Deepening and Broadening Connections

What happens when five people who have done forty hours of facilitation training come together to deepen their understanding and view facilitation from the perspective of a group that is stuck?

In October, I took part in Co-Operacy’s Mastery of Facilitation training module, which is the second level of facilitation training after Whole Person Facilitation. I found the course greatly increased my awareness to the essential facets needed to keep a group on its purpose and in the flow.

To once again enter a group with complete commitment to its purpose was a familiar and satisfying experience, and a good renewal of everything I had already learned. The purpose we took on was facilitating authenticity in groups we facilitate.

As our group matured, I found that a high level of creativity and synergy began to blossom, as well as commitment, courage and trust in one another to show our authentic selves with all our strengths and weaknesses. Intense is a word I would use to describe the course, but an enjoyable intensity.

Mastery of Facilitation is based on the book The Essence of Facilitation by Dale Hunter, Anne Bailey and Bill Taylor. The book focuses on the skill of distinguishing, which to me means bringing awareness to a particular aspect of facilitation. “Distinctions are a way of discriminating between one thing and another” is a quote from chapter one. Through recognising and discriminating different concepts in the facilitation universe does it teach its essence.

Our next mastery course is being held in from May 6th to May 10th 2012, so if you are interested in deepening your ability to facilitate when the going gets tough read more and register at Co-Operacy’s training page.

I want to sincerely thank Anne Bailey, Aladdin Jones, Regan Mayo, Leanne Fleming and Samuel Gourvenec each for making training course so valuable to me.

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What's Coming Up

Creating Coaching Partnerships
December 8 – 9

Are you committed to high performance? Do you want to acheive challenging goals?
Co-Operacy is holding a two-day workshop that will give you both the skills needed to be an effective coach and an excellent coaching model that is applicable in a long or short, personal or professional coaching session.

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2012

Whole Person Facilitation
March 5 – 9

Whole Person Facilitation is an in-depth training module in facilitation led by Anne Bailey, co-author of the course text “The Art of Facilitation.”
Facilitation begins with understanding that every gathering is an opportunity to deepen accountability and commitment through engagement. It is an essential tool for people who believe that it is time for a more conscious and human way of interaction, leadership and being effective in the world.

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Co-Counselling Basics Training
April 14 – 18

Co-Counselling is a radical approach to personal development that engages us more fully with our aliveness, our compassion and natural energy for life, Learning to co-counsel means learning a series of simple techniques to build on our strengths, transform past pain and uncover new potentials.
On completion of this 40 hour module you may become part of an international network of Co-Counsellors.

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Mastery of Facilitation
May 6 – 9

This programme follows Whole Person Facilitation and provides mastery for those occasions when the group has broken down. Based on “The Essence of Facilitation” co-authored by Anne, you will discover how to facilitate a group, team, organisation when it is in difficulty. How to detect what is missing in the group, and how to engage the group to resolve its own predicament rather than expect the facilitator to wave her/his magic wand!

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Leading Edge
May 25 – 28

The leading edge focuses on developing leading edge skills in facilitation for each participant. 
Specific aspects of facilitation are chosen by the course participants and and will be explored in depth. Diploma participants will take part in two leading edge groups.

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Whole Person Facilitation
June 11 – 15

See above description of Whole Person Facilitation

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