A. Principles, Strategies &
Skills of Effective Developmental
Practice
“Building an authentic practice in the field”
This five-day course brings and explores some of the core concepts,
principles, strategies, processes and competencies of a developmental
field-practice. The course provides a process for participants to
understand where the real work of facilitating development lies and
what their own personal development challenges are in developing as a
practitioner.
Aimed at practitioners including field-staff, programme managers,
directors and donors.
DATE: 14 – 18 April 2008 (non-residential)
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B. Developmental Approaches and Skills for
Group Facilitation
“Bringing life to group process”
A five-day course for practitioners to learn and further explore
essential facilitation concepts and skills for working developmentally
with groups of people in small group, workshop or training course
settings. The course offers an opportunity to experience, critically
examine, reflect on own practice and learn to practise a
‘developmental’ approach to group facilitation.
DATE:
9 – 13 June 2008 (non-residential)
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C. Advanced Facilitation
“Facilitating emergence…”
Facilitating Emergence offers an opportunity to develop a deepened
understanding and practice of working with emergent unfolding
processes in groups, with a focus on the role of the facilitator. This
course is for practitioners, who already have a practice and some
experience involving facilitation, who want to enliven their practice
and enhance their skills as facilitators, so that they are better able
to work intuitively and in the moment. It will be useful for
practitioners who want to generate learning from within and between
stakeholders, and to improve existing developmental interventions so
that they become more conscious, participatory and indigenous.
DATE: 10 – 14 November 2008 (non-residential)
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D. Managing People Developmentally
“Seeking resonance between individuals and organisation”
This five-day course explores the principles, values and practices of
effective developmental supervision, mentoring and performance
appraisals. For those in team leadership, management or other
supervisory positions who wish to mobilise and support the development
of the unique talents and potential that each staff member brings to
the work place.
DATE: 4 – 8 August 2008 (non-residential)
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E. Developmental Planning, Monitoring,
Evaluation
and Reporting
"Enabling clarity,
direction and support"
In
this five-day course participants will explore and develop alternative
approaches that enable planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting
processes to support rather than obstruct a developmental field
practice – a PME approach beyond logframes.
For
directors, programme/project managers and field-team leaders as well
as donors who are looking for alternative ways to assist their
partners to manage their practice.
This
is not a basic skills training course in project management.
DATES:
Course 1: 21
–
25 April 2008 (non-residential)
Course 2: 20 – 24 October 2008 (residential)
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F. Observation, Insight and Intervention
“Developing a New Discipline for Facilitating Change”
This
programme follows on the approach originally taught in the CDRA Fellowship
Programme in 2004-2006, and is run in collaboration with
The Proteus Initiative. It now seeks to expand access to the approach,
while holding the depth of engagement. This programme, run over 17 days,
provides an in-depth introduction to Goethean methodology specifically as
a means for developing a new approach to social intervention. It addresses
four aspects: understanding living process; practising new ways of seeing
and thinking (developing methods); engaging in processes of
self-development (to facilitate our own change as our understanding and
approach changes); and translating and applying our new understanding and
capacities into the situations with which we engaged. The programme
includes a 6 – 8 day residential retreat which will run over a weekend.
DATE: 5 – 21 May 2008
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G. Facilitating Development
“…from the inside out”
This is a
comprehensive programme for experienced development practitioners seeking
to explore challenging new ways of understanding development and improving
its practice and impact. The course is over a block period of 5 weeks.
Experienced participants are drawn from diverse sectors and countries
around the world which affords rich opportunities for sharing and
learning. The programme includes a 2 week residential retreat which will
run over the first two weeks of the course.
DATE: 1 September – 3 October 2008
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