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Strengthening Your Facilitation Skills, Level 2 objectives:

•   Deepen knowledge of the core facilitation competencies;

•   Observe facilitation challenges such as constant change, competing priorities, changing team members, limited time and  
    carefully guarded resources;

•   Practice skills in an experiential setting and receive feedback in a safe environment;

•   Commit to building the capacity of your community;

•   Explore new learning boundaries;

•   Share teaching responsibility

Series framework reflects the IAF (International Association of Facilitators) six foundational facilitator competencies:

•   Creating collaborative client relationships;

•   Planning appropriate group processes;

•   Creating and sustaining a participatory environment;

•   Guiding the group to appropriate and useful outcomes;

•   Building and maintaining professional knowledge;

•   Modeling a positive professional attitude.

 Participant requirements:

•   Facilitate or lead a group at least once per month;

•   Completed the Strengthening Your Facilitation Skills, Level 1 series or its equivalent;

•   Lead or co-lead one or more components of the advanced series;

•   Willing to discuss your growth and growing edges with the group;

•   Agree to honor all participants’ requests for confidentiality;

•   Attend all sessions (we acknowledge that life happens);

•   Willing to give back to the community in one or more ways, such as:

1. Facilitating a group of which you are not a member

2. Writing an article

3. Mentoring about facilitating

4. Helping to teach Level 1

Training Components are interactive:

•   Lecturette

•   Consulting

•   Practice

•   Monthly assigned work

•   Service learning

•   Varied methodologies

•   Internal dialogue about your self-care

Meet the Presenters:

Jane Haskell Extension Educator University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Louise Franck-Cyr Extension Educator University of Maine Cooperative Extension

Jane brings nearly 20 years of experience in the design and implementation of experiential community development programs for youth and adults. Over the years she has launched several innovative Extension programs, from Voices, a school-based enrichment program for teens, to the Mid-Coast Home-Based Business Conference, the first statewide conference for home-based business owners in Maine, to producing and hosting Doing Business, a live, public affairs radio show. As a result of her community facilitation work, her latest innovation is the collaborative creation of Strengthening Your Facilitation Skills, Levels 1 and 2. Jane is working collaboratively to research the societal impact of having skilled community facilitators. She is a member of the International Association of Facilitators and the National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals.

Louise brings over twenty-five years of experience working with individuals, organizations and community groups as a facilitator, educator, consultant and coach strengthening leadership capacity to bring about social change. She is a catalyst for personal and group awakening, calling forth the potential and innate wisdom of people and groups. Louise is a member of the International Association of Facilitators, the National Association of Community Development Extension Professionals, the International Coach Federation, and the Coaches Alliance of Maine.

Participants have said:

• “I invest more time in preparation and to better identify those people with personal agendas.”

•  “I have more confidence in my facilitation skills.”

•  “I liked being with others . . . who are fun and inspiring and having specific ideas to put into place and a time to practice.”

•  “ I learned how to clarify assumptions, listen and then ask the right questions.”

•  “The training offered me tools I was oblivious to before and gave me creative ways to work with tools I already had.”

For more information, email jhaskell@umext.maine.edu or call UMCE Waldo County at 1-800-287-1426

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