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The Craft of Facilitation with David Hatfield
February 22 & 23, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm each day
AT: God's Mountain Estate, 4898 Eastside Rd, Penticton,
FEES: Earlybird, before February 7 - $280
Regular pricing - after February 7 - $310
For facilitators of some experience.
There is a great need for authentic and dynamic learning environments. Individuals and groups are longing to get to the places where genuine transformation and change can occur. To offer this, facilitators must create an arena of safety and openness at the same time. Too often we emphasize 'results' and don't give enough time for groups to process and unfold their character, values and feelings. Learn the craft of welcoming the elements of safety, open dialogue, unpredictability, learning edges, deep emotion and differences by exploring your own comfort with these elements. Effective group facilitators lead with their own humanity and guide without trying to control. Standing in the way of this path are concerns about being negatively judged, creating divisiveness or conflict, loss of control or becoming mired in process without reaching concrete outcomes.
This course supports participants to develop a fluid, responsive facilitative style that aligns with the goals of their existing facilitation work. Adult education and appreciative inquiry methods will be used. Identify your strengths and learning edges, learn new techniques for encouraging deeper levels of communication and expanding possibilities in the groups you facilitate. We'll practice a facilitative leadership that balances the accomplishing of goals with the skills to welcome unpredictability, emerging possibilities and deeper levels of communication and emotionality. Strengthen your abilities to build dynamic, effective learning containers where experiences of depth can happen and to more skillfully bring your gift of facilitative leadership to your work.
Areas of focus:
Creating a Safe and Flexible Container
Effective Interventions
Dealing with Conflict and Difference
Conscious Use of Facilitator Power
Guiding Without Controlling
Essence of this Training
Class size limit of 10
A balance of theory and practice.
An emphasis on active experiential learning.
Relevant: apply exercises to use your existing professional situations and dynamics.
Feedback from instructor and participants.
Learning Outcomes
Increase your abilities to:
Create a learning environment of safety, connection and openness.
Use a communication style that acknowledges diversity, maximizes emotional intelligence, and minimizes misunderstanding.
Accurately read the energies and signals of your group and its participants.
Make precise interventions: redirecting, encouraging marginalized voices, challenging, questioning, requesting, clarifying, and setting boundaries.
Unfold and work with conflicts and differences.
Understand and work with the presence of rank and power issues.
Stay 'on track' and follow the in-the-moment dynamics of your groups to allow emergence/surprise/transformative events to occur.
Facilitator - David Hatfield M.A., M.Ed.
David is a leadership consultant and process facilitator, specializing in transformative, experiential facilitation. His work has been contracted in Australia, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Germany, New Zealand, Spain, and the US. David's clients include non-profits, social service and health care providers, corporate clients, school districts, community groups, leadership and social change organizations. He holds an MA in Process Oriented Facilitation and Conflict studies from the Process Work Institute, USA, and an M.Ed. in Social Ecology from the University of Western Sydney. www.davidhatfield.ca
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LocationGod's Mountain Estate (View)
4898 Lakeside Road
Penticton, BC V4V 2J7
Canada
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