Facilitating for the Future: A 3-Session Series
This ticket registers you for the entire Facilitating for the Future 3-part series! If you wish to sign up for just one of the workshops — use the links for the individual workshops below!
Facilitating for the Future is a three-part workshop series for leaders, educators, and facilitators who want to lead engaging workshops, meetings, and group spaces that can shape the future. Whether you’re looking to increase your ability to include all the voices in the room, handle conflict, and navigate difficult discussions, or just feel more prepared for the unexpected this is the series designed for you.
The series consists of three workshops:
Workshop #1: The Secret to Participation (Aug 25 - 12-2pm ET)
Workshop #2: Holding Space (Sept 15 - 12-2pm ET
Workshop #3: Navigating Triggers (Oct 6 - 12-2pm ET)
The series costs $497 (group discounts and financial support available!)
Registration gives you access to:
(3) Two-hour Virtual Trainings facilitated on Zoom
Indexed recordings of each workshop
Exclusive follow up and resource materials to continue your learning delivered after each workshop
WHO IS THE SERIES FOR?
The series is for leaders, educators, and facilitators who are looking to make a difference. Whether that’s facilitate students’ exploration of difficult and sensitive topics. Whether that’s run a meeting of new union members trying to come together to create a campaign. Whether that’s as a facilitator trying to help people navigate personal, challenging, or hot topic conversations.
There are tremendous challenges facing all of us right now and ensuring that we have the skills to help shepherd groups through those moments is essential. We need to be able to answer fundamental questions of facilitating group dynamics like:
How do you keep people from dominating a conversation and get everyone involved?
What do you do if someone says something offensive that upsets the group? Are there ways to keep the group together without agreeing with them (yes!)
How can we keep ourselves grounded and centered in the face of emergent challenges.
In Facilitating for the Future you will learn frameworks and methods that will allow you to feel confident and competent for the important work you’re doing in the world.
WE'LL EXPLORE HOW TO
Increase participation, the variety of voices, and types of shares in your sessions. No one wants to ask a question and hear crickets. By mixing up the ways you ask for participation you'll guarantee more voices in the room offering different perspectives.
Build trust within a group by mitigating social risk and vulnerability. It can be intimidating to share our thoughts in front of other people. Learn strategies that build trust and psychological safety while increasing participation and lowering anxiety in your sessions.
Respond to conflict in a way that leads to productive exploration and transformative change. We’re afraid of conflict arising in our spaces because we aren’t sure how to move through it in a way that is productive for everyone in the group. Learn how to balance acknowledging harmful comments without isolating or ostracizing anyone from the group.
Plan for the unexpected challenges that might throw you. When we facilitate groups, we open ourselves up to an enormous amount of emergence and unexpected dynamics. Being able receive those dynamics without being thrown off by them is an essential skill. We can build practices and find techniques that allow us to stay grounded before we face those tense moments.
WHAT WILL THE SESSIONS BE LIKE
Meg’s Zoom workshops are highly participatory sessions. Besides a mid-point break, everyone will be participating throughout.
Each session is limited to 100 participants. 100 participants means that we can easily do pair breakout rooms, small group conversations, and share in the large group while hearing from a lot of different people. We’ll use chat and live polling throughout the sessions to bring everyone’s voice in and usually hear from at least 15-20 different voices in the main room over the course of the workshop.
Each workshop flows a little bit differently and we’ll use a lot of different modalities across the sessions including journaling, pair shares, live-polling, chat, fishbowls, small group work, interactive handouts, and more.
Each workshop will start right at the hour and we will close the door to the workshop after 10 minutes to ensure that the group has a cohesive learning experience.
The sessions will be recorded and the recordings made available within 5 days of the sessions taking place. Only those who registered for the course will receive the recordings.
WHO’S LEADING THE SESSION
Meg Bolger! An expert facilitator, social justice educator, and participatory educator.
Meg has been facilitating for over a decade and is currently the head of Facilitator Cards and POP Facilitation. Meg co-founded numerous projects and businesses including The Safe Zone Project, FacilitatingXYZ, Unlocking the Magic of Facilitation, and Facilitator Cards and spent much of the last decade training trainers from around the country (and world) on the art of facilitation.
Meg’s roots in facilitation came from her work in social justice education and gender and sexuality workshops. She believes that facilitation is one of the key skills of educators, leaders, organizers, and facilitators who are trying to bring about meaningful change in the world. Her work in social justice spaces also gave her years of navigating hot topics, challenging conversations, and loaded disagreements in group settings.
Meg is passionate about the subtleties of what helps groups work, learn, collaborate, and connect with each other. She loves to break down the art of facilitation into skills that people can use to help humans collaborate, communicate, and connect better together.
Meg believes that as leaders, educators, trainers, and facilitators, we can make our spaces places that people feel good and want to be in. Her mission is to share everything she knows about facilitation to support everyone who is doing meaningful change work in the world.
WHEN YOU SIGN UP YOU’LL RECEIVE
When you purchase Facilitating for the Future you’ll be registered for the three following workshops:
Workshop #1: The Secret to Participation (Aug 25 - 12-2pm ET)
Workshop #2: Holding Space (Sept 15 - 12-2pm ET)
Workshop #3: Navigating Triggers (Oct 6 - 12-2pm ET)
RECORDINGS: If you can’t make it to a session or just want the recording to review, you’ll receive an indexed recording of every session.
RESOURCES: After each session, we’ll add copious additional materials to the resource hub (articles, books, videos, podcast episodes, etc.) to further your learning.
You’ll receive individual calendar invites and confirmations for each workshop!
WHO’S IT FOR
Facilitators
Trainers
Coaches and consultants
Educators and Teachers
Leaders and Managers
We recommend taking the entire series rather than just a single workshop because these three trainings create a powerful set of skills and mindsets that build on and reinforce each other.
WHAT IT COSTS
The cost of this training series is $497.
The individual courses within the series are available for $199 each.
ACCESS DISCOUNTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
If you cannot afford the price of the training, we do not want that to be a barrier to accessing the material.
Discounts are available to those who need financial assistance in order to join the training. To pay a discounted rate drop us an email (hello@facilitator.cards) and let us know what amount of scholarship you need. We offer up to full-scholarships for people in particular fields of work!
GRITTY DETAILS
No refunds after August 18th.
Each registration is for one person only, if there are multiple people at your organization who would like to attend please contact us for group rates, special discounts, or exceptions.
You will receive the follow-up resources, recording, etc. regardless of whether you attend the training and are welcome to sign up specifically for the recording and resources.
STILL NOT SURE IF IT’S FOR YOU?
Feeling a bit wishy-washy? Sign up for our email list to be in touch!
FAQ
Can I come late?
Not really. We close the doors after 10 minutes (so in that sense you can be up to 10 minutes late!) to ensure that the group has a cohesive learning experience. This isn’t to punish anyone it’s to ensure we can create a session that builds on the previous learning without anyone getting lost.
And we know life happens, which is why we make each session available via recording as quickly as possible for those who have unexpected delays/hindrances day of.
Can I sign up for the workshops individually?
Yes!
By purchasing the series on this page you save $100 off of your registration! Otherwise, each individual workshop is $199.
We believe that when taken together, these three trainings create a powerful set of skills and mindsets that build and reinforce each other.
I can’t come to one of the workshops, should I still sign up for all three?
Yes!
We would recommend watching the recording of whatever event you can’t make before the next one so that you continue to benefit from the ways the sessions build and flow with each other.
Even if you just want to sign up for the series to receive the recordings, that is 100% alright by us! We know some folks don’t want to participate live or need to learn on their own schedule and we welcome you to learn in whatever way suits you best.