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Simple Energiser Ideas for Lectures
If you understand why it’s so important to break up your lectures and are looking for lots of new ideas, the latest episode of the…
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Simple Energiser Ideas for Lectures
If you understand why it’s so important to break up your lectures and are looking for lots of new ideas, the latest episode of the…
Keeping People Safe
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores the notion of how to keep people safe. I dare say that all group facilitators would argue that this…
Student-Driven Learning That Works
To usher in the new year, I’m excited to share a short (3 minute) video with you that features a unique school in Australia that…
Festive Greetings
As we near the end of another year, we want to wish all of our subscribers and users a wonderful & festive time this holiday…
How To Be Creative Leading Group Games
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores what it means to be creative leading group games & activities in your role as facilitator. Sometimes being creative is…
If You Meet Resistance, Stop Pushing
The advice seemed so obvious, I was caught off-guard by its simplicity. I was part of a conference workshop in which everyone in the room…
How To Manage Late People
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores the age-old issue of how to manage late people to your meetings and programs. People arriving late often cause…
Risky Play
When does play cross a threshold and become too risky? Do you encounter this question in your programs? Should young people be exposed to it?…
How To Manage Your Nerves As A Leader
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores a subject that impacts almost all leaders and group facilitators – how do you manage your nerves and doubts when…
A Curiosity Deficit?
I’m picking up on recent correspondence from my good friends Will and Chad from We! In their email, they raised a phenomenon called ‘curiosity deficit’…
How To Ask Good Debriefing Questions
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode is the fourth & final tutorial focused on developing your processing, reflection or debriefing skills. This episode explores the question…
People Who Care To Do Work That Matters
I have come to realise that one of the most powerful attributes that attracts me to others is not their looks, their income, their job…
When Is The Best Time To Debrief?
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode is the third of four tutorials focused on developing your processing, reflection or debriefing skills. This episode explores the question…
Giving People A Choice To Connect
Colleague and expert group facilitator Chad Littlefield shared a video recently in which he presented the idea that we need to give people the choice…
Group Processing Skills: What To Debrief?
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode is the second of four tutorials focused on developing your processing, reflection or debriefing skills. This episode explores the question…
Four Powerful Debrief Questions in Four or Less Words
Good friend and equally talented facilitator Chad Littlefield posted a wonderful article recently in which he shared four powerful questions made up of four words…
Group Processing Skills: Why Debrief?
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode is the first of four tutorials focused on helping you expand your knowledge and understanding of group processing, reflection or…
The Nature Pill
No matter how healthy you are, there’s one pill I recommend that you take, every day. The nature pill. This week we welcome David Bott…
How To Spark Engagement with Unofficial Starts
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores the many benefits of integrating an ‘unofficial start’ into your program to help you spark engagement and, most importantly,…
Empathy leads to Connection which leads to Trust
There are only two blogs I faithfully read every day when they are posted, and one of them is written by Seth Godin. This particular…
How To Work With Large Groups
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores a number of useful and practical strategies you can use to help you work with large groups of people….
Benefits of Emotional Intelligence – Insights from a Community Engagement Expert
If facilitation skills were considered a superpower, emotional intelligence would be the secret sauce! Hassan Ghiassi knows the amazing benefits of emotional intelligence. He has…
Key Elements of Play
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode shares the seven key characteristics of play as researched by Dr Stuart Brown, the founder and President of the National…
The Mess of Creativity
Have you noticed that creativity can be messy sometimes? Does this mess of creativity cause you to be frustrated? This week, Dr Amy Climer shares…
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