Building Blocks of Effective Facilitation

This popular program, offered only once a year, is a valuable addition to the tool-belt of anyone who ever finds themselves leading meetings, or even just participating in a lot of them!

This is an intensive classroom session that will teach you how to plan and design your meetings or events, while providing practical tips on supporting groups to make enduring decisions together. Effective facilitation can extend your leadership capabilities and encourage greater effectiveness of the teams within your organization.

The workshop is targeted toward individuals who are currently engaged in a facilitation role (formally or informally) in a professional or voluntary capacity, or those who see facilitation as a key to improving their leadership style.

Bring examples of current facilitation projects to evaluate and work on during the "hands on" sessions. You will walk away with a lot of experience, as well as an extensive resource manual to help you with your facilitation work in the future.

This two-day workshop is designed to provide a first introduction to the intricacies of effective group facilitation. At the conclusion of the course, participants will have:

• a basic toolkit for planning & preparing for meetings, workshops or other events;

• the foundations of appropriate process design;

• a basic set of practical skills to help you effectively lead a group of people towards shared decisions on complex subjects.

Material for this course is drawn from our more comprehensive 5-day residential workshop The Art & Craft of Effective Facilitation which will take place at Hollyhock in the Spring 2005.

We encourage participants from a variety of backgrounds to register. If you are unsure about whether this workshop is for you, please don't hesitate to call Hollyhock Leadership Institute at 604-669-4802 -- we'll be happy to speak to you in more detail.

Julian Griggs is one of the founding Principals of Dovetail Consulting Inc., and has been a regular trainer and facilitator for the Hollyhock Leadership Institute since its inception. In the last 10 years, Julian has designed and facilitated over several hundred workshops, strategic planning retreats and conferences for corporate, government, First Nations and non-government clients.