CDRA: Advanced Facilitation

The Community Development Resource Centre (CDRA) is conducting a five-day course on Advanced Facilitation from 9-13 November 2009 in Cape Town.

This course is for practitioners, leaders, managers, facilitators and development practitioners who want to enliven and build their practice, enhance their skills as facilitators, so that they are better able to work intuitively and in the moment. It is for organisations who need to solve complex problems. It is also for those who want to generate learning from within and improve existing programmes or courses so that they become more rich and dynamic, participatory, indigenous, relevant and truly owned by groups and communities themselves.

This course offers an opportunity to develop a deepened understanding of and practice of working with emergence and will look at the role of the facilitator in facilitating emergent unfolding processes.

What will explore:

• The role of facilitation in group organisational processes
• The context of development and social process - what is our struggle and why are we drawn to emergent approaches
• Theoretical perspectives to emergent thinking and concepts developed out of emergent social approaches
• The conditions for facilitating emergence in organisations
• Developing and co-creating effective meta-skills in working with an emergent approach
• Group theory, the role of groups, group leaders and the role of leadership in groups
• The emerging organisation elements of emergent organisations
• Theories of change and how this relates to working with emergent change

Dates: 9-13 November 2009
Location: Cape Town
Application Form with Brochure: Click here.
Contact Person: Pauline Solomons, email: pauline@cdra.org.za or Desiree Paulsen, email: desiree@cdra.org.za for curriculum details: desiree@cdra.org.za
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