Alisha Herrick offers an upcoming workshop on practical tools for facilitating meetings.
As the coordinator of the New Mexico Public Health Institution, she has experience guiding diverse groups to positive outcomes.
Photograph: Alisha Herrick.jpgSilver City, NM - Building consensus with a room full of people with diverse backgrounds and conflicting agendas can be tricky. Meeting facilitators are challenge to give everyone a chance to speak, and feeling comfortable to do so, while making headway through an agenda. To accomplish this feat, facilitators need a repertoire of practical tools to support participants, resolve conflicts and guide groups to success.
The upcoming workshop, "Practical Tools for Facilitation" offers tried and true methods for helping groups think, talk and work together. The workshop is part of the calendar of trainings presented by the Nonprofit Resource Group, a program of the National Center of Frontier Communities.
The workshop is facilitated by Alisha Herrick, MPH, CHES. Herrick is trained in the Technology of Participation (ToP) method. ToP methods teach facilitators how to focus conversation, build consensus and plan actions for positive outcomes. Herrick was recently named as the coordinator for the New Mexico Public Health Institute.
Herrick said, "This method helps recognize and honor contributors, pool individual contributions and welcome diversity while minimizing polarization and conflict. It helps give the facilitator a structure so the group can accomplish more than they believed possible."
This interactive workshop is intended for new or seasoned facilitators who want to develop or improve their facilitation skills. It provides participants with fundamental facilitation tools and a structured process that can be applied to any type of facilitated session, whether it is a staff meeting, planning session, community-based meeting, or a brainstorming session.
Herrick said, "The Technology of Participation method can be used at any kind of meeting that you want to be meaningful and productive."
"Practical Tools for Facilitation" workshop is scheduled for Thursday, May 25, 2017, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Hidalgo Medical Services Silver City Community Health Center's Community Room, 1007 N. Pop Street in Silver City. The workshop is $25 per participant. Limited seating is due to the interactive nature of the workshop so registration is required.
For a full schedule of the NRG training calendar for 2017 and a listing of services visit website at www.NResourceGroup.org.
To register or for more information on the workshop, call Kendra Milligan at (575) 597-0035 or email NRG@swchi.org.
About the Nonprofit Resource Group (GENERAL PROGRAM INFORMATION)
The Nonprofit Resource Group (NRG) is a program of The National Center for Frontier Communities (NCFC). Nonprofits and other organizations form an essential piece of the larger social safety net and are on the front lines of identifying and delivering essential human services in frontier communities. To do all this, nonprofits need to be strong, resilient and innovative. NRG staff and consultants are dedicated to helping build and sustain nonprofit and other community organizations so that they can fulfill these roles effectively and sustainably, in partnership with private business and government.
For more information visit: www.NResourceGroup.org.
About the National Center for Frontier Communities (GENERAL ORGANIZATIONAL INFORMATION)
The National Center for Frontier Communities (NCFC) is a research and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the health and quality of life in frontier America. NCFC gives a voice to people and programs in frontier communities and raises awareness of frontier issues to policy makers, agencies, and the public.
Headquartered in Silver City, NM, NCFC serves as a central point of contact for referrals, information exchange, and networking among geographically separated communities.
For more information visit: www.frontierus.org.