Journey to Group Power featuring Liberating Structures

In this two day workshop, you will take away cutting-edge tools for engaging groups to produce innovative results. This immersive experience will introduce a dynamic approach called “Integral Facilitation,” where you’ll recognize the power you already possess as a group leader, improve your ability to facilitate yourself, and learn several modular structures to engage, focus, and facilitate meetings and other group processes.

The Journey of Facilitation and Collaboration

A five-day experiential facilitation skills workshop offered at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In this workshop,  you will be introduced to a comprehensive model for facilitation, one that balances “hard” and “soft” skills. Using hands-on, multi-modal approaches, we’ll take you beyond theory to walk the path of mastery using a holistic set of 20 facilitation competencies. These competencies are based on a new model encompassing twenty archetypes of the integral facilitator, informed by the “integral” philosophy of Ken Wilber.

The Coaching Clinic® for Managers

This one or two-day workshop teaches Strategic Skills for Managers, Leaders and Coaches with emphasis on individual and collective learning and creativity. The Coaching Clinic® provides both the technology and process to develop a new workplace model to help leaders maximize their group’s results.

12 Acts of Courage to Change Meetings for Good

Managers spend 50% of their time in meetings. 69% of those meetings are unproductive! The majority of leaders don’t know how to facilitate meetings, and most of the time, they facilitate meetings more than anything else they do as managers! In this half-day to full-day workshop, for both meeting leaders and participants alike, you’ll learn relevant Acts of Courage you can embody to make every meeting successful. This workshop, designed to change the meeting culture in your organization, focuses on skills, attitudes, and behaviors designed to shorten and streamline your meetings while getting better results. Shift your view of how meetings fit in to your work life to increase their Return on Investment of your time and energy.

Customized Workshop Design

Contact us to discuss options for training, group facilitation services, or kick-off sessions to get your groups aligned for results.

Self-Guided Teleclasses

Teleclasses are a “virtual classroom” where people from many parts of the world

• No travel time or parking fees
• A clearer focus than many lectures
• Ability to pick and choose what sessions to attend at the last minute
• Comfort of working in your own space
• Easily adopt electronic notes for your own personal use

Random Acts of Facilitation

This facilitation training covers 25 discrete facilitative actions you can take to empower and move groups forward. Designed for facilitators or leaders at any level who simply want to know more about facilitation so that they can make the groups they are a part of more effective. Being discrete acts of facilitation, they also lend themselves to being taught to your group members who desire to become more self-facilitative.

Facilitating at a Distance: Essentials of Teleclass & Virtual Meeting Facilitation

Have you thought of offering a teleclass but don’t feel you have all the skills and knowledge you need to do so? This class will teach you methods, skills, and processes to employ this inexpensive way to train, collaborate, and problem-solve using Teleclasses and Virtual Meetings. Remove the fear and uncertainty of teleclass/virtual meeting design and facilitation.

Transforming Conflict in the Workplace

All organizations and relationships encounter conflict. It’s what we do with it that makes all the difference in the world. In this class we’ll explore and evaluate your own styles and personal responses conflict, learning and practicing conflict resolution strategies in the context of group facilitation, and how you can implement conflict resolution and staff facilitation programs within organizations.

The Improvisational Facilitator

Every field of work would benefit by better improvisation. This highly experiential teleclass presents powerful, practical improv techniques you can use to immediately enhance your facilitation, training, and group leadership skills. You’ll learn ways to become a better facilitator by experimenting with improv techniques, and increase your confidence and creativity to make your plan become more flexible and spontaneous.

Secrets to Designing Dynamic Workshops from Scratch

This class will walk you through the building blocks
of designing and delivering effective experiential workshops. It will cover all the elements of workshop
design using a simple, well-organized, and proven approach.
Use this class to complete the design of your own workshop.

Becoming a Learning Facilitator

Make the shift from teaching to Learning Facilitation.
This course explores how to make the leap from conventional
teaching approaches to a new perspective based on the
learner and incorporating facilitation skills and philosophy
into the learning environment.

Putting Out Brush Fires: How to Intervene in Difficult Group Situations

Do nonstop talkers, silent groups or dramatic conflicts
ever knock your meetings off track? These meeting situations take a toll on a group’s ability to work together
and cost time and money. This class will increase your ability to know when and how to intervene effectively in difficult situations
to get your meetings back on track. This course if for anyone who facilitates, manages, teaches, mediates, coaches, counsels, directs any group.

Intervene With Confidence

Group Intervention is one of the most challenging
skills to master as a facilitator. This class is for anyone who plays a facilitative or leadership role in a group and will explore practical ways to effectively intervene on individual and group behaviors to realign, refocus, challenge, or protect group process.

Managing People You Rarely See

Do you need to get rapid results from people collaborating across multiple locations? This class covers managing remote relationships and frameworks for successfully managing projects across large distances. Issues created by the geographic distance between team members can be overcome, and in fact, the potential of a distance team to accomplish amazing feats far outweighs any logistical liabilities.

Appreciative Inquiry

Intentional change can based on the best of what is in order to pursue dreams and possibilities of what could
be. This class explores the four dynamics of AI: Discovery, Dream, Design and Delivery as well as the: 8 assumptions, 6 core principles, 5 steps, and outcomes and opportunities.