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2:00pm - 2:15pm: Welcome and Agenda Overview
2:15pm - 2:30pm: Facilitation Brainstorm
- Write the word 'Facilitation' in the middle of a piece of newsprint. Have students brainstorm what comes to mind when they hear this word.
- Record all of the ideas that students share.
Processing
- Who has played the role of a facilitator before?
- What are the similarities/differences between being a facilitator and being a leader?
- What do you think are some qualities of a good facilitator/ bad facilitator?
SEGUE: Tell participants that many of the workshops/activities that we will be doing will require them to co-facilitate with each other and work together in order to successfully run the group. Now that we have thought about what a facilitator is, we will spend some time thinking about how we can co-facilitate effectively with each other.
2:30pm - 3:00pm: Facilitator Ads
- Distribute paper and pens to all participants. Have them think of the best workshop they have ever been in and the facilitator who ran the workshop.
- Tell participants that they are now going to search for that ideal facilitator by placing an ad in the paper similar to personal ad. They should imagine that they are looking for a facilitator to co-facilitate a workshop with them.
- In the ad they are going to be identifying the skills, qualities and attitudes that they are looking for in an ideal facilitator. They should also identify the responsibilities of the facilitator as well as what challenges they should be prepared to deal with in a workshop.
- After 10 minutes, have participants state their name and read their personal ad.
Processing (15 min.)
- Did any common themes come up in activity? List participants responses on newsprint
- Why are these responsibilities, skills, attitudes and qualities that you identified so important when facilitating?
- What exactly is a facilitator?
- How does one get to become good at facilitating?
3:00pm - 3:30pm:Deadly Communication Skills
Procedure
- Ask participants if they have ever heard of the Seven Deadly Sins. Explain that they will each get a 'personality' that represents a different deadly communication skill. They will be paired up and asked to give a brief presentation to the rest of the group using that skill. The different skills are:
- Fast-Talking Tisha (Talks too fast)
- Too-Slow Joe (Talks too slow & monotone)
- Speaker-Box Suzy (Talks too loudly)
- Rob Low (Talks too softly)
- Look-away Larry (Avoids eye contact)
- Energizer Bunny (Too energetic/unfocused/unable to sit stay still)
- Miss Mary Mumbles (Speaks unclearly/almost mumbles)
- After each pair has presented their 'personality' the group will debrief about the characters communication style.
Processing
- What was their communication style like?
- What did they do poorly regarding communication?
- How could they improve their communication style?
3:30pm - 4:00pm: So You Think You Can Facilitate, Huh?
- Pair up students who will be facilitating together.
- Give each pair a different activity and give them 5 minutes to prepare to facilitate this activity for the rest of the group.
- Allow each pair 10 minutes to facilitate the activity and debrief the experience with the entire group once they have finished.
Processing
- For the people who had facilitated before, how did it feel to do that activity?
- For the people who had not facilitated before, what was it like for you?
- Do you think that you would have done better if you had had more time to prepare?
- What would you have needed to do a better job?
- What other skills do you need to effectively facilitate a workshop?
- At this point, review hand-out on the role of a facilitator.
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