Facilitation Training
We offer tailored training in facilitation skills as well as open workshops.
Among the key aspects of facilitation covered are:
Awareness: paying attention to your own responses and to the responses of others
Presence: really showing people that you are listening to them and their concerns
Flexibility: improving your skills to adapt in-the-moment to the emerging needs of the group
Acknowledgement and affirmation: bringing a “Yes, and” approach instead of a “No, but”
The paradox of structure and freedom: how to get the best of both worlds; when to intervene and when to let the group run
Creating goodwill: how to support the human goodwill that is at the heart of great teams
Our training is suitable for those who are new to facilitation work, and for those with considerable experience and wishing to further strengthen their skills.
Generally, the format will combine different ways of working: some individual processing, some work in small pairs and teams, and some working with the whole group. This is designed to accommodate different learning styles and preferences.
As well as creating open space for participants to discuss issues of personal concern to them, the workshop will include some exercises designed to emphasise the value of flexibility and spontaneity in working with people. This aspect of the work is based on our own experience with improvisational theatre – it is highly engaging and energising and helps to ground ideas in experience, rather than theory.
Open Workshops
As well as tailored training, we offer one-day open workshops. The next will be in London on July 18 2008. Places are £395 plus VAT (a total of £464.13).
or contact Johnnie Moore on 07973 414263 for details or email him.
Thank you for a great day, I feel re-inspired about facilitation and about what interesting people you meet when you venture outside your usual professional circles - Helen Weavers, Planner
A real confidence booster. There was a good balance of practical exercises, discussion and opportunities to reflect. I left the workshop inspired and re-energised. I now feel more flexible as a facilitator both in group and one-to-one settings. Donna Trenholm, British Heart Foundation
