Join Training Wheels staff and your co-teammates for a facilitator program that will be like none other you have participated in.  This experience enhances the foundational skills necessary for facilitators.  Most of the training is all hands-on and experiential.  Each participant will get the opportunity to facilitate their own activity to receive constructive feedback from the group.  Some objectives of the program are:

•  Create an environment where each team member’s voice and ideas are heard and valued.

•  Practice with tools that facilitate efficient consensus-based decision making.

•  Recognize the behaviors and obstacles that block creativity.

•  Learn the necessity of and methods for creating shared mental models.

•  Foster experimentation and risk-taking—recognizing how small failures in the developmental phase ensure large successes in the implementation phase.

•  Develop abilities to transform “knowers” into “learners” by focusing on the importance of knowledge gained from mistakes and developing the patience to avoid the quick fix.

•  Develop the resilience of the team and its members to be able to support everyone through the long haul.

•  Group leadership skills evaluated and discussed:  Active listening, Reflecting, Clarifying, Summarizing, Interpreting, Questioning, Linking, Confronting, Supporting, Blocking, Diagnosing, Reality-testing, Evaluating, Facilitating, Empathizing, and Terminating.

•  Evaluating Group Leader/Personhood/Facilitator Skills: Courage, Willingness to Model, Presence, Good Will and Caring, Belief in Group Process, Openness, Ability to Cope with attacks, Personal. Power, Stamina, Self Awareness, Sense of Humor, and Inventiveness.

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