Liz Scarfe

Training

Liz has been delivering workshops and seminars on a range of topics since the late 1990s, beginning with training in nonviolent communication and nonviolent community safety with Pt’chang Nonviolent Community Safety Group and then in nonviolent third party intervention, facilitation and consensus decision making with Peace Brigades International (Indonesia Project).

This was followed by a range of different training programs in both the business, charity, and local government sectors, plus dozens of personal development public workshops and talks.

Liz now focuses primarily on teaching Process-Oriented Psychology in the MPWC Processwork Intensive and as a faculty member of Australia New Zealand Process-Oriented Psychology and the Processwork Institute India.

She also runs training in areas of special interest from time to time, including Trauma-Informed Facilitation.

Liz has a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment.

Facilitation and Facilitation Supervision

Liz has been facilitating groups since the late 1990s, in a wide range of contexts; including women’s university groups, large (100+ people) social action groups, human rights defenders in undeclared civil wars, communities engagement processes, volunteer training and recruitment groups, workplace team conflicts, strategic planning processes, etc.

Liz was also a facilitating staff member at the Greece Worldwork Forum in 2017 and the Warsaw Worldwork Forum in 2014.

Liz also pioneers the Process-Oriented Facilitation Supervision Model, whereby the application of reflective practice, ethical oversight, and professional development from the clinical supervision context of therapy, is translated to the facilitation profession, supporting facilitators to not only develop their competence and confidence but to ensure their work is framed with an ethical duty of care to their clients and participants. She helps facilitators:

• prepare for complex facilitation engagements (including teamwork for facilitation teams)
• develop a deeper understanding of the process of your clients/groups
• learn new interventions through modelling and practising together
• debrief work to understand where things went wrong and went right and what can be learnt from both
• notice when you’ve strayed from your own deeper sense of purpose and meaning in your work
• develop effective business/practice frameworks and boundaries
• incorporate trauma-informed principles into facilitation practice
• predict and prevent (ideally) ethical issues or work through and learn from those already happening.