facilitation
Handling the most difficult participant
Some effective strategies for dealing with difficult workshop participants.
Team types
An opportunity to reflect on behaviour and work together to understand each other more deeply.
Powerful action groups: Resources for activist educators and facilitators
18 pages of our favourite resources on facilitation and activist education, collated for convenors of action groups
The ‘Never Evers’ Of Workshop Facilitation
Experience and research indicate certain things that a facilitator should never do during a workshop. Peggy Sharp (National Staff Development Council)presents an overview of these in this article.
Killer phrases: Keeping a pro-stagnation attitude
A useful reminder to build a healthy sense of our agency and potential.
Cofacilitation resources
Outlines the major advantages, some potential disadvantages, and suggestions for avoiding the dangers in co-facilitation. So detailed – a real gem.
Review of activities
Introduces four purposes of strategy.
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.
Action Group Meetings
Resources to help your group work well together and achieve your objectives; highlights some group habits and actions that resilient community groups have relied on.