Me, My Father's illness and Facilitation. A Happy Ending Story
In this session, I will walk you through some areas of my childhood, introduce you to my father and explain you how I've used facilitation skills to fight back daddy's illness (alcoholism). During this session, you'll learn more about who I am, and if you pay attention or participate, maybe you'll take away two or three facilitation techniques combined with an inspiring and personal happy ending story.
Outline/Structure of the Talk
This is how I'm going to run the session:
- I'll be giving the audience some context about the subject (10 minutes)
- Then I will invite participants to share their experiences about the subject in groups (5 minutes)
- Then I will show participants, some examples of what I've experience with my dad and how I used facilitation techniques to deal with different situations (15 minutes)
- Then I will ask the audience to share some personal examples where they have used facilitation techniques without knowing it in life (10 minutes)
- I will ask the audience to build a connection map with shared examples in a wall.(10 Minutes)
- Then I'll share Two techniques that I use to propulsing and elevating my facilitation skills (10 minutes)
- Then I will close sharing the end of me and dad personal story (5 minutes)
- I'll leave the space open for questions and answers (5 Minutes)
Learning Outcome
The audience would have:
- Learned more about who I am as a person.
- Learned two or three facilitation techniques.
- Learned how to keep a group of people engaged, by focusing on the process, the pace and the timeframe of a meeting.
- Experienced what life have tought me and how I've used it to be a better person and a better professional.
Target Audience
Agile Practitioners, Facilitators, Agile Leaders
Prerequisites for Attendees
It would be nice if participants have experienced facilitation. I mean, you have worked with a facilitator, maybe you have been a facilitator too. But if you're curious just come and join us!
Links
- Agile Coach Camp Canada 2017/2016- Open Space Technology Facilitator
- Agile Open Montreal 2017 - Open Space Technology Facilitator
- Agile Tour Ottawa 2016 - Behind Scenes of Retrospectives
- Agile Tour Ottawa 2015 - Pivotal team "break/make" moment's - How to recognize them to influence teams journey
- Agile Tour Montreal 2015 - Main Challenges of Agile Teams. Panel Facilitator
My website: www.jesusmendez.ca
You could find my workbooks here: www.jesusmendez.ca/books
schedule Submitted 4 years ago
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