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Group Facilitation
Powerful methods enable you to facilitate participation and build consensus

"Rather than trying to explain or teach what is needed, the facilitator attends to the process of change. To facilitate is to elicit, sustain and enhance change. To facilitate a meeting is to let go of controlling others toward predefined results and help them accomplish what they want."
Jim Rough "Dynamic Facilitation"

The methods in this course provide a basis for dealing with complex issues and give you a very real safety net to succeed in difficult situations. They provide you with powerful ways to expand positive participation and achieve consensus . Learn how to organize ideas and keep discussions moving in any group. These methods can be used in a wide variety of situations and they can be used in concert with other approaches.
This course covers 2 core facilitation methods

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The Focused Conversation Method
  • Gets everyone participating
  • Encourages a diversity of perspectives
  • Provides a structure for positive dialogue
  • Gets beneath the surface of a topic
  • Builds common understanding
The Consensus Workshop Method
  • Involves each group member
  • Gets all the ideas into the mix
  • Focuses the group's consensus
  • Builds an effective team partnership
  • Enables you to facilitate large groups

Course Agenda

Group Facilitation

Day One
The Focused Conversation Method

Day Two
The Consensus Workshop Method

Session One
Understanding the Focused Conversation method

  • A Focused Conversation to demonstrate the method
  • Levels of thinking in the Focused Conversation method
  • Recreating a conversation with the questions scrambled

Session Three
Understanding the Consensus Workshop method

  • A Consensus Workshop to demonstrate the method - using 'cardstorming'
  • A brief form of the method using a flipchart
  • The 5 steps in the Consensus Workshop method
  • Forming consensus using the method

Session Two
Applying the Focused Conversation method

  • Creating conversation objectives
  • Developing a flow of questions to elicit group dialogue
  • Keys to using the method with groups
  • Appropriate applications of the method
  • Designing a Focused Conversation Method
  • Practice facilitating conversations in small groups
  • Group reflection on the design and practice

Session Four
Applying the Consensus Workshop method

  • Keys to each step of the method
  • Creating an appropriate focus question
  • Preparing to lead a workshop
  • Appropriate applications of the method
  • Designing a Consensus Workshop
  • Practice facilitating workshops in small groups
  • Group reflection on the design and practice

 

We include a detailed manual that you can use throughout your facilitation career. Our training approach is designed to enable you to learn these methods well enough to practice them immediately. Participants have reported that they have used methods learned on the first day of the course that very evening.

"I like the emphasis on participation, respect for individuals and their ideas, valuing diversity. There was much value in watching skillful facilitators at work."
Arline Trew

This course will help you:

  • Involve participants in discussions
  • Get more ideas into the mix
  • Build positive interaction
  • Encourage group creativity
  • Facilitate solid commitment to results
  • Focus group energy on common goals
  • Help groups resolve conflict
  • Enable groups to form consensus
  • Create lively and effective teamwork
  • Build respect and trust in groups

Benefits you can count on:

  • Build motivation and improve morale.
  • Maximize a group's productivity.
  • Design many different types of meetings 
  • Make groups more effective
  • Conduct easier, faster meetings
  • Save time and money on meetings


Register for "Group Facilitation Methods"

Toronto

Fee: $795.00 + $103.35 = $898.35 Please select the date

- - - - 2010

    September 20 - 21,2010     November 15 - 16, 2010
Outside Toronto and Ottawa

Fees vary according to location
Please contact the course sponsor for details

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- - - - 2010

    Regina November 2- 3, 2010 $607 - includes GST
           Linda O'Halloran - 306-775-7480		     Vancouver November 16 - 17, 2010
           Nathen Bernshaw 250-382-0075

 

Course Cancellation

  • Cancellation fee is $100.00 per course.
  • The course fee is not refundable if cancellation occurs within 2 days of the course.
  • Rescheduling fee is $50.00 each time you reschedule


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