Advanced facilitation

Aim:
To enable participants to enhance their existing facilitation skills and learn new techniques for facilitating groups

Content:
Participants will have the opportunity to learn about and practice different methods to enhance facilitation, including: using graphics to record and illustrate facilitated events, using voting and ranking techniques, the World Café method and consensus building. Techniques for managing conflict will also be included.

Learning outcomes:

By attending this course you will be able to …

• Apply a consensus building technique
• Apply a range of questioning techniques
• Demonstrate a variety of voting and ranking techniques
• Identify ways to be more assertive
• Understand ways to deal with conflict and difficult situtations

Who is this course for?
This course is aimed at those who already have some experience of facilitating meetings and events with citizens, communities, colleagues and partnerships and who want to develop their skills and add new methods to their toolbox.

'This has given me confidence to use techniques I already know & has put these techniques into a useful general structure'