Hello

My name is Nick Eve. I specialise in developing people's facilitation skills. My work is all about developing people's ability to run groups professionally and effectively. I have been doing this since 1994. Before that I worked as a facilitator in Organisational Development. My fascination with groups and the role of the facilitator in enhancing their effectiveness has grown out of my own experiences, both with organisations and also from my group psychotherapy background.

I focus primarily on the practice and skills of working with groups and underpin this with enough relevant theory so that you understand why you do what you do and where the theory comes from. This means that on my courses you will get a lot of practice complemented by input and applied theory. Overall my aim is to increase your awareness of what you are doing, the effect it is having, what is going on in the group and how all these focuses interact with each other.

ELEMENTS - the company

Elements was formed in 1991. Over the years Elements has been a partnership of various people including Rowena Chapman, Clive Oxford, Sheila Ashley and Susanna Piohtee. Rowena is at Birkbeck College, Susanna is now working back within an organisation and Clive and Sheila are concentrating on their clinical work. At the moment I am running Elements on my own. We started out running a number of programmes in; leadership, management and team development along with other specialised related programmes. In 1994 Elements began to focus solely on running facilitation training.

I have been involved in management development, consultancy and mentoring for over 25 years and underpinning this I also have a strong background in group psychology. I started working with the Leadership Trust and then became a freelance facilitator. At this time I undertook a group psychotherapy training and a training in groupwork. I was working both with organisations and clinically at this time.

My main expertise is in the provision of training to develop people’s facilitation skills and their facilitative management styles. My overriding interest is in groups, how they operate and the role that an impartial facilitator can have in improving their effectiveness in both the long and short term.

I have extensive training and experience as a group process facilitator. This ensures that my work is well founded theoretically and my ability to explain the core processes to clients from a wide range of backgrounds is superb.

The Facilitator’s Development Programme has grown out of all this experience and learning. It has been running highly successfully since 1994, in a continuously evolving form, in both the UK and Europe (Moscow, Munich and Copenhagen).