In-depth facilitation training to help you strengthen your practice and grow in confidence over three days.
What does it include?
This comprehensive three-day training covers a range of core skills designed to help you strengthen your core facilitation skills, plus additional support and resources. It is a highly experiential course, and you will get to experience a range of practical facilitation activities and methods to add to your toolkit. You'll also have lots of time to practice and learn from a supportive group of peers on the course, who join from a range of different sectors.
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Skill 1: Active listening and open questions. We’ll explore how facilitators can use open questions to engage groups. Open questions are a core foundation of coaching and help create fresh thinking and more expansive conversations.
Skill 2: Designing for maximum participation. We’ll consider how to design events, workshops and meetings to enable everyone to participate actively, in ways that work for them. We’ll alsocover what to do when challenges come up that can get in the way of this, such as dominant voices, difficult room layout and tech failures.
Skill 3: Reflecting and summarising. We’ll look at how facilitators can act as a mirror, and how the core skills of reflecting back what is happening, and effectively summarising content, can help maintain the focus of the group.
Skill 4: Opening ‘up’ and generating ideas. We’ll explore the different ways you can work with groups to generate options and ideas - one of the most common activities groups want to work on.
Skill 5: Facilitating inclusive and accessible spaces. We’ll cover the different ways facilitators can make group activities inclusive and accessible.
Skill 6: Facilitating learning and reflection. We’ll explore how you can facilitate learning and reflection with a group using a range of different methods.
Skill 7: Facilitating groups towards a decision. We’ll look at how facilitators can support groups to move towards a decision, gain consensus, identify specific areas of difference, and generate actions to take forward.
Skill 8: Making things visible. We’ll explore how facilitators can visualise content when working with a group, helping participants to make sense of their conversations, ideas and data in a way which moves their thinking forward.
Skill 9: Navigating difficult dynamics. This section explores what you as a facilitator might find difficult, or challenging, and how to respond to these dynamics.
Skill 10: Facilitating emergence. This section looks at what happens when plans go wrong, or aren’t right for the group. It will explore skills and ideas you can draw on when you know you need to re-design your plans mid-way through working with a group.
60-minute coaching call
Book a 1:1 video call with Julia to think about how you want to prepare for the course, apply your learning afterwards, or talk through the areas of facilitation you find hardest.
Live facilitation challenge
Bring a facilitation challenge or opportunity to the training that you can work on while we go through the content, so you have something practical to test your new skills on.
Exclusive facilitation toolkit
Access to set of essential resources, including:
All the slides from the course
12 method deck cards
6 foolproof check-ins and check-outs
10 useful resources to build your practice
15 links to other toolkits, resources and templates
Additional follow-up session
The intensive course finishes with a 90-minute follow-up session focusing on virtual facilitation skills. It is also a chance to reconnect with the group and review how you have been applying the skills in practice
This will take place on September 7th, 10.00-11.30 pm on Zoom
How much does it cost?
Individuals who are self-funding: £899 +VAT
Voluntary sector organisations or those under £500,000 turnover: £1,250 +VAT
All other organisations: £1,499 +VAT
We also offer three bursaries per course, which cover 50% of the fees.
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