What is happening in the quadrant of exchange? What can you do to stimulate healthy debate? How can you bring change to a structure? And what gets people out of their comfort zone and really engaged?

These issues were explored through role play and tested during a two-day workshop in Lunteren on the 5th and 6th of September.

FAN Facilitation Training (Free Actors in Networks) (September 2012)

What is happening in the quadrant of exchange? What can you do to stimulate healthy debate? How can you bring change to a structure? And what gets people out of their comfort zone and really engaged?

These issues were explored through role play and tested during a two-day workshop in Lunteren on the 5th and 6th of September.

 

The seven participants held coordinating positions in Red een Kind, Woord en Daad, and their Southern partners, which are in the process of forming an alliance.  These non-governmental organisations based in India, Kenya, Ethiopia and the Netherlands, aim to jointly initiate a wide range of activities in development across the three continents. They are assisted by the Management for Development Foundation (MDF), which supports them by providing relevant training.

 

I had worked with most of them before, on "Module 1 of Facilitation of Networks" in March, so they were already familiar with the FAN (Free Actors in Networks) tools.  It was interesting to hear what they had done with these insights since then.  This was Module 2.

 

The differences between the "cold" and "warm" phases in development (identified as the Blue and Red columns in the FAN approach) dominated many of the discussions. Whilst the importance of energy, ambition and connection as driving forces was emphasised, it was also clear that when people really want to achieve something together, the "cold" phases are essential to managing the process.