HEN572 Facilitation of Environmental Communication Processes

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2014
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Jan Haverkamp (lecturer)
Ing. Zbyněk Ulčák, Ph.D. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Bc. Petra Burišková
Supplier department: Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Thu 23. 10. 13:30–20:15 U34, Fri 24. 10. 13:30–20:15 U35, Thu 30. 10. 13:30–20:15 U34, Fri 31. 10. 13:30–20:15 U35, Wed 3. 12. 15:15–20:15 Aula, Fri 5. 12. 8:00–18:30 Aula
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 35 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/35, only registered: 0/35, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/35
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Abstract
This seminar will investigate how environmental communication processes like stakeholders meetings, environmental impact assessments, environmental education processes, environmental political debates can be facilitated. It will look into different possibilities of programming communication about environment, the "why"s and it will give students the chance to investigate and train their own facilitation skills.
Goals
- Participants know what facilitation is
- Participants understand the complexity of process dynamics
- Participants can programme simple environmental communication processes
- Participants know basic technical tools in facilitation
- Participants can facilitate in simple communication settings
Key topics
  • PROGRAMME
  • Introduction and basis
  • - Introduction in the way this seminar will be run
  • - communication processes, environmental communication processes, facilitation
  • Programming environmental communication processes
  • - elements of a good programme
  • - programming formats and ideas
  • Role of the facilitator and facilitation skills I
  • Role of the facilitator and facilitation skills II
  • Analysis of an environmental communication process and wrap-up
  • EXAM
  • The exam will test facilitation skills and programming an environmental communication process case
Study resources and literature
    required literature
  • All material in the IS download section
  • The change handbookthe definitive resource on today's best methods for engaging whole systems. Edited by Peggy Holman - Tom Devane - Steven Cady. 2nd ed. rev. and expanded. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2007, xxiii, 732. ISBN 9781576753798. info
  • The change handbook : group methods for shaping the future. Edited by Peggy Holman - Tom Devane. 1st ed. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999, xiv, 394. ISBN 1576750582. info
  • ARNOLD, Rick. Educating for a change. Toronto: Doris Marshall Institute for Education and Action, 1991, 206 s. ISBN 0921284489. info
    recommended literature
  • The handbook for working with difficult groupshow they are difficult, why they are difficult and what you can do about it. Edited by Sandy Schuman. 1st ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010, liii, 422. ISBN 9780470190388. info
  • The IAF handbook of group facilitation : best practices from the leading organization in facilitation. Edited by Sandy Schuman. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005, xxxiv, 664. ISBN 078797160X. info
  • SCHWARZ, Roger M. The skilled facilitator fieldbook : tips, tools, and tested methods for consultants, facilitators, managers, trainers, and coaches. 1st ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005, xxiv, 546. ISBN 0787964948. info
Approaches, practices, and methods used in teaching
4 interactive participative full day sessions
1 interactive exam
Method of verifying learning outcomes and course completion requirements
Two full days,
Thursday 23 October 2014, 13:30 - 19:30, room: U34
Friday 24 October 2014, 10:00 - 17:00, room: U35

Thursday 30 October 2014, 13:30 - 19:30, room: U34
Friday 31 October 2014, 10:00 - 17:00, room: U35


Exam: on 3 or 5 December 2014, Aula

Students are expected to attend all sessions, because facilitation is not something that can be learned from books, but only by interaction.
The methods used will be highly interactive and participative. The seminar blocks will not exist of lectures, but of interactive group work. Also, students need to count with intensive homework between the seminar sessions.
The complete seminar will take place in English.
The course will be examined orally on the basis of the work done during the blocks and background literature.
Language of instruction
English
Teacher's information
https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/1423/podzim2014/HEN572/um/
Teaching will be two blocks of two days (Thursday 23, Friday 24 October and Thursday 30, Friday 31 October).
Literature to be studied is described at great detail in the more concrete syllabus that can be found in Study Materials of IS Information System).

Ir. Jan Haverkamp is a free-lance facilitator and a member of the International Association of Facilitators. He studied biochemistry and nuclear physics at the University of Leiden, and environmental sciences, social and environmental psychology and communication psychology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He worked 10 years in the development of environmental NGOs in Eastern Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine, Albania and Croatia before he emigrated to the Czech Republic in 1997. He was co-founder of the ZHABA facilitators collective and was one of those who introduced the art of facilitation in Central Europe in the early 1990s. He now lives in Gdansk, Poland. He combines facilitation with his work as expert consultant nuclear energy and energy policy for Greenpeace. He is 55 years old and has a 19 year old daughter and a 22 year old son in the Netherlands.

Course will be teached in autumn 2016.

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught once in two years.
General note: předmět bude znovu vyučován na podzim 2016.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007, Autumn 2008, Autumn 2009, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2018.
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