Advanced Facilitation:
Conducting Artful Conversations and Meetings

Thursday, June 7, 2012
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Workshop Presenter: Nancy Jackson, President, Gammy Bird Consulting

Workshop Cost: $79

Workshop Description

Learn how to facilitate a focused conversation that results in clear understanding, deepened insights and a resolve to take action.

Using the Technology of Participation© Focused Conversation, we’ll put an end to the circular, dead end, one-sided, or ranting conversations in meetings, during supervision, at the family dinner table, or over the phone.

You will practice this conversation methodology and we will apply it to managing and structuring the meetings that you hold every day.

The facilitation skills you will acquire are:

• Knowing how to structure the right questions in the right order
• The importance of listening for answers that trigger when to move the conversation forward
• Techniques for getting healthy participation in conversations and meetings

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 non-profit 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 nonprofits. She is a graduate of Colorado College and Boston College School of Social Work and lives in Bolton, Mass.