Group Facilitation 201: Practicing Interventions

Submitted by dcjwj on Fri, 04/02/2010 - 10:03am.
27 Apr 2010 - 6:30pm
27 Apr 2010 - 8:30pm

Group Facilitation 201: Practicing Interventions
Tuesday, April 27th 2010
6:30-8:30pm
St. Stephen Episcopal Church
1525 Newton St NW
Columbia Heights metro, S2/S4 bus

Pre-register online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bdAvdFc2_2bP7TBKN2m08OLA_3d_3d. A donation of $10 is requested, but no-one is turned away.

Facilitators have so much responsibility: making sure the group reaches its meeting goals, keeping the energy up, and listening deep enough to know when the agenda you're working from is busted. Each question posed to the group, or call for an "icebreaker," or request to hear from the silent participants in the room represents a facilitator choice -- an intervention -- to help the group get to its goals. In this workshop we'll explore and practice different kinds of interventions for dealing with challenging scenarios as
facilitators.

Trainers:
Naomi Long has worked as an organizer on criminal justice issues and currently does training and organizing work with several local and national organizations including the Center for Progressive Leadership, the DC Jail Advocacy Project, and Wellstone Action. She lives in the Washington Highlands neighborhood in Southeast and is a birthing Doula.

Andrew Willis Garcés does organizing work with a variety of community & labor groups and leads trainings for trainers and other workshops with Training for Change.

Pre-register online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bdAvdFc2_2bP7TBKN2m08OLA_3d_3d.