August 2010
2 posts
Skills of a Facilitator
I liked the video Seven key skills of workshop facilitation by Jan Delmas. She summarises the skills by saying that a facilitator:
Listens
Supports
Summarises
Challenges
Leads the process
Creates a safe environment
Trusts the group.
Jan talks about the skills being analogous to the function of a conductor of an orchestra. However, the analogy breaks down for me in that an orchestra usually...
Today's session with Terry
I am in awe of the facilitators - Jillian and Chris - you did a great job. I was the evaluator for the SLENZ project, and found the whole project fascinating - from the dynaimcs of the project team right through to the responses of the midwifery and foundation studies students who used the project builds. The environment of Second Life is highly engaging and immersive, and gives a sense of being...
July 2010
8 posts
What I want from the Online Facilitation Course...
I have tried to answer Sarah’s questions both in a MindMap and under bullet points:
What do you want to learn to facilitate?
I want to improve my ability to facilitate my online working with work groups, including planning, and to become more effective in online coaching and mentoring. I want to learn how to design and run online courses and programmes, It would also be good to understand...
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Good Session Yesterday Evening.
I really enjoyed the online session yesterday - even though it seemed to last forever! It was great to put voices to names - and to meet online with folk I know from other contexts.
I greatly appreciated being talked through the Elluminate software - having facilitated a planning meeting with it earlier in the day. Thanks to our facilitators, a lot of the features are now much clearer - great...
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Exciting Group of People...
I’m blown away (Kiwi expression) with the number of folk enrolling, where you all are round the globe,and the breadth of experience you all bring to the course. I have been trying to read everyone’s blogs and to comment. It’s difficult - the number of participants seems to increase faster than I can read and comment! I very much hope we can work around the issues folk are...
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Levels of communication
I have been thinking about difference between online and face-to-face (f2f) facilitation and have been comparing it with the differences between online, phone and f2f communication, drawing on my counselling experience. When working f2f, all the channels of communication are available - visual ( body language, expressions etc), auditory (tone, rhythm, breathing etc), verbal content, and other...
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My (patchy) experience with online facilitation
A couple of years ago, I experimented with FlashMeeting - an online conferencing site developed by the Open University, and (then) made available free due to European Union funding. Three of us held regular online meetings and shared our experiences and some resources about Psychosynthesis - a counselling and psychotherapy approach developed by Roberto Assagioli.
At the beginning of 2010, I set...
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Another new start...
Six months ago I wrote the following post to a new blog. Alas, it went no further:
Putting my money where my mouth is
Well it has come to this - after several failed attempts at blogging, I need to get one going for work.
So I am going to establish a discipline of blogging regularly…
What has induced this change of behaviour?
After 5 or so years working at CORE Ed, mainly involved in ...
