Facilitation
Definition of FACILITATOR
One that facilitates; especially : one that helps to bring about an outcome (as learning, productivity, or communication) by providing indirect or unobtrusive assistance, guidance, or supervision
“Your guidance and strategic thinking facilitated and empowered my role as Chairman, My grateful appreciation and thanks for your professional and personal support”. Carol O’Gorman, Ex Chairman Town & Country Homes
“One of the best things about Barry is that he wants to understand what drives us. Some advisors just point out the obvious things, but Barry wanted to find out what made us tick, and then built on that” Rory Casey, Fibrepulse, Castlebar
“He makes you feel at ease from the start. He stays calm at all times, fun to work with, he is very experienced in day to day management” Flextronics, Team Leader
Creative Facilitation – Burren Innovation Lab
You Need
- Something different.
- An event or journey of events that has a lasting impact.
- To connect to your teams hearts as well as their heads. To leave with a feeling in their gut for willful action.
- A facilitation framework that provides structure yet freedom to go to the place of most potential.
We Have
- An environment conducive to creative learning:
- The Burren – the ultimate outdoor classroom
- Newtown Castle – 16th century medieval castle on Ireland’s remote Atlantic coast
- Burren College of Art – steeped in creative arts with studios and facilities that allow you to be, think and act creatively
- Expert facilitation:
- to create and hold the space for the work you need to do
- to guide and navigate you through your creative journey
- to question, challenge, encourage and draw out your best
- Creative faculty:
- World class BCA resident and visiting faculty
- BCA students
- Local artists, writers, sculptors, story tellers, dramatists , musicians and poets
- An Innovative Framework:
- Theory U (developed at MIT by Prof Otto Scharmer) – a framework that allows participants to travel a journey to profound innovation and change. Details below.
- Creative Processes & Methodologies
- World Café – methodology to have meaningful conversations
- Dialogue circle – process for deep dialogue
- Painting, drawing, scribbling, collage, photography, and sculpture
- Vision Quest – outdoor silent exploration in the Burren to contemplate profound questions resulting in creative insight
- Voicing– using our voice to overcome blindspots
- Conscious Embodiment – martial art and mindfulness practice to offer simple yet deep techniques that help you recognize how your mind and body habitually react to pressure, and to access more skillful and unified responses
- Personality Typing – using Enneagram or similar process to create greater personal awareness as a key to becoming aware of the ‘self’ as a block to the creative/innovative process. Where am ‘I’ in the situation/problem?
- Local Resources:
- Burren Outdoor Education Centre – outdoor learning experiences
- Ailwee Caves & Birds Of Prey Centre – Hawk Walk: guided walk with experienced handlers giving opportunity to handle, fly and feed your very own hawk, an unique opportunity to interact with nature
- Michael Cusack Center – home of founder of the GAA
- Atlantic Ocean – yachting, cruises, water sports, etc.
- Many more.
Sample Workshop Topics
- Strategy Creation – Blue Ocean
- Shared Vision
- Team Development
- Values Based Culture
- New Product Creation
- Organisational Change Exploration
- Problem Finding / Solving
- Organisation Repositioning / Reinvention
- New Market Development
- How to Create a Learning Organisation
- How to Get the Best from our People
- Etc, etc
Read more about the Theory U Framework, the Seven Theory U Leadership Capacities and a Sample Workshop Outline here The Innovation Laboratory
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