Course Content
The course is based on The Essence of Facilitation - Being in Action in Groups (Dale Hunter, Anne Bailey & Bill Taylor). An electronic (pdf) version of the book will be provided to course participants. The course will cover characteristics of effective groups (distinctions), and the process of distinguishing these characteristics 'in-the moment'. Distinctions include:
- purpose and culture
- safety and trust
- powerful listening and speaking
- intentionality
- power-with
- emotional competence
- intuition
- completion.
On completion participants receive a certificate confirming 40 hours of facilitation training has been undertaken. The course is limited to a maximum of twelve participants.
Trainers
Simone Maus is an experienced facilitator, coach, and facilitation skills trainer who has worked in government, corporate business, and community sectors. She is the founder of Collective Insight, a company that helps businesses and governments create more sustainable ways of working together on our planet. Her vision is to awaken humanity to the powerful resource of collective intelligence, which can be accessed through skilful facilitation and collaborative ways of working.
She is a founding partner of Zenergy Global Australia and has been a trainer with Zenergy Global since 2013. Simone is active with the Australasian Facilitators Network (AFN) and delivers Zenergy programs worldwide. Simone has also been a partner and organisational culture architect with The Zone since 2012. There, she facilitates significant organisational culture interventions and team alignment workshops worldwide.
Dr Stephen Thorpe is a Director of Zenergy with a focus on teamwork and technology. He specialises in enhancing team performance in IT and agile project management, data science, and collective intelligence.
Stephen is a Senior Lecturer Above the Bar at the Auckland University of Technology. He leads the innovative Master of IT Project Management that he co-created and lectures on team facilitation, digital transformation and change management, IT project management and supervises students undertaking a range of project management, agile and team related research projects. He has an agile mindset that likes to take a team approach to challenges, focuses on alignment, and is constantly building a culture of success. With a background in group facilitation, user-centered design and technology, he integrates domains of technology and collaboration in the implementation of strategy-aligned initiatives.