SYLLABUS OF THE COURSE HEN572
FACILITATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATION PROCESSES
Ir. Jan Haverkamp is co-founder of the ZHABA facilitators collective and a member of the
International Association of Facilitators. He studied biochemistry and nuclear physics at the
University of Leiden, and environmental sciences, social and environmental psychology and
communication psychology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He worked 10 years in
the development of environmental NGOs in Eastern Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine,
Albania and Croatia before he emigrated to the Czech Republic in 1997. Currently he combines his
work as EU policy campaigner dirty energy for Greenpeace with free-lance facilitation. He is 51
years old and has a 16 year old daughter in Prague and a 18 year old son in the Netherlands.
Facilitation of Environmental Communication Processes
Goals of the seminar
● Participants know what facilitation is
● Participants understand the complexity of process dynamics
● Participants can programme simple environmental communication processes
○ including knowledge of basic principles
○ including knowledge of several more advanced processes
○ including knowledge of energy flows during meetings
● Participants know basic technical tools in facilitation
○ including the pros and cons of presentation tools
○ including basic working techniques
● Participants can facilitate in simple communication settings
○ Participants know the basic's of Roger Schwarz's Skilled Facilitator Approach
○ Participants can use these basics in real facilitation settings
Times: 10:00 – 17:30 hours
Dates: 26 and 17 November, 10 and 11 December 2010
Exam: in January or February
Students are expected to attend all seminar days, as facilitation is not something can be learned from
books, but only by interaction. The methods used will be highly interactive and participative. The
seminar blocks will not exist of lectures, but of interactive group work. The complete seminar will
take place in English.
The course will be examined orally on the basis of the work done during the blocks and background
literature.
Literature
Literature is provided on the Information System (IS) of the Masaryk University on:
/el/1423/podzim2010/HEN572/um/. The books from which abstracts can be found in the reader are
also available in the library of the Masaryk University, as is some additional literature on
facilitation.
Contact
In case of questions, you can always contact me:
e-mail: jan.haverkamp@ecn.cz
e-mail list over the IS system of MUNI
telephone: +420.603 569 243
skype: jan_haverkamp
PROGRAMME
Friday 26 November – Introduction and basis
● Introduction in the way this seminar will be run
● communication processes, environmental communication processes, facilitation
READ & STUDY: Education for a Change Chapter 1 (Educating Strategically) and Chapter 2, part 1 (pp 33 –
41) (taking ourselves seriously) [04. Education for a Change, 05. Worksheet Workshop Spiral]
ACTION: groups of three: make the set-up of a programme for a stakeholders meeting in the case of 200
MW wind turbines in the Ore Mountains near Chomutov”. Write the programme on FLIP CHART
Saturday 27 November – Programming environmental communication processes
● elements of a good programme
● programming formats and ideas
○ Future Search
○ Open Space
○ Appreciative Inquiry
○ Dynamic Facilitation / World Café
READ & STUDY: Articles on Future Search, Open Space, Appreciative Inquiry and World Café [08. Change
Handbook, Chapter 2; 08. Change Handbook, Chapter 14; 08. Change Handbook, Chapter 15; 09. The
World Café (CafeToGo)]
ACTION: Adapt your programme from yesterday to fit in scheme Future Search / Open Space / Appreciative
Inquiry / World Café
HOMEWORK
READ & STUDY: Schwarz – chapter 4 and Ground Rules text [14. Schwarz: Skilled Facilitator Chapter 4]
READ & STUDY: Schwarz – Ground Rules for Effective Groups [13. SchwarzGroundRules.pdf]
READ if you like: Argyris text [Background: 200501_infed_argyris.pdf]
Friday 10 December – Role of the facilitator and facilitation skills I
● World Café live – comparison programming formats
● facilitation roles
● you as facilitator
● Skilled Facilitator I – Espoused theory / Theory in use, Unilateral Control Model / Mutual
Learning Model
ACTION: Role-play in your team different cases in your programme and the role of the facilitator. Come with
at least 2 descriptive cases of a situation where the facilitator needs to intervene and describe the
intervention (you will have to be able to roughly play it out!)
Saturday 11 December – Role of the facilitator and facilitation skills II
● Skilled Facilitator II – Revisiting Ground rules
● How to facilitate – role playing facilitation
● Analysis of two environmental communication processes and wrap-up
READ: Power Point is Evil [15. Power Point is Evil]
READ AND STUDY: Mobility Stakeholders Workshop WBCSD [16. 2001_WBCSD_fac_prog]
Exam – The exam will test facilitation skills and programming an environmental communication
process case
OPTION 1 – case discussion in a group with turning facilitation roles – debrief
OPTION 2 – programme development of a case (in a team of 3 people)