Accredited Facilitation Training Programme
Course title: Effective Facilitation Skills (Level 3, 6 credits)
Accrediting body: Agored Cymru
Trainer: Participation Cymru
Duration: 3 full days (2 consecutive days, 3rd day 3 – 4 weeks later)
Target audience: Those who want to develop and increase their facilitation skills to enable them
to effectively facilitate meetings and events with citizens, communities, colleagues and partnerships
Course aim, objectives and outcomes
Learning aim
To enable participants to understand the role of a facilitator, to enhance their existing skills and to
learn and practice a range of facilitation skills and techniques.
Course Content
Participants will have the opportunity to gain understanding of the role of the facilitator, learn to
plan and run affective facilitated events, learn and practice a range of facilitation techniques
including, consensus building, questioning techniques, voting and ranking methods. The course will
also look at assertiveness and how to manage conflict and difficult situations.
It will be a participative course where participants will have the opportunity to explore and practice
facilitation in a safe learning environment.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course participants will be able to:
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Describe the principles of effective participation, facilitation and consensus building
Evaluate key skills and values used in facilitation
Apply consensus building techniques
Apply a range of questioning techniques
Demonstrate a variety of voting and ranking techniques
Identify ways to be more assertive
Understand ways to deal with conflict and difficult situations
Know where to access additional resources