Facilitators and Group leaders are pretty good at looking after the physical safety of their groups. But, what about attending to the critical emotional and mental health needs of our groups?
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Click play and watch this week's Facilitator Tips episode to expand your understanding of what it means to keep your group safe.
This is just one of many dozens of leadership tips you can use to improve the participation, relationships and overall performance of your students, staff and team.
This Facilitator Tips video tutorial is presented by Mark Collard, one of the world's most experienced & respected experiential trainers in the world. As a Master of Group Games & Activities, Mark can teach you how to help your team engage, interact & connect with one another more powerfully.
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Hi and welcome to Episode 51 of the Facilitator Tips video series. My name is Mark Collard, I’m an experiential trainer and author, and this episode I’m going to focus on keeping people safe. Any program leader would always say that’s one of their most important priorities. But in this episode, I want to explore what safety means.
Typically we think of safety in physical terms, broken arms, scratches, bruises, things of that nature, and naturally we want to avoid that with any group that we’re working with. But I want to expand your understanding of safety to also include beyond the physicality the emotional safety of your group and the mental safety of your group, and some groups would even argue the spiritual safety of a group as well. But that’s what safety means. It’s not just the physical safety.
Now in my experience and I’ve been working in this field for over 30 years professionally, generally speaking, program leaders are pretty good at looking after the physical safety of a group. We wear helmets where we’re supposed to, we do up the warm-up exercises before we do something quite physical, and so forth and so forth. We do a pretty good job nurturing the physical safety of a group.
In my experience, we don’t do a particularly good job at nurturing and nourishing the mental and the emotional safety of a group. And there are two particular things that have really helped me do that in my work.
The first part is understanding a strong and powerful philosophical framework. Elements such as challenge by choice, full value contract, having fun, setting appropriate goals for your group, all of those things help create that wonderful emotional and mental safety… if you need to safety net framework for your group.
And the last part is wellbeing. If the wellbeing of the individuals, the wellbeing of your group is at the heart of your program, you’re going to go a long way towards actually creating that emotional and mental safety for your group. For example educational approaches such as positive education, absolutely keep wellbeing at the heart of their work.
Now in our next episode, Episode 52, I’m going to look at how do we keep people safe, what is too safe. That’ll be in our next episode. So what are you doing in your program to keep your group safe, not just the physical but the emotional and mental safety as well?
Naturally, please leave a comment or if you found value in any of these episodes please share them with your networks as well. Until next time I’ll look forward to seeing you soon. Bye for now.
#teambuilding #teambuildingexercises #teambuildinggames #groupgames #facilitationskills #facilitatorskills #facilitatorskillstraining #facilitator #facilitation #experientiallearning #playmeo
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|| https://www.playmeo.com/episode51/ ||
Click play and watch this week's Facilitator Tips episode to expand your understanding of what it means to keep your group safe.
This is just one of many dozens of leadership tips you can use to improve the participation, relationships and overall performance of your students, staff and team.
This Facilitator Tips video tutorial is presented by Mark Collard, one of the world's most experienced & respected experiential trainers in the world. As a Master of Group Games & Activities, Mark can teach you how to help your team engage, interact & connect with one another more powerfully.
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Hi and welcome to Episode 51 of the Facilitator Tips video series. My name is Mark Collard, I’m an experiential trainer and author, and this episode I’m going to focus on keeping people safe. Any program leader would always say that’s one of their most important priorities. But in this episode, I want to explore what safety means.
Typically we think of safety in physical terms, broken arms, scratches, bruises, things of that nature, and naturally we want to avoid that with any group that we’re working with. But I want to expand your understanding of safety to also include beyond the physicality the emotional safety of your group and the mental safety of your group, and some groups would even argue the spiritual safety of a group as well. But that’s what safety means. It’s not just the physical safety.
Now in my experience and I’ve been working in this field for over 30 years professionally, generally speaking, program leaders are pretty good at looking after the physical safety of a group. We wear helmets where we’re supposed to, we do up the warm-up exercises before we do something quite physical, and so forth and so forth. We do a pretty good job nurturing the physical safety of a group.
In my experience, we don’t do a particularly good job at nurturing and nourishing the mental and the emotional safety of a group. And there are two particular things that have really helped me do that in my work.
The first part is understanding a strong and powerful philosophical framework. Elements such as challenge by choice, full value contract, having fun, setting appropriate goals for your group, all of those things help create that wonderful emotional and mental safety… if you need to safety net framework for your group.
And the last part is wellbeing. If the wellbeing of the individuals, the wellbeing of your group is at the heart of your program, you’re going to go a long way towards actually creating that emotional and mental safety for your group. For example educational approaches such as positive education, absolutely keep wellbeing at the heart of their work.
Now in our next episode, Episode 52, I’m going to look at how do we keep people safe, what is too safe. That’ll be in our next episode. So what are you doing in your program to keep your group safe, not just the physical but the emotional and mental safety as well?
Naturally, please leave a comment or if you found value in any of these episodes please share them with your networks as well. Until next time I’ll look forward to seeing you soon. Bye for now.
#teambuilding #teambuildingexercises #teambuildinggames #groupgames #facilitationskills #facilitatorskills #facilitatorskillstraining #facilitator #facilitation #experientiallearning #playmeo