According to Schwarz (2005), those acting in each of the five facilitation roles are
experts on, or highly skilled in, the process of facilitation, but the thing that varies most
significantly is their involvement with content. Schwarz and Dick (1991) concurred that it is very
difficult to facilitate group processes when the facilitator is immersed in content. Bens (2005)
suggested that engaging with content is a trap for novice facilitators because they can be
distracted from their appointed role. Essential to clarifying the role that any particular facilitator
will play with a group is the need to be intentional “in the sense that the facilitator is conscious
of what she [sic] is doing and why” (Brockbank & McGill, 1998, p. 152). Schwarz (2002)
explained that facilitators