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…
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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…
How To End A Program
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode shares a bunch of fun, engaging and innovative ways to end or conclude a program, especially those which occur over…
Connect First Then Seek Understanding
A playmeo enthusiast, who works as a social justice educator, reached out to me to describe how one of my recent Facilitator Tips video tutorials…
How To Pick The Right Activity
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores the art and science of how to pick the right activity at the right time for your group. Do…
How To Give Effective Feedback
Feedback is a wonderful tool that can help an individual or group grow, learn or develop a particular skill or insight. Yet, much like the…
Connections Are Key
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores the science behind and the practical benefits of building and strengthening connections among the members of your group. The…
What Is Flow?
After working with groups all over the world for 30+ years now, I know that when they accept my invitation to enter into a space…
Experiential Learning is Not Learning by Doing
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode explores the distinction between the methodology of experiential learning and the learning style of learning by doing. In my early…
Question: How Do I End Long-Term Programs?
A subscriber asks: Do you have any tips or strategies on how to finish a group? I co-facilitate a 29-week personal development group with 14…
How To Adapt Small Group Activities
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode shares a bunch of simple and unique strategies to help you adapt interactive group games & activities for your particular needs….
Group Development Process of Adventure Therapy Groups
You are probably aware of the popular group development model published by Bruce Tuckman, the rhyming schema of Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing and Transforming/Mourning. This…
The Four Emotional Needs
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode shares a brief introduction to Dr William Glasser‘s study on the four emotional needs of a human being. Dr Glasser is well-known…
Deliberate Creative
Would you like your team to be more creative? Not quite sure how to do this? This week, Dr Amy Climer shares the discoveries of…
How To Break-Up Cliques
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode reveals a series of simple, yet practical techniques and strategies you can use to break-up cliques in your group-based programs. Humans are…
The Power of Relationships at School
Here’s a short video produced by the good folk at Edutopia that explores the powerful benefits of developing and nurturing strong & healthy relationships at…
The Zone of Proximal Development
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode focuses on one of the most powerful educational theories of the 20th Century – the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD.) As…
The Only Way to Learn from Experience…
Seth Godin wrote in a recent blog post that ‘… the only way to learn from experience is to have different experiences.’ This same notion could…
How To Run an Effective Debrief
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode focuses on one of the most powerful tools of an experiential educator – the debrief, or as it often preferred to…
What Do I Do With Diverse Group Needs?
A long-time playmeo subscriber asks: We have a large group of staff who comprise young, old, loud, shy and a few very disgruntled people. My…
How To Calm Your Group
This week’s Facilitator Tips episode shares a number of useful tips and strategies you can use immediately to calm your group in preparation for their next…
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