Community Building Facilitation Training from FineTune (trainers: Mike Roth & Kitty Lloyd-Lawrence) May 2011   first module: begins 6.00.p.m.Tuesday 17th May, ends 5.00.P.M. Friday 20th May A residential event at Westwood Christian Centre, Nr Huddersfield, Yorkshire.

WHAT WILL YOU GET? A flexible, practical understanding of the community building process: to help you apply it to your own life, and to the facilitation and training contexts in work and the wider community. The ability to synthesise the community building approach with the other training methods and approaches you may currently be using. Learn the difference between facilitating and participating in community - without which, all efforts to extend ourselves into community tend to fall flat on their faces. Remove the mystery from Community Building, and the facilitation of community - so that you understand how you can do it, and facilitate it, at every moment where you recognize the need for it. Share a unique experience of giving and receiving, and of shifting roles and boundaries, in a group context that we hope you will find both supportive and challenging. We plan to set up a peer-mentoring scheme, that will support you in setting up your own project - anything you want to do in the mode of building community in your own private or public spaces. This will be an ongoing opportunity for hands-on experience, with support and mentoring, and with the opportunity to explore what happened in future follow-up training sessions that we are also planning.

WHO SHOULD COME? Anyone who believes that human relationship is the key to making a better world - and who recognizes the importance of finding better, truer ways that we can connect, one with another. This means:
LOVERS PARENTS LABOURERS FACILITATORS MANAGERS HELPING PROFESSIONALS POLITICAL ACTIVISTS SEEKERS AFTER A BETTER LIFE
We have just one requirement for attendance: that you have been at a 2 or more day community building event with FCE, CBiB (Community Building in Britain), ourselves (Fine Tune), or equivalent organisation. (We may also need to find out, in discussion with you, how well you understand the difference in principle between "participation", "discussion" and "facilitation" - because the training entails very nimble navigation between these modes.) WHAT IS COMMUNITY-BUILDING REALLY?
	In Community Building we recognize the simple, well-nigh instinctive path to mutual rapport - and we work together to move beyond the old habits, the mistaken assumptions and the unresolved pain and grievances that regularly de-rail or block the formation of real relationship. That state of spontaneous rapport (which we call: "Community") is the common element in the love that springs up naturally - when it is not thwarted - between children and their parents, between lovers, between bosom friends, and amongst comrades-in-arms. There can be little doubt that it is part of the human instinctive repertoire. We have learned to find the path to community even when there are standing obstacles: prejudice, religious or personal conflict, and mutual hurt, distress or mis-understanding. This is never achieved without personal sacrifice: the willingness to let go of cherished assumptions, expectations or illusions about ourselves and other people. When we are willing to do this we very often find that there is a spirit greater than ourselves that is clearly at work. Something is drawing us into community and reconciliation - through a grace that we can open ourselves to, can consent to, but can never command or will.
PARTICIPATION AND FACILITATION Participating in community and facilitating community are two different things - but if you want to be an effective facilitator in the long run, you must first know how to build community. Effective facilitating depends crucially upon the community you have already built with your co-facilitator or back-up team. Therefore you need to have built community with these people actually (and not just gone through the motions). And you must be able to work through any disagreements or difficulties that emerge in your work together. A TIME FOR SHARING... As trainers we are offering a structure that will guide us in a shared process of collaborative enquiry, drawing on your experience and knowledge as well as our own. We will use a variety of formats: CB circle, "fishbowl", "brainstorming" and small group explorations. After 15 years of doing this work we are well aware that "training" is a never-ending process - thus we cannot offer to fully train you in a couple of 3-day sessions. However we do expect that our time together will be a time of deep discovery and enrichment COST Individuals (self-funding) £250 Corporate £500 This includes accommodation, food, refreshments and course materials. The accommodation is Spartan and it may be that more private and luxurious accommodation may be available via the venue owners. (Contact:- wwww.westwood-centre.org.uk) BOOK WITH Les Peebles at Fine Tune: 07967 967 453 WHO ARE THE TRAINERS? Kitty Lloyd-Lawrence and Mike Roth are trained Community Building facilitators and have been involved with the Community Building in Britain Facilitator Training Programme since the year 2000. TALK TO US ABOUT THE TRAINING: Les Peebles 07967 967 453; Mike Roth 07787 987342. Kitty Lloyd-Lawrence 07976 615586 or e-mail (If you want to e-mail Les or Kitty it is simplest for us if you send this via Mike so that he can forward it to them.) IF YOU CAN'T COME, YOU CAN STILL HELP MAKE THIS A SUCCESS! Please send a contribution to our bursary fund - to help others who want to come on our training but need this support. Phone Les to arrange.