Facilitation Skills Course

The World Federation of KSIMC is providing a Facilitation Skills course for community workers.

The programme will start on Friday March 24 2006 starting at 15.00hrs and ends on Sunday March 26 at 16 00hrs. The location will be around North London.

At the end of the session, the participants will:

• Be able to facilitate groups
  
• Develop a portfolio of skills to be able to do so successfully
  
• Understand group dynamics so as to maximise learning.
• The principles of managing attention
  
• The principles of managing group energy
  
• The principles of managing information
  
• The principles of managing operations.

In addition, the trainer will provide skills in four areas:

The Methodology the Trainer will use:

1. Understanding facilitation. What does a facilitator do? Core Practice of effective facilitation
   
2. Managing groups
   
3. The basics of a thinking environment

Why facilitation?
Facilitation is a way of providing leadership without taking the reins. A
meeting without a facilitator is about as effective as a team trying to have
a game without a referee.

Why Groups?
Teams do not form immediately or automatically when people meet. Teams
gradually take shape and mature over a period of time. The programme will
examine the five main stages of team development:

1. Forming
   
2. Storming
   
3. Norming
   
4. Performing
   
5. Mourning

In addition, the programme will address inter-group conflicts and how to
resolve these conflicts.

1. A Thinking Environment: What Is It?
   
2. A Thinking Environment is the set of conditions under which people can think for themselves with rigor, imagination, courage, and grace.

After many years of research and observation it is being recognized that
people generate their best thinking if the people around them behave in 10
specific ways.

These 10 behaviours have become known as 'The Ten Components of a Thinking
Environment'. Each of the components is valuable individually, but it is
the system of all Ten Components working simultaneously that gives this
process its transformative impact.

A Thinking Environment: How Would It benefit the participants?

The participants will do their own thinking with new clarity, imagination,
and courage. This in turn will produce:

• More time
  
• Better decisions
  
• Productive, inspiring, enjoyable meetings
  
• Ease in completing agendas
  
• Courage to think at the cutting edge
  
• Engagement by everyone
  
• Greater commitment to decisions
  
• Trust among group members
  
• Ease in moving through conflict

Cost
The cost which also includes overnight accommodation (essential part of the
programme) is subsidised. The cost to participants for this 2 and half day
session will be £175.

How to apply:
Please fill out the application form Here
and send it to secretariat@world-federation.org no later than 15th February 2006.
Please include the cheque for £175 payable to the World Federation

YASIN RAHIM
Secretary General
World Federation
3 January 2006

Secretariat