A strong facilitator is:
- Able to listen to others and speak well
- Open to many points of view
- Able to create inviting learning environments
- Able to deal with difficult situations
- Self-motivated and eager to learn by exposing themselves as learners
- Respectful of others’ knowledge and experience
- Able to help develop workers’ capacity to challenge inequitable power relations in their workplaces and communities
- Able to shine an equity lens on all activities, member integrating an analysis of class, race and gender
- Committed to trade union values like democracy, equality, and social justice
A CUPE member facilitator:
- Represents CUPE to our members
- Plays a vital role in building a stronger union
- Is held to a higher standard of behaviour inside and outside the workshop
- Practices and encourages union activism
- Always treats others as family
- Takes action against discrimination or harassment