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from: GSB Experiential Course Support <gsb-experiential-course-support@stanford.edu>
Happy New Year!
As we reflect on the past year, we want to express our heartfelt thanks for your partnership and support. Your contributions have been invaluable to our shared success, and we are very grateful for you. Below is a schedule of facilitator workshops and gatherings so you can hold dates for the events that interest you. Hope to see many of you at these. We are also excited to share with you the participants in the 2025 Advanced Facilitator Training Program below.
Upcoming 2024-25 Workshops
Saturday, Feb 1, 2025, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm: Managing Conflict in T-groups
Collins Dobbs & Paula Jones
Saturday, June 14, 2025, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm: Self-regulation and Facilitation - NEW. This workshop will delve deeper into the somatic and physiological aspects of regulation, offer integrated models to deepen self-awareness and foster regulation in ourselves and others, and provide an opportunity for some small-group facilitation practice.
Henry Most & Ling Lam
August 16 - 17, 2025, 9am - 5 pm both days: Open Facilitator T-group Weekend
Paula Jones
Weekend, Sept 12-14, 2025, 5:30 - 9 pm Friday, 9 am - 7 pm Saturday, 9 am - 4 pm Sunday: Attending to Diversity and Power Differences
Pien van den Herik, Paul Loper, Anotine Moore, Dikla Carmel Hurwitz, Hugh Keelan and Leslie Chin
Please reach out to any faculty with questions about workshops.
Annual Facilitator Party
Our annual party will be held on Saturday, June 7 from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM at Andrea Corney & Chris Carneghi’s home. This annual event gives the community a chance to catch up with each other and meet newer members in our community. Invitation to follow.
Introductory T-group Weekend Trainings
Listed below are the dates for this year’s Intro Weekends. Please share with people in your network who may be interested. An email with details about these will also be sent about 6 weeks ahead of time that you can use to forward to folks.
January 31 - February 2, 2025 (application deadline has passed)
April 4-6, 2025
June 27-29, 2025
Advanced Facilitator Training Program (AFTP) - 2025 Cohort
We are happy to announce that the following facilitators will participate in our AFTP training this winter quarter:
Anamaria Nino-Murcia
Cari Jacobs
David Acker
Eduardo Andere
Gina Engracia
Hanna Hart
Helen Park
Nirit Hazan
Ranah Edelin
Terry Holmes
Win Chesson
Facilitator Small Group Gatherings
Chris McCanna plans to continue to hold optional lunch gatherings that provide chances for you to connect with each other and share your experiences facilitating. She has scheduled these in-person sessions on days when several of you will be on campus facilitating this year. Please join her in Arbuckle Cafe with your lunch!
Winter quarter:
Monday, 1/13 (11:15 am - 12:15 pm)
Thursday, 1/30 (11:15 am - 12:15 pm)
Spring quarter:
Monday, 4/14 (11:15 am - 12:15 pm)
Tuesday, 4/15 (11:15 am - 12:15 pm)
Thursday, 4/24 (11:15 am - 12:15 pm)
This website is designed as a one-stop shop for all things facilitator related. You will find information on onboarding & compensation, section staffing, program communications, bidding information, Canvas resources, and the Facilitator Training Program.
We look forward to continuing our work together in 2025.
With Gratitude,
Leslie Chin
Andrea Corney
Collins P. Dobbs
Campbell Frank
Dikla Carmel Hurwitz
Paula Jones
Ling Lam
Henry Most
Yifat Sharabi-Levine
Chris McCanna
from: GSB Experiential Course Support <gsb-experiential-course-support@stanford.edu>
Hello everyone,
As another academic year begins, we wanted to give you the schedule of facilitator workshops and gatherings so you can hold dates for the events that interest you. OB 374 continues to draw strong interest from students, including an increased number of MSx students. This has prompted us to offer a section this Winter quarter where priority enrollment is given to them. We expect that the majority of that class will comprise those students and give us a chance to tailor teaching to their program and work experiences.
Hope you can join us for many of these gatherings. Grateful for you and for our community of support.
Upcoming 2024-25 Workshops
Saturday, Feb 1, 2025, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm: Managing Conflict in T-groups
Collins Dobbs & Paula Jones
Saturday, June 14, 2025, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm: Self-regulation and Facilitation - NEW
Henry Most & Ling Lam
August 16 - 17, 2025, 9am - 5 pm both days: Open Facilitator T-group Weekend
Paula Jones
Weekend, Sept 12-14, 2025, 5:30 - 9 pm Friday, 9 am - 7 pm Saturday, 9 am - 4 pm Sunday: Attending to Diversity and Power Differences
Pien van den Herik, Paul Loper, Anotine Moore, Dikla Carmel Hurwitz, Hugh Keelan and Leslie Chin
Please reach out to any faculty with questions about workshops.
Annual Facilitator Party
Our annual party will be held on Saturday, June 7 from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM at Andrea Corney & Chris Carneghi’s home. This annual event gives the community a chance to catch up with each other and meet newer members in our community. Invitation to follow.
Introductory T-group Weekend Trainings
Listed below are the dates for this year’s Intro Weekends. Please share with people in your network who may be interested. An email with details about these will also be sent about 6 weeks ahead of time that you can use to forward to folks.
January 31 - February 2, 2025
April 4-6, 2025
June 13-15, 2025
Facilitator Small Group Gatherings
Chris McCanna plans to continue to hold optional lunch gatherings that provide chances for you to connect with each other and share your experiences facilitating. She has scheduled these in-person sessions on days when several of you will be on campus facilitating this year. Please join her in Arbuckle Cafe with your lunch!
Fall quarter:
Monday, 10/14 (11:15 am - 12:15 pm)
Tuesday, 10/15 (11:15 am - 12:15 pm )
Thursday, 10/24 (11:15 am - 12:15 pm)
Winter quarter:
Monday, 1/13 (11:15 am - 12:15 pm)
Thursday, 1/30 (11:15 am - 12:15 pm)
Spring quarter:
Monday, 4/14 (11:15 am - 12:15 pm)
Tuesday, 4/15 (11:15 am - 12:15 pm)
Thursday, 4/24 (11:15 am - 12:15 pm)
This website is designed as a one-stop shop for all things facilitator related. You will find information on onboarding & compensation, section staffing, program communications, bidding information, Canvas resources, and the Facilitator Training Program.
Sincere gratitude for all your support.
Warmest,
Leslie Chin
Andrea Corney
Collins P. Dobbs
Campbell Frank
Dikla Carmel Hurwitz
Paula Jones
Ling Lam
Henry Most
Yifat Sharabi-Levine
Chris McCanna
from: GSB Experiential Course Support <gsb-experiential-course-support@stanford.edu>
Hi Facilitator community,
OB 374 Reading Coach Bidding for 2024-2025 Academic Year Now Open!
We invite you to bid for reading assignments in OB 374, Interpersonal Dynamics. All three quarters are open for bidding. You will find a description of the component pieces below and you will have the choice to read for either 6 or 12 students during the quarter. (IDFTP 2024 cohort members will read for 6 students your first time.) Reading is a very important part of our Interpersonal Dynamics curriculum -- we urge you to consider bringing your skills to our faculty and our community in this way. Please submit your bid no later than noon Thursday, June 6 using this link.
Please be in touch if you have any questions.
And finally, if you wish to be removed from our distribution list, please reply with "remove" in the subject line.
Kind regards,
Chris McCanna
Serving as a Reading Coach for OB 374
Journals: Students will submit 8 journals. Reading coaches will read and grade all 8 journals but comment on just 6 journals. Comments are limited to what a reading coach can reasonably do in 30 minutes, with the expectation that this is "about a paragraph's worth of comments." Reading coaches have discretion to comment in a single paragraph or use "line comments" throughout the journals.
Focus of Commenting: Rather than commenting on the content in detail, we are asking the reading coaches to focus on helping students learn to use the journal as a reflective tool for learning from experience, as well as offering light touch support and challenge.
Assignments: Reading coaches read and grade all assignments, but do not comment. Weekly assignments will be no longer than 2 pages of written work per week (whether or not the course is a 1 or 2 day per week format). Reading coaches offer brief comments on assignments if student work is not meeting expectations.
Time Assumptions: We are assuming that the weekly time per student will average out to 45 minutes (although it can easily vary week to week). This assumes 30 minutes per journal when commenting, 15 minutes per week for each student's assignments, as well as some additional time for administrative tasks such as communicating with faculty. Total allocated time is 7 hours per student per quarter (42 hours for 6 students and 84 hours for 12 students).
Section Details: See "Reading Coach Section Details" on the Bidding Information page.
from: GSB Experiential Course Support <gsb-experiential-course-support@stanford.edu>
Dear Stanford GSB Facilitators,
We are writing to invite you to bid for OB 374 T-group facilitation for the 2024-25 academic year. This email describes our process and timeline.
Submit Your Bids through Our Online Link—Deadline: Friday, April 19 at noon
Please use THIS LINK to submit your preferences. While we welcome your questions by email, please do not send your bids by email.
Staffing Decisions
The survey asks how many quarters you would like to facilitate and your preference for quarters. Opt in to as many sections as you are willing to serve in for any given quarter. Once bidding closes on April 19, Chris McCanna and the OB 374 faculty will look at the pairing options and clinic composition to create optimally balanced and diverse teams. Final staffing decisions will be made collaboratively by faculty.
Section Information
Details about all twelve sections are attached and are included in the survey. Changes in scheduling for these sections are unlikely, but possible. If we encounter any scheduling change, then anyone who bids for these sections will be notified and given an opportunity to revise the bids.
What it Means to Commit
Please review your calendar carefully before you bid to be sure you can make the commitments required. We project having the tentative staffing assignment roster ready by late-May, at which point you will have about a week to confirm or decline the proposed schedule. An invitation to bid for reading will follow (target date: May 31), and we expect to have the finalized facilitation and reading roster complete by Tuesday, June 26, once the reading confirmations are in. When you commit (see timetable below), we expect you to take that commitment seriously. That said, we recognize that unexpected events occur in everyone’s life and that sometimes you may need to withdraw from a commitment due to unforeseeable events in your life.
Consider Going “Standby” if You Can’t Commit Now
If your schedule is too uncertain to make a commitment now, consider joining the standby list. If you are currently looking for a full-time job, please bid standby. If a spot opens up after staffing assignments have been finalized, individuals on the standby list may be given an opportunity to step in.
If You Are Returning to Facilitation After a Long Absence
The OB 374 program has evolved over the years. While we are delighted to welcome people back to the program, we have found that facilitators who return after a long absence sometimes encounter challenges in “jumping back on the train”. If it has been more than 5 years since you last facilitated at Stanford, please note this in the comment box at the end of the bidding survey. Paula Jones will contact you to talk about your T-group experience and ways to help you make a smooth transition back into the program.
Reader Bidding
Reading Coaches are one of the most critical pieces of our OB 374 program. As we have been doing in recent years, we will wait until facilitation assignments have been finalized before soliciting bids for journal reading. This bidding will be done by online survey as well.
Projected Timeline
Friday, April 19 at noon: Facilitation bidding closes (please submit earlier if you can).
April 19 – May 22: Chris McCanna makes facilitation assignments with faculty.
May 22: Once we reach closure with the faculty we will update all bidders and will request assignment confirmations.
Thursday, May 30 at noon: Deadline to accept/commit or decline facilitation assignments.
Friday, May 31: We will send out a confirmation notice once all facilitators have confirmed their assignments.
Friday, May 31: An invitation to bid for reading will be sent.
Monday, June 17 at noon: Deadline for reader bids (please submit earlier if you can).
Wednesday, June 26: We will contact you with tentative reading assignments. You will have about a week to accept/commit or decline.
Friday, July 5 at noon: Deadline to accept/commit or decline reading assignments.
July 8: Based on all the facilitation and reading assignments, my team will begin to prepare the hiring paperwork for GSB HR.
Vaccination Policy
The university no longer requires – but continues to strongly recommend – COVID vaccinations and boosters for faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars, and students.
Questions?
Please contact us if you have any questions. You may also refer to the Bidding Information tab on our revamped facilitator website for all up-to-date bidding details.
Also, please let us know if you would like to be removed from this distribution list.
Thank you,
--Chris McCanna
from: GSB Experiential Course Support <gsb-experiential-course-support@stanford.edu>
Hello everyone,
There are a number of opportunities this spring and summer to gather with fellow facilitators. We wanted to give you a heads up in hopes you can save some of these dates.
2024 Workshop Updates
Saturday, June 15, 10:00am - 2:00 pm: Critical Incidents & Trauma Informed T-Group. Registration link
Dikla Carmel & Ling Lam
August 24 - 25, 9:00am - 5:00pm each day: Open Facilitator T-group Weekend
Paula Jones, Felicia Williams, Gary Dexter, & Henry Most
Wednesday, September 11, 12:30pm - 4:30pm: Facilitating Non-Harassing Conversations
Paula Jones
Advanced Facilitator Training Program (AFTP):
We are excited to offer the Advanced Facilitation Training Program in winter 2025.
An email with more information about the process will be sent at the end of April 2024.
Below are important dates If you are considering applying.
AFTP SESSION DATES
Session 1: January 22, 2025 1:00pm - 6:30pm
Session 2: January 29, 2025 1:00pm - 6:30pm
Session 3: February 5, 2025 1:00pm - 6:30pm
Session 4: February 12, 2025 1:00pm – 6:30pm
Session 5: Retreat at Hayes; Friday February 21 (7:00pm) - Sunday Feb 23 (5:00pm), 2023
Session 6: March 5, 2025 1:00pm - 6:30pm
A link to the online application will be emailed to the community no later than August 29, 2024. Application Deadline: September 25, 2024 at 4:00pm
Feedback from Facilitator Training Needs Assessment
Thank you to the 18 facilitators who participated in our recent facilitator training needs assessment. Your feedback guides us how to more fully meet your needs.
Reading Coaches: We received feedback from you about the challenges having different reading coach expectations across sections. Because of class structure there will always be some differences. That said, the faculty will experiment with ways to achieve more consistency during our upcoming spring quarter. As an example, spring faculty will NOT post assignment grades and will report back on the response from students.
New Workshop: Based on some of your feedback, a new training workshop will be offered to you in 2025. It will focus on somatic self-regulation, both for facilitators and for helping students in this domain. Details to come.
Annual Facilitator Party
Our annual party will be held on Saturday, June 8 from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM at Andrea Corney & Chris Carneghi’s home. This is a wonderful opportunity to catch up with each other and meet newer members in our community. An invitation has been sent to you. Please let us know if you can attend! Please RSVP here.
Honoring Paul Mattish
Paul Mattish is retiring on April 19 after over 20 years of supporting the OB 374 class: 12 sections a year and over 12 instructors over the years. We’re so grateful for all his support. Please join us in celebrating Paul and congratulating him on his milestone event by adding a message to this Kudoboard.
We will deliver the Kudoboard to Paul on April 10 and request that you add your message by April 10 at noon.
Facilitator Small Group Gatherings
Chris McCanna plans to continue to hold optional gatherings that provide chances for you to connect with each other and share your experiences facilitating. She has scheduled these in-person sessions on days when several of you will be on campus facilitating this year. Please join her in Arbuckle Cafe with your lunch!
Spring quarter:
Monday, 4/29 (11:15 am - noon)
Tuesday, 4/30 (11:15 am - noon)
Thursday, 5/9 (11:15 am - noon)
Final Introductory T-group Weekend Training in 2024:
The final Introductory T-group Weekend this academic year takes place June 7-9. Please share with people in your network who may be interested. An email with details will also be sent about 6 weeks ahead of time that you can use to forward to folks.
Facilitator Website
Last Spring we launched our new facilitator website. We plan to update the content before the start of every quarter. Check it out!
Change in Bidding Schedule for 2024-2025 Academic Year
The bidding surveys for facilitation and reading will be sent earlier before your fall schedules fill up. We are targeting the end of March to begin the bidding process. Details to follow.
Look forward to seeing many of you over the coming months. Our community is precious to us and these connections help bind us together. Enjoy the attached picture from our recent IDFTP 2022 graduation!
Leslie Chin
Andrea Corney
Collins P. Dobbs
Campbell Frank
Dikla Carmel Hurwitz
Paula Jones
Ling Lam
Henry Most
Yifat Sharabi-Levine
Chris McCanna
from: GSB Experiential Course Support <gsb-experiential-course-support@stanford.edu>
Hello everyone,
It’s been awhile since we’ve sent you an update about all things facilitator and we have much to pass along. However, first, we know that many in our community are directly and/or indirectly affected, some very deeply, by the recent terror attack on Israel and the subsequent war in Gaza. Please read Dean Levine’s message here. Words feel inadequate to extend sufficient compassion, concern and care to you.
2024 Workshop Updates
Saturday, Feb 10, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm: Co-Facilitator Partnership: Challenge & Opportunity
Andrea Corney & Campbell Frank
Saturday, June 15, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm: Critical Incidents & Trauma Informed T-group
Dikla Carmel & Ling Lam
August 24 - 25: Open Facilitator T-group Weekend
Paula Jones
Wednesday, Sept 11, 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm: Facilitating Non-Harassing Conversations
Paula Jones
Annual Facilitator Party
Our annual party will be held on Saturday, June 8 from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM at Andrea Corney & Chris Carneghi’s home. This is a wonderful opportunity to catch up with each other and meet newer members in our community. Invitation to follow.
Introductory T-group Weekend Trainings in 2024:
Listed below are the dates for this year’s Intro Weekends. Please share with people in your network who may be interested. An email with details about these will also be sent about 6 weeks ahead of time that you can use to forward to folks.
February 2-4, 2024
April 12-14, 2024
June 7-9, 2024
Facilitator Small Group Gatherings
Chris McCanna plans to continue to hold optional gatherings that provide chances for you to connect with each other and share your experiences facilitating. She has scheduled these in-person sessions on days when several of you will be on campus facilitating this year. Please join her in Arbuckle Cafe with your lunch!
Winter quarter:
Monday, 1/29 (11:15 am - noon)
Thursday, 2/1 (11:15 am - noon)
Wednesday, 2/21 (11:15 am - noon)
Spring quarter:
Monday, 4/29 (12:30 pm - 1:30 pm)
Tuesday, 4/30(11:15 am - noon)
Thursday, 5/9 (11:15 am - noon)
Facilitator Website
Last Spring we launched our new facilitator website! We plan to update the content before the start of every quarter. Check it out!
https://sites.google.com/a/stanford.edu/interpersonal-dynamics-facilitator-program/home
Heartfelt thanks for the support you offer to students, each other and to us.
Leslie Chin
Andrea Corney
Collins P. Dobbs
Campbell Frank
Dikla Carmel Hurwitz
Paula Jones
Ling Lam
Henry Most
Yifat Sharabi-Levine
Chris McCanna
from: GSB Experiential Course Support <gsb-experiential-course-support@stanford.edu>
Hi all,
Hope Spring and the burst of green from our abundance of rain this year is lifting your hearts. Speaking of seasons, this Spring quarter marks Richard Francisco’s last season teaching OB 374. He has been facilitating and/or teaching the course for 25 years, and recently for three quarters each year! We are wishing him peace and time for himself - certainly well earned after teaching at both San Jose State and Stanford over the years - and grateful for his supportive, empathetic and calm presence.
New OB 374 Faculty
With Richard’s retirement, we are welcoming two members of the facilitator community to each teach a section next year: Henry Most and Campbell Frank. For those of you who do not know them, here’s a bit about their work both with OB 374 and elsewhere:
Campbell took OB374 as an MBA student in 1993. He has facilitated the class since 2008. His varied experience includes line manager, helicopter logistics pilot, flight instructor, international securities trader, chief operating officer, and a year practicing meditation and yoga. He has been the co-instructor of an interpersonal skills course for Stanford's Continuing Studies (public adult education) program since 2012. Campbell received an MBA, an MA in economics, and a Certificate in Public Management from Stanford.
Henry has been facilitating for the Interpersonal Dynamics class at the GSB since 2012, after first participating in a T-group at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where he received his Masters degree in Integral Counseling Psychology (Marriage & Family Therapy). For the past 5 years he has been an Adjunct Lecturer in Management at the GSB, working as a Leadership Coach with the Arbuckle Fellows Program and as an Instructor for the Leadership Labs class. He also coaches in various Executive Development programs, has facilitated many GSB Intro groups, has taught Group Dynamics at CIIS, and maintains a private coaching and facilitation practice.
Community Events
Upcoming Workshops
April 28 - 30th: Foundations of Diversity Dynamics. Click here to sign up.
Friday, 5:30 - 9:00pm
Saturday, 9:00 am - 9:00pm
Sunday, 9:00 am - 5:00pm
June 23 - 25th: Introductory T-Group Weekend
Note: Please share this date with people in your network who may be interested.
September 8 - 10th: Facilitating Diversity Dynamics
Note: Foundations of Diversity Dynamics is a prerequisite for this workshop.
Friday, 5:30 - 9:00pm
Saturday, 9:00 am - 7:00pm
Sunday, 9:00 am - 4:00pm
Spring Quarter Facilitator Small Group Gatherings
Chris McCanna plans to continue to hold optional gatherings that provide chances for you to connect with each other around your experiences facilitating. She has scheduled these in-person sessions on days when several of you will be on campus facilitating this quarter. Please join her in Arbuckle Cafe with your lunch!
Monday, April 24 (11:15 am - noon)
Tuesday, April 25 (11:15 am - noon)
Thursday, May 4 (11:15 am - noon)
Annual Facilitator Party
Please join us at the beautiful home of Andrea Corney & Chris Carneghi in Los Altos Hills on Saturday, June 10 from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM for a casual gathering. This is a wonderful opportunity to catch up with each other and meet newer members in our community. Please RSVP here.
Community Announcements
Interpersonal Dynamics Facilitator Training Program (IDFTP)
Applications for IDFTP 2024 will open June 1, 2023 and close August 18, 2023. Please share these dates with people in your network who may be interested. For more information, see the IDFTP website.
Facilitation and Reading Bidding for the 2023-24 Academic Year
The process will begin at the end of May. Please be on the lookout for an invitation to bid, and make note of the important dates below:
The invitation for facilitator bidding will open at the end of May. The deadline for facilitator bids is June 21.
After we finalize the facilitation assignments we will send an invitation to bid for journal reading on July 25. The deadline for reader bids is August 3.
Warm Regards,
Leslie Chin
Andrea Corney
Collins P. Dobbs
Richard Francisco
Dikla Carmel-Hurwitz
Paula Jones
Ling Lam
Yifat Sharabi-Levine
Chris McCanna
