Boundaries, Difference, Desire and Commitment

 

Following on from the success of the Facilitator Distress workshops and at the request of the attendees for yet further shared learning opportunities, Steve Dilworth and I are running an innovative workshop, which aims to explore and develop the art and craft of expert facilitation.

 

While the design of the day will be part planned and part co-created with those present, the workshop will focus on the following key questions:

 

What are the boundaries of successful facilitation?

  • personal/professional ability
  • safety and ground rules

What differences are you aware of when you facilitate? E.g.

  • gender and sexuality
  • race and creed
  • educational and professional ability

 

What do you do in relation to the differences in your awareness?

  • could there be differences outside your awareness?

What do you desire in your work?

  • do these match the desires of the facilitated?
  • how do you know?
  • what are the power issues?
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What are you committed to when you work?

  • your own values?  (what are they?)
  • the paying customer?
  • the group of individuals who have chosen or been sent?

 

How do all of these questions and attitudes impact on your work and performance as a facilitator?

 

 

The workshop will be facilitated within several implicit values, including:

  • honouring the experience of the facilitators and of the participants
  • following the principles of adult learning
  • informed by key concepts and models (appreciative inquiry, experiential learning, co-operative research, phenomenological inquiry)

 

If you are interested, we can offer you:

  • A safe space to explore, reflect and decide on action for the future.
  • Practical ‘vehicles’ to unearth the best questions.
  • Set piece techniques to stimulate deeper conversations.
  • A simple model to support reflective and reflexive practice, (i.e. before, after and during facilitation)
  • The opportunity to co-create learning.
  • The chance to commit to realistic and appropriate development.

 

These day-long workshops have a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 12 attendees and cost £300 plus VAT per attendee, including room hire, lunch and refreshments.

 

Once we have between 10 and 12 people interested in attending the workshop, we will contact you all with suggested dates that hopefully suit all of you.

 

To enrol on this course, or to know more about it, feel free to contact me, or Steve himself on steve.dilworth@googlemail.com .  We are delighted to run more courses in a variety of locations so please do contact us if you are interested but cannot make the dates shown.

 

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