Training on Facilitate Debates

Due the shortage of people who are specialized in organizing a public debate, Basement have conducted a suggestion of doing a training of facilitators for public debates which give respect for the followed instruction in order to represent the debate well.

Basemant Cultural Foundation organized a training course in the field of facilitation of debates held on Monday and Tuesday 16-17 July 2018, provided by trainer Jihad Babrik. And was attended by ten trainees (Gender-Balanced) selected through forms of participation announced by Basement earlier through its website and social networking pages. On the first day of the course, trainees were introduced to the meaning and benefits of debates, their types and models, the theoretical bases for facilitating and managing debates, the environments in which they are held, the basis of the debate, its mechanism, its components, its laws and how to calculate the outcome of debates.Basement has presented five previous debates on various topics in the fields of culture, art and social issues. The course provided the trainees with the basics they should know about conducting debates, and dealt with the skills and conditions that should be available in the facilitator, and the powers s/he has. On the second day of the training, a video of the participants was presented with the skills of the interview, and the trainees were given practical training to facilitate the debates, where the participants conducted a virtual debate in which they applied what they had learned.

Two of them were selected to facilitate two Spaces debates, which are the third and the last topics.

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