Program Design & Facilitation Skills Training. Perth, June 2024
Program Design & Facilitation Skills Training. Perth, June 2024
This training is for anyone, of any gender and any level of experience, who wants to how we do things at Good Blokes Co so that you can design and facilitate powerful experiences that lead to tangible change.
If you want your workshops, trainings, meetings or events to enable people to think and act differently…
If you want to change culture or guide groups with diverse needs towards a unified goal…
If you’re a teacher wanting to facilitate engaging conversations with students about wellbeing, mental health or consent…
If you’re a coach, trainer, health practitioner or counsellor wanting another lens to add to your work with groups in empowering change…
This training will give you the knowledge skills and confidence to build strong connections within a group; to guide them into rich conversations and meaningful contemplation; and to support them to implement meaningful changes.
This is an interactive, experiential training where we will mine the wisdom of the group and you will be able to pick the brains of Mike’s experience on hundreds of leadership retreats, corporate workshops, rites of passage camps, and in-school programs.
You’ll network with a group of like minded humans for 3 days, jam packed with presentations, workshops and opportunities to practice the skills. You will learn and practice:
Using Mike’s Program Map to design and facilitate transformation, learning, growth and change in groups and individuals.
Facilitation approaches that maximise engagement and psychological safety.
Growing your facilitation toolbox of activities that foster connection, stimulate mindful reflection and open conversation.
Asking great questions that catalyse light bulb moments.
A clear framework for safely guiding groups through moments of vulnerability.
Dealing with resistance, disengagement and difficult participants and situations.
A framework of essential interpersonal skills and practices for cultivating the facilitation mindset.
Pulling it together to redesign existing programs, and/or create new programs from scratch.
Tradewinds Hotel, East Fremantle, WA.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 18, 19 & 20 June, 2024.
8:30am - 4:30pm each day.
Lunch, afternoon and morning teas provided.
$1,495.
Limited tickets at the early rate, $1,295. Book now
Group discounts, concession rates and payment plans available. Please contact us.
The Content
DAY ONE
We’ll introduce the Good Blokes Co Program Map in great detail and you’ll learn how to use it as a facilitation guide and also to design powerful programs.
We’ll explore engagement and connection - how to get a diverse range of people on board and make them feel comfortable, connected and engaged within a group.
You’ll learn the GBC facilitation mindset. Our approach to facilitation that makes it easy to switch into facilitation mode to garner maximum engagement on difficult topics with a minimum of energy.
You’ll develop your facilitation toolbox of activities and there’ll be opportunities for some participants to practice facilitating activities with real time feedback.
And all the while, we’ll be networking with other facilitators, and learning from each others intentions and ideas for group work.
DAY TWO
We move from connection to reflection, and learn a framework for creating safe spaces for deeper conversations. We’ll practice leaning into open and honest conversations and learn how to create an environment where people feel enthusiastic about exploring deeper topics as a group.
We’ll build further upon the facilitation skills toolbox, exploring a wide range of activities that can be moulded to fit any purpose. We’ll explore perspectives in framing, holding and debriefing activities for maximum reflection and group learning.
We’ll explore group dynamics and managing a groups energy across the journey of a program towards a desired outcome.
We’ll practice working with difficult participants and situations. We’ll troubleshoot and problem-solve real and imagined situations and build confidence in transforming conflict into opportunities for real learning and growth.
We’ll explore our personal challenges and obstacles as facilitators and program designers as a group. We’ll consider how embracing our own challenges can be a tool for increasing engagement in participants.
DAY THREE
We’ll explore action and direction - how we can support participants to clarify their goals and hopes and to solidify this into real growth and change.
We’ll examine the importance of participants in acknowledging their strengths and harnessing those strengths in service of personal and group goals.
We’ll consider how to provide ongoing support and brainstorm effective solutions to one of the great challenges of group work, supporting participants after the program.
You’ll leave this training with a new perspective on all aspects of group work, a stack of new ideas and a community of like minded facilitators to continue to learn and grow alongside. You’ll also expand your ideas of your own strengths and cement the value of your unique perspective as a facilitator.