Facilitation Workshop Series

Event Date & Time

  • October 4, 2016 - October 18, 2016
    9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Event Description

**This workshop has been cancelled. For more information on facilitation please contact Isabeau Iqbal or Jessica Earle-Meadows (contact information listen below) **

This is a series for faculty and instructors who attempt to influence (or unwittingly find themselves leading!) change. Specifically, this series is for people who: host formal or informal conversations to affect academic change, facilitate or chair meetings, and those who are involved in interpersonal or group dynamics within their department or across campus.

Facilitation is a method of addressing explicit as well as implicit, and often unnamed, forces at play – those cultural factors that constitute ‘the water in which we swim.’ Institutional climate, conflicting agendas, unaddressed underlying issues, and unchecked assumptions can undermine success when overlooked.

Using your prior knowledge of self, other, group, system, and environment, this workshop draws from your experiences in higher education to help you plan and implement for educational initiatives and collaborations.

This is an experiential-learning course, and is intentionally limited to 12 participants to allow for individual practice and feedback. Please complete this survey as part of your registration.

By the end of three sessions, participants will have advanced their skills to:

  • Identify key components involved in facilitation practice
  • Self-assess their facilitation abilities in a variety of work environments and/or contexts
  • Design a facilitation plan for positive impact

Facilitators: Jessica Earle-Meadows, Judy Chan, and Isabeau Iqbal

If you have any problems with or questions about registration, please email elissa.morris@ubc.ca

If you have questions about the workshop, please contact any of the facilitators.

Judy Chan: judy.chan@ubc.ca

Jessica Earle-Meadows: jessica.earle-meadows@ubc.ca (away in August)

Isabeau Iqbal: isabeau.iqbal@ubc.ca (away in August)