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Post by Sunshine Muse on Oct 11, 2017 23:53:32 GMT -5
Kudos to Santa Cruz California for hosting a wonderful Basic Training with themed cookies to boot! I was thrilled to explore the importance of co-facilitation with this group and to clarify that Centering is, at its core, about equality. The Centering co-facilitation model is never about a lesser or greater leader in a Centering circle. Our model teaches that the wisdom comes from the group and co-facilitators, with different credentialing and life experience, are trained in the same skills for model delivery in order to support diverse Centering facilitation teams that model equity, leadership and engagement for our patients. In doing so, co-facilitator teams act as stewards for the group's wisdom to emerge, and "teaching others" to occur. The Santa Cruz group coined the term CoCo to symbolize the fact that in Centering groups, co-facilitators are equals. If you are a quiet co-facilitator who has taken a backseat and is ready and willing to step up and help steer your group more effectively, kudos to you! If you are a Centering facilitator who has taken on more leadership than your co-facilitator and feels relieved and ready to update your facilitation style to one that allows for more equal leadership from you both, kudos to you! Thank you for the fun and the cookies Santa Cruz and for being my CoCo's now and forever.
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Post by Tanya Munroe on Oct 12, 2017 8:31:41 GMT -5
Hallelujah! Yes! The language nerd in me has been struggling with our loose use of "co-" for ages: there are always more than one and I LOVE CoCo <3
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Post by John Craine on Oct 12, 2017 11:17:24 GMT -5
Ergo our recent move to normalize the terms Staff Facilitator and Provider Facilitator to distinguish their roles. Together they are CoCos.
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