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Foundations of Facilitation - JURD7477

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre-requisite: 36 UOC of JURD courses for students enrolled prior to 2013. For students enrolled after 2013, pre-requisite: 72 UOC of JURD courses.

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

There is a strong parallel between facilitation and leadership. Facilitation is the process of delivering a positive outcome where the participants are guided and supported to take ownership of their task. It is allied to teaching and coaching; an essential skill of leadership. Facilitation roles range from short term task orientated facilitation (one off meetings) with a role to improve process, to long term developmental facilitation where the goal includes capacity building within the group itself. This course will provide an introduction to the theory and process of facilitation, and its applications within the legal process.

Recommended Prior Knowledge

none

Main Topics

  • The history, philosophy and values behind facilitation: the theoretical frameworks will
  • include deep democracy ( Arnold Mindell 1988) and more task oriented processes.
  • Types of facilitation and the skills and tools they require from a facilitator;
  • The value and cost of buy in to establish meaningful outcomes ( compared to providing
  • the answer to a group or community).
  • Theory of groups and their role in facilitation
  • Areas of application of facilitation: potential for juries, management of professional
  • services firms, Boards, Group visioning and empowerment, Building communities,
  • Regulation Negotiation for international treaties Native Title, dispute resolution, cross
  • cultural issues and change management.
  • Guest lecturers focusing on specialist topics as well as an opportunity for exploration
  • and dialogue.

Assessment

Class participation (15%)
Group project (35%)
Essay 3,000 words (50%)

Course Texts

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.
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Study Levels

Undergraduate Study Postgraudate Study Postgraduate Research Study Non-Award Study

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