Transformational Facilitation
The Art and Skill of Working with Groups
Facilitation is a leadership skill that requires us to be extraordinarily present, authentic, and relaxed. Our 2-day seminar invites participants to continue their journey to become transformational facilitators who can skillfully bringing forth peoples’ ideas to transform the world.
Facilitation is an everyday life skill which we use in meetings, our families and in our community work. It is not just for professionals. If you are a leader in any setting, you will benefit from learning the skills of a process facilitator to help keep people focused and listening well to each other, to help a group build understanding when challenges arise, and to know how to ensure the collective interest of the group is served.
In this workshop, participants will:
- Draw on their strengths and life experiences to increase confidence and authenticity.
- Learn theory and practice tools to become an extraordinary listener
- Learn the art of Transformational Dialogue.
- Experience and learn a powerful way to gain agreement or reach consensus.
- Practice skills for accurate, neutral recording of a group’s best thinking.
LJS and North Star Facilitators join forces to offer this unique, interactive, and transformative workshop for both for new and experienced leaders and facilitators.
The many benefits of this training include:
- Increasing confidence and authenticity as a leader and facilitator.
- Learning how to bring forth the potential of every member in a group and evoke each person’s best thinking with respect and ease.
- Learning the art and science of quickly finding underlying areas of agreement and consensus in a group.
- Comfortably and compassionately handling challenging power dynamics and behaviors such as racism and sexism.
