Monday-Tuesday 23-24 November ($480 inc gst)
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Description of Workshop
Multi-stakeholder groups can create intelligent, durable agreements - but they can be extremely challenging to facilitate. Using real-life case studies, this workshop demonstrates common mistakes and showcases many effective practices for working with difficult groups on complex problems.
Purpose of Workshop
To support participants to facilitate in difficult situations, with more confidence and more courage, by building participants’ competence in the mechanics of high-stakes multi-stakeholder collaboration.
Learning Outcomes
- Participants will gain a richer, more sophisticated understanding of the overall process and phases of multi-stakeholder collaboration.
- Participants will acquire significant insight into phase-specific group dynamics, (as taught in the presenter’s book, Facilitator’s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making):
• Phase 1: divergent thinking, (also known as the Divergent Zone)
• Phase 2: struggling to communicate in the face of misunderstanding and impatience,
(also known as the Groan Zone)
• Phase 3: convergent thinking, (also known as the Convergent Zone)
• Phase 4: making decisions, (also known as the Closure Zone)
- Participants will learn how to recognize, label, and work with differences in group energy that distinguish one phase from another.
- Participants will integrate the presented concepts with their personal experience, and in so doing, they will become aware of personal areas of discomfort and potential blind spots when dealing with poor communication in groups.
- Participants will receive and learn how to use many effective tools and techniques for facilitating high-stakes collaboration.
- By practicing and receiving feedback from their peers, participants will learn new skills for building mutual understanding in groups with diverse, multi-stakeholder membership.
Workshop Leader Biography
Sam Kaner, Ph.D., has been named as "one of the world's leading experts in collaboration" (source: Sandor Schuman, Ph.D., IAF co-founder, and founding editor of the Journal of Group Facilitation.) Sam’s classic bestseller, Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making has gone through 17 printings and is now in its 2nd edition. Sam has been a featured speaker at more than 40 professional conferences, including several years at IAF North America. Since 1987 he has been the executive director of Community At Work, a San Francisco-based consulting firm that specializes in designing and facilitating collaborative approaches to complex system change.
Sam's clients have included Hewlett-Packard, PricewaterhouseCoopers, VISA International, Charles Schwab and Company, and many other Fortune 500 companies. His public sector clients have included the California Supreme Court, the March of Dimes, Special Olympics, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Omidyar Network, and many schools, community-based organizations and government agencies.
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Monday-Tuesday 23-24 November ($480 inc gst)
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Description of the Workshop
Marae (Māori) village based residential workshop introducing facilitating in an indigenous context. You will experience immersion in Māori culture through a range of activities designed to raise awareness of the role of cultural concepts, processes and beliefs in effective facilitation. Learn Māori approaches to conflict resolution, engagement, and collaborative processes. Gain skills in the ritual of encounter becoming part of opening the conference, and welcoming people into a Māori world. This workshop involves two nights stay at the village sleeping in the carved meeting house.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand how facilitation functions with a Marae or Large Natural Grouping.
- Observe Māori styles of hospitality as an umbrella for engagement and open participation.
- Learn the functions of tikanga (customary way of doing things).
- Understand Māori group facilitation styles.
Workshop Leader Biography
My name is Mike Elkington, I’m 41yrs old and of Native descent. I align to the Ngāti Koata, Ngāti Kuia and Toarangatira peoples. At 14, I was asked to leave school and began training in Māori culture and processes. Having been raised in the culture it was about putting a language to the processes and then practicing them.
I am a part-time father of 2 and have been facilitating groups for the past 20+ years in things Māori.
I believe all human beings bring a something special to be honoured and shared when we form a group like this.
I look forward to sharing what you bring.
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Description of the Workshop
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Tuesday 24 November ($300 inc gst)
Non-Western communities are faced with a dilemma. How can
they enjoy the fruits of development while preserving the most
important aspects of their own culture? An action learning
program can provide an experiential way for community members
to learn how this can be done.
The learning is project based and takes place in a group
setting. The projects are chosen to be beneficial to the local
community or organisation. The learning is experiential.
This one-day workshop will have four phases:
1 an introduction to action learning and its common varieties
2 exercises to illustrate the key skills for facilitating and taking part in an action learning team
3 take part in a simulated action learning session, either as facilitator or participant
4 review activities and make learning visible.
Particular attention will be given to the use of action
learning in ways that combine the best of Western and other
ways of working.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will have an opportunity to learn how to:
- set up a culturally appropriate action learning program
- select appropriate projects for action learning teams
- recruit participants
- negotiate roles for facilitator and participants
- assist the learning teams to achieve self-management
- enhance their (and their participants') leadership, problem solving and decision making skills
and to do this in a way that is collaborative and maintains a
participative and productive environment.
Workshop Leader Biography
Bob Dick is an independent scholar, an occasional academic,
and a consultant in fields such as participative community and
organisational change. He has been using action learning and
action research for over thirty years, helping communities and
organisations (and himself) to enhance performance and
enjoyment.
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Description of the Workshop
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Tuesday 24 November ($300 inc gst)
During this interactive, co-learning session, we will explore the links between an ancient, universal characteristic of ‘tribal territorialism’ and the systems and communities within which facilitators live and work. We will consider the implications for contemporary, enculturated patterns of conflict, often expressed when group members display abusive, violent and destructive behaviours towards each other, or towards other groups.
Based on these understandings, we will explore a framework of skills, containing elements of Appreciative Inquiry, Restorative Practice and Nonviolent Communication that enable facilitators to engage communities and their members in addressing and transforming some of the key elements of destructive conflict.
We will then experience an intentional peacemaking facilitation practice, Open Space Technology, to illustrate how communities might address contentious and conflictual issues by engaging in a nonviolent process.
In conclusion, we will consider how we might integrate a universal connection, that is both larger than us and linked to place and culture, within our work.
Learning Outcomes
My invitation in this workshop is to people who will be open to giving and receiving whatever they need at this time on their journey as facilitators of conflict transformation within communities.
My hope is that people will leave with an experience that provides elements of both affirmation and challenge to their own facilitation competencies and their capacity to make space for creative conflict to surface.
My intention is to offer an interactive, co-learning session to understand and reflect on:
- why we are engaged in the facilitation of peace;
- how the 'dominant' socio-cultural conditioning tends to embed people and organisations in unhealthy, competitive and divisive systems;
- what we need now to expand our own capacity as peacemaking facilitators;
- and to share a co-learning space that is highly energised and fun!
Workshop Leader Biography
Brendan McKeague: I have been a professional facilitator, educator and consultant in community and organisational change for the past thirty years, working with corporate, government and community groups both in Australia and overseas. My area of passion is in designing and facilitating programs that meet the process needs and purpose of groups, with particular emphasis on creating space for participants to name, address and resolve the issues of concern to them. In latter years, I have intentionally pursued a commitment to deepening my understanding and practice of 'active nonviolence' within my life and work - challenging indeed for a man from Northern Ireland and father of six children!
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