The Art of Facilitation:
Tips, Tools and Techniques

February 11, 2010

Workshop Presenter: Nancy Jackson

Workshop Cost: $79

Workshop Description: Learn how to facilitate a focused, participatory and action-oriented meeting or planning session. Together, we’ll put an end to the scattered, deadly, disorganized, conflict-ridden meeting!

You will gain and practice new facilitation skills for idea generation, consensus building and holding focused, solution-orientated conversations. We’ll also discuss process challenges such as generating or managing conversation, stray ideas and challenging participants.

Presenter Bio: Nancy Jackson, MSW, is a certified facilitator and qualified national mentor trainer for the Institute for Cultural Affairs in Technologies of Participation© facilitation methods. She facilitates planning processes with a broad array of nonprofit agencies and boards of directors, coalitions/networks, schools, community groups and corporations both nationally and internationally.

For 20 years, Nancy served as co-executive director of the New England Network for Child, Youth and Family Services, an intermediary organization offering capacity building and youth development practices to nonprofit agencies. She is a graduate of Colorado College and Boston College School of Social Work and lives in Bolton, Mass.

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