Facilitating for the Future: A 3-Part Series
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 handle conflict and continuously meet the needs of the group as they emerge.
The series consists of three workshops:
Workshop #1: The Secret to Participation (Sept 6th 11am-1pm ET)
Workshop #2: Holding Space (Oct 4th 11am-1pm ET)
Workshop #3: Emergent Facilitation (Nov 1st 11am-1pm ET)
The series costs $497 (group discounts and financial support available).
Registration gives you access to:
(3) Two-hour Virtual Trainings facilitated on Zoom
Chaptered recordings of each workshop
Access to an exclusive podcasts about the workshops
Copious resource materials to continue your learning delivered after each workshop
WHAT IS THIS SERIES ABOUT?
Helping people successfully work together is one of the most fulfilling parts of our jobs as facilitators.
It’s also the most challenging.
What do you do when you ask a question and no one responds?
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?
How can we make a plan when so much of every session depends on how the group shows up?
In Facilitating for the Future you will learn frameworks and methods that will allow you to feel confident and in control when facilitating meetings, workshops, or any session where you want group input.
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 changes and the emergent needs of a group. When we create spaces where people are participating and contributing, we also create spaces where new needs of the group can emerge in the moment. Learn to prepare ahead of time and how to make quick decisions in the moment to pivot without losing control.
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 has co-founded numerous projects and businesses focused on facilitation 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 foundations in facilitation came from her work in social justice education and Gender & 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.
WHAT WILL THE SESSIONS BE LIKE
Our Zoom workshops are highly participatory sessions. Besides a mid-point break, everyone will be participating throughout.
Each session is limited to 100 participants. We cap at 100 so that we can still do pair-breakout rooms (Zoom limits to 50 breakout rooms) and have lots of meaningful small-group conversations.
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.
WHEN YOU SIGN UP YOU’LL RECEIVE
When you sign up for Facilitating for the Future you’ll be registered for the three following workshops:
Workshop #1: The Secret to Participation (Sept 6th 11am-1pm ET)
Workshop #2: Holding Space (Oct 4th 11am-1pm ET)
Workshop #3: Emergent Facilitation (Nov 1st 11am-1pm ET)
RECORDINGS: If you can’t make it to a session or just want the recording to review, you’ll receive a chaptered recording of every session.
PRIVATE PODCAST: You’ll be sent a link to access a private podcast episode for each session that will focus on questions that were brought up during the session that we didn’t get to fully explore.
RESOURCE HUB: After each session, we’ll add copious additional materials to the resource hub (articles, books, videos, podcast episodes, etc.) to further your learning.
WHO’S IT FOR
Facilitators
Coaches who work with groups
Trainers 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.
If you’d like help articulating to your boss how this series will help you with your work -- click here to download our pricing and informational PDF to share!
The individual courses within the series are available at $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 whether you need a 50%, 75%, or full scholarship.
GRITTY DETAILS
No refunds after September 1st.
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.
We get it, 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 read more about each individual workshop?
Yes!
Read more about Secret to Participation (is Facilitation)
Read more about Holding Space
Read more about Emergent Facilitation
Can I sign up for the workshops individually?
Yes!
Secret to Participation (is Facilitation)
Holding Space
Emergent Facilitation
By signing up for 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.
