Facilitation Skills
Facilitating Groups
This foundation workshop provides skill practice and theory for facilitating learning and growth for groups that are meeting for a common purpose. Participants learn and practice techniques for chartering and contracting with groups, beginning and ending meetings, helping groups solve problems, make decisions, and follow their own ground rules, and working with a co-facilitator. Appropriate for classroom facilitators and for group facilitators (facilitation of teams, committees, councils, etc.).
Diagnosis & Intervention Techniques for Group FacilitatorsThis workshop builds on the skills and knowledge in Facilitating Groups (prerequisite). Participants learn and practice techniques for observing a group’s behavior to assess effectiveness, determining the nature of the behavior, and inferring causal relationships consistent with a model of group effectiveness.
Working with Challenging Behavior in GroupsThis workshop builds on the skills and knowledge in Facilitating Groups (prerequisite). Participants explore the issues that can prevent groups from reaching their common purpose. Includes diagnosing and responding to covert group behaviors; identifying and working with hostile, fearful, or resistant participants; and handling group conflict.
The Awake FacilitatorParticipants examine their own conscious and unconscious influence on a group’s effectiveness, as well as their own filters for selectively perceiving and responding to the behaviors of others. Includes journaling, inner work, peer coaching, and examination of previous facilitation or other group experiences.