Facilitation Skills 1
18th-21st June 2013
This course is designed to introduce participants to facilitation and equip them with a comprehensive understanding of the role, metaskills, skills and tasks of a facilitator in organisational and group settings.
Participants will develop a solid and rigorous theoretical foundation from which to begin work as a facilitator. They will be equipped with the essential skills required to run group processes, particularly concentrating on helping a group to achieve its agreed upon goals. After attending the course, the participant will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the role of facilitation in organisational processes
- Identify the main theoretical perspectives out of which facilitation has emerged
- Understand and apply the differences between the roles of a facilitator, a leader, a chairperson and a participant
- Understand the basic frameworks underlying the various schools of clinical and organisational psychology and how to use variables of each to manage human behaviour
- Understand the main differences between individual and group behaviour
- Practise techniques for managing their own psychological responses to facilitation situations
- Begin to develop the metaskills required to facilitate effectively
- Develop their communication skills with a particular emphasis on the ability to listen and use appropriate verbal skills.
- Apply basic facilitation skills
- Embrace the professionalism and ethics required to function effectively and with integrity as a facilitator
- Understand the main tasks of a facilitator
- Ensure that groups achieve their objectives during meetings, workshops or other group sessions
- Use a range of facilitation aids
- Understand how to document a facilitated session.
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Facilitation Skills 2
16-19th July 2013
This course follows on from Facilitation Skills 1 and teaches the skills of working with both “on the surface processes” and “beneath the surface processes” in groups. The participant will develop the skills required to safely bring underlying issues to the surface and to assist the group to resolve these issues. In particular, the participant will develop the ability to:
- Understand the idea of the group “psyche”, or the group-as-a-whole
- Understand the nature of group processes, and the relationship between on the surface and under the surface processes
- Help groups to explore under the surface processes in a constructive way
- Help groups to identify, interpret and draw meaning from the group dynamics and associated processes
- Understand power dynamics in groups and how to facilitate in the face of power differences.
- Identify and work with group roles and archetypes during group processes
- Understand how to identify and work with a variety of signals in a group
- Work with group leaders and the role of leadership in groups
- Understand the scapegoating process in groups and have the skills to assist groups to avoid scapegoating
- Understand the impact of diversity issues in groups and use appropriate facilitation skills
- Understand the nature of conflict processes in groups and have the skills to assist groups to resolve conflict
Venue, Bookings and Cost
The courses will be run in the small town of Prince Albert which is situated on the edge of the Great Karoo at the foot of the Swartberg Mountains. The cost for each course is R5700 including VAT. This cost does not include accommodation. A variety of accommodation options are available at affordable rates. To find out more, or make a booking contact us at 0235411114, or email Helene at helene@feather.co.za.
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