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Campus: Kensington Campus
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Career: Postgraduate
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Units of Credit: 6
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Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
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Enrolment Requirements:
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36 UOC completed in Juris Doctor Program (9150)
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Excluded: LAWS8981
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Description
This 4 day workshop is designed to provide lawyers and others who run group meetings with skills and tools to undertake the task more effectively.
Recommended Prior Knowledge
This course is experiential – there are practical application sessions with feedback and coaching. Prior experience with group meetings is essential. This prior experience is preferably as a facilitator. However, extensive experience (3-5 years regular meeting experience) as an adviser, consultant or participant will suffice (eg: participation in mining company and native title negotiations, running welfare groups etc).
Course Objectives
- Provide facilitators with additional tools to more effectively work with groups;
- Acquire deeper understanding of how groups work;
- Understand how to respond to complex and challenging situations;
- Assist groups to make decisions and solve problems;
- Manage relationships with the group;
- Understand your skills and areas for improvement as a facilitator;
- Track a facilitation using visual tools;
- How to give coaching and feedback for facilitator and group.
Main Topics
- The philosophy of facilitation
- Groups and how they work
- Planning a facilitation
- Intervening as a facilitator
- Changing hats (lawyer, expert, facilitator)
- Group process options
- Recording a facilitation
- Dealing with difficult moments
Assessment
| Attendance |
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15% |
| Class participation |
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35% |
| Assignment |
3,000 words |
50% |
Course Texts
Prescribed
There are no prescribed texts, but a number of books have been published that would be useful for this course. Refer to Course Outline provided by lecturer. |
