Group Facilitation


 

IDI offers a one, two, or three-day course in group facilitation entitled The Four Faces of Facilitation. The course examines the four stages of group development and provides the student with a framework for guiding a group facilitator’s perspective and behavior at each stage. The one-day course provides an introduction to the basic concepts of facilitation, including Tuckman’s Stages of Group Development, the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator, and the dynamics of group decision-making. The two-day course allows the students to examine a wider variety of intervention techniques at each stage of group development. These include the use of the icebreakers, the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode instrument, ground rules, conflict management techniques, the norming Pulse Model, deBono’s Six Hats, Barker’s Paradigm Shifts, Janis’s groupthink, and Harvey’s Abilene Paradox. The three-day course builds on the theories and illustrations provided in the shorter courses and allows each student to practice facilitating a session of his or her peers. Each facilitation exercise is critiqued by the instructor and the other students and is video-taped for later review and self-critique by the student.