Facilitation Workshop Series for Academic Leadership

Event Date & Time

  • May 9, 2016 - May 12, 2016
    9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Event Description

**Please note this workshop series takes place over three morning sessions (930am-1230pm) on the following dates: Monday, May 9th, Tuesday, May 10th, and Thursday May 12th**

Educational initiatives, collaborations, and practices occur within various organizational systems, cultures, interpersonal dynamics, and worldviews. 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 are part of “secondary processes” (Schein 1999) that can undermine success when overlooked. Using your prior knowledge of self, other, group, system, and environment this workshop connects your pre-existing “know how” (Varela, 1999) in higher education to plan and implement for your own desired outcomes.

This is a series specifically for faculty and instructors who occupy leadership positions on campus or who attempt to influence (or unwittingly find themselves leading!) change. Specifically, participants who: host formal or informal conversations to effect academic change, facilitate or chair meetings, and those who find themselves managing interpersonal or group dynamics within their department or across campus.

The course offers group dynamics theory and capacity-building in the skills required to work with groups effectively.  This is an experiential-learning course, and is intentionally limited to 12 participants so that each participant is given customized support.

Practical takeaways from the course:

  • How to design change processes for positive impact
  • Greater capacity to have productive conversations
  • Facilitative tools to transform problems and barriers in groups to generative and innovative outcomes

Facilitators: Judy Chan and Jessica Earle-Meadows

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

Venue:  

Venue Website:

Address:
1961 E Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Description:

Please note this room is located through the CTLT offices of the 2nd floor in IKBLC.