Facilitation Practice and Community Engagement
About This Course
Communities everywhere are facing complex challenges in scope, scale and urgency, threatening social cohesion and trust. Involving the community enables us to improve public health, social conditions, economic well-being and sustainability of communities. This course provides relevant concepts, tools and strategies for community engagement and facilitation.
Facilitating community engagement is a combination of both science and art. The aspects of science can be derived from various disciplines such as social work, political science, organisational development, psychology, and from literature relating to community development, participation, mobilisation, amongst others. The art focuses on the application of knowledge and skills - having the sensitivity to adapt science for the purposes of specific community engagement and facilitation efforts. The course will cover - knowledge, skills and competencies needed of community engagement professionals, the reasons for community engagement, understanding the degrees of citizen participation, applying the types of engagement and facilitation strategies to specific case studies.
What You'll Learn
At the end of this course, participants should be able to:
• Aim 1: Identify the key skills of community engagement and facilitation
• Aim 2: Discuss various models and approaches to community engagement and facilitation
• Aim 3: Evaluate the strengths and limits of various community engagement and facilitation models and approaches
B. Key Skills (Practical Component)
At the end of this course, participants should be able to:
• Aim 1: Apply the principles and values of genuine servant leadership for community leadership.
• Aim 2: Formulate effective plans for community outreach and research.
• Aim 3: Propose potential strategies for positive community engagement and facilitation
Entry Requirements
Participants should have a basic understanding of community engagement / have some basic experience in conducting or working in community engagement-related initiatives
Participants have to bring along their own laptop