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Global Facilitation Skills Task Force:

Statement of Objectives
Cathy Bernatt (OB Japan, Task Force Leader)
Task Force: Jen Nold (OB Belgium), Abdul Kahlid (OB Singapore), Ellen Harris-Knoblock (TIOBEC), Rebecca Bear (OBI Consultant), James Neill (University of New Hampshire, Formerly from OBA).

Phase 1: Comprehensive Review

Conduct a comprehensive review of staff training in facilitation skills currently provided at OB schools around the world. Summarize the complete range of facilitation theory and practices that currently exist within the OB community internationally (based on the information from the comprehensive surveys we receive) and present it at the World Conference in Singapore

Phase 2: Needs Assessment

Design and distribute a questionnaire to OB field staff around the world that will be a needs assessment process to:

a) Identify the knowledge/skills/attitudes believed most important in enabling one to facilitate experiential education programs at a basic level

b) Find out how field staff around the world rate their current satisfaction levels with their competency in the knowledge/skills/attitudes believed most important in enabling one to facilitate experiential education programs at a basic level. (This will provide us with valuable data regarding priority of potential training modules that could be developed.)

Phase 3: Training and Resource Development

a) Organize an Outward Bound International Facilitation Skills Symposium, to give staff opportunities to experience the full range and methods of facilitation skills used at Outward Bound schools worldwide.

b) Write Volume 1 of Into the Groan Zone, a Facilitation Skills Case Study Book. The goal is to launch this as a model for a multi-volume series to be created by OB staff worldwide.