Facilitation

I am an experienced facilitator, with a flair for enabling and supporting conversations across sectors and silos.

I regularly design and deliver in-person and online:

Development and Away Days for Trustee Boards and staff teams in voluntary sector organisations
Workshops and development sessions for teams in Local Authorities, the NHS and other public sector organisations, supporting culture change processes, innovation, and the adoption and adaptation of innovative models

Action learning

I am trained in Action Learning Facilitation and Virtual Action Learning, with Action Learning Associates.   

Action Learning is a specific, rigorous methodology for supporting individual and collaborative problem-solving, reflective learning, sharing and leadership development in small groups (6 to 8 participants).

 Action Learning was developed in the 1970s by Reg Revans, a scientist used to the process of peer review, who believed that people learn best when they have a real issue to resolve and when what they are trying to change, or resolve is something they are responsible for. He believed that:
“For an organisation to survive, its rate of learning must be at least equal to the rate of change in its external environment.”

Action Learning supports a continuous process of learning and reflection based on the relationship between reflection and action, which can be expressed in the following equation:
Learning = Programmed knowledge + Questioning insight

Action Learning uses the technique of open questions: questions which encourage reflection and are intended to help the individual explore their own thoughts, feelings and experiences – not give advice or share experience.

We all like to ask for advice, and to hear what other people would do - but does this help us ‘own’ our solutions and commit to make change happen?

Fundamental to the approach is the belief that people are more likely to take action and commit to change if they have arrived at their own solution to their problems. Action Learning provides the space for this to happen.