Facilitator's Guide
This guide is for whoever is running a session — steering a live conversation so its findings come out clean. In LEMA Chat that's less about controlling people and more about keeping the funnel tight: talk, branch to stay focused, let findings accrue, resolve, and promote to the Brain.
Everything here builds on the User's Guide — make sure you're comfortable with chats, mentions, and widgets first.
In this guide
- The funnel — the model you're facilitating toward, and why it matters.
- Widgets in depth — using polls, word clouds, and sortboxes deliberately to surface and converge a group.
- Breakouts & SideChat — moving a tangent into its own room without losing the thread.
- Resolutions & findings — closing a conversation with a durable outcome and promoting what's worth keeping.
- Council & Board deliberation — turning a question over to a panel of agents that argue it out and synthesise an answer.
- The facilitator role — what's a formal capability today and what's on the roadmap.
A note on "facilitator powers"
LEMA Chat has a built-in Facilitator role, but most of the granular session-control powers people imagine — pause, mute, force a breakout — are designed but not yet enforced. Throughout this guide, capabilities are marked Shipped or Coming soon so you know exactly what you can lean on today. See The facilitator role for the full picture.