The Henley Facilitation Forum

In today's organisations, group facilitation is seen as an essential way to enable small and large groups to work together effectively and deliver high quality results in a timely manner.

Many organisations have developed their internal facilitation capability, whilst others have relied on employing external professional facilitators. Leading companies have focused on the development of facilitation skills in leaders and managers throughout their organisations.

Henley Business School has a strong background in academic and practical research in group facilitation, within the context of organisational development, management learning, change management, programme management and leadership development.

In response to a significant demand from many of our customers, Henley Business School has started an initiative to bring together key experts in group facilitation into the Henley Facilitation Forum.

The Forum's objectives

• Create a Forum for facilitators to learn and share best practice with other experienced practitioners and leading academics.
• Commission and participate in research projects to meet the specific needs of the Forum.
• Review new group facilitation technologies and techniques.
• Identify current challenges in professional development for group facilitators.
• Recommend future activities for the Forum.

The Forum's audience

• Experienced group facilitators.
• Managers responsible for supplying facilitation services.
• Clients of facilitation services.

Our members are experienced practitioners and academics in group facilitation to ensure a high level of knowledge and discussion.