{"title":"Essential Skills for Facilitating Group Care","authors":"Octavia Wiseman, Jalana Lazar, Jedidia Abanga, Margie Rickell","doi":"10.55975/khjc8022","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Facilitating group care successfully necessitates learning a range of essential skills including managing group dynamics, active listening, facilitating participant-led discussions and interactive activities. Developing these skills requires training, practice, confidence and a good dose of humility. Unlearning the role of midwife as expert is necessary to flatten hierarchy and draw out the expertise of the women/birthing people in order to enhance participants’ learning. This can feel challenging and anti-intuitive for midwives trained and practising in didactic systems. In this article we explore how developing the inter-personal skills required for group care facilitation can enhance the role of the midwife.","PeriodicalId":517977,"journal":{"name":"The Practising Midwife","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Practising Midwife","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.55975/khjc8022","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Facilitating group care successfully necessitates learning a range of essential skills including managing group dynamics, active listening, facilitating participant-led discussions and interactive activities. Developing these skills requires training, practice, confidence and a good dose of humility. Unlearning the role of midwife as expert is necessary to flatten hierarchy and draw out the expertise of the women/birthing people in order to enhance participants’ learning. This can feel challenging and anti-intuitive for midwives trained and practising in didactic systems. In this article we explore how developing the inter-personal skills required for group care facilitation can enhance the role of the midwife.