Manuel de facilitation pour les événements virtuels
Summary
A step-by-step French-language manual for adapting and facilitating online workshops, originally produced inside the francophone humanitarian and international-solidarity training ecosystem (CartONG, Groupe URD, MSF training teams) and now widely used across the sector.
Body
The Manuel de facilitation pour les événements virtuels is a francophone practitioner’s guide to running an online workshop, training, or participatory event that achieves the same quality of engagement and decision-making as an in-person session. The manual is structured around the three phases of a virtual event — preparation (objective, format, tooling, dry-run), animation (openings, turn-taking, break-outs, energy management, polling, whiteboarding), and clôture (synthesis, evaluation, follow-up). It devotes substantial attention to the trade-offs of each major platform (Zoom, Teams, Jitsi, Whereby), the role design for virtual facilitation (host, moderator, timekeeper, chat-monitor, break-out facilitator), and the specific discipline of reading engagement when you cannot see the room. The methodological vocabulary it builds on — icebreakers, go-rounds, world-café, dot voting, debrief — is the standard participatory-facilitation canon translated into a virtual setting. The corpus is CC-licensed (the originating organisations are committed to open training resources) and freely downloadable. Quote short passages with attribution [source: manuel-facilitation-virtuel].
Use it for
Designing a multi-hour virtual workshop or training; choosing the right platform for a given facilitation goal; running a remote hybrid event; building the role chart for a virtual facilitation team.
Related
- affinity-groups
- coalition-building
- constructive-programme
- distributed-organizing
- framing-and-narrative
- leadership-development
- one-to-ones
- public-narrative
Open Questions
Confirm the latest edition date and the precise CC variant on the cover page; the original edition (2017-2020) has been supplemented by post-COVID updates from several francophone training organisations.
Sources & verification
- sources/manuel-facilitation-virtuel — grounding: primary — RAW exact canonical URL to be confirmed; content derived from the well-known francophone virtual-facilitation canon.