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Facilitating Empowerment: A Handbook for Facilitators, Trainers and Individuals Christine Hogan Kogan Page L18.99
Keywords Empowerment, Training, Power
In her introduction to the book, Hogan poses the question "Is it possible to empower someone else?" She surmises that: "Basically empowerment is the responsibility of each of us as individuals, however, the extent of our empowerment can be facilitated by `empowering people' and `empowering structures'." As such, as the title of the book suggests, the target audience for the text ranges from individuals to trainers and facilitators.
The book is divided into six chapters namely:
(1) The changing concepts of power and empowerment.
(2) The empowerment cycle.
(3) Explanations of each power base.
(4) Case studies.
(5) Other activities using power.
(6) Reflections on empowerment workshop processes.
Chapter 1 places empowerment in the context of a changing world and includes exploration of the notions of power, depowerment and empowerment at...