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Facilitation Workshop: Active Agenda Building and Review of the Essentials
In the last session in this series, we will highlight our ‘Staff Picks’ for key, simple facilitation essentials and dive deeper into creating effective agendas, even on the fly. We hope you join us!
How food councils are supporting covid-relief efforts
Community Food Strategies released $24,500 in small grants to 25 food councils. Read brief summaries of their work.
Facilitation Workshop #4: Decision Making through Open, Narrow, Close
In this Facilitating Virtually session, we’ll describe and practice a decision-making technique called Open, Narrow, Close. – a narrowing process to get to a few great ideas. We’ll also review the value of shared leadership and roles.
Facilitation Workshop #5: Virtual Dialogue & Decision Making
In this Facilitating Virtually session, participants will gain skills for encouraging dialogue and leading groups through a facilitation technique called ORID (Objective, Reflective, Interpretive, Decisional) Process that focuses on a conversation. We’ll also practice Open, Narrow, Close again in small groups.
Facilitation Workshop #3: Leadership & Facilitating Humans
In this Facilitating Virtually session, we’ll help you understand your leadership style and how it impacts group dynamics. We’ll model tools to help facilitate more effectively through everyday disruptions and difficult personalities.
2020 Microgrants for Covid-19 Relief: Applications Closed
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Community Food Strategies is offering block grants to food councils up to $1000 to support immediate and long-term relief efforts.