GROUP
FACILITATION SKILLS:
Putting Participatory Values into Practice
Workshop Leader: Cathy Toldi, M.A., Community at Work
San Francisco, CA, August 4-6, 2009
Mention that you saw this announcement at GFSC, for a 25% discount!
Thank
you to Dr. Rob Gordon for adding his Disaster
Social Process Theory (summary table).
Dr. Gordon's work is quite compatible with the GFSC model,
Crisis > Change > Choice: Building Community Resilience
And
thank you to Andrew Gaines for adding Facilitating
for Ideas and Visioning
a brief description of effective ways to encourage and manage
a group effort to brainstorm fresh ideas.
Podcast:
When to Get Involved For
podcasts and discussions about the aftermath
of the bush fires in Victoria, Australia, click
here.
Then look for
Download and Listen to Podcast
with Gil Brenson Lazan, Viv McWaters, Geoff
Brown
Discussing
history and role of facilitators in helping
people and communties rebound after crises.
How to involve survivors in working through
the grieving process and bringing individuals
together to build community resilience and self-reliance
as they plan their own future...
English,
Spanish and Chinese*
(*traditional and simplified)
Facilitators...guide
people though participatory processes so that the group members
identify goals, make decisions, plan organization strategies and
learn from one another.
Successful
facilitation improves group functioning, increases energy, effectiveness
and efficiency as group members learn new skills they can apply
to future challenges.
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* * Stay
tuned for more information about our
next webinar:
Talk
Yourself Out of It:
Changing Negative Self-Talk to Positive Self-Talk
Sept.
15th, 2009
presented
and facilitated by
Izzy Gesell, MS Ed, CSP
Izzy
is an "organizational alchemist" who transforms the
commonplace into something special. His programs help people
thrive and prosper during these
difficult, changing times.
This
1-hour webinar will give you tools to break up the internal
log jam caused by negativity, helplessness and stress. Learn
to redirect your self-talk towards a more confident, positive
and effective direction.
For more
detailed description and examples, click here.
In
this issue we present some of the challenges of building resilient,
self-reliant communities from several different perspectives. One
common theme is the importance and effectiveness of local involvement.
We welcome your feedback and expertise. Please share your stories
with us. Write to us at info@globalfacilitators.org
Critical
Success Factors for Virtual Meetings With the current state of the world
economy, it's easy to understand the surge of interest in virtual
collaboration as a way to reduce the expense of bringing people together
in physical time and space...
Hastily-formed
Networks Networks can spring up under a variety
of conditions. Sometimes they are desperately needed when a crisis
has knocked out both physical systems and social connections...
More
from Australia - Marysville Community Celebration Day Marysville was devastated by the
Black Saturday bushfires on the 8th February. Most of the buildings
in town and the district were burned down, with many deaths and injuries...Sixty
volunteer facilitators were recruited through various networks, starting
with Facilitators Helping Communities Recover...
Transitional
Communities According to Dr. Rob Gordon's Theory
of Social Processes in Disasters, in time, as reconstruction proceeds,
it leads to a return of effective functioning in a different structure...
All
Disasters Are Local ...Ganyard
describes the key factors that made this collaboration's success last
far beyond a training exercise...
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Facilitator
Support
GFSC
offers networking, mentoring, training, materials and other support
for facilitators and other professionals in areas affected by disasters
as well as for those who want to be prepared in case of future disasters.
Read more about our Crisis
> Change > Choice workshops.
Please
contact us at info@globalfacilitators.org
to arrange for customized training to meet your needs and the needs
of your organization or community.
Additions to the GFSC Online Library
