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News from Action Learning Associates
- Leadership Facilitation Skills course – applications now open
- Action learning – a powerful tool to empower women leaders in the Middle East
- Train to be a “virtual” facilitator
Forthcoming Events
- Forthcoming courses in action learning facilitator training.
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News
Leadership Facilitation Skills course – applications now open
If you work in the creative and cultural industries and you’re an established, senior or mid-career leader then the Cultural Leadership Programme’s Leadership Facilitation Skills course could improve your leadership skills. Funded by the CLP, Action Learning Associates is offering an exciting course on action learning facilitation. Learn the techniques at the same time as being in an action learning set. Leave with full accreditation as an action learning facilitator from the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM).
Applications are now open for the five day course which starts in November 2010 and finishes in January 2011. Applications close 15 September 2010.
Read more about the Leadership Facilitation Skills Programme.
To apply visit the CLP website
Action learning – a powerful tool to empower women leaders in the Middle East
Director, Ruth Cook has introduced action learning to young women leaders in the Middle East as part of an innovative pilot programme run by Oxfam to strengthen women’s participation in social movements for change and to help adults and children living in poverty.
For the first stage of the peer coaching project Ruth was commissioned to deliver a training programme in action learning facilitation to seven local women who are leaders in the Palestinian and Lebanese communities. These women will then roll out the programme by setting up and facilitating local action learning sets thus creating a network of 40 + young women leaders who will have peer support to help solve real time challenges that they face as leaders of change in their communities.
In March 2010 Ruth delivered a four day training programme in Beirut with ALA’s course handbook translated into Arabic for the participants. Two Oxfam workers also joined the action learning group to enable them to explore the potential of action learning in the Lebanon, to work with the locally trained facilitators and to learn the skills for themselves.
Ruth faced particular challenges in delivering the programme including the language barrier – skilled interpreters who had already been briefed about the action learning process proved invaluable. Any slowing down of the process caused by the interpretation added to the reflective and slow pace ideally suited to reflective learning. Even the problem of uncomfortable chairs was quickly resolved Middle Eastern style!
The next step for trained facilitators – train to be a “virtual” facilitator
If you have already trained with ALA as an action learning facilitator you may be interested in learning a new skill facilitating virtual action learning sets.
Ruth Cook has just launched a new VAL training programme exclusively for action learning facilitators who have already trained with us. “I was sceptical at first” comments Ruth “ thinking virtual action learning could never be as good as “real” face to face sets. But my experience working with virtual sets both here and abroad has made me a convert. I believe this is the way action learning will develop”.
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Events
Forthcoming courses
Action learning facilitator training for individuals
We run programmes around four times a year – always non-residential and generally in central London.
Forthcoming courses
Please note: Some dates have changed.
- 7-9 September – fully booked
- 2-4 November - new date – booking now
- 7 – 9 December - booking now
- 1-3 March 2011 - booking now
- 12-14 July 2011 - booking now
More information on the Action learning facilitator training for individuals page.