Better World Facilitation Services

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Custom Designed Facilitation Services

Facilitated services are provided to meet the needs of the participants and the desired outcomes. We offer a variety of professionally facilitated processes:

• Creating and clarifying compelling Mission, Vision and Values

• Strategic Planning, Annual Planning, Goal Setting...

• Team Formation, Development and Strengthening

• Conflict Resolution

• Communication and Shared Understanding

• Meetings, Workshops and retreats

Bring Your Time Together to Life...

Let us help make your next meeting, work or planning session or conference more participative, effective and time-efficient. We facilitate groups of any size from 3 to 300--for a few hours or timeframes spanning several days, or staged throughout the year.

Group Process Philosophies and Paradigms

Social Constructionism

Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Learning Cultures
Dialogue and Deliberation
Open Space Technology
Co-Creative Engagement
The World Cafe
Action Learning

Our Facilitators are recognized for:

Enabling people to effectively deal with change management

Enabling and empowering people to identify and move toward common goals

Releasing the creativity within groups

Developing and strengthening teams

Deepening trust and honesty

Delivering successful meetings and worksessions

Deepening the potential of leadership at every level

Asking the questions that make the difference

Developing shared understanding and agreements

Removing obstacles to performance and improved relationships

Masterful group dynamics and high performance teams

Developing appreciation and understanding of differences

Creating the experience of collaboration

Facilitation Skills and Competencies

Faciliation is a rapidly expanding, worldwide profession that plays key roles in helping shape the world we live in. Today, facilitation plays a vital part in the workings of businesses, governments, and communities across the globe. With facilitation cast in such an important leadership role, a very important question arises: how does an organization assess the capability of the facilitator that they hire to do the job?

Certification for Facilitators is provided and monitored by the International Association of Facilitators. The following information describes the qualifications, experience and process for becoming certified as an IAF Professional Facilitator (IAF-CPF).