The Skilled Facilitator® Intensive Workshop

The Skilled Facilitator® is for leaders, facilitators, consultants, and anyone else who needs facilitation skills to work effectively with others.

In this five-day workshop, you will learn:

  • Strategies and techniques to address the specific challenges you face when facilitating groups.
  • How your mindset may lead you to create the very situations you are trying to avoid:  mistrust, defensive behavior, poor problem solving, and limited group learning.
  • How to use the five core values of the Mutual Learning approach — transparency, curiosity, accountability, informed choice and compassion — to guide your work with groups.
  • How the roles of facilitator, leader, consultant, coach and trainer are similar and different, and when it is appropriate to serve in each of these roles.
  • How to identify and deal with situations in which groups ask you to act inconsistently with your role.
  • How to contract for a solid working relationship and avoid many problems that reduce your ability to help the group.
  • How to diagnose strengths and weaknesses of groups using the Team Effectiveness model.
  • How to intervene in a group to improve its process, including what to say, how to say it, when to say it, who to say it to, and why.

What to expect?

You and professionals from other organizations will engage in intensive, instructor-guided practice based on your real work facilitation challenges. You will:

  • Review the core principles of The Skilled Facilitator® approach with practical examples of how to apply them.
  • Practice applying Mutual Learning strategies and techniques to create more productive meetings — meetings that build greater commitment and generate shared accountability.
  • Get specific, expert guidance as you apply this values-based approach to help groups improve their performance, working relationships, and individual well-being.

Outcomes

  • Higher quality decisions
  • Greater innovation
  • Greater commitment and accountability
  • Increased trust and reduced defensiveness
  • Increased motivation
  • Less unproductive stress

What you should know if you are interested in attending a workshop:

Advance work begins approximately 60 days before the workshop. Registering 80 days before a workshop is recommended. Our workshops use a flipped classroom model that has participants learn the content at their own pace prior to the workshop so time in the workshop can be focused on clarifying content and applying what they have learned in exercises. An advance assignment email describing the workshop assignments and due dates is sent approximately 60 days before workshop. Participants are required to read the first nine chapters of The Skilled Facilitator book and complete and submit a written assignment that is due 21 days before the workshop begins. If you have any questions, please use the contact us form located below.

Upcoming Dates:

In-person training dates:  
October 14-18, 2024
Location: Glen Allen, Virginia
Price: $3,875 early-bird price, expires August 16th, 2024. $4,275 on or after August 16th.
22 seats remaining

Online training dates:
March 3-7, 2025 – Online
Price: $3,990 early-bird price, expires December 20th, 2024. $4,440 on or after December 20th.
24 seats remaining

Workshop Logistics and Travel Information

Please read the cancellation and refund policy before you register:
Cancellation and refund policy