Working with the empty chairs in supervision, training and coaching processes: 
Revealing chairs, empathy circle technique, and other action methods to facilitate many kinds of groups as working teams and  communities.
November 20th 2024

These action methods allow people to find themselves answers to their own questions, to deal with differences and conflictual context, to be surprised by new ways of seeing the same situation, and to broaden the field of possibilities.

Objective

• To experiment how action methods can open groups and individuals to new ways of thinking in supervision, training and coaching.
• To discover or practice the use of empathy circle and the relevant chairs

Method
In a security frame, the methodology includes 4 steps :

1. Experimentation
2. Sharing
3. Explanations, transmission of concept and techniques
4. Transfer to professional practice  

Chantal Nève-Hanquet and Agathe Crespel are autors of “Facilitating Collective Intelligence, a Handbook for Trainers, Coaches, Consultants and Leaders” (Routledge 2019). The authors, both members of the Centre for psychosociological training and intervention (CFIP), Belgium, have, through numerous congresses and workshops, extended their practice to Italy, France, Bulgaria, Greece, Switzerland, Sweden and California. Forword by Daniela Simmons.
"If you want to obtain unprecedented results, try using unprecedented methods". Peter Senge
 
Support and material for the course : “The trainers are the authors of the book Facilitating Collective Intelligence (Routledge 2019 for the English version or Eyrolles 2018 for the French version) which is the theoretical and methodological support for the training. We suggest students to get it in advance so they can immediately articulate each session with the part of the book mentioned by the trainers.”

Appropriate for:
Coaches, coach supervisors and consultants, counselors, consultant, coaching psychologists and other professionals who work with groups, as well as students and academics of coaching and coaching psychology. Psychodramatist wanting to use action methods in supervision context.

Arc Facilitation
Center for Training and Psychosociology, in Belgium CFIP
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Agathe Linkedin