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Tips for Serious Play

Let’s Talk About It: a resource for developing facilitation skills

Posted by Esther at 12.47pm on 6 September 2010

When someone is given responsibility over others – as a supervisor or team leader or line manager – basic facilitation skills become very useful. 

Over the last three years we’ve been working with the Centre for Research on Families & Relationships (University of Edinburgh) on an NHS funded project designed to support leaders to develop care practice.  It became evident that the lack of facilitation skills among staff at that level was getting in the way of practice improvement.  Read the rest of Let’s Talk About It: a resource for developing facilitation skills …

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Tips for Serious Play: facilitators’ preparation

Posted by Esther at 12.40pm on 6 September 2010

As those facilitators among you will know, advance preparation is everything.  Then, on the day, you have to arrive early enough to check the space (if you haven’t been able to do this beforehand) and make any changes you need.

The next thing is how to prepare yourself.  And then there’s preparation of the group.  This article raises some of the issues involved in preparation and offers some reference material.  Download the article here - tips for serious play: facilitators’ preparation

What works for you?  What preparation exercises do you use?  Tell us here.

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Tips for Serious Play: leadership as a relational process

Posted by Esther at 7.42am on 8 May 2010

The series of exercises described in this document - Tips for Serious Play - will help you to explore leadership as a relational process with a group. 

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Tips for Serious Play: Diversity

Posted by Esther at 1.18pm on 12 February 2010

This download describes three exercises that you can use to help a group explore their own diversity and workplace values:  Tips for Serious Play Diversity

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Using drama to learn from stories

Posted by Esther at 12.59pm on 10 November 2009

This exercise was originally developed to enable health care staff to learn from the experience of those who use their service (e.g. patients, relatives).  However, although the story example used comes from this environment, the techniques and process described can be applied to any kind of story that you, in your organization, have an interest in learning from (or in assisting others to learn from).

Download the file here - Using Drama to Learn from Stories - and if you have any feedback for us we’ll be glad to hear it!

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