Welcome to the New Year! I hope you had a great holiday. Something about this change in the calendar offers the opportunity to take a fresh look at the world and our lives. With that in mind, I’d like to take a fresh look at learning content for trainers and facilitators. It’s easy when we’re [...]
6 Tips For Speakers to Better Engage Their Audience
November 5, 2009 By 6 Comments
Most of the people you address as a speaker have been conditioned to sit and listen to you as passive observers. This role they take does not usually serve their highest and best good. Perhaps more importantly, the role you take as a dynamic, high energy presenter may at times get in the way of [...]
Transmitting Self-Cooperation
November 3, 2009 By 3 Comments
A couple of years ago, I attended a weekend workshop on the Alexander Technique. The Alexander Technique works with your body awareness to help identify and release bad habits of movement that you have built up over a lifetime of stress. This tool is especially useful for singers, musicians, actors, dancers or athletes to help [...]
Experiencing the Tenets of Facilitation
October 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Last week one of our readers, Noelle Celeste offered a wonderful new application for the use of one of my favorite experiential activities, The One Word Story. In this week’s article, Experiencing the Tenets of Facilitation, we present this activity and how it can be debriefed to illustrate the importance of ground rules or basic [...]
Effectively Designing Experiential Activities
October 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
When speaking to trainers and facilitators who see the value in delivery experiential activities, many wonder how to go about designing activities that meet the unique and changing needs of their groups. There are hundreds of experiential activities already designed for just about every purpose. However, we may not always be so fortunate as to [...]
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