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Hosted by the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre: Tawhitikuri (Turangi region)
This is a four-day residential
workshop
in an idylic setting overlooking the Tongariro National Park
Facilitator: Martin Ringer
Sunday 23rd - Wednesday 26th September, 2001.
It is possible to greatly enhance the functioning of groups and teams through understanding some of the hidden and out-of-awareness patterns that are characteristic of groups. Most of the learning that occurs in educational settings and in corporate settings involves groups or teams, but all too often their dynamics unwittingly work directly against the occurrence of effective learning.
This four day workshop is intended to improve participants' ability to lead groups and teams where there is an intention for learning to occur - especially when the intention is for participants to learn from taking part in programmes such as those involving adventure or action-learning. The workshop is intended to enhance participants' awareness of the subtle undercurrents that occur in such groups and to build on their existing ability to work creatively with intuition and out-of-awareness themes in groups. The approach is intended to add to rather than replace the existing competencies of people who are already competent in leading experiential groups for education, training, personal development and organisational development. The workshop is intended to be suitable for educators, adventure leaders, instructors, trainers, psychologists and consultants.
Intended Outcomes
The workshop is intended to increase participants' ability to lead and facilitate groups and teams so as to maximize the learning and change that occurs in groups. This will be achieved through participants:-
| Improving their ability to 'read' groups and teams at deeper levels than
are usually addressed
| Becoming more attuned to their own functioning as participants of or
leaders of groups and teams
| improving their knowledge of intuitive and unconscious processes in groups
and teams
| Further developing their understanding of how people learn from their
experience | |
The workshop will include participants' active involvement in experiential exercises, discussion groups, case study analysis and theory sessions. (No physically demanding activities will be included).
The group will be limited to between twelve and fifteen participants. Participants need to have previous experience in facilitation or leading groups and be able to learn from reflection on themselves and their experience.
Workshop Content
| Individual learning, growth and development
| The group as-a-whole
| The groups and the individual: Ideas about group and learning
| The group leader | |
About the presenter
Martin Ringer (BE Hons, M.Ed, MAISA) is a trainer in group work leadership and a management consultant with over twenty five years experience in working with groups and experiential learning. He has presented numerous keynote speeches in the USA, Europe and Australia and his work has been widely published. Martin has a history as a practitioner and director in adventure therapy programmes, and he has taught group work an universities for seven years. He is nearing completion of a book on the dynamics of groups in therapeutic, educational and corporate settings.
For more information on this unique workshop opportunity contact us at OPC to register.