Hello Facilitators!👋 We are so EXCITED to announce that we’ll be hosting a virtual meet-up next Thursday, March 9th at 7PM CET. This is the perfect opportunity for us all to come together, get to know one another and chat about Facilitation and Workshopping in a super casual way! The purpose of this call is for you to meet and learn from other community members in a friendly, open, and relatively unstructured format! This call won’t have a ‘theme,’ but we will draw from conversations happening within the community. As the format is so unstructured, if you’d like to discuss any successes or challenges you’re experiencing in the world of facilitation and workshopping, this is the space to share. We want to make this community as unique as possible and make genuine connections with you so we can all grow and learn together as Facilitators so meeting virtually is a great step in the right direction! If you’re interested in joining, here's the link to this call. The link to join is also in the Skool calendar 🤗 Hope to see many of you at this call. I'm SUPER excited to meet you all 💛

I love running workshops. And I'm delighted to stumble my way into this club filled with other people who do too! I've been doing facilitation of one kind of another for a long time now. I'm based in Melbourne, Australia, and I'm on a mission to master Hybrid workshops. For work, I'm an engagement lead at Red Hat, and I'm currently the maintainer and product owner of the Open Practice Library I never really know what to write in these sorts of things. if you're curious, please just ask me questions here! 😊

Hello everyone, fellow facilitators! My name is UDEOCHU Philip, I manage the largest Digital Entrepreneurship Platform in Africa, called Portfolio 9 (Community). We guide and groom poor/less privileged people and teach them how to start, run and grow small business enterprises, leveraging technology and social media platforms. I am happy to be part of this community. I look forward to connecting, learning and sharing experiences. Tnx.

One of the great things about what we do is you can do it as an employee or go out and become your own company. Whilst the later comes with amazing benefits there are a lot of areas that need to be considers… Like - What does it take to set myself up as a business or do I just contract in. - If I am setting myself up as a business am I a sole trader.. registering by business - Defining your purpose and setting clear goals yearly, quarterly - Defining your target customers, products, services and financials. Whilst this is a passion space for a lot of us, you still need to understand your revenue needs. - Branding and marketing - What do you need to set yourself up… physically, technology - Contracts for engagements - How to build a pipeline, managing you customer base Making sure you get work life balance! Would be interested in hearing and learning from each other on what made sense for you and what you would like to share with the rest of the community…

I'm excited to be here with y'all. I was a casualty of the recent layoffs at Yahoo, and I've spent the past 3 weeks putting some of the pieces back together...(sigh) it's a process. Finding this community has been an absolute bright spot for me! It feels SO good to be surrounded by like-minded people who are passionate and creative (remote work has me isolated like 😩). Back in 2018, I attended a full-day Sprint workshop hosted by Jake Knapp in Brooklyn, and realized quickly that there are near-infinite possibilities as a facilitator for solving problems, tailored to a specific goal. I've made it a focus in my career ever since, introducing so many of these frameworks to my teams over the past few years, to great success. I'm looking forward to learning from you all and adding as much value as I possibly can from my past experiences, and future discoveries. Cheers!