Take the anonymous survey of facilitator competencies
Readings for tonight:
Communications Skills
Where Everyone Participates
Diversity
Block Agenda
Scan the following two documents; read them for main ideas rather than details.
Peace Corps Manual Excerpt
Empowering People
Big Ideas:
1. The power of summarizing allows us to improve comprehension and to show the speaker that he/she is being listened to.
2. Group interaction through movement within the room environment leads to a boost in energy levels.
3. The Identity Experience allows us to realize the need to be aware of power imbalances in development relationships and to be exclusively sensitive.
4. The Identity Experience has an influence on development practice.
5. Test out your assumptions through effective facilitation and conversation skills in order to NOT make an “ASS out of U and ME”
