The Art of Facilitating Transformational Fields

Facilitation literally means 'making easier’.  As facilitators, our core role is to support the group, and the individuals within it, to move more easily through the topics they are meeting to consider and the issues that arise in doing so. This means that, in addition to paying attention to content, we need to practice deep presence and cultivate both inner and outer awareness, a 50/50 practice.  We need to engage with the energetic movement of the group, its coherence and fragmentation, and how to harness the catalysing power of shared intention.
Tues 19 - Dinner Friday 22 September 2023
Robin creates a powerful yet gentle space to explore the invisible dimensions of facilitation within myself and the groups that I host. I've experienced profound growth through Robin's deep and precise mastery of the art of facilitation combined with this retreat style opportunity to reflect on and deepen my own practice.

Lydia Hascott - former Head of Intrapreneurship, Finance Innovation Lab
​​​​The course was a brilliant mind, eye and heart-opening programme. Robin created a deep and safe space to learn new skills and more importantly to experience them and try them out in a group that felt friendly and supportive.

John Monks - Facilitator and Team Coach, Co-Founder of Curve
Held in a special place, Robin expertly crafted an experience to elevate my facilitation. I’m still nourished by the kindred spirits he gathered.

Dr Crystal Moore FIEMA
Climate Resilience Deputy Director, Environment Agency

​​Robin will be weaving the teachings of Thomas Hubl, Otto Scharmer, Arny and Amy Mindell, Eileen Caddy, Clare Graves, Don Beck, Ken Wilber and others who have inspired him, into his own unique teaching style.​​

The focus and content of the training will also emerge according to the interests and experience of the group – we will be practicing what we preach, balancing structure and emergence.

Robin Alfred – executive coach, facilitator and organisational consultant; designer and co-facilitator of the New Story Summit, Climate Change and Consciousness conference and parts of the New York UN Global Compact – and dedicated to practicing facilitation as a dialogue with the self-organising principle of the group

Starting with such core practices as synchronising oneself and the group, and building group cohesion, we will go on to practice:
 
- how to experience facilitation as a dialogue with the self-organising principle of a group
- how to facilitate the group field, including the trauma that is within it
- how to become aware of transference and countertransference as a facilitator
- how to balance structure and emergence when facilitating
- how to co-facilitate

Price
Tiered pricing based on your personal or professional circumstances. This includes the programme, three nights' shared accommodation at The Park Ecovillage and all vegetarian meals. Single rooms are available for an additional charge of £200 (limited number available). 

£1095 - Corporate / for-profit organisation rate
£875 - NGO / not-for-profit organisation rate
£765 - Individual rate
To ensure a high-quality experience for all participants, this programme is by application only. Please select to contact us for more information. 

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