IND717 - Facilitation Skills for Land Management
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Community Based Delivery (CBD)* |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | NIKERI (CBD): 3 x 6-hour on-campus intensive (workshops/seminars) per trimester |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | NIKERI (CBD): 1 x 1-hour online seminar per week for 8 weeks |
| Note: | *Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus) |
Content
When working to achieve positive outcomes for managing land and Sea Country, it is necessary for people to work constructively with diverse groups. The art of facilitation is a vital skill required to ensure Communities can be adequately informed and ensure consent-based decision-making. Facilitation activities can range from consultation and engagement; co-design of projects; agreement making; conflict resolution and negotiation. These are sought after skills for practitioners working with and for Aboriginal organisations and Communities now and into the future. In this unit you will: engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and Western knowledges to clearly describe key concepts used in community engagement and participation; collaborate effectively to develop processes to make group decisions and lastly, apply Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and Western knowledges to critically analyse and develop a personal approach to facilitation. The assessment tasks are based on identifying your own existing skill base, leading a facilitation and critically examining how professional facilitation practices can be designed to include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural protocols and practices. After concluding this unit, you may have developed a keen interest in facilitation techniques and follow up with more professional development.
Unit Fee Information
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