The Facilitator Development Programme (FDP) is an intensive 10-day learning programme focused on supporting participants to deepen and develop their capacity to facilitate participatory processes.
A core curriculum and a clear conceptual and theoretical base form the foundation for this tailor-made programme that is co-created with the participants and adapted to the needs of the particular participant group.
Practise is at the centre of the programme. As a participant you will experience real facilitation situations and learn from your own experience and that of others’, by facilitating and practising both giving and receiving direct feedback with trainers and fellow participants.
Originally developed by Olive (OD & T), the programme is led by practitioners with extensive local and international experience in training, facilitation and organisation development. Participants come from a wide range of different sectors as well as from every continent and most African countries.
Facilitation is a relational practice and you are the person doing the relating! Thus you can’t develop your facilitation skills beyond a purely technical level without working with yourself. Personal development and reflection are core components of the programme. You are the instrument of your practice! This is an opportunity to work with personal development as well as with skills development.
A wide variety of methods and techniques are used in the learning process including creative and non-rational ways of working.
By the end of the 10-day learning programme, you will:
- have a framework for understanding the process of facilitation;
- be introduced to core issues and concepts in facilitation;
- have practised facilitation and related skills, and received individual feedback;
- be more aware of your own current patterns of facilitation and how these are shifting/have shifted;
- be more (self-) aware of how you relate, communicate, lead, manage, facilitate, train;
- have experienced the development of a group and reflected on how to facilitate this process;
- have designed a strategy to continue to develop yourself as a facilitator and how to introduce new/useful ideas on facilitation practice into your own organisation or practice;
- be excited about the ‘art’ of facilitation and committed to further exploring and engaging in facilitation practice.
Date: 18 to 28 March 2012
Venue: Cutty Sark (Scottburgh, KwaZulu-Natal).
Contact: Sunjay Panday
Phone: 031 206 2954
Fax:
Email:
Website: www.footsteps.org.za
Listing on CharitySA: www.charitysa.co.za/footsteps.html
