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Informationen zum Autor Dr Christine Hogan is a professional facilitator, educator and author. She is committed to helping people to learn how to facilitate and to enhance innovations in facilitation through reflective practice, networking and research. Christine Hogan consultancy work in Australia, Asia and the Pacific focuses on personal, organisational and community development. Christine has worked in Kiribati (in the Pacific), Lao PDR, Bhutan, Myanmar, Mongolia, Nepal and Hong Kong. She is now an Adjunct Associate Professor with the Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin University of Technology. Previously, she was a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Development in the Curtin Business School. Christine Hogan her spare time Christine makes jewellery, paints on silk, learns Spanish and plays traditional English folk music on a hammered dulcimer and accordion with the "Band of Hope and Glory". Chris also enjoys travelling, bush walking and dancing. Christine would welcome feedback and dialogue about ideas in this book. You can find out more about her work and how to contact her by going to the following web site: www.hogans.id.au Klappentext Facilitators are being called upon to work in international and cross-cultural arenas more than ever before to help groups co-ordinate plans for governance, education and community development. There are also increasingly frequent cases of pandemics that require facilitating multicultural groups such as the Tsunami and HIV/Aids disaster relief. Facilitating Multicultural Groups provides a practical approach for facilitators needing to enhance their skills when working with people from a diverse range of multicultural backgrounds. Based on research and facilitator experiences it takes the facilitator step-by-step through ideas, processes, models and frameworks that are designed to assist with the preparation, facilitation and evaluation of workshops. It advises how to adapt learning materials to suit specific situations and offers techniques to deal with conflict. Complete with additional resources available on a dedicated website including: Cultural value cards pack; Cultural behaviors card pack; Medical insurance advice; Glossary of key terms; Useful networks; Country by country background information, this is essential reading for anyone facilitating multicultural groups.Practical guide to facilitating multi-cultural groups. Provides information on workshop design, adapting learning materials and techniques to different cultures, conflict resolution and examines different ways of learning and working together. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Preparations with clients Introduction; Preparation research; Generic cultural competencies framework; Cultural intelligence; What to take with you if working overseas; Customizing materials; What to check if going overseas; Arrival strategies; Use of local facilitation techniques and facilitators; Diversity checklist for workshop design; Getting to know and contracting with co-facilitators; Prior preparation by local counterparts; Planning workshop openings; Ending rituals and celebration; Formative evaluation; Long-term evaluation; Facilitator health and well-being 2 Workshop delivery Introduction; Claiming the workshop space; Being prepared; Introductions; Clarifying individual roles; Contracting participants' needs and responsibilities; Cultural attitudes to technology; Creating physical safety; Creating cultural safety; Enhancing respect; Warm-up activities; Energizers; Room maintenance; Strategies to encourage networking; Strategies to provoke thinking; Processes to explore understanding of concepts; Processes to explore multiple realities and perception; Assumptions; Linking the parts of a workshop; Group formation; What if they don't understand?; Transference of learning; Motivating participants to read outside a workshop; Adapting processes to different cultural contexts; ...
