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The International Association of Facilitators (IAF) is pleased to announce that the Canada Region will be sponsoring the second IAF Canada Tour in October & November, 2009.
- Mark your Calenders!
- Block the time!
This hands-on, interactive two-day workshop will be co-hosted by celebrated facilitators Marian Pitters (Toronto) and Dorothy Strachan (Ottawa). The workshop will provide useful knowledge and practical skills, while engaging participants in continued professional development as group facilitators.
October 15 - 16, 2009
Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC)
Waterfront Campus
80 Mawiomi Place
Dartmouth NS B2Y 0A5EDMONTON
October 26 - 27, 2009
Hilton Garden Inn
17610 Stony Plain Road
Edmonton, AB T5S 1A2WINNIPEG
October 29 - 30, 2009
Hilton Suites Winnipeg Airport
1800 Wellington Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3H 1BVANCOUVER
November 5 - 6, 2009
University of BritishColumbia
2329 West Mall Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
Managing Facilitated Processes: What Works and What Doesn't
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Designing Facilitated Processes: What to do When and How
Making Questions Work: 5 Process Frameworks and 1800 Questions
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Managing Facilitated Processes: What Works and What Doesn't
Making Questions Work: 5 Process Frameworks and 1800 Questions
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Managing Facilitated Processes: What Works and What Doesn't
Managing Facilitated Processes: What Works and What Doesn't
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Making Questions Work: 5 Process Frameworks and 1800 Questions
Note: Each workshop is limited to 50 participants.
One Workshop, Two Leading Facilitators, Two Books, Four Locations… Priceless Insights…
This must-attend educational opportunity is for facilitators at all levels - beginning to experienced-as well as for consultants, managers, coaches, educators and others who work with groups and want to enhance their skills in designing and managing facilitated processes and ensuring productive group outcomes. Each session will include a broad range of experiences, resources and methods-all designed to engage and stimulate participants in an enjoyable and highly effective learning environment.
The Trainers, the Topics and the Books
Marian Pitters will lead the workshop session, Managing Facilitated Processes: What Works and What Doesn't. She will focus on key tools you need to prepare for 18 types of facilitated processes and the five key elements in supporting a successful process: participants, speakers, logistics, documents and feedback. By the end of this workshop you will be comfortable using many time-saving tools in the book Managing Facilitated Processes and will understand and be able to apply an approach for managing facilitated processes that is integrated, customized and systematic.
Please click here for a more detailed description of the Managing Facilitated Processes workshop.
Dorothy Strachan The Halifax-Dartmouth workshop session, Designing Facilitated Processes: What to do When and How, will focus on process design from start to finish, while building a design for an upcoming session. Please click here for a more detailed description of the Designing Facilitated Processes workshop.
The Edmonton, Winnipeg and Vancouver workshop sessions, Making Questions Work: 5 Process Frameworks and 1800 Questions, will focus on how to make the best use of questions in facilitated sessions.
Please click here for a more detail description of the second day of Making Questions Work workshop.
Every IAF 2009 Canada Tour participant will receive two books on-site. Everybody will receive a copy of Managing Facilitated Processes: A Guide for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers, Event Planners, and Educators by Dorothy Strachan and Marian Pitters (2009).
Halifax Workshop participants will receive a copy of Process Design: Making it Work, A Practical Guide to What to do When and How for Facilitators, Consultants, Managers and Coaches by Dorothy Strachan and Paul Tomlinson (2008), while Western Canadian workshop participants will receive Making Questions Work: A Guide to What and How to Ask for Facilitators, Consultants, Managers, Coaches, and Educators by Dorothy Strachan (2007).
For more information on these books, please click here
