Facilitator Effectiveness

Personal Requirements - Ability to feel empathy for another person of course - Acceptance-allowing that another person is different, and can have a different set of values and goals, to behave differently - Congruence and flexibility - Not dogmatic, opinionated, rigid, or authoritarian. - Being around them- therapeutic - Improving their own personal development - Should generate enrichment - Provide trainees opportunities to grow as individual - Help participants to experience themselves and others in a growthful way. Professional Requirements - Conceptual Knowledge -Understanding of people, groups, and facilitating styles - Theories - Techniques - Understanding People - Understanding Groups Skills - Experiential Learning - Communication Skills - Presentation Skills - Appearance - Language - Body Language - Preparation Functional Effectiveness Demonstrate competency. Basic, facilitative functions in encounter groups Emotional stimulation represents evocative, expressive facilitator behavior that is personal and highly charged emotionally. The facilitator performing this function frequently is in the center of the group. Personal confrontation is valued; high risk is pervasive. Caring is evidenced by the development of specific, warm personal relationships with group members. These relationship and characterized by understanding and genuineness. Caring is a completely separate issue from technical proficiency. Meaning attribution is achieved by the facilitators providing cognitive explanations of behavior and definitions of frameworks for change. As a functional skill, it means giving meaning to experience. Executive functions are managerial approaches such as stopping the action and asking group members to process the experience or suggesting roles an procedures for group members to follow.

Typology of facilitator functions and behaviors Emotional Stimulation Challenging Confronting Releasing Strong Emotion Intrusive Modeling Catalyzing Interaction Caring Accepting Understanding Supporting Modeling Warmth Developing Intimate Relationships Meaning Attribution Reflecting Interpreting Explaining Labeling Linking Executive Function Gatekepping Setting Standards Giving Directions Blocking Directing Traffic