Phumudzo Luvhengo's Page

Hi Phumudzo
I'm sorry I've missed your comment earlier - still finding my way around the site.

SDF training courses are offered by many providers. Open Learning Group run them from time to time. If you check out our website all the course details are shown in the Skills Academy section of our website and will give you the dates and times of our next course.

To become a facilitator you really need to decide on the area of specialisation of field in which you want to facilitate. As a rule, you can facilitate on any area in which you yourself have studied and will be able to facilitate a one level below your level of qualification. So if you've let's say done an honours degree you can facilitate to a level of 3rd year. Hope that makes sense.

I've noted that people would generally first become facilitators and then further your skills by gaining skills courses such as the SDF course which will allow you to then engage with companies and advise them on training requirements. Unfortuntely the way the industry is set up, many SDF's will land up advising corporate clients to invest in training for which they provide the training and hence objectivity is lost and Workplace Skills Plans are very biased to what the SDF offers or to which training providers they are associated with - or in some cases they earn commission from training providers.

Faciliation requires a unique set of skills - you need to be able to transfer knowledge and I believe the key is to really enjoy seeing people grow. From that you get a personal satisfaction out of facilitation that moeny just can't buy. You gotta love it!!!

Best of luck with choosing your direction.