PSY-5750H: Large Group Facilitation: Process Design and Skills for Exploration, Conflict Transformation, Decision-Making and Collaborative Action

This course is designed to develop participants’ capacities as skillful facilitators and to enable them to design and conduct effective group processes for exploration, conflict transformation, decision-making and collaborative action. The course is structured around three all-day class sessions that are complemented by observation of real meetings and mentored, applied practice as facilitators in the community. We will learn methods appropriate for guiding community and organizational meetings, conducting public processes, and for enabling difficult dialogues across conflict divides. Participants will learn how to assess the needs of a group and to design processes to address them. This will include processes to help groups improve understanding, strengthen relationships, engage in collaborative problem solving, engage in effective decision-making, and mobilization for community change. Participants will become familiar with a variety of methods and techniques to achieve process goals with groups ranging in size from three to 3,000. Through a variety of readings, exercises and reflections, the course will assist participants’ formation as reflective practitioners facilitating group processes. We will focus on developing awareness of group dynamics, while cultivating openness and offering a calm presence even in the midst of high levels of anxiety and conflict. We will consider a variety of facilitator roles and functions and critically assess the ethics and appropriateness of these roles and functions for different types of situations. The approach presented in this course emphasizes the Engagement Streams Framework developed by the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation and a North American peacebuilding paradigm, we will aim to also explore facilitation in other cultural traditions and raise awareness of the challenges of facilitating cross-culturally and in multicultural contexts.
Min. Credits: 3.0
Credit Basis: Quarter credit
Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles
Method(s): Workshop
Faculty Consent Required: N
Program Approval Required: N
Course Type Psychology, Counseling and Therapy

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PSY-5750H: Large Group Facilitation: Process Design and Skills for Exploration, Conflict Transformation, Decision-Making and Collaborative Action