Who Are You Now?

Group Facilitation Skills

The aim of this workshop is to develop the core skills needed to successfully facilitate groups. These skills will embody an attitude of wanting to understand and accept others, whilst remaining authentic in the role as facilitator. We will use a method of enquiry that is based on an appreciation of what is, and what could be. There will be four elements which will:
• Identify the skills we already have
• Discover our potential
• Develop the skills we need to achieve that potential; and
• Decide what steps need to be in place in order to successfully facilitate our groups in the future

This workshop is ideal for those organisations who want to run Facilitated Groups in between waiting times for 1:1 coaching, counselling or mentoring. This course may also be useful for those who need to run supervision groups for front-line workers.

A one day workshop (10am-4pm) for professionals who need to facilitate groups. 
This must be booked by a commissioning client. 
Tutor: Andrea Rippon
Cost: £600 per day (Discounts available to Charities/Voluntary sector)
Enquiries: please email Andrea Rippon

 
Group Working Skills

This workshop will provide opportunities for participants to explore how they feel about working in a group, and what they can contribute that will make the experience more 'effective' for them and the group itself.  Individuals will be asked to draw on their own experience of working in groups or teams and will be encouraged to share this with the rest of the group.  Using a 'light' theoretical framework, participants will gain an awareness of how groups work, and what can help/hinder their process.  We will:
  • become more aware of how and why we behave as we do in a group
  • develop strategies which encourage us to make future group working situations more effective
  • experience the challenge of giving and receiving feedback
  • develop our understanding of the subjectivity of perception
This workshop may be the ideal start to any group working activity. 

A half day workshop (3 hours).  This must be booked by a commissioning client. 
Tutor: Andrea Rippon
Cost: £300 (Discounts available to Charities/Voluntary Sector)
Enquiries: please email Andrea Rippon


Please see the Open Access Counselling Skills/Theory courses where individuals can explore their use of group working skills within a supportive group environment.


FEEDBACK

Group Facilitation Skills
Client:  The Matthew Project, Norwich
  • I feel I learned what I needed to enable me to begin running groups.  I learnt new ideas on facilitating a group and revisited important areas I had forgotten! This helped me begin to formulate my own structure for the group.
  • I valued the insight into techniques to help move a group on.

Client: Sexual Violence Alliance (SeVA), Norwich
  • I learnt how to hold a group together.
  • I learnt that you can ask a dominant member to let someone else have a turn in speaking
  • It gave me new techniques for allowing space for ideas to develop and being clear about expectations.
  • A day of intense learning, enjoyment, and wisdom. I did not want it to end!