Strengthening Your Facilitation Skills

TBD

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In-Person, Location TBD

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$400

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In your professional or volunteer work, have you ever needed to:

  • help a new group get started?
  • guide a group to solve a problem?
  • help a group deal with a conflict?

Skills for working with groups don’t usually come naturally and are not routinely taught. If you have ever worked with a group and wished you had more practice or skill, Strengthening Your Facilitation Skills is for you.

Are you involved with municipal boards, non-profit committees, staff teams, or community members that need to produce results? Are these groups as successful at getting the job done as you’d like? This training can help you get great results.

Fun, creative, and thought-provoking, the Strengthening Your Facilitation Skills, Level 1 curriculum is a dynamic and comprehensive multi-session facilitation training series full of activities, practice opportunities, and potential aha! moments.

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About Strengthening Your Facilitation Skills

Participants in this training will:

  • practice facilitating and receiving feedback in a supportive environment.
  • build competence in essential facilitation skills and knowledge
  • actively engage and collaborate with other participants
  • apply a variety of  processes for guiding groups to useful outcomes

The creation of a cohesive group is a focus of the series. If you join the training, you are expected to commit to attending all three sessions and participating as fully as possible. If it’s not possible for you to make that commitment at this time, please consider waiting to take the training.

Session 1: Facilitation Basics

  • An Introduction to Facilitation Core Values of Facilitation
  • Working Agreements
  • Contracting
  • Decision-making Options
  • Stages of Group Development
  • Facilitation Guiding Principles and Practices
  • Behaviors that Hinder and Help Groups
  • Developing a Meeting Design

Session 2: Facilitation in Action

  • Achieving Desired Outcomes
  • Generating Ideas, Narrowing Ideas and Action Planning
  • Identifying Core Facilitation Practices
  • Recognizing and Redirecting Difficult Group Situations
  • Assessing Your Facilitation Strengths and Weaknesses

Session 3: Facilitation Challenges & Opportunities

  • Evaluation and Celebration
  • Using the Left-Hand Column
  • Designing Interventions and Making Interventions
  • Using the Diagnosis-Intervention Cycle
  • Clarifying Circle Consulting Method
  • Opening and Closing Ideas and Other Resources

This course is designed to benefit:

  • Others whose professional and/or community work involves working with groups to achieve results.
  • Analysts
  • Community-based groups
  • Consultants
  • Educators/Teachers
  • Executives
  • Managers
  • Municipal Officials
  • Nonprofit organizations
  • Trainers
  • Sales Professionals
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Program Details

Dates & Times

  • TBD

Modality

This program will be offered in-person only. The location of the program will be announced at a later date.

Facilitation is a skill that can only be mastered through practice. With this fact in mind, opportunities for training participants to practice facilitation are central to the training design. Each participant will sign up and prepare to facilitate an activity with a small group during one session.

18 participants

Certificates

Certificate of Completion is available upon request.

Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

20 hours / 2 CEUs available.

If you’d like to receive CEUs for participating in this course, please note this during your registration.

Microcredential Pathway

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Successful completion of this course satisfies the learning requirements for the University of Maine System Facilitation Skills Microcredential Pathway when accompanied by assessments.

UMaine Professional and Continuing Education is committed to providing access to our services and programs for people with disabilities. If you need accommodation(s) to attend and/or participate in a program, please contact us.

Request a custom program

Every organization faces different challenges, goals, and opportunities. And unique needs sometimes require a customized professional development program.

UMaine Professional and Continuing Education can help you find and develop a program tailored to your employees, team members, or organization. 

Ready to create a program workshop for your team? Submit a custom program request form and get started today.

Questions?

Email um.continuinged@maine.edu