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Groupwork
and
Facilitation
 We provide facilitation and support for
groups and
teams including:
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Supporting groups to create visions
and determine goals
• Problem solving support when people are
engaged in short or long term
conflicts
• Where families or individuals feel that
they are
not being listened to
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When diverse groups of people come together to learn from each
others experiences (e.g. people who use services alongside family
members and support staff)
• Teams (or other groups) who feel they have
intractable problems or underlying conflicts
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Supporting individual people, who have labels of being challenging, to
explore and discover their potential and how best they can be supported
to achieve the lifestyle they desire
• Working with communities and issues of
inclusion
• Organisational leadership
“the group's creative potential is
proportionate to its capacity to learn from its encounter with
turbulence….."
Julie Diamond
Making things easier
We use a
process-work approach with groups so that as
well as relating to the individuals who make up the group, we also
relate to the group and its' different parts with an attitude of supporting deep democracy.
Facilitation has been described as the art of
easing or
helping along a group to get to some desired endpoint.We understand the
“facilitator role ” not just as someone who helps a group achieve its
objectives, but as a skilled practitioner who intervenes to support the
wholeness of a group by helping bring awareness to the process that is
trying to happen in the group and assisting it to unfold .
This also means facilitating where there is
conflict. We
recognise that conflict is a natural part of the world, of life and
offers opportunities for growth .
“Just as thriving eco-systems
require
instability for survival, conflict can be the seed for social
transformation, sustainable community, creativity and growth. The
Process Work model of conflict resolution addresses all aspects of
conflict, including cultural differences, emotional tensions, power and
social rank concerns, issues of social injustice, as well as
organizational and interpersonal conflicts.”
Julie Diamond
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