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Group facilitation is a process of helping the groups become more effective. The definition of effectiveness has remained and continues to remain elusive. One of the challenges that is repeatedly stated in the research on group effectiveness is the multitude of factors that affect it, and the interplay between them. This makes the study of group effectiveness very difficult. However, since groups are our basic unit of work in any organization, it is critical that we understand the concept and the application of group effectiveness, however elusive or difficult it might be. Towards that end, this paper explores the various studies in the area of group effectiveness from 1960 till date, in the context in which they were conducted – both lab and real time settings. Each of the theory/model is explored with the background of the research and the findings clearly mentioned along with the critique of the study, which details the positives and the limitations of the study. Finally, I have concluded with a summary of the way the group effectiveness studies have transitioned from 1960s till date and where we need to go from here. In conclusion, I have raised some of the questions that have to be taken up to explore the role of the facilitator as an enhancer of group effectiveness.

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- Group Dynamics, Learning, Group Facilitation, Workgroups

El presente documento describe de manera general y resumida, los aspectos relevantes de la "Guía metodológica para diálogos multiactor en el contexto de actividades extractivas", elaborada por la GIZ Perú, en diciembre 2012. Su contenido consta de dos partes: la primera enfocada en la metodología y herramientas para el diálogo multiactor; y la segunda hace referencia a las actividades realizadas en el marco de esta metodología (diálogos de aplicación).

- by Jose P . Diaz Zapata
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- Group Dynamics, Group Facilitation
- by Marianella Sclavi and +1
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- Participatory Democracy, Community Participation, Group Facilitation

The aim of this study is to present the fundamentals of Community Drum Circle, verify its immediate benefits and to analyze Drum Circle as a system according to the Music Therapy Theory using Benenzon’s concepts and Bruscia’s definitions in order to check the feasibility of it so that music therapists could adopt drum circles as a potential technique for therapeutic purposes.

Collaborative work has its own advantages and benefits. It introduces a more progressive and experiential way of learning, and most importantly, can help students enhance their skills in communication, teamwork, and leadership among others (Lima, Flores, Carvalho, & Janssen, 2007; Hall & Buzwell, 2012). Research on social loafing behavior, on the other hand, have shown the negative consequences and problems associated with working in groups. Social loafing or also referred to as free-riding is defined as the tendency of individuals to perform and contribute less in group tasks as compared when working alone (Ying, Li, Jiang, Peng & Lin, 2014). This phenomenon has been demonstrated on previous experiments which tasks include rope pulling, shouting and clapping, item production, and so forth (Myers, 2012).

- by Lyka Tiongco
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- Social Psychology, Motivation (Psychology), Group Dynamics, Group Facilitation

Ce projet de maîtrise était une praxéologie de l’expérience sensible en animation de groupe. Le titre transmet l’idée que le sens sollicité dans cette expérience était le goût et que le lieu de l’activité se situait au seuil de la religion. Pour ce qui est du sens du goût, je voulais approfondir la symbolisation d’un objet du quotidien afin de créer un « avant-goût » des effets d’une communauté spirituelle. Le fait de goûter un aliment (dans ce cas, c’était un aliment biblique) met en scène la frontière de la personne entre son intérieur et l’espace commun qu’elle partage avec les autres. Quant au seuil de la religion, l’exploration de la dynamique des frontières se menait au seuil des institutions religieuses, mais aussi au seuil de la représentation sociale de la religion. L’activité consistait à éveiller un mouvement de symbolisation dans le but de collectiviser les repères par le symbole partagé. Elle est devenue une sorte de catalyseur d’intérêt (ou de goût) pour la religion, non pas comme l’institution la propose, mais comme ce que les participant-e-s peuvent configurer ensemble. La praxéologie, abordée dans cette étude en tant que processus herméneutico-inductif, a révélé la théorie qui émerge de cette pratique. Cela m’a orienté à explorer un nouveau cadre théorique en lien avec les théories de l'action et de l'interaction.

This paper discusses the place of facilitation in deliberative democratic theory, and elaborates some of the choices, dilemmas and problems involved in the facilitation of deliberation. The central dilemma of facilitation comes from having to ʻfollow from the front.ʼ The facilitator necessarily occupies a leadership position in the deliberating group, yet must follow the group as it unfolds its own discourse on the issue at hand. This paper will discuss the ways in which this tension is expressed through considerations of the framing of publics, the handling of expertise, the conduct of deliberation, and the crucial phase of bringing a deliberation to a conclusion. The various criticisms of deliberative practice in these dimensions are treated not as decisive objections, but rather as tensions to be negotiated at the level of practice, that is, as tensions that are felt - and should be felt - by those who organise and conduct deliberative public engagement. By framing the discussion in terms of the constitutive tension involved in ʻfollowing from the front,ʼ this paper aims to show the value of critical empirical work on deliberative practices as describing potential dangers, which can be set against the normative ideals and democratic potentials involved in attempts to generate deliberation in minipublics.

- by Alfred Moore
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- Public Deliberation, Deliberative Democracy, Group Facilitation, Minipublics

A response to the increasing complexity and risk of designing and planning social systems, especially inter-organizational collaborations, is to ground methodologies on well-researched principles and empirically verify the efficacy of their application. Recent examples from our arena of practice include engaging representatives of fifty organizations in planning a twenty year global Disease Elimination program, international philanthropy-government-venture capital sponsored industrial-academic consortia in Northern Ireland, external stakeholder-driven modernization of regulatory policy, Federal and State interagency coordination for resource stewardship, and statewide engagement of stakeholders in special education.

- by Kevin Dye and +1
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- Organizational Learning Processes, Participatory Design, Community Engagement & Participation, Large Group Designs
- by Ib Ravn
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- Design-based research, Management Development, Meeting, Denmark

Eight Day Training program in Facilitation and Computer Operation for the Structured Democratic Dialogue method. Covers Nominal Group Technique, Clustering, and Interpretive Structural Modeling using the CogniScope software as well as... more

A policy model may be understood as the part of the written policy that describes “how the world works.” Past models have been non-systemic, leading to policies that fail to reach their goals. Recently, Integrative Propositional Analysis (IPA) has been developed and applied as an approach for objectively evaluating and improving policy models so that they are more systemic. However, those applications have been “desktop” analyses; using previously published texts as sources for analysis and investigation. The present paper extends the IPA methodology by reporting on a “workshop” approach; blending IPA with facilitation of subject matter experts to more rapidly develop policy models that may more effectively help organizations to reach policy goals.

We compared South Koreans with Australians in order to characterize cultural differences in attitudes and choices regarding risk, at both the individual and group levels. Our results showed that Australians, when assessed individually, consistently self-reported higher preference for risk than South Koreans, regardless of gender. The data revealed that South Koreans, regardless of gender composition, were willing to take greater risks when making decisions in group decision-making situations than when they were alone. This is a different pattern from that seen in the Australian sample, in which a risky shift was noted only among males. This difference was attributed to the influence of various cultural orientations (independent vs. interdependent relationship styles). This study also provides a discussion of the implications of these results in terms of cultural differences in attitudes and decisions regarding risk.

- by Do-Yeong Kim
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- Psychology, Decision Making, Judgment and decision making, Culture

The diffusion of agricultural technologies contributed to a rapid increase in agricultural production in the past. But a majority of farmers largely remained untouched by the benefits of agricultural innovations. The search for a sustainable agricultural system is becoming intense in order to increase production by conserving ecology, economy and social change. It is realized that there is an urgent need to understand the interconnection between technologies and the socio-economic, cultural and political environment with the purpose of technologies to be used. It is in the changing context of agricultural development that farmers’ training is assuming paramount importance for empowering the majority of human resources in rural areas. Farmers’ training in this sense does not mean handing down instructions in new technologies alone. It calls for a non-directive learning approach to enable farmers to plan roles in technology development and use. This review aims to describe the development of farmers’ training in the country and suggests a suitable approach for sustainable agricultural development.

- by Utpal Barman
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- Education, Group Facilitation, Knowledgemanagement, Extension System

This paper presents parts of a design framework for collaboratively used tangible interaction systems, focusing on the theme of Embodied Facilitation. Systems can be interpreted as spaces/structures to act and move in, facilitating some movements and hindering others. Thus they shape the ways we collaborate, induce collaboration or make us refrain from it. Tangible interaction systems provide virtual and physical structure - they truly embody facilitation. Three concepts further refine the theme: Embodied Constraints, Multiple Access Points and Tailored Representations. These are broken down into design guidelines and each illustrated with examples.

- by Eva Hornecker
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- Tangible User Interfaces, CSCW, Group Facilitation

Escenarios Uno La creatividad, la potencia de trabajo y el clima de fiesta por el encuentro son constantes. Aun frente a los mayores obstáculos logran coordinarse y generar estrategias muchas veces exitosas para alcanzar sus objetivos tanto en el territorio como dentro de la organización. Sin embargo, no podría afirmar que en otros grupos de trabajo, cada uno de ellos tendrá la misma suerte: Mantener el buen clima es tan fundamental que no pueden conversar en torno a los errores o los incumplimientos. Algunos enuncian sus reflexiones si la situación es muy complicada, pero siempre me quedo con el sabor de que no logramos una elaboración colectiva que garantice el aprendizaje. Dos Han integrado pequeños grupos de estudio y trabajo con altísimo costo subjetivo por "soportar" diferencias e intentar asumir limitaciones y responsabilidades, que la mayor parte de las veces terminan ubicadas en algo o alguien por fuera de ellos. El clima negativo casi permanente y la dificultad para abordar esos obstáculos los lleva a un aprendizaje conceptual limitado y a serias dificultades para generar acciones transformadoras de las situaciones y de sus modos de interrelación. Preservarse parece ser tarea. Tres Trabajan muchísimo individual y colectivamente. Trabajan con excelentes resultados. Reflexionan, elaboran y transforman tanto los conceptos como las situaciones. ¿Qué hacen con aquello que cada uno tiene que revisar y asumir a nivel personal? Hacerse cargo es posible a condición del sostén vincular 1 Publicado en Cuadernos de Campo Nº 14, noviembre de 2013.

- by Elena Rozas Enactuar
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- Group Facilitation, Liderazgo, Grupos, Psicología de grupos e instituciones

In this contribution I shall focus on Matthew Lipman's " philosophy for children/community " (p4c) and specifically on the manifold role played by the facilitator. My aim is to clarify the following issues: 1) Why does the community of philosophical enquiry need a facilitator? 2) What kind of competence and skills ought the facilitator to display? 3) How should the facilitator carry out his/her duty appropriately? For this purpose I shall analyse texts by Matthew Lipman and Italo Calvino among others.

- by roberto franzini tibaldeo
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- Philosophy, Education, Teacher Education, Children's Literature
- by John Casas
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- Informatics, Knowledge Management, Meetings, Group communication

This day's training objectives are as-follows:
• To know what the ‘Persuasion Group’ model is all about.
• To know about using Motivational Interviewing techniques in DD groups.
• To know the stages of group facilitation, and how to utilize these for group work.
• To be able to engage in group facilitation and group based intervention techniques.
• To be understand the peer lead model of DD groups.
• To be familiar with the Wellness Tool and Recovery conversations.
• To know some techniques for engaging and shaping the conversational focus of groups.

This paper reviews the state of the art of elicitive approaches to peace and conflict studies in higher education by following three levels of education: facilitator, curriculum, and institution. We attempt to interpret how elicitive... more

- by Shawn Bryant
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- Peace and Conflict Studies, Higher Education, Critical Pedagogy, Peace Education

תאור מודל עבודה ייחודי בקבוצות גמלאים להעצמת תחושת ערך עצמי, דחיית סטריאוטיפים גילניים, והתחברות למשאבים פנימיים. המודל נוסה בכמה קבוצות ומוכיח הצלחה בשיפור התפיסה העצמית, הגברת חוסן נפשי ואופטימיות, ועידוד פורשות ופורשים לפעילות, יזמות... more

- by Judith Abrahami-Einat PhD
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- Well-Being, Group Facilitation, Aging, Ageism, Gendered ageism

Unresolved challenges of "dialogue"
Intelligence amplification, Augmented intelligence and Artificial intelligence (AI)
Meeting-relevant resources for AI applications
Participation in an AI-enhanced virtual meeting
Mapping the pattern and flow of dialogue
AI-enhanced approach to innovative meeting organization
Psychosocial anticipation of future interaction with AI in online gaming
Enabling comprehension of "the great game"
AI as an intelligent artifice -- but what is it really for?
AI Dialogue: beyond the Turing Test to the Buber Test?

- by Anthony Judge
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- Dialogue, Participation, Group Dynamics, Concept Mapping

Games are a current topic of discussion nowadays. It is not just playing games that are discussed here, but the learning outcomes and group dynamics of playing today’s games. Furthermore, a facilitator is always fascinated with learning that is the outcome of group dynamics. Everything that facilitator does involve two important parts: content and process. I have observed in the past that we mostly focus on content and forget about process, and by process I mean here, group dynamics. I have decided to take video games as an example to discuss this type of learning, because today’s video games are teaching our children techniques as group dynamics that will benefit them in their future life.

Facilitation is the process of taking a group through learning or change in a way that encourages all members of the group to participate. This approach recognizes that each person has something unique and valuable to share. The facilitator's role is to draw out knowledge and ideas from different members of a group, to help encourage them to learn from each other, and to think and act together.

- by Emmanuel V Murray
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- Teaching and Learning, Group Facilitation, Reflective Teaching

ABSTRACT: In this article I discuss how World Café Dialogues can be used to unveil structural and cultural violence that drive the behaviors that maintain end-of-life care inequalities, especially among minorities, in acute healthcare hospitals. Conflict practitioners are rarely included in conversations of end-of-life care inequalities and when included it is to “solve a problem” through bioethics mediation or provide training in cross-cultural competence. I argue that conflict practitioners need to broaden their approach to conflict and use their skills to surface unequal power structures and implicit beliefs that maintain the unjust status quo in end-of-life care disparities. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/pcs/vol21/iss1/3/

- by Jacqueline N Font-Guzmán
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- Peace and Conflict Studies, Death, Death Studies, End Of Life Studies

Ce texte s’appuie sur une recherche qui questionne le(s) rôle(s) que joueraient les animateurs de communautés de pratique (CoP) en termes d'apprentissage des membres. Nous avons mené une série d’entretiens exploratoires auprès d’animatrices et d’animateurs de communautés de pratique, issus d'organisations francophones. Les données recueillies ont été confrontées aux travaux sur le tutorat à distance, ce qui a permis de mettre en évidence la proximité fonctionnelle des rôles des tuteurs et des animateurs dans les processus d'apprentissage des participants. Ensuite la terminologie employée par les organisations et les animateurs nous conduit à discuter du management des CoP.