Leadership Tips
How To Give Positive Feedback
There is a lot of literature out there that describes how to give positive feedback to others. But, I just learned something about this process…
Leadership Tips
How To Give Positive Feedback
There is a lot of literature out there that describes how to give positive feedback to others. But, I just learned something about this process…
Trust Fall or Fall from Height?
One of the most vivid memories that many participants of a challenge ropes course report are their experiences with the Trust Fall activity. The Trust…
Reflection & Debriefing Skills – Four Part Tutorial
Four of the most popular episodes of our recent Facilitator Tips video tutorial series were dedicated to the Why, What, When and How of reflection…
How Do You Grow As a Facilitator?
My friends at High 5 Adventure Learning Center (USA) published an article last year that focused on how we fuel our growth as facilitators of…
7 Do’s & Don’ts When Playing Group Games Online
These past 10 months have been fascinating in so many ways, and none more powerful than honing my craft of presenting group games & activities…
5 Programming Lessons in a COVID19 Normal World
For most of 2020, I have focused on designing and delivering a bunch of virtual presentations, from highly-interactive fun & games to highly-polished slide presentations….
How To Adapt Activities for Physical-Distancing Rules
There have been two primary waves of enquiries since the current health pandemic rocked the world. The first and most urgent was focused on “How…
Debriefing Tip – Begin With The End In Mind
There are some, even within the experiential & adventure education community, who doubt that most of what we call debriefing or reflection is effective for…
6 Tips for Making Online Discussions Effective
This month, it is believed that close to half of all students in the United States will resume their schooling from a remote, home-based learning…
10 Tell-Tale Signs That Your Online Meetings Need Help
A fellow facilitator, Jacinta Cubis, has just finished an e-book about the top tell-tale signs that your online meetings need help and – importantly –…
5 Tips To Make Online Learning Videos Effective
In these times of the current pandemic, the world has rushed to embrace online platforms to engage their audiences and deliver content. As a result,…
Team Building Activities on Communication at Work
There is nothing in this world in which we do not communicate. It is also true that we could all learn to communicate more effectively….
Two Little Words To Help You Embrace More Inclusive Language
Have you ever felt that something you said, no matter how ‘correct’ you may have been, was not received very kindly by the people who…
Five Strategies To Help You When You Draw A Blank
Here is what my planning process for facilitating a group often looks like: I do an initial planning session, feeling great. I know my content,…
How To Deal With A Reluctant Audience
A reluctant audience is possibly one of the greatest fears of group facilitators. Groups can be reluctant or unwilling for lots of reasons, such as…
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…
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…
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?…
A Curiosity Deficit?
I’m picking up on recent correspondence from my good friends Will and Chad from We and Me! In their email, they raised a phenomenon called…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
