Barbara MacKayAdjunct Professor Contact Courses Barbara MacKay, has been facilitating since 1981 and began her own facilitation company in 1995. She now teaches and practices facilitation all over North America and is beginning to teach in other continents. Her focus is on helping use these skills for social justice areas and often is called to work on global issues such working with indigenous peoples and environmental organizations on climate change in The Amazon Basin, and helping not for profit leaders unite from around the world to improve access to quality education, health and financial stability. Barbara is an internationally certified professional facilitator with two organizations, and has mastered many different models and tools of facilitation. She helped develop the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) certification program for facilitators and was in charge of running that program for four years. Barbara has also taught facilitation skills at Portland State University, speaks every year at international conferences for facilitators, and regularly offers public courses in facilitation skills. She has a Masters degree in resource management from New Zealand and a bachelors degree in soil conservation from McGill in Montreal, Quebec. |
“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationship — the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together in the same world, at peace.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Master's Degree Program In Conflict and Dispute Resolution