Facilitate To facilitate means to make a process easier or to empower people to accomplish a task.According to the definition, the job of the facilitator is to make the meeting run smoothly and encourage conversations and decisions when appropriate. From a leisure services perspective, this might mean helping to bring summer camp volunteers with different viewpoints to a consensus regarding a particular decision, or leading a group of people through multiple elements on a challenge course. Ultimately, the facilitator attempts to make things easier.