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Welcome to the IAF Methods Database forums. Below are A) generic forums and B) forums for specific schools of thought. Discussions about C) specific methods are on the method pages themselves. If you feel like joining a discussion, please log in first.
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Viewpoints, questions, remarks, anything as long as it is on topic: related to methods and resources for facilitators.
| 4 | 7 | 4 weeks 4 days ago by guyfuenteshz |
Critical Incidents are real situations that facilitators have participated in, both current dilemmas and past interesting or informative cases.
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This forum is set up to discuss and describe famous facilitated meetings.
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Forum for discussing research projects on group facilitation.
| 2 | 5 | 12 weeks 2 days ago by Lillie Rowan |
Feedback and error reports here please. Kindly start a new thread for each issue.
| 1 | 1 | 8 weeks 6 days ago by cray |
Schools of thought in group facilitation. By Schools we mean an approach to facilitation with a unique set of assumptions and or values. See the Schools section for links to applications, methods or interventions. Use this forum for generic discussion about schools or to exchange thought with others within a school.
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Is it useful to talk about 'schools' in group facilitation? And are the schools mentioned here the right ones? Share your views!
| 1 | 1 | 1 year 10 weeks ago by jon |
Constructionism is a theory of learning where humans construct meaning from current knowledge structures. All knowledge, including the most basic, taken-for-granted common sense knowledge of everyday reality, is derived from and maintained by social interactions. (Wikipedia)
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Inquiry based learning describes a range of philosophical, curricular and pedagogical approaches to teaching. Its core premises include the requirement that learning should be based around student questions. (Wikipedia)
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Appreciative Inquiry is about the coevolutionary search for the best in people, their organizations, and the relevant world around them. AI involves, in a central way, the art and practice of asking questions that strengthen a system’s capacity to apprehend, anticipate, and heighten positive potential.
| 1 | 1 | 50 weeks 5 days ago by argron |
Open Space Technology was developed by Harrison Owen. It is a self-organizing process for decision making. OST operates with a simple set of guidelines, resulting from thousands of little experiements.
| 1 | 2 | 8 weeks 6 days ago by MarciS |
This school uses a set of principles as guidelines for group diagnosis and interventions. Roger Schwarz's "The Skilled Facilitator" is the most obvious example.
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The ToP approach was developed by the Institute of Cultural Affairs from the late 1950's to the mid 1970's with some development after that. This approach is currently being applied in corporations, communities, organizations at the grassroots level and in board rooms around the world.
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