The Nature of the Word and The Role of the Facilitator
This work is about facilitating a person or group to a conscious awareness of what is happening. Facilitation offers you a way out of confusion and helps you move toward clarity.
The facilitator has no business telling you who you are, what you ought to do, think or feel. Because it is aspects of your circumstances being explored, the facilitator is there to help you liberate your highest and best wisdom so that you can make good choices.
You and/or your group are responsible for the consequences of your choices and actions.
The purpose of the work determines the form. In mediation, a goal is set and the involved parties have the opportunity to reach agreement.
Personal and professional coaching provides an opportunity to reach clarity about true calling and to create a personal mission statement out of which can come new or renewed focus and life direction.
Individual and couple facilitation may include Gestalt and/or other modalities to help bring awareness.
In addition, group training and workshops have differing agendas. All of the work, regardless of form, is facilitated by listening and interacting without bias, to allow clarity and understanding to emerge.
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Who Can Benefit from Facilitation?
Facilitation is most helpful for any two or more people who are having difficulty hearing and understanding each other.
Applications include co-workers, neighborhood associations, couples and families, church staffs and boards--to name a few.
Individuals can also benefit by exploring such questions as, "Who are you?" "What deeply matters to you?" and "Where are you on your path?"
Experiential Facilitator Training Weekends
In addition to being available by appointment, Pat wil begin a series of Facilitation Theory and Practice weekend workshops, beginning in 2006.
Call 303-988-2847 for more information, or email Pat at pat@patpendleton.com.
An opportunity will be provided to become a more authentic human being both for your own personal growth and as a necessity if you want to be fully present for another person as facilitator, partner, parent or friend.
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Pat Pendleton, M. Ed.
Pat has a Master's Degree in counseling from Antioch University. Her mentor in the art of facilitation is the author of "Tao of Leadership" John Heider, and she attended the Human Potential School of Mendocino in 1976.
Pat is an ordained non-sectarian community minister, ordained by People House of Denver in 1992. Her ministry is spiritual, not religious.
Pat co-led the nine-month Facilitator Training Program in Denver for 27 years. She completed training in mediation with CDR Associates in Boulder, Colorado, and arts mediation with Colorado Lawyers for the Arts.
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