Please join us for a special three-day training course that will equip you with fundamental facilitation skills. This course is taught by the principal author of Process-based Facilitation: Facilitation for Meeting Leaders, Consultants, and Group Facilitators, Mr. Wayne Vick, CPF, a professional group facilitator with many years of experience facilitating business groups in both the public and private sectors.
The Student Guide for the basic course is a 63-page binder designed as an accompaniment to the course presentation and is aligned with the course book bringing together the concepts and practices of Basic Group Facilitation as it flows through the course.
In this 3-day course, students are immersed in the practices of facilitation through a facilitative training environment. The course includes:
· A self-assessment of the level of competence related to 18 facilitation sub-competencies used in the professional certification process.
· Discusses the Purpose of facilitation and the Roles of the facilitator and define the terms: Concept, Model, Framework, Method, Tools and Techniques. Included in the basics are the distinctions in terms of Facilitation, Facilitator and Facilitative to help understand the facilitators’ role in contrast to that of instructors, sales persons, counselors and consultants that use facilitative methods in their work.
· Centers on the exploration and understanding of the concept of Group Process through a detailed comparative examination of several related concepts.
· Presents a simple approach to event planning and Agenda development, including the selection or creation of techniques and facilitation tools for the environment. We also provide a generic “Walk-in Approach” for facilitating on the fly meetings using six standardized models and frameworks.
· Examines considerations for Preparations and Event Logistics.
· Lays out the process elements of an event including the Welcome and Administrative, Opening and Closing the session, and doing a routine Follow-up.
· Demonstrates how to establish a group work area and the importance of standard postings and strategies for posting completed work.
· Explores methods to manage workflow, using group participation practices, and keeping the work visible.
· Discusses effective group communications with active listening skills and the use of variety of questions to engage groups.
· Explores the need for facilitated interventions by exploring a definition of interventions, types, and reasons to intervene.
