Facilitating Transformation

Our year-long training program, Facilitating Transformation, gives you the awareness, the skills and the practice to lead dynamic training programs and facilitate engaging meetings. The program includes three 4-day retreats with bi-weekly teleclasses.

The curriculum includes:

Part One – Awareness

Creating Sacred Space for Transformation

• Fostering inclusion and trust
• Inviting authenticity and intimacy in groups
• Building heart connection
• Tracking time while generating spaciousness
• Holding the group while doing deep work
• Creating a learning environment/ learning community

Deepening Awareness of Group Dynamics

• Riding the waves of energy
• Opening to intense emotions
• Experiencing the here and now
• Reading the needs of the group
• Compassionate interventions that build awareness
• Working with power differentials

Developing Facilitator Presence

• Balancing charisma with empowerment
• Taking the lead while honoring autonomy
• Doing inner work
• Acting from self-awareness
• Making purpose conscious
• Using and developing intuition
• Sustaining heart connection with self and others
• Mindfulness and being in the moment
• Trusting Intuition

Part Two – Skills

Facilitation Skills

• Facilitator’s Palette
• Honoring every part of every person
• Responding to the full spectrum of emotions
• Distilling what is present

Co-facilitation Dance

• Being in the flow
• Supporting Autonomy and collaboration
• Taking the lead – blending… yes and
• Transparency and authenticity and vulnerability

Instructional Design

• Curriculum Development
• Engaging visual, audio and kinesthetic learners
• Distance Learning
• Teleclasses
• Asynchronous Learning

Experiential Learning

• Openings
• Incorporating Adult Learning styles
• Visioning
• Choosing Ice Breakers and energizers
• Designing experiential activities
• Writing Learning Objectives
• Sequencing the learning
• Debriefing the Learning
• Closings

Part Three

Advanced Facilitation Practice

• Honoring diversity and multiculturalism
• Appreciating cultural differences
• Unlearning isms
• Shifting socio-economic biases
• Recognizing privilege
• Leveraging diversity

Enjoying Difficult People

• Transforming judgment into compassion
• Making empathic connections
• Confronting with care
• Interrupting powerlessness
• Embracing polarities

Decision Making

• Choosing a group decision making process
• Synthesizing the needs of the group
• Surfacing Group Wisdom

Developing your Practice

• Setting Intentions
• Networking
• Building from your strengths
• Creating support teams
• Keep growing as a facilitator
• Developing the business

Want to talk about whether this program is the right one for you? Send us an email or give us a call at 570-297-3333.