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FunFun Facilitation team
After many years of working in separate professions,
Carrol Otto and Jonathan Otto teamed up to design and present this course.
Carrol's background
- counseling psychologist for many years: private practice, supervision
for workplace groups and school-related services
- fell in love with Africa on her first visit in the early 1980s
- lived in Tanzania and returns to Africa often for consulting and
training
- holds graduate certification in Psycho-Social Foundations of Peacebuilding
from the School for International Training (SIT), in collaboration with
the Center for Social Policy and Institutional Development
Jonathan's background
- Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa in the late 1960s
- resident worker or traveling consultant in the developing world ever
since
- particular interests in environment, renewable energy, strengthening
local and national institutions, and resource mobilization
- earned an MEd in non-formal education from the Center of International
Education at University of Massachusetts in the 1980s
- gradually focused more on workshop design and facilitation
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Clockwise from the lower right, Carrol Otto,
cartoonist Marco Tibasima, Jonathan Otto, FunFun's resident expert
Dr. I.M.A. Nerd, and on the table, Senti Tano, our pint-sized time
police and general keeper of the peace.
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Together Carrol and Jonathan
- designed FunFun and first presented it in 1998 in Zimbabwe
- co-facilitated this program more than 20 times for 300 participants
- aspire to practice the following values as we facilitate learning
Collaboration and Cooperation
- the pamoja name is serious
- more can be done and done better when individuals and organizations
share skills and knowledge, and work together
- collaborative effort it is a lot more fun than working competitively
in isolation.
Quality Human Relationships
- it not only matters what you learn but how you learn
it
- we strive to build lasting relationships with participants based
on mutual respect and exchange of ideas.
Holistic Personal Skills
- FunFun is more than project design and writing grant applications
- people need to take care of themselves and their co-workers in the
process
- improvement of personal skills and attitudes for successful grantseeking
- develop traits that make for success in other areas of life, with
friends and family
We take our work quite seriously, but we try
not to take ourselves too seriously. |
Humor
- the nickname FunFun is no joke! (well, actually, it is)
- in FunFun people laugh and enjoy each other, as they grapple with
complicated concepts
- humor that is culturally sensitive and not at anyone's expense, helps
learners relax and be open to new information
- relaxed learners take more risks, tolerate their own mistakes better,
and try out new ideas in a comfortable environment
- fundraising can be an exacting, anxiety-evoking endeavor; a look
on the lighter side seems to keep it all in better balance
Gender Equity, Gender Mainstreaming, Gender Balance
- inclusion of women and benefiting women in FunFun and fundraising
activities is a core value
- when women and men work together, the feminine and the masculine
constitute a unique synergy to increase the full range of human potential
for everyone involved
- why not have it all?
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Co-facilitation: it takes a lot of trust and
mutual respect to avoid ending up like this! |
Our criteria for excellence in training
- Facilitators/participants partnership, so both sides learn and all
appreciate the synergy
- build honest, real relationships
- provide new information, ideas and concrete skills that are transferred
in an engaging way
- facilitated, not taught, in a learner-centered environment
- conducted at a pace tailored to each group
- varied activities for different learning styles
- realistic exercises designed to reinforce learning
- engaging visuals and useful handouts
- facilitators ensure that participants' expectations are realistic,
and are met
- participants selected for the right reasons: because they will lead
in future fundraising
- knowledge and skills have direct application to work and personal
life
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