Facilitation Skills Course

This course equips you with the tools you need to enable deep and sustainable group learning

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£1,900.00£2,500.00

Overview

Facilitation is the practice of using your presence and a range of tools to effectively intervene in the groups you work with. To be able to facilitate is an essential skill for managers, consultants, trainers and individual contributors working in every kind of organisation.  

Roffey Park Institute has been a leading force in facilitation since its establishment and our Facilitation Skills course draws upon our experience in organisation development and leadership. This course is highly practical with opportunities to try out new approaches, as well as approaches grounded in research and theory. The course is designed to enable you to facilitate more consciously, courageously and inclusively in the places that matter.  

Who is this course for?

Experienced HR, OD and L&D professionals and other change agents who want to enhance their existing skills in facilitating meaningful group work in a range of settings. 

  • Increased self-awareness and confidence in your facilitation practice 
  • Expanded capacity to influence growth in a range of situations  
  • Deepened understanding of complex group dynamics and systems  
  • Heightened appreciation of the social nature of learning and working 
     

Organisations who employ or work with a participant who has taken part in the Facilitation Skills Course are likely to see improvements in:

  • Increased capacity of team members to work together on tough challenges 
  • Greater capacity to reach collective organisational outcomes  
  • Increased levels of trust between team members 
  • Greater inclusion of diverse people and perspectives 
  • More effective meetings of all size, purpose and type 

Course outline

  • The Facilitation Skills Course is delivered over three days face-to-face or five half days virtually
  • The course encourages experimentation within a supportive learning environment. The group will engage throughout in feedback based on practice facilitation experiences that are designed to help you push yourself forward as a facilitator.  
      

Venue for Face-to-Face Courses

All face-to-face courses are held at Roffey Park’s purpose-built venue which is set in 40 acres of rural Sussex Countryside just five minutes from the M23 and 20 minutes from London Gatwick Airport & Crawley, 10 minutes from Horsham.

Dates

All virtual half-day sessions start at 09:00 UK time

Face to Face: July 2024 – Limited Availability

Check in 8 July 2024

9 – 11 July 2024

Virtual: July 2024

23 July 2024
24 July 2024
5 August 2024
6 August 2024
14 August 2024
15 August 2024

Virtual: October 2024

2 October 2024
3 October 2024
4 October 2024
9 October 2024
10 October 2024
17 October 2024

Fees

Face-to-FaceVirtual
£2500*£1900*
€2350*

*The price is net of any chargeable VAT.
We offer a limited number of discounted places to registered charities. Please contact our client services to find out more.

Your face-to-face experience starts the evening before your programme as you join your fellow participants for dinner so you can get to know each other. Check-in is available from 2pm, providing you with the option to either work from our venue or take advantage of our leisure facilities.  Our bar opens at 6pm and dinner is served in the restaurant at 7.30 pm.   Accommodation, meals and materials are all included in the fees.

We can also deliver the Facilitation Skills course as either an in-house programme for teams or as part of a wider, tailored development programme. For more information please contact us.

Contact Us

In the UK

Telephone:

+44 (0) 1293 854042