Facilitating Groups - Hosted by IAP2 USA

IAP2's Facilitating Groups

new elective course offering to IAP2

**You must first complete Fundamentals of Public Participation or IAP2's previous Foundations Training to take this course**

Explore the facilitation framework to develop skills and confidence in developing your engagement facilitation approach.

The aim of Facilitating Groups is to explore the framework and develop skills and confidence in facilitating P2 and engagement methods. The focus will be about enhancing practitioners’ ability to respond appropriately, generating confidence in and support for your facilitation approach.

Course objectives

• Examine the framework and purpose of facilitation in an engagement context
• Build a repertoire of tools and processes
• Practice some core skills
• Troubleshoot specific challenges 
• Explore the changes needed for facilitation of digital engagement processes

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Trainer: Cathy Smith 

Cathy’s work in the inter-related fields associated with climate change—land use, transportation, water, energy, health—brings depth of knowledge and understanding of current engagement needs. As a past community mediator and practicing writer and storyteller, her engagement insights span from conflict management to communications. She’s one of 15 Certified Public Participation Practitioners in the country, a graduate of USD’s School of Law, and IAP2USA’s Past President.