E4 Enhance Your Online Facilitation with Storytelling
Level: All Levels
Throughout history, story has been a powerful and effective way to build relationships within groups of people. Facilitators know the power that story can bring to the workshops and group sessions they lead. This conference session will present some of the key findings from research conducted by a group of eighteen IAF facilitators into the use of storytelling to facilitate relationship building within online groups. The session will cover the use of storytelling within a variety of media, including: email; telephone, video and web conferencing; instant messaging; discussion forums; blogging; Second Life and the use of online surveys. Some of the best practical processes and techniques developed by the research group will be shared and discussed in this interactive workshop as well as implications for online facilitation practice.
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Stephen Thorpe is a facilitator specializing in the online domain and trains others in online facilitation. He has been researching ways to enhance the effectiveness of online groups. His PhD explores facilitation as a vital domain in assisting online groups with a focus on the benefit of story and narrative in online relationship development. Stephen is the Secretary of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) and the Editor-in-Chief of the IAF’s Group Facilitation: A Research and Applications Journal. He is on the Advisory Panel of the Global Facilitators Service Corps (GFSC),a member of Heart Politics, The New Zealand Computer Society, Toastmasters (District 72: Club 7686) and the Participation Community of Practice - part of New Zealand's E-government Strategy. Stephen holds a Zenergy Diploma of Facilitation and a Bachelor of Business with first class honors from Auckland University of Technology (AUT) where he has a background researching computer-assisted group work. He is a part-time lecturer.
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Wednesday, April 22
10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Presented By:
Stephen Thorpe
Session Addresses These IAF Core Competencies:
Plan appropriate group processes
Build and maintain professional knowledge
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