facilitation
Brainstorming doesnt really work
Typically, participants leave a brainstorming session proud of their contribution. The whiteboard has been filled with free associations. Brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It...
Australasian Facilitators Network
The Australasian Facilitators Network (AFN) is a self-organising community of practitioners based in Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia and the Pacific. Our focus is on working, learning and sharing with each other. We share a passion for facilitation and...
8 skills of a well trained activist
George Lakey writes: “In the 1950s, there was no place I could go to learn this kind of activist facilitation training, even though Paulo Freire was doing groundbreaking work in his Pedagogy of the Oppressed and the Gandhi-influenced Muslim leader Abdul Ghaffar...
Courses with EarthCare Education
EarthCare Education focuses on Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning, the holistic learning methodology pioneered by Robin Clayfield and friends over the past twenty years.
Consensus decision making
Excellent resource on consensus, with names for all the non-unanimity gestures including “twinkly fingers”
No to two hour workshops
A short article by Daniel Hunter, training associate with Training for Change.
Resources for activists and organizers
Joshua Kahn Russell’s great resource collection of learning resources, including some from the Energy Action Coalition and Rainforest Action Network.
Tools for Organisers
Resources to build a strong, cohesive organization with a clear sense of its mission and an ability to focus its energies efficiently and creatively.
Facilitation and education guide
A resource collection for facilitators and educators to support volunteer community-based action groups
Participant agreements
A list of agreements developed by Bill Moyer for participating in workshops and meetings that encourage respectful and responsible participation.
Facilitation interventions
Ten facilitation techniques to use when certain common meeting problems occur.
Effective facilitation
Resources for developing effective facilitation skills. Topics covered include: tips for facilitators; running effective meetings; forming agendas; testing for agreement; and decision making models.
Photolanguage
An exercise to facilitate self-awareness, deepen engagement and relationships, stimulate creativity in personal expression, and connections between intellectual reflection and personal experience.
Defining consensus exercise
A process guide to enable a team to come to a shared definition of consensus; encourage group members to work together before they deal with a decision they must make; and strengthen the relationships within the group before they make consensus decisions.
Decision Making & group process
Resources to help community action groups work together, make tough decisions and attend to the maintenance as well as task dimension of group life.
Stages In A Group’s Development
A workshop introducing participants to Bruce Tuckman’s ‘stages in group development’, facilitating participants’ reflection on their experiences of group development, and identifying and addressing challenges.
Effective facilitation
Resources for developing effective facilitation skills. Topics covered include: tips for facilitators; running effective meetings; forming agendas; testing for agreement; and decision making models.
Conflict resolution skills & techniques
Presentation by Claudia Baldwin covering the skills (communication and listening) and techniques (reframes, transitions, role reversals, paraphrases and roundups) involved in effective conflict resolution.