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If you plan, manage, design, organize or facilitate workshops, we have a learning opportunity for you. Here's what's coming up: note both open and restricted sessions.

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Check out the International Association of Facilitators 2010 Conference in Chicago!
There are over 60 workshop sessions centered around this year’s theme of “Collaboration in Action” all taking place in one week: April 20-23, 2010.

Dorothy will be presenting two workshops:

Facilitating in Difficult Situations: Prevention, Intervention, Reflection
(April 21 pre-conference session)
Objectives of this session are to:

  • Identify what makes situations difficult for facilitators
  • Learn and apply a “forget-me-not” prompter for preventing difficult situations
  • Learn and apply a framework for intervening in difficult situations at key stages of a process
  • Use a reflective tool for gaining insight into how you want to address difficult situations in the future.

Great Openings and Closings: 2 Frameworks and 100 Questions that Really Work
(April 22 concurrent session included in registration fee)
Objectives of this session are to:

  • Understand, learn and practice using 2 process frameworks for designing and facilitating openings and closings for sessions
  • Select or develop questions to support facilitation of these 2 process frameworks for an upcoming event you are facilitating
  • Become comfortable using the workshop handout (2 frameworks, practice guidelines and 100 questions) to plan openings and closings for an event
  • Value a thoughtful and critically reflective approach to asking questions in service of healthy, ethical, collaborative and productive group processes

Dorothy’s books (listed below) will all be available at the bookstore throughout the conference.

  • Making Questions Work
  • Process Design: Making it Work (co-authored with Paul Tomlinson)
  • Managing Facilitated Processes” (co-authored with Marian Pitters)

For more information or to register, visit the IAF North America Conference website! http://www.iafna2010.com/index.html

 

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