STAYING GROUNDED WHEN ON THE SPOT
Training at Hebrew College
PCP Associate Raye Rawls
This workshop will...
- deepen your self-awareness and skill as a facilitator.
- create new understandings of the importance of preparation and of purpose.
- increase your ability to align your facilitation with the group’s purpose and behavior.
Staying Grounded When On the Spot: A Facilitation Workshop (2-day)
Anyone who facilitates meetings can be thrown off balance when difficult moments arise. Staying Grounded will help you improve your ability to adapt a meeting design in response to a group’s shifting needs and interests. This skill-building workshop is offered only to small groups of eighteen or fewer. This workshop is grounded in PCP’s experience of designing and facilitating constructive conversations in difficult environments while adapting to in-meeting challenges.
Discuss:
- how to be aware of potentially challenging moments.
- how building deeper group trust and understanding can prevent such moments.
- how to improve your capacity to adapt a meeting design in response to a group’s shifting needs and interests.
- how your own personal, social, and cultural attributes may help or hinder you in “staying grounded” when working with people whose identities, world views, or communication styles differ from yours.
- how to develop constructive, purposeful responses to common challenges: violations of ground rules, opposition to the process or purpose of the meeting, or resistance to your own role and credibility as the facilitator.
- how to appreciate the crucial connections between pre-meeting work and in-meeting challenges.
- learning through feedback during coached role-play.
- collaborating closely with other workshop participants as you address facilitation challenges.
- distinguishing between your ”Warrior, Wimp, and Wise” responses to facilitation challenges.