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Tips for Running Engaging Groups & Understanding Adult Learning Principles

This full day workshop will support professionals to develop and refresh their group facilitation skills and gain innovative, creative and practical ideas for delivering their own vibrant sessions.
 
Fantastic Facilitation techniques are based on adult education principles that can be transferred to many types of settings, such as community educational programs, staff training, or in board or team meetings. By applying new delivery techniques, participants of Fantastic Facilitation will turn their own groups into something that inspires, engages and motivates change in others.
 
Participants will

• Have an increased awareness of adult education principles
• Understand how to create objectives using a head/heart/hand approach to developing agendas
• Be able to recognize the importance of creating a safe learning environment for their groups which will lead to more participant engagement and motivation in their participants

Learning objectives  

• Discuss how to use effective small group activities and discussions to help with knowledge transfer
• Discover new ways of engaging participants in groups
• Experience interactive activities and examples of warmups, energizers, group building and other participant-centered techniques
• Experience fantastic facilitation techniques using adult learning principles
• Understand how to adapt to a virtual learning platform as a facilitator

What recent workshop participants have said:

• "Thank you for facilitating. Carmen was great I learnt a lot from her and looking forward to do some more trainings with her."
• "I learned the different types of ice breakers to make you and your audience more comfortable."
• "Thank you, this was a very interactive and helpful training."

 About the Facilitator

Carmen Paterson-Payne is a contract trainer, program developer and adult learning facilitator and has worked for many non-profit organizations in that capacity. Carmen is also a Provincial Coordinator of a Nobody’s Perfect parenting program inManitoba. She is a Master Trainer, Trainer and group facilitator for a variety of programs. Using these skills, Carmen creates
and facilitate many different professional learning opportunities and also facilitates strategic and vision planning of organizations. Carmen believes that respecting values and using a strengths-based participant- centred approach to facilitation is a key when working with all cultures and groups. She focuses on using a head, heart and hand approach to facilitating. Carmen’s background in Early Childhood Development and certification in Facilitating Older Adult Learners and Continuing and Adult and Education from the University of Manitoba, compliments her work with practitioners, families, community, and even at the Board level.

The price of this workshop is per-person. 

This workshop is not guaranteed to run. We need a minimum number of participants. 

This training will be taking place via Zoom. Participants will be emailed a link to join the session.