credit option

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This workshop will be offered as part of a 3 credit hour, graduate level course through the Division of Continuing Education and the College of Education. Click here to get information about registering for the course with the DCE.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Facilitation for Results is a companion course to the Institute for Civic Discourse and Democracy's (ICDD) Public Issues Facilitation Workshop. Facilitation is a set of valuable skills that can be used in multiple arenas ranging from small church groups and classes to large town meetings and public forums. There are many approaches to facilitation and to assume that one facilitation approach will fit all situations and scenarios is myopic and dangerous. A skilled facilitator knows when and where to use a particular approach, and more importantly when to recommend another facilitator when required by a specific situation. This course is intended to introduce students and participants to facilitation. To become a skilled facilitator requires many years of experience and study.

From the DCE Site:

"In the United States our democracy is founded on citizen participation. When citizens participate in town meetings, public forums, or come together to solve problems, effective facilitation often determines success or failure. Community leaders are often called upon to organize, facilitate, and assess community forums on critical issues. This course includes three days of facilitation skills training followed by eight weeks of online work that includes applied readings, projects and assessments. The course credits can be applied to a graduate degree in Adult Education or Educational Administration, in the Department of Educational Leadership.

Textbook: Justice, T. & Jamieson, D.W. (2006). The Facilitator's Fieldbook (2nd Ed.). American Management Association, HRD Press

The ICDD Facilitation Workshop fee of $300 has been built into this course as a materials fee.

This class is a credit option for participants in the ICDD Public Issues Facilitation Workshop held at the Kansas State Alumni Center, January 11 - 13, 2010. Participants must attend all conference sessions even though the class officially starts January 16."

 

Objectives:
• Participate in ICDD's Public Issues Facilitation Workshop.
• To learn about key components of facilitation fundamentals.
• To learn about the role of the facilitator.
• To explore strategies that maximize group participation.
• To understand approaches to manage and minimize group and personal
conflict.
• To understand how effective facilitation can be used as a tool to reach
group decisions.
• To explore several case studies and best practices.
• To learn the nominal group process and how to evaluate alternatives and
consequences.
• To develop a case study of a group, organization, or community forum
that utilizes facilitation. Students will be provided a structured method
that can be used to develop this case study. Students will be able to
choose their role (facilitator, team member, participant observer,
researcher, etc.) in their selected forum. If during the course they are not
able to work directly with a group, organization or community project,
students may elect to develop an historical case study where they
investigate a past project.