4.3
(77 ratings)
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Advance your leadership skills and guide your group with ease and confidence – no matter what happens.
4.3
(77 ratings)
4 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Advance your leadership skills and guide your group with ease and confidence – no matter what happens.
Course overview
Effective facilitation is no longer a specialized skill for subject matter experts. It is a high-demand leadership skill that is now expected from anyone who leads groups or teams. Regardless of your role, whether you’re a manager, organizational leader, coach, consultant, or educator – you can greatly benefit from professional development in facilitation.
Most of us are facilitating alone in an echo chamber, without anyone to help us grow. The fastest way to develop yourself as a facilitator is to gain the right tools, practice in real-time, and get feedback from peers you can trust.
By the end of this course, you'll understand your personal facilitation strengths, and have the mindsets and tools to own your presence and feel confident you can handle anything that comes up in the room with clarity and grace.
This course is ideal for facilitators with 1-10 years of experience, who self-assess between advanced-beginner to advanced-intermediate levels of practice. You already have some felt experience in front of the room—now is the time to practice your skills in a safe environment to learn, experiment, grow, and become a next-level facilitator.
WHAT'S INCLUDED:
• 8 hours of live training + 15 minutes of bonus Q+A with our expert facilitators at the end of each session.
• Opportunities to facilitate in small groups with feedback from your peers.
• Pre-recorded videos that introduce the main frameworks of the Scaling Intimacy approach to human-centered facilitation.
• Handouts and worksheets for personalized reflection and integration.
• Slide deck PDFs to review and reinforce the course content.
• Connection with a leading facilitator community to build your network.
• Certificate of Completion signifying 8 hours of facilitation training (given to those who complete all parts of the program live).
• Curated Spotify Playlist that can be used as your own event soundtrack.
01
Internal Program Leaders looking to up-level the delivery of your company meetings, trainings and off-sites.
02
Coaches + Consultants
looking to add more confidence and range to the way you lead sessions for your clients.
03
Entrepreneurs + Founders looking to engage your audience with proven facilitation principles and practices.
04
Educators looking for new tools to engage your students and staff each and every session.
Learn the 5 Steps to Great Facilitation
You will step into your growth edges and expand your range so you will be able to meet the needs of the room and respond effortlessly in the moment.
Live practice and feedback
Each session includes core facilitation principles and techniques with immediate application, including tips for leading in virtual and hybrid environments. You will have opportunities to facilitate in small groups, with an inspiring community of colleagues to provide feedback.
Confidence to show up powerfully and authentically
Whether you lead meetings, workshops, or off-sites, you will walk away from this training with the confidence to effectively guide any group to their goal.
Tools to troubleshoot challenges that arise in real time
Gain practical tools to address real challenges, like dealing with the person who won’t stop talking, or lots of awkward silence, or a session that goes completely off the rails.
Facilitation Finesse
01
Leadership Style and Presence
Embracing facilitation as a path of personal transformation, assessing personal strengths and areas of growth, owning your presence in front of the room.
02
Creating Connection
The 5 Keys to Connection, how to cultivate an atmosphere of inclusion and belonging, leading relevant icebreakers that deepen trust and rapport.
03
Giving Clear Instructions
The 6 parameters for instructions that instill confidence, and set your participants up for a successful experience, no matter the exercise or activity.
04
Adopting a Coaching Mindset
The power of asking the right questions, how to harvest wisdom in the room, leading debriefs for lasting change.
05
Grouping + Theming
How to tie a conversation back to your main themes and acknowledge individual shares, helping participants feel seen, heard and valued.
06
Troubleshooting in Real Time
Techniques for awkward silence, how to address the person who overshares, and working productively with resistance and detractors.
07
Active Engagement
Shifting your participants from being passive observers to active participants, how to design an inclusive environment for both introverts and extroverts, tips for virtual + hybrid.
Experience Facilitation Finesse and you'll walk away with the skills to creatively and strategically guide any room.
4.3
(77 ratings)
Lisa Rogoff
Shawnette Rochelle
Sasha Esmailian
Amanda Suppanich
Senior Facilitator
Julia Winston is a master facilitator, experience designer and executive coach serving leaders, teams and families to cultivate purpose, clarity and connection in the workplace and beyond. With 20 years of experience as a facilitator and 10 years as a business leader, Julia not only serves organizations as a consultant and advisor; she also trains and teaches facilitation and experience design to industry leaders around the world. Julia works with groups ranging from bootstrapped startups and mid-sized software businesses, to nonprofits and universities, to private equity and wealth management firms. She loves creating fun, warm, inclusive environments where people engage across levels of tenure and seniority to get to the heart of human connection and shared purpose. When she’s not working and podcasting, you can find Julia hosting dinner parties and family gatherings because, well, it’s an addiction: she just can’t stop facilitating.
Co-Facilitator
Romy Alexandra is a learning experience designer and experiential learning trainer on a mission to humanize learning spaces. She is passionate about designing and delivering trainings that intentionally integrate experiential learning, psychological safety, emotional intelligence, the neuroscience of learning, and behavior change. Romy brings over a decade of international facilitation experience in more than 35 countries across 4 continents. She consults with organizations and entrepreneurs across the globe to transform content into connecting, engaging, and impactful learning experiences, whether they be online, in-person, or hybrid. Romy has worked with clients such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), The Red Cross, ASICS, Chevron, and many more. She holds multiple certifications in Experiential Learning, Critical Pedagogy, and Psychological Safety and certifies others in these topics too. Romy’s an avid world traveler, foodie, street art hunter, bookworm, and yoga enthusiast.
3 hours per week
Tuesday, September 12
9:00am - 11:15am US Pacific Time
SESSION #1 - INSPIRE YOUR AUDIENCE
Tuesday, September 19
9:00am - 11:15am US Pacific Time
SESSION #2 - ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR AUDIENCE
Tuesday, September 26
9:00am - 11:15am US Pacific Time
SESSION #3 - CONNECT YOUR AUDIENCE
Tuesday, October 3
9:00am - 11:15am US Pacific Time
SESSION #4 - ENGAGE YOUR AUDIENCE
Weekly Homework
20-40 minutes each week
Learn-by-doing
Put our core facilitation principles and techniques into action immediately.
Facilitate in small groups
The fastest way to develop yourself as a facilitator is to practice as much as you can, and get feedback from peers you trust.
Learn with a cohort of peers
Most of us are facilitating alone in an echo chamber, join a community of like-minded peers to support your growth as a facilitator.
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