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“I really liked your facilitation style and manner of facilitating the group, Bill. I learned a lot, not only from the content, but also from your own style. I may even steal a couple of little activities that you used to use in some of my own facilitation.” Alison Rewald, Community Corrections

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“Bill creates a supportive and safe environment. I feel very comfortable attending your courses as I like your relaxed, open and non-judgemental style as a facilitator and I think you explain the content in a way that is easy to understand and relate to in every day life - on both professional and personal levels.” Pauline Bonnici, Qld Health

“You obviously have a talent for bringing out the best in people and helping us learn better ways of going about things through your knowledge, experience, facilitation and sense of humour.” Tameeka Sainsbury, Pacific Pines State High School

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Advanced Facilitation Skills

...skills extension clinic for experienced facilitators

Advanced Group Facilitation -- What this Program is About...

Good facilitators are always looking for ways to get even better at what they do. This advanced facilitation skills extension clinic can help people who’ve already mastered the basics, lift their facilitation to a new level.

It aims to help people add to their repertoire of tools and hone their existing skills in facilitating groups – whether it’s handling more complex group situations, or applying more sophisticated or complex tools.

Topics covered will be adapted to the needs of the particular group attending and will include topics such as:

	Challenging, confronting and stretching groups
	Facilitating complexity and conflict in groups
	Using conversations effectively to facilitate
	Using dialogue as a group engagement tool
	Appreciative questioning and inquiry
	Using Emotional Intelligence in facilitation
	Understanding your facilitation patterns and style
	Self-awareness: facilitation hotspots and defences
	Using Fishbowls and other experiential tools
	Seeing yourself – how you relate to groups
	Designing engaging facilitation sessions
	Facilitating emergent agendas and change
	Group reflection and action learning cycle
	Involving groups in self-directed learnings
	Guiding groups through difficult moments
	Dealing with more difficult group dynamics
	Managing disruptive behaviours in groups
	Intervening in group processes – 7 levels
	Giving harder feedback to groups
	Helping groups agree – building consensus

8 Some thoughts on Facilitation in Leadership in our FactFile-19: Facilitation in Leadership. PDF

8 Download the full program Brochure for more information and a course outline. PDF

8 See our current Schedule of Public Programs for dates and locations of upcoming clinics near you.

8 Is this course right for you?:

	If you have some experience of facilitating groups but have not undertaken any specific facilitation skills training, you'd probably be best to attend our 2-day "Fundamental Facilitation" skills clinic first.
	Some of the tools and processes we cover in Fundamental Facilitation are quite sophisticated and the clinic with its accompanying toolkit is usually comprehensive enough to cater for different participant skills from most basic through intermediate to quite advanced. We do this by adjusting the program as we go, selecting and focusing on particular tools participants feel they most want to explore or master.
	This *Advanced Facilitation* clinic assumes participants have sound facilitation experience and are comfortable using the range of tools covered in our Fundamental Facilitation program.
	By all means call us before you register to talk over your current capabilities and development directions and we’ll be able to advise which program is more suited to your needs...