¡@¡@For the last twenty years, the concept of resilience, originally a term used in physics, has been adapted and applied to that sizable percentage of children of poor or disaster-affected groups or nations that have been able to resist destruction and adapt to and learn from a new reality. In recent years, this same concept has been researched and applied around the world to family, community and work groups that show the same ability in spite of overwhelming odds. This skill-building workshop will present specific skills and strategies that the organizational and community development facilitator can use to build resilience in their client groups.

In this session we will cover the following elements: Definition of Resilience, Characteristics of Resilient Groups, Resilience and Group Development, Facilitating the Development of Group Resilience. In details we will discussion how to define resilience on an individual and group level and to recognize and give examples of the characteristics of resilience. We will also explain how resilience is developed in each of the four stages of the group development process.

The presenter will give examples of the four basic competencies for development of resilience so we understand and use the technique of reframing to facilitate the development of group resilience. Practitioner will have a chance to develop a plan of action for facilitative intervention in resilience development.

Gil is the Founder and Managing Partner of Amauta International < http://amauta.org >, with twenty years as a facilitator and trainer/mentor of facilitators in Latin America. He was the former Vice-Chair International of the International Association of Facilitators and is the Global Network Coordinator of the Global Facilitators Service Corps. He is also the author of 28 books and manuals. He has presented at over 30 international conferences. Gil also was the trainer-facilitator in disaster intervention in Taiwan in 2000.

B1¡@Experiential Learning in Facilitation

Nancy Pan

With two master's degrees in education from the US, Nancy specializes in curriculum design and special education. She is particularly sensitive to the clients' needs, and can grasp each client's core development needs and design concrete learning process and objectives to maximize training results.

Nancy is currently the Education Director for the Institute of Developing Effective Adventure. She conducts pre-training interviews, designs training curriculum, and conduct feedback sessions after training. A warm, direct and mature person, Nancy is very experienced in education, psychology, and counseling. Her lively interactive training style guides participants to explore their inner energy, and makes the training results more effective and lasting. In addition to her specialty in team facilitation, Nancy also specializes in one-to-one counseling, constantly providing counseling sessions for participants. Her sincerity brings support to the participant's growth and brings her close friendships with many of them.

Tom Hsu

Tom is a nature lover, climbing over most major mountaintops of Taiwan during the last 18 years. He is very familiar with activities that challenge one's physical limitations, such as hiking, water-rafting, rock-climbing and more. After he received complete training from Project Adventure U.S., he quickly integrated the two to create more diversity and fun for training curriculums. Currently Tom is the Training Director for the Institute of Developing Effective Adventure. After Nancy designs the training structure, Tom designs activities suitable for the particular group's physical and mental condition. So the training is more lively and provocative, and results can last longer.

Tom's constant challenge to himself is also very impressive. He was a member of the 1995 Taiwan Everest Expedition. He also participated in Ultimate Climbing (Rock/Ice/Snow). Of course, as he integrates nature's rhythm with training results, he also pays very close attention to the safety factors, so everyone can totally enjoy the process, worry-free.

B2¡@Facilitation as Holding a Space

Richard West has been an ICA facilitator for30 years (26 of which are in Asia), worked with various organizations in several countries. He spends most of his time now mentoring and doing complementary healing work in which holding a space for healing and/or change is more important than technique. His particular focus is in helping individuals and groups tap into deep spirit forces for motivation and to enable change.

B3¡@Connecting to the power of family-An Application of ToPR (Technology of ParticipationR) Method

Julia Lu

Julia is an ICA certified facilitator, currently works as a facilitator in Open Quest. During the past 13 years, she had accumulated lots of experience working for various companies that included CTCI, Avon, ING Life of Georgia and more. Now she devotes her time in facilitation, particularly in personal and organizational changes and development. From 2002, influenced by Bert Hellinger's Approach, and bring more possibilities thru discovery system dynamic in each constellation with respect. Julia now devotes her time in family constellation facilitation.

Ellen Chung

Ellen is a very experienced trainer. She received education in the banking and insurance, and previously worked at the Taipei Training Division of ING Aetna. Her expertise is in planning large events, designing facilitation space, planning facilitation process, compiling training materials, and personal counseling. At the first Chinese Facilitator's Conference last year, she led a focus conversation for dialogs with children. She had also conducted many facilitation processes for companies and organizations, including Philip Morris, Ford Motors, Wellcome Group, and many more. Her current focus is on bringing the world's facilitation wisdom to Taiwan, and the facilitation of children's education.

B4¡@Beer Game

From this game we look through four identities of four positions : retailer, wholesaler, distributor, and factory and we will simulate to run the beer distribution game . How to keep the cost down while we try to satisfy all our customers? What do we find ? What do we mean "System Dynamic"? We invite you to join the exploration process!! Through learning by doing, we expect the participants are able to find out by themselves :

1. The members in a complex system are correlated each other;
2. Time lag effect in a dynamic system (butterfly effect); 3. How do we face the future changes in an effective manner? 4. What kind of capabilities shall we build up for our valuable life?

Peter Peng

Peter is a senior civil engineer (30 years experience), served as Deputy Director of First Engineering Office of Taiwan Area National Expressway Engineering Bureau (TANEEB), MOTC. He has a Master's degree in Civil Engineering, majoring in Construction Management, Quality Management, Civil Engineering, Surveying, Engineering Planning. He won the award for the most excellence public service person in 1990. He is also a member of Chinese Society of Organization Learning.

B5¡@Group Process as Individual Process

Mark Western

Mark is a certified Master Practitioner of NLP, certified counselor, certified facilitator (personal development), and certified Wel-Systems Practitioner. He has 5 years experience in conducting workshops, trainings, learning circles, etc. here in Taiwan, and 2 years experience working as a personal development counselor/coach.

B6¡@Creative Thinking Treasure Hunt

Peisan is a group facilitator and a Co-Active Personal Life Coach. She is the Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Tung-Hai University. Areas of specialty: Marketing, consumer behavior, creative thinking and internet marketing. She has years of experiences in conducting workshops, presentations and courses in creative thinking and personal marketing.

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