Facilitation is any activity that makes tasks for others easy, or tasks that are assisted. For example:

• Facilitation is used in business and organizational settings to ensure the designing and running of successful meetings and workshops.
• Neural facilitation in neuroscience, is the increase in postsynaptic potential evoked by a 2nd impulse.
• Ecological facilitation describes how an organism profits from the presence of another. Examples are nurse plants, which provide shade for new seedlings or saplings (e.g. using an orange tree to provide shade for a newly planted coffee plant), or plants providing shelter from wind chill in arctic environments.