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Group Facilitation for Health Professionals
powerful methods for bringing any group together

What’s the best way to keep my group focused and move ahead fast with a genuine ”consensus“ decision?

Health professionals have to be group facilitators more and more often. Those who have led groups for many years often work by instinct. What do you do when instinct does not address the group's needs? This course provides the most powerful methods for a solid foundation and safety net to get you through difficult times. Learn how to use them internally and with the public.

In this seminar, you will learn how to:

Lead discussions on difficult or hot topics
Enable the group to come to concrete conclusions
Create consensus within a team, work group, or public group
Improve meetings so they focus on results
Facilitate delicate and sensitive dialogue

Lead productive involvement in user groups, training sessions and planning sessions
Focus a diverse group’s energy on a common goal
Create a sense of teamwork
Improve staff morale
Use group creativity to maximize results

Training Benefits

This two-day course has effectively empowered managers, supervisors and front line workers in public health departments, regional health authorities, care facilities, community care access centres, district health councils, and hospitals across Canada. It provides an effective step-by-step process to help clarify discussions and achieve consensus within any group, including public groups. Learn how to keep an individual or a whole group moving creatively ahead.

Learn to use the following tools

The Focused Conversation Method

Involves each person in tn the group
Provides a structure for clear dialogue and reflection
Probes beneath the surface to the depth of a topic
Encourages a diversity of perspectives

The Workshop Method

Engages the participation of each group member
Focuses the group’s consensus
Builds an effective partnership for action
Enables you to facilitate large groups

Course Availability

This course can be taugh to an entire department, nursing division or front line work unit with exceptional results. Some organizations even send individual new staff to our public courses. We offer one hour toll-free telephone support for each course participant within one year.

The price for this two-day in-house course is $7500 for 20 participants or less, plus expenses.


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