[Dialogue] Who remembers?

[Larry Philbrook]

Dear Cynthia

We have a website that is not very good. www.icatw.com

I am not sure anymore what is ICA and what is not.  While we base the
facilitation training on the two ToP programs we teach them in a slightly
different fashion focusing on experiential as well as practical result.
This shows up in doing only the Workshop and Discussion in the GFM allowing
more reflective time on the role and style of facilitation.  In the PSP we
do an initial exercise on personal planning that has turned out to be
significant both as a training tool and personal reflective process.

We also include several other pieces from our corporate and personal
journeys in other courses

The flow of the process is as follows.  
.	Learning Contract  - Created at the beginning, reviewed regularly
and evaluated at completion of FCP
.	Personal Mentoring  - 8 sessions (first on personal growth and the
remaining 6 six as needed for the individuals development as a facilitator
and related to their learning contract)
.	Team Learning  - Monthly sessions (combination of pedagogy style
practice and ecclesiola style cooperative learning 
.	Required Courses - Entry level: GFM, PSP, Dialogue (work of Senge,
Bohm, Isaacs, Scott Peck through a spirit base), Imaginal Learning (
Image change & design including work with multiple intelligences and 	mind
styles, 
Advanced level: 
		Spirit of Facilitation (focuses on spirit and style as well
as 		competency base), Applied Facilitation Practicum (focuses on
the discipline and reflective experience of facilitation)
.	Facilitation Monitoring  - 3  monitored facilitation events (these
are mostly not ICA events)

We have had about 55 involved so far with each class being approximately 15.
Each class runs for about a year we began in 2001.  Since many of the
participants have been competent trainers or facilitators before joining it
is a very eclectic community of potential collaborators.  S

several graduates are now in a facilitation company known as Open Quest
Technology several others work for client organizations, several are free
lancing and a few have chosen not to apply their skills at this time.
Others have decided not to graduate and are following other paths

With respect, Larry

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Thanks, Larry,
 
Do you have a website.  I'm curious about your facilitation  program. Maybe 
there's something else I ought to be teaching!  
 
We have a 5-course program we do yearly at Broward County (the middle 3  
courses are actually 3 different retreat designs.  The students learn the  
methods, then they attend practice sessions and then they do "field work" ,
under 
our guidance, whereby they practice on real county clients/departments and  
produce a product -- strategic plan or something else.
 
We also created an additional 6 courses for those that hae graduated (now  
125 folks) and then become part of the Broward County Facilitators (an
internal 
cadre).  This cadre is "on-call" for facilitating events across  the county.

For those 6 course I gave them many, many other methods.   But I must create

2 new courses per year!  -- frankly I'm running out  of methods to teach
this 
coming year! 
 
Which "new" methods, besides ICA ones, are you teaching or finding most  
helpful?
 
Cynthia N.  Vance
Strategics International Inc.
8245 SW 116 Terrace
Miami, FL  33156
305-378-1327
Fax:  305-378-9178
http://members.aol.com/facilitationfla
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