Advanced Facilitation & Consulting Skills Workshop
Using Self As Instrument
Who Should Attend:
1.
For
anyone who wants to deepen their leadership, facilitation, teambuilding and
consulting skills
2.
For
anyone seeking a quantum growth in self awareness and awareness of self in
relation to others.
Workshop Objectives:
1. Increase your understanding of individual, team and organizational functioning by understanding systems theory
2.
Understand
more about your own team behavior
3.
Learn
how to facilitate teams to high performance
4.
Learn
to assess problems and help teams to resolve interpersonal conflicts
5.
Develop
strategies and design interventions for team building
6.
Learn
to use one’s self as the instrument of change
7.
Utilize
a framework of interventions consistent with your own style and organizational
culture
8.
Understand
how you get in your own way in facilitating groups
Principles Which Guide This Program:
1.
Trust your
hunches - learn to use your feelings as a group barometer
2.
Trust the
process - learn to detach from outcome and let go of your need to control
3.
Be authentic
in your role - learn how to develop your character and forget
abut your reputation
4. Meet people where they are - learn to be in a place of
compassion, integrity and love instead of fear at all times
5.
Be present and
grounded - learn to be fully in the moment and mindful of all that is going on
in you and the group
The above
principles guide the facilitation process.
Each principle is explored fully in the 5-day workshop. Participants will be both members of
consulting teams and facilitators/consultants to another team. This will enable
you to experience working your own team issues. Your team will contract work
with another team, diagnose their needs, design and implement an intervention.
The workshop is primarily experiential with theoretical inputs.
What People Say:
“…better presentations [according to my reviewers] by staying in the moment that Linda demonstrates so very well ......also did a special presentation about the 'heart connection' these are the two constants and most enduring facets I have taken from the seminar. They serve me more every day in the way I present myself... I can just be and lessen my judgement and opinion mindset...” —John Sweetnam, President, CDS Group of Companies
“My experience attending Linda’s Advanced Facilitation Skills course vastly exceeded my expectations. What I learned about my own effect on group interaction and about my personal reaction to some group dynamics has continually improved my skill and confidence as a facilitator. I’ve recommended this course to many of my colleagues and all have returned from the experience with a sense of renewal and excitement.”-- Linda Padfield, Director of Organizational Development, Inco
“Within 1 hour of beginning our 5-day retreat, Linda created an environment that invited direct talk about deeply felt issues. Her own willingness to be transparent to others invites like disclosure. Her compassion, skillful discernment, and sense of humor, provide loving challenge and new insights for everyone in the room! -- Karen Shuttleworth, Educator/Facilitator, St. Joseph’s Health Centre
About Linda Lehtonen:
She is considered a master facilitator and has worked in Europe, throughout North America, Southeast Asia and India. She is able to facilitate groups from a place of extreme conflict, confusion and chaos, and 'stuckness' to a place of productivity, harmony and community. She has developed her ability to intuitively tune in to individuals and groups and cut to the heart of what might be blocking people from moving forward and living more calmly and healthfully. She works with people from a place of authenticity, profound respect and compassion. She believes in giving people practical tools to help them live more fully and serve others in their organizations. Her work has had a profound impact on thousands of people in helping them transform themselves, the workplace and their lives.
Three major
guiding principles she works from are to trust her hunches, to trust the
process and to be authentic. Linda continues to develop her own skills in these
three critical areas as she works with other practitioners wishing to further
develop their own skills and self-awareness.
Awareness means that we are fully present in the moment, paying
attention to the process that is happening both inside us and within the group,
and using intuiitive hunches to make connections.
Linda believes
in helping others build community and increase consciousness - both of which
improve the way we go about getting work done and enhance the choices we make
about how to create healthier organizations.
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