scholarly journals Complexifying Facilitation by Immersing in Lived Experiences of on-the-fly Facilitation

2021 ◽  
pp. 104687812110067
Author(s):  
Joeri van Laere ◽  
Jessica Lindblom ◽  
Marieke de Wijse-van Heeswijk
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Simulation Game ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Facilitation Skills ◽  
Future Consequences ◽  
Training Exercises ◽  
Management Staff

Background: Describing the role of a facilitator often results in to-do lists resembling a recipe or a laundry list to follow. Such lists fail to grasp the inherent complexity of facilitation and are not very useful in guiding facilitators when, why and if they should intervene in the unfolding live performance of that day. Aim: To develop a deeper understanding of on-the-fly facilitation by analyzing rich empirical accounts of in-situ facilitation episodes. Intervention: Six facilitation episodes were through purposeful sampling selected from a body of hundreds of interventions in forty-seven performed crisis management training exercises in Swedish municipalities. Each full-day crisis management simulation-game had between fifteen and fifty participants involving politicians, administrative managers and crisis management staff. Method: An auto-hermeneutical phenomenological analysis of six lived experiences of facilitation episodes was conducted to understand what the facilitator observed and how a facilitation intervention was applied. Results: On-the-fly-facilitation is instantaneous, but draws simultaneously on awareness of the past, present and future. Facilitation needs are foreseen during design and they influence current attentiveness and coaching. Unfolding game-play needs to be grasped quickly. Potential future consequences of intervening or not intervening are evaluated within a limited window of opportunity. Due to these circumstances, facilitation is multi-skilled, arbitrary and fallible. Such muddiness of on-the-fly facilitation requires courage from the facilitator. Conclusions: In order to better understand how facilitation skills and roles actually are performed, the facilitation literature desperately needs a larger number of rich empirical accounts of interesting in-situ facilitation. Elaborate analysis of such lived experiences could develop understanding as to how available skills, situational circumstances as well as the unfolding interaction between players and facilitators actually develop into a facilitation intervention. This could generate more complex theoretical understanding of how to apply facilitation skills, in addition to theories that list what skills a facilitator should master.

Capturing the citizen perspective in crisis management exercises: possibilities and challenges

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Scott ◽  
Carina Brandow ◽  
Jennifer Hobbins ◽  
Sofia Nilsson ◽  
Ann Enander
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Important Condition ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Training Exercises ◽  
Crisis Managers ◽  
Collection Methods

Purpose – Supporting and communicating with citizens is a vital part of societal crisis management. Training exercises may offer an opportunity to develop capabilities among managers in this regard. The purpose of this paper is to examine this potential in an analysis of how citizens were portrayed and perceived by participants in a major crisis management exercise. Design/methodology/approach – Observation, document analysis and short interviews during the exercise were used as data collection methods. Data were subjected to thematic analysis to capture core themes in relation to the research aim. Findings – Patterns in how citizens’ reactions were portrayed in the exercise were identified to form a citizen behaviour typology. Observations during the exercise also demonstrated some of the challenges in incorporating the citizen perspective. However, findings regarding the perception of the citizen perspective also demonstrate the ability of exercise participants to meet and respond to public behaviours with respect and seriousness. Originality/value – Variation is an important condition for learning in exercises, and the identified typology is suggested as a starting point for achieving this in incorporation of the citizen perspective in training scenarios. The results of the study are discussed in terms of a learning framework with the aim of explicitly developing crisis managers’ ability to interact and communicate with citizens in crisis situations.

Gaming and multimedia applications for environmental crisis management training

2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 627-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Stolk ◽  
Daniel Alexandrian ◽  
Begoña Gros ◽  
Roberto Paggio
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Management Training ◽  
Multimedia Applications ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Crisis Management Training

Coping, Not Choking, Under the Pressure of a Terrorist Attack: A Crisis Leadership Coping Model

2021 ◽  
pp. 002188632110665
Author(s):  
Synnøve Nesse ◽  
Inger G. Stensaker
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Terrorist Attack ◽  
Crisis Leadership ◽  
Mass Casualties ◽  
Holding Environment ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Organizational Crises ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Coping Model

Organizational crises, especially those of an extreme nature that include threats to survival and mass casualties, are deeply psychologically challenging for leaders. Previous research has focused on the effectiveness of leaders’ crisis management without much consideration for how leaders manage their own crisis reactions. This study was carried out in the crisis management facilities at the headquarters of a multinational energy corporation while a terrorist attack was ongoing in one of its subsidiaries. The unique access and data provide insights into how leaders react to crises and seek support by using different coping strategies. We develop a three-phase model (acceptance, psychological flexibility, and commitment) that illustrates the in-situ creation of a holding environment to support leaders in coping, not choking, under the pressure of a life-threatening crisis.

Lived Experiences in ‘Active’ Small Group Learning

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-17
Author(s):  
P. Ravi Shankar
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Group Learning ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Faculty Training ◽  
Small Group Learning ◽  
Group Facilitation ◽  
Facilitation Skills

Active learning is becoming increasingly important in medical schools. In this article, the author describes his experiences with active learning in two medical schools in Nepal. The author employed active learning during pharmacology ‘practical’ sessions and medical humanities modules, as well as during correlation seminars. The author has also used the technique during workshops. Faculties are trained in small group facilitation skills during faculty training workshops.

Emerging Adult Siblings of Individuals with Schizophrenia: Experiences with Family Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (11) ◽  
pp. 2002-2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian M. Graves ◽  
Christina N. Marsack-Topolewski ◽  
Janet Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Emerging Adult ◽  
Adult Siblings ◽  
Family Crisis ◽  
The Family ◽  
Relational Closeness

The developmental process of siblings of individuals with schizophrenia can be complicated due to crises, as well as numerous individual and familial changes. This qualitative study uses grounded theory techniques to analyze the lived experiences of emerging adult siblings (ages 18–30 years) of individuals with schizophrenia. We conducted 23 one-on-one intensive interviews with sibling participants, using open-ended questions and prompts. Based on the results of the analysis, themes emerged from interview responses related to the influence of the family’s coping style during times of crisis and the quality of the family relationships. Findings suggested that parental attunement was correlated with relational closeness in the family, even if parents struggled to master the tasks related to crisis management. To assist siblings and their families in maintaining relationships and to assist with coping, practitioners need to support families around developing developmentally sensitive coping techniques that include all members of the family.

Korean Syntax

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Hye Suk Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Case Marking ◽  
Case Marker ◽  
Verb Constructions ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Serial Verb ◽  
Auxiliary Verb ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Important Evidence

The syntax of Korean is characterized by several signature properties. One signature property is head-finality. Word order variations and restrictions obey head-finality. Korean also possesses wh in-situ as well as internally headed relative clauses, as is typical of a head-final language. Another major signature property is dependent-marking. Korean has systematic case-marking on nominal dependents and very little, if any, head-marking. Case-marking and related issues, such as multiple case constructions, case alternations, case stacking, case-marker ellipsis, and case-marking on adjuncts, are front and center properties of Korean syntax as viewed from the dependent-marking perspective. Research on these aspects of Korean has contributed to the theoretical understanding of case and grammatical relations in linguistic theory. Korean is also characterized by agglutinative morphosyntax. Many issues in Korean syntax straddle the morphology-syntax boundary. Korean morphosyntax constitutes a fertile testing ground for ongoing debates about the relationship between morphology and syntax in domains such as coordination, deverbal nominalizations (mixed category constructions), copula, and other denominal constructions. Head-finality and agglutinative morphosyntax intersect in domains such as complex/serial verb and auxiliary verb constructions. Negation, which is a type of auxiliary verb construction, and the related phenomena of negative polarity licensing, offer important evidence for crosslinguistic understanding of these phenomena. Finally, there is an aspect of Korean syntax that reflects areal contact. Lexical and grammatical borrowing, topic prominence, pervasive occurrence of null arguments and ellipsis, as well as a complex system of anaphoric expressions, resulted from sustained contact with neighboring Sino-Tibetan languages.

An Airline Physician's Experiences with an Aircrash in Nairobi

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-198
Author(s):  
Horst H. Renemann
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Medical Staff ◽  
Medical Service ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Leading Edge ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Home Base ◽  
International Airport ◽  
Medical Supplies ◽  
Management Staff

A Boeing 747 took off from Nairobi International Airport on the morning of November 20, 1974. Its leading edge flaps failed to operate for technical reasons and barely a minute later the aircraft crashed, the tail separating from the fuselage. The wreck caught fire.Since the aircraft's home base was Frankfurt, a Crisis Management Staff (CMS) was immediately constituted there. As an airline physician, I was requested to evaluate the medical information received from Nairobi and act as medical advisor to the CMS. According to the first rough estimate received, approximately 160 persons were believed to be on board at the time of take-off. By the same estimate, about 100 of these had escaped with their lives, of whom about 60 had been injured. Since there was no accurate information about the availability of adequate medical supplies in Nairobi, I advised the CMS that I should go with a medical staff and equipment to Nairobi. In 1974, the Lufthansa Medical Service in Frankfurt was manned by only three physicians as compared with six at present. Of these three, one was on vacation, one was required to maintain the Medical Service in Frankfurt and only one could be spared to go to the site of the crash.On arrival in Nairobi, my colleague and I contacted and registered 44 passengers who had been on board: those who had been seriously injured were discovered in local hospitals, others were in hotels and lodgings in the locality.

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