Functional group training in consensus | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Rob Sandelin (floriferousmsn.com) | |
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 10:32:01 -0600 (MDT) |
Sharon asked in the Consensus and Majority vote thread: What kind of training do they do? Is there a handbook they use? Training varies but often looks like this: Core training is done for all members in the decision process, facilitators get special training. Most of the groups I have worked with have their own process handbooks which they keep to bring new decision makers up to speed and to ground each other. As many of you know, I am a big fan of facilitation teams, having seen that people who are into it and good at it, do much better at facilitation than those who really don't do the homework. A great facilitation group makes all the difference in a well functioning process and is a common denominator in my own (subjective) evaluation of groups I have seen function very well. There are some good resources for training manuals, but all of them lack parts and so you need several to get all the parts. What I recommend is training facilitation skills as a yearly budget expense, and then send your fac. team annually for skills improvement. Tree and Laird are good community based resources for this, there are tons of other business based workshops which can have some good nuggets, especially the, How to get along with difficult people, sort of stuff. My one personal favorite facilitator book is: The skilled facilitator, by Roger Swartz, he has some good examples of intervention, which I think is the most under utilized and important facilitation skill for communities. Rob Sandelin, former facilitator trainer, now naturalist teacher/writer --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.332 / Virus Database: 186 - Release Date: 3/6/02 _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l
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