Are you looking to enhance your leadership skills while infusing your work with more collaboration? Facilitating activities (design thinking based and beyond) with your team or community can lead to more team collaboration, greater team capacity, and productive communication with your community. This intro class answers ‘what is facilitation?’ and will demystify why you facilitate collaboration, your role as a facilitator, when to prepare a facilitated collaborative session and how to build it around your own style.

In addition to introducing the foundational basics of facilitation, TYTHE uses a participatory model to demonstrate tips and tricks for planning a guided collaborative experience. We’ll identify key tools and strategies to maximize work with the varied stakeholders involved with your current or proposed project, program or organization. This introductory course provides an overview of the principles of strong facilitation, guidance for preparing your own design-based facilitation frameworks, and examples of implementation from TYTHEdesign’s diverse work. Come ready to learn, ask, and engage!

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• The basics of facilitation
• Keys to being a strong facilitator
• Methods for planning a facilitation session
• Strategies for building your collaboration session
• Activities that demonstrate how to brainstorm in a participatory design process

WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR

• Individuals interested in facilitation, new to the role or looking for a refresher on the basics
• Individuals from all professional or educational backgrounds interested in developing their group management and leadership skills
• Managers looking for tools to activate collaboration within their teams
• Professionals working in community engagement or beginning community engagement projects or programs
• Individuals looking to add creative thinking methodology to their work

**SPACE IS LIMITED**

*Doors open at 6:45 PM, class starts at 7:00 PM sharp*

INSTRUCTOR BIO

Kristina Drury (@TYTHEdesign), the founder of TYTHEdesign, is a social entrepreneur, designer and educator. TYTHE, a social impact firm, uses the lens of design and strategy to support organizations build their capacity in the social good community. Under her leadership, TYTHE has increased the community impact of over 75 local and global social good organizations including the NYC Dept. of Education, Citi Community Development, Public Policy Lab and California State Library System. Recently, Kristina has been named a UNDP Innovation Expert. Prior to starting TYTHE, Kristina co-led the nonprofit Project H and worked in corporate social responsibility consulting. As an educator, she has taught classes, workshops and training to build the capacity of over 600 change-makers, leaders, and entrepreneurs. Her teaching and speaking experience includes engagements at the Clinton Global Initiative University, Cooper-Hewitt Museum and New Museum’s Ideas City Festival.

You can learn about Kristina’s current work here and find out more about her background here.

SPACE PARTNER

The Centre for Social Innovation (@csiSL) is a home for nonprofits and social entrepreneurs in New York City. They’re building a movement of passionate people committed to a better world. Learn more at http://nyc.socialinnovation.org/

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Refund Policy: Refunds can be issued in full up to 48 hours prior to the start of the class by contacting Be Social Change.

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