Developing Facilitation Skills: a handbook for group facilitators
Combat Poverty is a statutory advisory agency that develops and promotes measures to combat poverty in Ireland.
Developing Facilitation Skills was first published in 1995 as part of Combat Poverty’s role to provide good quality information and practical assistance to people working in the community and voluntary sector on poverty issues. In 2003, a new and updated edition was commissioned to take account of the following factors:
- New opportunities for people and communities experiencing poverty to be involved in activities promoting change
- Ongoing demand for the existing title
- Evolving good practice around facilitation and group work skills
- Social change since 1995.
Combat Poverty’s objective for this new version of Developing Facilitation Skills is to support and strengthen the capacity of people working in community-based or anti-poverty contexts to be involved in articulating, creating, and contributing to social change in favor of people living in poverty. Facilitation skills are an important tool of empowerment towards this objective and towards giving expression to the voice of the excluded.
Combat Poverty will promote this revised edition to:
- Community workers or activists, tackling poverty and disadvantage in local, area-based, regional, or national contexts
- Volunteers in community or voluntary groups tackling poverty
- Management committee members of community and/or voluntary groups
- Local government or HSE workers supporting social inclusion initiatives
- Trainers.
Combat Poverty is very appreciative and delighted to acknowledge the expertise and dedication of the author, Patricia Prendiville. Her rich experience of facilitation in various contexts is evident in the style and content of Developing Facilitation Skills.
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