The Skilled Facilitator® Intensive Workshop

The Skilled Facilitator® is for leaders, facilitators, consultants, and anyone else who needs facilitation skills to work effectively with others.

In this five-day workshop, you will learn:

  • Strategies and techniques to address the specific challenges you face when facilitating groups.
  • How your mindset may lead you to create the very situations you are trying to avoid:  mistrust, defensive behavior, poor problem solving, and limited group learning.
  • How to use the five core values of the Mutual Learning approach — transparency, curiosity, accountability, informed choice and compassion — to guide your work with groups.
  • How the roles of facilitator, leader, consultant, coach and trainer are similar and different, and when it is appropriate to serve in each of these roles.
  • How to identify and deal with situations in which groups ask you to act inconsistently with your role.
  • How to contract for a solid working relationship and avoid many problems that reduce your ability to help the group.
  • How to diagnose strengths and weaknesses of groups using the Team Effectiveness model.
  • How to intervene in a group to improve its process, including what to say, how to say it, when to say it, who to say it to, and why.

What to expect?

You and professionals from other organizations will engage in intensive, instructor-guided practice based on your real work facilitation challenges. You will:

  • Review the core principles of The Skilled Facilitator® approach with practical examples of how to apply them.
  • Practice applying Mutual Learning strategies and techniques to create more productive meetings — meetings that build greater commitment and generate shared accountability.
  • Get specific, expert guidance as you apply this values-based approach to help groups improve their performance, working relationships, and individual well-being.

Outcomes

  • Higher quality decisions
  • Greater innovation
  • Greater commitment and accountability
  • Increased trust and reduced defensiveness
  • Increased motivation
  • Less unproductive stress

Upcoming Dates:

Online training dates:
March 3-7, 2025
Price: $3,875 early-bird price. $4,275 on or after February 10th.

In-person training dates:  
September 8-12, 2025 – Chapel Hill, NC
Price: $3,875 early-bird price. $4,275 on or after August 18th.

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This is one of the most valuable sets of skills I’ve learned in my career. The course helped me see that at times, because of my own approach to conflict, I was actually getting in the way of the groups that I work with making lasting progress. I came to a different understanding of conflict and a much more productive way of helping people work through it.
Dr. Nida Backaitis
Principle Organizational Effectiveness Consultant 
The MITRE Corporation
The Skilled Facilitator® Intensive Workshop is one of the finest educational experiences that I have had in my entire life, presented with uncommon clarity, energy and soul, as well as intellectual depth. The exercises helped me to apply the material to difficult situations that I face on and off the job. I heartily recommend this course to anyone who seeks to improve his or her interpersonal effectiveness.
William J. Feuss
District Manager, Customer Value Strategy 
AT&T Business Services