Advanced Facilitation Masterclass
An intensive, hands-on experience for experienced facilitators and people leaders to deepen their facilitation practice.
The ability to lead transformative group conversations is a crucial leadership skill - and there is rarely a low-stakes, safe space to deepen this capacity.
This is not a "chalk-and-talk" or "sage-on-the-stage" format. The day is highly interactive with multiple facilitation simulations, activities and collaborative sessions. Strengthen your effectiveness and personal resilience as a host of powerful workshops and group decision-making.
People leave having had the chance to try on a variety of new facilitation approaches in a safe space. Past Clients include companies from Google to Visa,
After this workshop, leaders will have deeper skills and tools in order to:
Facilitate transformative conversations
Lead Engaging offsites
Create Dynamic and Brave conversations
Drive alignment with vision and confidence
Reimagine the workshop creation process
THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR YOU IF:
· You're an experienced leader or facilitator
· You are already facilitating workshops but want to grow your toolbox
· You lead a team
· You want to enhance your effectiveness and personal resilience as a host of powerful workshops and decision-making
· You want to upskill your team's group decision making skills
WE DIVE DEEP INTO:
· How to manage difficult people
· How to manage yourself and the multiple roles you have to take on
· How to lead group synthesis of complex data
· A ton of new icebreakers, energizers and eye-openers
· A mindful approach to group work
· Improve your visual facilitation skills
· Narrative frameworks to transform your workshop planning
AFTER THE WORKSHOP:
There will be opportunities to continue to engage with this work in a guided group coaching container - stay tuned for more information!
YOUR HOST:
Daniel Stillman designs conversations for a living and insists that you do, too. As an executive coach and facilitator, he works with clients of all shapes and sizes on leadership and team dynamics as well as on product and organizational innovation. He also hosts The Conversation Factory podcast (a top 100 Management Podcast) and is the author of “Good Talk: How to Design Conversations that Matter” a handbook for changemakers and innovators.
Daniel has worked with Fortune 500 organizations like Accenture, Cisco, Google and Visa and non-profits and government agencies like The Institute of International Education, UNICEF and The NYC Public School Innovation Lab to help them put people at the center of change.
Daniel has a BS in Physics from the City College of New York and a Masters in Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He lives in Harlem with his wife and a grumpy black cat.