by increasing our capacity, capability and value as facilitators,
- Develop Facilitation Opportunities: by identifying, sharing, and resourcing projects for and among our members, and
- Promote Facilitation: by educating organizations to the value professional facilitation brings to all groups.
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Our membership is extremely diverse. Members belong to small businesses, large corporations, government, and non profits. They are new to facilitation, do facilitation as a colateral duty or simply as a means to improve their meetings. They are professional facilitators, OD and Management Consultants, trainers, mediators, coaches, and dispute resolution professionals. One doesn't have to be a "professional facilitator" to gain value and benefit from learning the methods and developing their skills in group facilitation. Many people come to MAFN because they want to create meaningful change in their life and facilitation resonates with who they want to be. Please feel free to visit our website and learn about what we do. Then, when you are ready,
Some of our members use facilitation skills in their regular work and some make facilitation their regular work as professional faciltiators. We welcome people from all disciplines to join us for a meeting, to help you meet a need, to discover your needs for a change, and to change for a lifetime.
