Leadership Tips
Are You Ready to Learn?
If you have followed my work for a while now, you will know that there are a handful of really – I mean, really –…
Leadership Tips
Are You Ready to Learn?
If you have followed my work for a while now, you will know that there are a handful of really – I mean, really –…
Facipulation
This is an article about what happens when you cross facilitation with manipulation. It may sound like a joke, but it’s not – it’s what…
How to Transfer Learning to the Real World
My nine-year-old son likes to mimic one of his favourite cartoon characters Bluey when he says “In real life?” to respond to something I have…
Politics Lives Downstream from Culture
I am fortunate to be a part of a wonderful Mastermind Group that meets fortnightly (via Zoom) and shares a deep well of wisdom regularly…
How To Do Physical Distancing?
Slowly but surely, groups are gathering again face-to-face after many months of being apart because of the COVID19 pandemic. Students are returning to classrooms and…
Connecting Students When They Come Back to School
The northern hemisphere is waking up and students are returning to the classroom. In most places, this will be face-to-face, while in others, the practice…
4 Quick Tips to Improve Online Delivery
Do you present or lead sessions online? Do you have 2 minutes to digest four quick tips to help you ramp up the engagement of…
5 Essential Tools To Help Groups Thrive
“A tradesman is only as good as their tools.” – author unknown A carpenter looks at a piece of lumber and can see a finely…
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…
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…
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