Facilitation skills are required in many different contexts whenever people come together to work, discuss, plan, evaluate, solve problems or share experiences. This course is very hands-on in character and will emphasize how to design and conduct participatory workshops or other group sessions with simple but effective tools and techniques. We will create together our “facilitation toolbox” and reflect on how to use methods and tools and adapt them according to different objectives, contexts and phases of interactive workshops. We will also practice some methods in plenary as well as different group work settings and try out planning and design tools according to your own workshop concepts.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course participants
- have a better understanding of how to plan, prepare and conduct participatory and dynamic workshops in different settings;
- are able to use tools from the facilitation toolbox and have practiced their visualization skills as well as energizers, different forms of brainstorming and the facilitation plan;
- feel more confident to facilitate first workshops (or parts of it) and are motivated to further improve their skills
Course Content
- Responsibilities, skills and attitudes of workshop facilitators
- Planning and preparing workshops
- Facilitation toolbox: reflection on methods and tools for different phases
- Workshop design for all phases from beginning to closure with practical exercises
- Visualization tools and techniques for facilitators
- Icebreakers, warm-ups and energizers
- Handling difficult situations in workshops
- Principles of adult learning
General information
The training course takes place at the Centre for Rural Development (SLE), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Course hours are from 9.00 am until 5.00 pm from Monday to Friday unless otherwise noted. The tuition fee is 700,- euros per participant. If you enrol before June 1st 2020, the Early Bird tuition fee applies: 620.- euros.
This includes:
- 4-day training course
- Catering during coffee breaks
- Photo-Documentation
- Certificate of participation