Cohousing-L Mailing List: Eugene facilitation workshop - Jan. 13

[Tree Bressen (tree]

Workshop Announcement (please forward as appropriate to anyone you think 
might be interested--thanks!):

MEETING FACILITATION WITH CARE & SKILL

with Tree Bressen

Sponsored by the Eugene Permaculture Guild

Saturday, January 13, 2007
9:30am-5:30pm

Many Nations Longhouse
University of Oregon campus
Eugene, Oregon

This highly interactive workshop will help you learn how to facilitate 
effective meetings, including skills such as:

o What to do when conflicts arise in the group
o Crafting skillful questions
o How to step in when someone is speaking too long
o Alternate formats to supplement general discussion
o Active listening
o And other situations as raised by participants . . .

Please register in advance so we can plan appropriately.  Participants are 
asked to bring a potluck lunch contribution, with ingredients labeled.  To 
register, contact John Flanery at jflan [at] efn.org or 345-6822.

This workshop is being offered on a gift economy basis.  Please pay an 
amount that feels good and right and fair to you, that you can afford, and 
that you can give joyfully.  Participants are strongly urged to not let 
financial concerns be a barrier to attendance.

Presenter:
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, and how to 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!  Her website www.treegroup.info offers free 
articles and resources.  Tree lives at Walnut St. Co-op in Eugene, Oregon.



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