Essential Skills for Facilitating Group Care
Wiseman, O. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4890-9435, Lazar, J., Abanga, J. & Rickell, M. (2024).
Essential Skills for Facilitating Group Care.
The Practising Midwife, 27(4),
pp. 36-39.
doi: 10.55975/khjc8022
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.
| Publication Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. |
| Publisher Keywords: | Obstetrics & Reproductive Medicine |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RG Gynecology and obstetrics |
| Departments: | School of Health & Psychological Sciences School of Health & Psychological Sciences > Midwifery & Radiography |
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