Course

Mastering Facilitation - LAWS8981

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9210, 5740, 9230, 9285, 5285, 9235, 5235, 9231, 5231 or 9220 or 5750.

Excluded: JURD7881

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This 4 day workshop is designed to provide lawyers and others who run group meetings with skills and tools to undertake the task more effectively.


LLM Specialisations

Recommended Prior Knowledge

Foundation of facilitation/negotiation recommended.

This course is experiential – there are practical application sessions with feedback and coaching. Prior experience with group meetings is essential. This prior experience is preferably as a facilitator. However, extensive experience (3-5 years practical experience in running or participation in large group meetings) as an adviser, consultant or participant will suffice (eg: participation in mining company and native title negotiations, running welfare groups etc).

Course Objectives

  • Provide facilitators with additional tools to more effectively work with groups;
  • Acquire deeper understanding of how groups work;
  • Understand how to respond to complex and challenging situations;
  • Assist groups to make decisions and solve problems;
  • Manage relationships with the group;
  • Understand your skills and areas for improvement as a facilitator;
  • Track a facilitation using visual tools;
  • How to give coaching and feedback for facilitator and group.

Main Topics

  • The philosophy of facilitation
  • Groups and how they work
  • Planning a facilitation
  • Intervening as a facilitator
  • Changing hats (lawyer, expert, facilitator)
  • Group process options
  • Recording a facilitation
  • Dealing with difficult moments

Assessment

 
Attendance   15%
Class participation   35%
Assignment 3,000 words 50%
 

Course Texts

Prescribed
There are no prescribed texts, but a number of books have been published that would be useful for this course. Refer to Course Outline provided by lecturer.

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