{"id":376,"date":"2018-04-28T13:01:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T12:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.highgateconsultancy.co.uk\/?page_id=376"},"modified":"2021-09-06T11:38:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T10:38:47","slug":"developing-effective-group-facilitation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.highgateconsultancy.co.uk\/?page_id=376","title":{"rendered":"Group Facilitation: Key concepts, Skills and Personal Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective group bring change and learning. How effective they are is greatly influenced by the ability of the facilitator, team leader or manager. There are many aspects to group facilitation and this one day course will focus on a number of key areas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Groupwork in context<\/li>\n<li>Planning and preparation<\/li>\n<li>Facilitation: the role, breadth and introduction to skillful interventions<\/li>\n<li>Gestalt&nbsp;concepts and tools for&nbsp;group facilitators<\/li>\n<li>Working in the Here and Now<\/li>\n<li>Review of learning and next steps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Workshop approach<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>There will be relevant input which you can apply to your particular setting, time to discuss ideas with colleagues, exercises to ground ideas in experiential learning and the opportunity to explore the process of a group in the here and now.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Who is the course for?<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>You are planning to facilitate groups<\/li>\n<li>You are currently facilitating groups and wish to review and develop knowledge and skills<\/li>\n<li>You are a facilitator interested in gestalt concepts applied to group facilitation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\">What you will gain<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>An increased understanding of the role of facilitator<\/li>\n<li>Heightened awareness of your capacities in the role<\/li>\n<li>Tools and skills to facilitate groups and meetings more effectively<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I usually run this as a one day workshop.<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Feedback<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cExcellent. It flowed very well and addressed my stated needs.\u201d Leadership Facilitator<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcellent, an excellent example of what I came here to learn. Thank you.\u201d Counsellor<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReflective, gave plenty of space to delegates.\u201d Leadership Trainer<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFocussed, clear, contained and interesting.\u201d&nbsp; Educational Psychologist<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective group bring change and learning. How effective they are is greatly influenced by the ability of the facilitator, team leader or manager. There are many aspects to group facilitation and this one day course will focus on a number of key areas. Groupwork in context Planning and preparation Facilitation: the role, breadth and introduction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-376","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highgateconsultancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highgateconsultancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highgateconsultancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highgateconsultancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highgateconsultancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.highgateconsultancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525,"href":"https:\/\/www.highgateconsultancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/376\/revisions\/525"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highgateconsultancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highgateconsultancy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}