Cohousing-L Mailing List: Portland Facilitation Workshop, May 7

[Tree Bressen (tree]

Hello, please forward as appropriate:

Keys to Effective Meeting Facilitation

Workshop with Tree Bressen

Saturday, May 7, 2005
1:00-4:00pm
Portland, OR

This workshop will cover the essentials of what every meeting facilitator 
needs to know.  After going over basic principles, we'll practice dealing 
with typical problems such as: how to intervene gracefully when someone is 
speaking too long; how to support all parties when a conflict comes up; and 
other situations as suggested by the participants.  Come try out these key 
skills in a safe and supportive setting.

This workshop is sponsored by East Portland Cohousing.  To register and get 
directions contact: Camela Hicks Alexander at camelaha [at] yahoo.com or 
503-233-7859.

Workshop Leader:
Tree Bressen is a group process consultant working with a wide variety of 
organizations on how to have meetings that are lively, productive, and 
connecting.  Her focus is on helping groups put their ideals into 
action.  Her base is in intentional communities--groups of people who live 
together and have to deal with each other every day!  Tree's workshops on 
facilitation, consensus decision-making, conflict resolution, and related 
subjects consistently receive enthusiastic reviews for being lively, 
practical, and informative.  Her website http://www.treegroup.info offers 
free articles and resources.  Tree lives at Walnut St. Co-op in Eugene, 
Oregon.

Fee:
Tree is currently operating on a gift economy basis.  While she does rely 
on this work for her livelihood, she requests participants to pay an amount 
that feels good & fair & right to you, that you can afford, and that you 
can give joyfully.




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Tree Bressen
1680 Walnut St.
Eugene, OR 97403
(541) 484-1156
tree [at] ic.org
http://www.treegroup.info