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Facilitating
Learning in Groups
Learn how to take in what is going on, make sense
of it and intervene to help the group. David
Casey, Paul Roberts and Graeme Salaman, Leadership & Organisation
Development Journal. Vol.13 No.4.1992, pp. 8-11. © MCB University
Press, 0143-7739
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In this article
we discuss the process of group facilitation. We have identified
three steps .
First the facilitator takes in what is going on, both inside themselves
and in the group. Second, the facilitator makes sense of this. Third,
the facilitator does something to help the group, i.e. makes an
intervention of some sort.
The initial step of taking in is more complicated than appears at
first sight. The second step is making sense of what has been taken
in, using whatever theories and models are available to the facilitator.
The third step is choosing when and how to intervene, again using
appropriate theories and models. In practice the sequence is cyclical
in form (after any intervention you take in its effects and the
cycle continues) but is often haphazard in its order (at any moment
you may be intervening, taking in and making sense all at the same
time). For descriptive purposes and to get a clear picture of what
a facilitator actually does in a group, we find the three-step model
serves a useful purpose.
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