notes on focus groups - from Rosemary Talmadge We recently did a round of focus groups with the facilitators and most found the guide very useful. As a group they did not like the viewpoints option in Session II and used the tape exercise (which we called "Where do you stand?") instead with great results. A common comment was from facilitators and participants we surveyed was that four weeks was not long enough and that they felt rushed into the action session. We'd be happy to discuss any of the results of the recent self-assessment we did for Ford.

note Note that when this guide was used in East Hampton, CT round two was held in two parts, in the fall of 2004 and in the spring of 2005.