[hr-education] Re: List of competence criteria for trainers in the field of human rights

Dear Kevin and other Colleagues,

I have read your intereresting findings on the research that you are
conducting, exploring facilitator competencies through interviewing
facilitators. It is very challenging and very helpful for us. It helps us
in our work. It will be interesting to include same Latin American
facilitators, it might be (hypothesis) that the findings will be
different. I could assume that the recovering of the personal history, the
encounter of the facilitator with his or her history of his or her self
(subjectivity) and the self of others (alterity), encourage to became a
facilitator. There are same consciences and unconsciences components of
your personal history that are very relevant to be willing to became a
facilitator.

Some time ago I wrote a paper (in Spanish) on this issue, that can be
helpful to pursued your research. May be you will be able to read it.
[***Moderator's note: Abraham Magendzo's paper can be found at
{http://www.hrea.net/erc/Library/list.php?category_id=4&category_type=3 }
***]

Let us be in contact.

Con cariņos,

Abraham

 

On 9/15/05, Kevin Chin wrote:

>
> There are a number of documents that you can refer to in regards to the
> topic of facilitator competencies. You can access the following documents
> on-line (if the URLs are incorrect, the documents can all be found in HREA's
> on-line Library - {http://www.hrea.org/erc/Library/} ):
>
<snip>
>
> Based on this preliminary work, it seems that facilitation is both
> skills-dependent, as well as attitude-dependent. My current thinking,
> though, is that the latter will be more important to successful
> facilitation, and as one facilitator stated, may prove that "character and
> personality shapes 80% of the role of facilitator"! If this theory is
> viable, then lists of facilitator competencies may eventually be less
> focused on technical competencies, and more focused on attitudinal elements.
> Based on this, training sessions would be developed with a heavy emphasis on
> self-reflection of personal and professional attitudes as a necessary
> component of professional development.
>
> It would be a pleasure to hear the thoughts of interested listserv
> colleagues, and to continue this dialogue!
>



 
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