This course facilitate students' ability of face to face communication. Today, facing to a lot of issues, we need to collaborate and co-create. Not only becoming a good speaker and a listener, but also learning the basic skills of facilitation to create a meaningful dialogue.
This course aims to cultivate live communication ability through fun workshop experience.
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1)enjoy the creative dialogue even in the first meeting.
2)make a chance to get together and facilitate an playful and effective meeting.
communication, facilitation, dialogue, collaboration, co-creation, workshop
Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
This course is not one way lecture style but participatory workshop style. In the first half, students experience various kind of communication such as self introduction, interview, dialogue, world cafe etc. In the second half, they learn how to facilitate a small group. In the end each participant facilitate a small group and return feedback each other.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Overview of the course. | Reflecting experiences and writing mini report. |
Class 2 | Introduction of the workshop. | Reading the text and writing mini report. |
Class 3 | Practicing how to listen and talk. | Reflecting experiences and writing mini report. |
Class 4 | IMutual interview. Active listening and writing an article. Introducing a partner to others by using the article. | Reflecting experiences and writing mini report. |
Class 5 | World cafe part one. Experience of large scale dialogue. | Reflecting experiences and writing mini report. |
Class 6 | Reflection of world cafe. Introduction of facilitation. | Reading the text and writing mini report. |
Class 7 | Basic skill 1: Creating the space and the atmosphere. | Reflecting experiences and writing mini report. |
Class 8 | Basic skill 2:Group size, and making good questions. | Reflecting experiences and writing mini report. |
Class 9 | Basic skill 3: Visualizing the process, and program design. | Reflecting experiences and writing mini report. |
Class 10 | Basic skill 4: Reflection of basic skills. What kind of workshop do you want to facilitate? | Reflecting experiences and writing mini report. |
Class 11 | Preparation for Next three practices of the facilitator. | Planning the own workshop and designing program. |
Class 12 | Practice of the facilitator part one. | Reflection and Preparation. |
Class 13 | Practice of the facilitator part two. | Reflection and Preparation. |
Class 14 | Practice of the facilitator part three. | Reflection and writing final report. |
Class 15 | Reflection of the whole process. | Reflection on the whole process. |
Nakano, Tamio. How to make a collaborative learning community.
Nakano, Tamio. Workshop. Tokyo:Iwanami shoten; ISBN4-00-43710-4
Nakano, Tamio. Facilitation Revoution. Tokyo:Iwanami shoten; ISBN4-00-700069-7
Active participation of every classes including home works:75%, Facilitation practice and self and others' evaluation:15%, Final report:10%
Active participation is indispensable. No being late because of the group work.