We are proud to host the New Zealand The Art of Facilitation Institutes:
How to Facilitate highly effective professional learning.
If you facilitate the learning of adults in your team, school or workplace, come join us for an exceptional learning experience. Structured around this leading edge framework, these five days will enable you to:
strengthen and develop your expertise, understandings and facilitation skills design and apply highly effective professional learning tailored to your workplace context address your questions, issues and challenges learn with and from a collaborative community of learners.
Art of Facilitation
Based on the most current professional learning theory and research, you can expect to engage in rich learning that is practical, experiential, interactive, reflective, and co-constructed.
To sustain your learning, you will take away
- a wealth of practical processes and tools for immediate use
- a twelve-month subscription to a comprehensive online resource
- a personal action plan
- on-going support from a committed community of learners
Additional opportunities available to:
- negotiate personal, ongoing mentoring and coaching support with David and Mel
If you would like to know more details of the 2011 Art of Facilitation, please contact Joan and David via http://www.leadingadultlearners.com.
Course Facilitators
David and Joan are highly respected Australian teachers and educators who work nationally and Internationally as consultants, professional learning facilitators and project development specialists. Co-directors of Hands On Consultancy, they have between them worked by invitation across Australia, New Zealand, the USA, in Canada, the U.K., and with schools and teachers in Turkey, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Japan, Thailand and the Philippines.
David and Joan's major commitment these past ten years has been working long-term with schools to build effective professional learning communities, grounded in learning and teaching practices that prepare today's learners for tomorrow's world.
Testimonials
"I have learned so much, not only about myself but also my professional practice, obligation to team and further more, the children that I influence and teach."
Anna Booth, Te Awamutu Primary School, Te Awamutu
"What a fantastic week! I feel more empowered to deliver more effective PD as a facilitator using the strategies and processes you have worked me through. It has been such a powerful week!"
Don Freebairn-Read, Bell Block School, New Plymouth
"This week for me has opened my eyes and made me really self-reflect on my as a facilitator, teacher, learners and communicator. Thank you for your inspiration, passion, drive and tools - this has been a challenging and fun week - the best course I have ever been a part of."
Cara Randall, Lynmore School, Rotorua
"This programme affirms the work we do and I will consider strongly the advanced art of facilitation in 2010."
Terry Spottiswood, Rolling Hills, Australia
