Masterful Facilitation is a learning institute to build your confidence and skill in designing and facilitating highly successful meetings. Enhance your facilitation competencies and mastery to enable groups of any size in any setting to tap their creativity and wisdom, and produce extraordinary results.
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The Confident Facilitator: Essential Skills for Guiding Groups
As much as 50% of time spent in meetings is often unproductive, lacking focused outcomes or respectful interactions. Whether you or your staff facilitate meetings at work, in the community, or in multi-stakeholder settings, solid facilitation skills are the antidote to wasted meetings!What are the secrets to facilitating great meetings?
Great Outcomes + Great Process + Great Interactions.
Benefits: The Confident Facilitator is a three-day experiential program that will give you a practical foundation in facilitation theory and practice to achieve enhanced performance and more positive and productive group results from knowing how to facilitate:
- Great Outcomes: Scope the meeting purpose and needs; custom-develop good process agendas for specific group situations; anticipate issues and hiccups; and confidently adopt the right facilitation tools and techniques for different desired outcomes from building common ground, to generating solutions with broad buy-in.
- Great Process: Design and deliver great meeting openings; employ key Techniques to keep groups focused; encourage full participation; ask powerful questions; manage time; maintain energy and set a good pace for the work.
- Great Interactions: Apply the principles of adult learning; work with group diversity; develop pro-active meeting designs to minimize and prevent individual and group dynamics; make timely and appropriate interventions when faced with unproductive conflict; and facilitate focused, harmonious, creative, and respectful group meetings.
Who Should Attend: If you lead meetings in any setting, whether at work or in your community, solid facilitation skills are critical for obtaining successful outcomes. This program will be of interest to internal/external consultants, change agents, trainers, team/project leaders, managers and executives.
Registration Information: When: Oct. 28-30, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. Where: Vancouver, BC at the Blue Horizon Hotel. Download Registration Form.
Cost: $1,345 - social profit; $1,895 - general, plus GST. Costs include program handbook, all program materials, plus refreshment breaks. (Note: Read Registration information for significant Early Bird Savings; + team savings; ++ IAF, IAP2, and NCDD members savings)
Program Facilitators: Myriam Laberge: 604-943-9133 - info@breakthroughsunlimited.com and Brenda Chaddock: 604-929-4290 - brenda@followtheleader.ca.
Accommodation Choices: See local choices
The Engaging Facilitator: Conversation Methods for Collaboration & Wise Action Around Complex Issues
When mutual understanding, partnership and/or collaborative action are the desired outcomes of a meeting involving multiple views, knowing how to design and facilitate an appropriate flow of meaningful conversations is essential.The Engaging Facilitator is a learning intensive on how to facilitate conversational methods in communities and organizations for more cooperative and sustainable results. The program begins with the philosophy and values underlying a more co-creative engagement approach in multi-stakeholder situations, and then focuses on the “how-to’s” of various methods, including when and how to apply the approaches for better outcomes. Theory and practice are combined around proven participatory methods (e.g., World Café, Open Space, Dialogue, Deliberative Dialogue, Appreciative Inquiry) for breakthrough thinking, decision-making and collaborative action. (Download full pdf brochure.)
Benefits: You will take away powerful frameworks, design concepts, facilitation methods and process tools to help diverse participants make informed and wise contributions. This program goes beyond the essential skills for guiding groups (from The Confident Facilitator above), and adds further value in its focus on the keys to successful engagement when working across boundaries and diverse partial views: Right Convening + Engaging Design + Skillful Facilitation = Great Meeting Outcomes!
- Right Convening: Scope and design for the full engagement cycle from the decision to convene through key design and facilitation questions when the goal is to achieve collective learning and build common ground.
- Engaging Design: Appropriately blend different conversational methods to achieve mutual understanding; reframe conflict; generate and evaluate possible solutions that bridge diverse system needs.
- Skillful Facilitation: Anticipate the ways that partial views play out in diverse groups; encourage productive conversations; foster a systems view; and facilitate the whole system for collaboration and wise action.
Download detailed PDF. (Read testimonials of past participants at right and scroll further below.)
Who Should Attend: If the meetings and sessions you lead involve cross-functional teams, multi-stakeholder groups, and various partners and organizations - this program is for you. Those who should attend include public involvement practitioners, change agents, team/project/program leaders, managers and executives.
Registration Information: When: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2009. Where: Vancouver, BC at the Blue Horizon Hotel.
Full Cost: $1,345 - social profit; $1,895 - general, plus GST. Costs include program handbook, all program materials, plus refreshment breaks. (Note: Read Registration information for significant Early Bird Savings; + team savings; ++ IAF, IAP2, and NCDD members savings)
Register: Download, complete, and email the Registration Form to info@breakthroughsunlimited.com.
Accommodation: See nearby hotels.
The Inspired Facilitator: Achieving Mastery in Engaging Organizations and Communities
Masterful facilitation is a ongoing dance of skill, presence, and inspiration. Outwardly your role is to help participants through the agenda in accordance with the purpose, principles and other articulated norms for working together. Inwardly, you are attending to what is actually emerging, willing to stand ‘in creative tension’ and change the design in a moment, to best serve the group.The Inspired Facilitator is a deep dive into the principles, theories, practices, and processes for understanding, designing, and facilitating complex group dynamics and multi-stakeholder situations. Download detailed pdf.
Benefits: With learned and experienced colleagues, you will co-create a learning agenda to explore and share the heights and depths of facilitation engagements. Using different theoretical frameworks as useful constructs, together you will dialogue, analyze, experiment and practice how to transform (and as needed, rescue) design and facilitation situations, nurture the emergence of group creativity and wisdom, while yourself remaining centered, authentic and present.
Who Should Attend: This program is for advanced practitioners and leaders (internal/external consultants, change agents, trainers, team/project leaders, managers and executives) who are looking to hone their skills in addressing complex facilitation projects and challenging conversations. Prior facilitation experience is required and/or completion of The Confident Facilitator program. (Read testimonials on the right.)
Registration Information: 3 day program, Vancouver, BC, Canada (2010, dates TBA. Pro-actively let us know if you are interested in this program. We are collecting names of advanced practitioners and will convene a session when enough folks have gathered).
Cost: $1,345 - social profit; $1,895 - general, plus GST. Costs include program handbook, all program materials, plus refreshment breaks.
Program Facilitators: Myriam Laberge: 604-943-9133 - myriam@myriamlaberge.ca and Brenda Chaddock: 604-929-4290 - brenda@followtheleader.ca.
Register: TBA
Accommodation Choices: See possible hotel options in downtown Vancouver.
The Visual Facilitator: Bringing Meeting Results to Life
THE VISUAL FACILITATOR is a fun, easy, hands-on introductory program on basic graphic recording. In this highly interactive one-day course led by graphic facilitator Avril Orloff, you will learn the basics of graphic recording and have the opportunity to put your knowledge into practice. (Download PDF brochure.)Benefits: You will walk away with an understanding of the core principles of visual thinking and acquire basic techniques for drawing simple shapes, icons and people. You will know how to translate abstract concepts into concrete images and will begin to develop your own inventory of ready-made graphic icons. Finally, you will put it all together with a graphic recording of a podcast.
Who Should Attend: This program is for any facilitator interested in enhancing their overall skill and competency in capturing meeting results with powerful words and images, including the effective use of colour and visual metaphors. Anyone interested in learning the essentials of graphic recording is also welcome to attend.
When: October 20, 2009 - 8:30 am to 5:00 pm. Where: Vancouver, BC at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, Simon Fraser University.
Program Leader: Contact Avril Orloff: (604) 876-8418 or a.orloff@shaw.ca.
Cost: Includes handouts, materials, light breakfast, breaks - $525 Social Profit; $659 General, plus 5% GST. Early Bird Rate and team savings available.
Register: Download Registration Form.
Accommodation Choices: See possible hotel options in downtown Vancouver.
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