Key Take-A-Ways
Participants will leave with...
- Adaptive Schools Foundation Seminar Learning Guide
- Increased capacity to initiate, develop and sustain high functioning groups
- New lenses for diagnosing the stages and phases of group development
- Expanded repertoire of practical facilitation tools
- Understandings of when and how to engage groups in dialogue and discussion, as well as the limitations, forms, and values of each.
- Skills to move groups beyond consensus to a common focus and deep levels of thinking and learning.
- Ways to value and use dissension, argument, and conflict to uncover misconceptions, clarify misunderstandings, and examine alternatives.
- Strategies for keeping group members on track, on topic, energized and resourceful.