Facilitating Empowerment

"Facilitating Empowerment" aims to detail the processes that individuals and groups can use in order to behave and act in a more empowered way. According to the author, this book demystifies power and challenges the ways in which it has been described in the past.

Some of the tools described in this book include:

• card sorts;
• stories and myths;
• exercises to practise new skills;
• film analysis; and
• personal experiences from the author.

The book also includes case studies from a variety of settings (business, education, healthcare and social work) and a sample empowerment-workshop framework complete with instructions for workshop participants.

According to the author, the processes have been used in Europe, the USA, Canada and Australasia. They have also been applied within a number of different cultures including Aboriginal groups in Australia, Moslem women in Malaysia, cross-cultural groups in South Africa, Danish and Nepalese development workers in Kathmandu, and lecturers in Mongolia.