Training Courses

Navigating what work we do, with who and how we facilitate a group or organisation is the important work of contracting – the central “C’ competency in our FACETS® model.  In our world, the word ‘contract’ is used in a relational rather than a legalistic sense but both relate to responsibilities, expectations, scene-setting and the development of a mutually understood framework conducive to a positive outcome. In this short session, we will examine how we work ethically and equitably with group participants, sponsors, clients and co-facilitators including agreements related to outcomes, ways of working, fees, boundaries and renegotiation. As a [...]

All groups undergo continual shifts in how people relate to each other - the group dynamic.  Ideally, we notice and work well with issues of ego, power, bullying, victimhood, life scripts and patterns, however these present themselves, including from within our inner world.  Whether relationship dynamics are explicitly the work we are engaged in, or whether they are just ‘getting in the way’ a knowledge of core models from Transactional Analysis is helpful to all facilitators. After a brief introduction of the theory of scripts and ‘games people play’, we will look at how participants (and facilitators) adopt and shift [...]

What do we carry around with us as unexamined truths about facilitation? About ourselves as facilitators? About others as facilitators or group members? About organisations, “Other People” and “The World”. How does these imaginal and attitudinal realms, often out of our awareness, inform and limit our choices and interventions. In our practice, how might we collude with the prevailing culture and dynamics, risking becoming assimilated and ineffective, and what happens when we are rejected. To aid our myth busting explorations, we will use Jonno Hanafin’s index of “Perceived Weirdness” to explore how we can be most effective as facilitators and [...]

When a climate of psychological safety exists, group members feel substantially free to contribute in service of their shared [...]

Our training, and often our core nature as facilitators, tends towards to paying attention to others’ needs. Paradoxically, we [...]