How to use this section:
 

This section lists the general competencies and specific skills which should be mastered by facilitators. The competencies are divided by subject area, and are further subdivided into beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels.

This section is designed primarily for use by:

• facilitated communication trainers and supervisors, as a tool for developing specific training goals and monitoring their trainees' progress
• facilitators, as a way of tracking their own progress.

The competencies are organized into levels for the convenience of trainers, and as a way of providing markers of progress to facilitators.  In reality, all facilitators are engaged in a continuous process of skill development and  refinement, with an ongoing reassessment of what is known and what is yet to be learned. 

These competencies can be used to chart a facilitator's progress, to organize ongoing curriculum, and to structure experiences for facilitators.  They should  not be used as a means of evaluating a particular facilitator's job performance. (A facilitator's progress on these competencies reflects as much on the actions of the trainer and other circumstances as they do on the efforts of the facilitator.)  The information in this section is also provided in checklist form in Appendix II (Supervision Checklist).  That checklist can be kept as a running record of a particular trainee's mastery of these competencies.
 

Click here for a chart of the Facilitator Competencies