Educational Facilitation Skills for Primary and Community Care Educators – Managing Groups and Presentation Skills Course

The Primary Care Academy (South West) would like to invite you to attend the regional educational facilitation skills course for primary and community care educators – Managing groups and presentation skills course.

Led by Dr Steve Holmes, Dr Jill Wilson, Dr Stephanie Jackson and Dr Rebecca Matthews from the Primary Care Education team in the South West.  This course aims to increase the knowledge, skills and positive attitudes of primary care educators in group facilitation.

The facilitators have been involved with running the regional small group facilitators course for Health Education England since 2015 and have a wealth of experience between them, in a variety of areas of presentation and facilitation, across differing boundaries in the South West and nationally.

Aims 

• To increase the knowledge, skills and positive attitudes of primary care educators in group facilitation.
• To develop skills in facilitating small groups in an experiential manner.
• To enhance the ability of educators to plan and deliver structured educational sessions.

Objectives 

• To understand appropriate use of “energising and other strategies”.
• To develop skills in facilitating small groups.
• To be able to identify behaviours in a small group setting that disrupt and enhance group performance.
• To understand reasons for disruption and disengagement in group work.
• To recognise “in action” characteristics of a successful educational session.
• To practice and develop skills to deliver successful educational sessions.
• To explore and apply relevant educational theory in group work.