Mastering Facilitation - LAWS8981
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:
Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9210, 5740, 9230, 9285, 5285, 9235, 5235, 9231, 5231 or 9220 or 5750.
Excluded: JURD7881
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
LLM Specialisations
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 practical experience in running or participation in large group meetings) 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 | 15% | |
| Class participation | 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.
Study Levels
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