Essential Facilitation Skills – CLOSED

Leader's Essential Facilitation Skills Workshop

9.30am - 1.00pm on Tuesday the 23rd of June
at the Tower Hotel, Waterford

Logos for Waterford volunteer Centre, Training Links and Wexford Volunteer Centre

The Volunteer Trustee Development Network is running a Facilitation Skills Workshop for network members.

This workshop is aimed at people working in the community and voluntary sector and includes Not for Profits, Charities, Voluntary run agencies and social enterprises. It is designed to give community leaders (such as committee members, decision-makers and facilitators) or those who would like to be a practical experience of facilitation that will equip them with the mindset, skills, and competencies necessary to effectively facilitate groups and meetings.

Funded by Training Links.

FREE FOR CHARITIES AND VOLUNTEER-INVOLVING ORGANISATIONS

Places are strictly limited

A limited number of places are available to non-network members. Network members will take priority.

Due to GDPR regulations all participant organisations must be  registered with either the Waterford or Wexford Volunteer Centres.

This is a participative workshop. It will provide an opportunity for those who wish to be leaders in their community to learn and to practice essential facilitation skills and enable them to work collaboratively with groups to much greater effect.

As well as providing some foundational knowledge about the influence of personality on how groups work, you will learn many useful skills, such as how to:

  • communicate for impact
  • keep people interested and motivated
  • reach decisions
  • manage energy levels
  • deal with challenging behaviour

The Trainer

Helen Newman

Helen has over 30 years’ experience supporting leaders and managers in a broad range of sectors, including health, education, national and global businesses, international development aid and foreign policy, arts, finance and international and national nongovernmental organisations.

She works with leaders and organisations to develop and grow, to define and focus on priorities, overcome challenges, and drive accountability for themselves and their organisations. She works with Boards, senior teams and individual leaders acting as a sounding board, critical friend, the guide on the side who supportively challenges, creating safe space for crucial conversations.

Now in her 21st year consulting, Helen totally enjoys here work, is passionate about making a real difference to the organisations and team with whom she works.  Feedback attests to her professionalism, her capacity to design and deliver inventive engaging processes all the while supportively challenging teams and organisations.

Application Form
Essential Facilitation Skills Workshop

Priority will be given to members of the Volunteer Trustee Development Network and registered volunteer involving organisations in counties Waterford and Wexford. You will be notified if you have been allocated a place.

Please note that for funding purposes you will be required to complete a pre-registration form if you are allocated a place.