Facilitation Skills
Build your skills and confidence with this intensive 1-day workshop
This workshop will equip you with the skills, understandings and processes to facilitate with confidence and get results with diverse groups of participants in almost any situation.
Facilitation Skills is an intensive training course for professionals who have facilitation roles. It's dynamic and interactive, with role plays and plenty of practice (after all, facilitation is best learnt by doing it!).
The course includes:
- The eight keys to being an effective facilitator
Creating ground rules
Winning your licence to facilitate
Dealing with conflict
How to structure a satisfying session
Powerful processes for collaborative strategising
Plenty of hands-on practice in a safe environment
The workshop gives participants a practical step-by-step facilitation model which they use to develop and deliver sessions during the training.
There is also time to discuss the social psychology of facilitation and share tips and tricks that work in different situations.
Note that numbers are limited to 8 per workshop to ensure maximum participant value.
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"Very good. Gave me what I wanted, which was greater confidence to facilitate."
- Environmental educator, NSW
The workshop agenda
9.00am - 11.00am
Understanding good facilitation; the Eight Keys to effective facilitation.
11.15am - 1.00pm
Designing a satisfying session; plus practice.
1.30pm - 2.45pm
Group work tools for brainstorming and prioritising.
2.45pm - 4.30pm
Planning and delivering a focused brainstorming and prioritisation session to tackle real life facilitation challenges faced by the participants.
For bookings and enquiries
This workshop is offered in-house and as an occasional open workshop.
To book in-house training email Les Robinson at:
workshops@enablingchange.com.au
or phone him on 0414 674 676
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What they say about this course
"Terrific - lively, engaging, informative and highly useful."
- Environmental educator, NSW
"Fantastic! This manual will be the holy grail for a lot of us when it comes time to facilitate."
- NRM manager, Queensland
"Well done Les! Most valuable part was giving me a framework and structure that will allow me to build and own as my own."
- Facilitator, Wellington, NZ
"Informative and valuable. On target for what is needed in our jobs."
- NRM officer, Victoria
"Fabulous. Gave me a structure to work in and a better understanding of how to engage people and get the best outcomes."
- Council planner, Victoria
"Found the focus on participants' prior (unknown) knowledge a wonderful way of opening people to their inherent skill."
- Environmental educator, Victoria
Who's done the training
Organisations whose staff have attended this training or who have hosted it in-house include:
- Baw Baw Shire Council (Vic)
- Fitzroy Basin Association (Qld)
- Sustainability Victoria
- Environment Victoria
- Kogarah Council (NSW)
- Warringah Council (NSW)
- South Coast Primary Care Partnership (Vic)
- Wyong Shire (NSW)
- World Wildlife Fund
- NevRWaste (Vic)
- Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water (NSW)
- Shepparton City Council (Vic)
- Sustainability Trust (NZ)
- Swan Catchment Council (WA)
About the presenter,
Les Robinson
Les Robinson, author of CoCreate - a Facilitator's Guide to Collaborative Planning is a trainer and facilitator who specialises in community change towards sustainability. He regularly trains and advises state agencies and councils on the design of behaviour change and community participation programs. Over 2000 managers and educators have attended Les's Enabling Change workshop - the master class in designing community change programs. Les is also the author of Enabling Eco-Action, the popular guide to involving the public in conservation. Les was formerly SocialMarketing Director with SocialChange Media in Sydney.
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