Hello Facilitators👋 I'm really curious about where everyone is from. I'd love to make this a mega post where we can see how diverse the Facilitator Club community is. Who knows, you might find a lot more people in your area than you thought! Once I have lots of answers on this post, I want to make a nice graph!

hi guys, Some of you know me from the Workshopper Master community, some not. So I choose to introduce myself as this community grows so fast and I am happy to be here! Here is my video and you can find me on Linkein posting almost daily about exercises used in workshops and trainings. I started on top of my part-time corporate job freelancing as well and still learning how to do marketing and how to find clients that need my help. So the experience I have, (more than 200 workshops in the last 2 years) and learning now the "how to find people who need me" part :) I am happy to connect with you!

During one of my team building programs, a very exciting participant wasn't satisfied about the result and she argued loudly and aggressively demanding extra points for her team, and this is the moment for us as facilitators to show our strength and wisdom, it was very tough moments for me, how to handle it, because if I let it go it ll ruin the whole program, I changed the debriefing around that point and linked it with the objectives of the game and involved her at the discussion along the way several times, later I had a conversation with the manager who were attending, she told me that I was watching and waiting for you to handle it :) - Have you eve faced a vert tough participant or similar situation ? - How you handled the situation, or what tools you used?

One of the toughest skills to learn as a workshop facilitator is managing circular discussions. I'm talking about those discussions where where the team goes around in circles discussing the same topic multiple times. Here’s my top tips on how to handle circular discussions: - Time-boxing - let the group know that you’re going to set a timer for this discussion, the time-pressure will help people be more concise in their thoughts. - Note taking - Listen to the discussion and add notes to your whiteboard. Visualising a discussion will help the team recognise when they’re repeating themselves. - Addressing repetition - Tell the team when they’re repeating themselves, highlight the notes on the board that cover what they’re saying and ask them (politely) to move on. - Challenge relevance - Circular discussions have a tendency to get off track, if you feel like what’s being discussed isn’t relevant to the topic at hand, highlight it with the team. - Summarising - Once you feel like enough has been said, interject with a summary, ask the group if you’ve missed anything and if not, move on. - Deciding - If the discussion needs a decision to move forward, summarise and then ask your decider to decide what you should move forward with. - Parking lot - If a discussion is stretching on too long, and its not crucial to resolve it for the purpose of your workshop, add a post-it to your parking lot and return the discussion later if you have time What are you top tips for managing discussions in a workshop?

What do you all think about method card decks? Personally I used them a bit at university to plan/design workshops I remember liking the tactile feel instead of flipping through books like Gamestorming. But now I feel that they might be redundant or more of a novelty product. I'm still considering designing my own with my favorite methods for personal use, but I'm split in other decks as I both see reasons in paying no attention to them and hoarding them like a greedy dragon. Pros & Cons I see +Tactile +Compact +Can be displayed on the wall in the workshop room as a sort of schedule -Less information on methods than books -Planning/designing workshops can be easily done digitally or with post-it's instead when you know your favorite methods. I would like to hear other opinions on this topic as I feel like I'm missing something.

My absolute favourite icebreaker is called draw a duck, it’s as simple as it sounds. 🦆 1️⃣ Give everyone post-its and a sharpie 2️⃣ Give them 60 seconds to draw a duck 3️⃣ Have them all put their ducks on the whiteboard 4️⃣ Briefly review your ducks as a group. That’s it. I love it because it’s a quick and effective way to inject a bit of fun into the start of the workshop. Plus, it lowers the bar for visualising ideas later, showing that ability to draw doesn’t matter. Want to practice? Grab a post-it and drop a picture of your duck in the comments, then tag someone in Faciltiator club do the same! 🦆 I'll start us off in the comments! 👇

Speed Session: Unlocking the Power of Project Lessons in 1 HourYou have 1 hour of time with your team to create project lessons learned. So much work together and now you need to think back, reflect and learn about it. How do you do this? Here is a simple working session setup that will help you achieve this in 1 hour time (feel free to adapt it, take more time, and so on - I had only 1 hour so I thought to share with you what I did): 🎲 Check-in: White 3 words that come to your mind about our project 🎲 Wind & Sun: Share:how the wind helped us forwardhow the sun made us feel good 🎲Hold us back: Share what was holding us back on the way 🎲 Use the Learning Card from Strategyzer and share observations, learnings, and decisions. I love this card because it is helping people to think deeply about their journey lessons and bring it as well to tangible decisions and action steps. 🎲 Personal action points: What will I do out of these learnings? We want that every person from this team has a personal action point out of this learning session, in order for them to commit on their personal takeaway. If you want to check out the Learning Card from Strategyzer, here is the link where you can download it from: https://www.strategyzer.com/resources/canvas-tools-guides/the-learning-card One of the other cards I am using very often from Strategyzer is the Test Card, for which I wrote an entire article and a real use case here: https://teamflow.substack.com/p/7-steps-to-turn-ideas-into-reality I wanted to share my way of handling this session and I am here in case you have questions.

Hi everyone, I am French, located in Munich DE (2/3), and Grenoble FR (1/3). I started doing facilitation as a UX lead and migrated to workshop creation and facilitation also bringing change management and innovation into the picture. I am currently interested in visual practices like scribing https://www.u-school.org/visual-practice#vp-programs (from Theory U) and how it relates to workshop facilitation. Are there any visual facilitators in the group? I have no scribing experience but I used to draw a lot during boring meetings, so I think I should give this a try 😁 Looking forward to interacting with the group.

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My name is Anthony from Belgium, and I live close to Antwerp. I'm a Product / UX designer and workshop facilitator, and enthusiastic about joining this new club/community. I see numerous familiar faces 😉 but also many new ones. 😄 And, like everyone, I'm here to meet fellow facilitators, share expertise, and learn from all of you. Looking forward to our talks. Anthony

Hi team. I'm curious to know how people stimulate creative thinking in problem solving / idea generation sessions. I have an exercise I use to demonstrate how the human brain works; we play the 'yeah but-yes and' game; I use prompts like Picture Cards and Story Cubes; we do Guided Visualisation; prompts like Imagine if or I wonder what would happen...what else?