I get called a lot by folks to provide support to shape agendas, give input on activities and share facilitation tips for colleagues. During the conversation, they will sometime ask me for advice on how to balance being the facilitator and a participant. My response is "DON'T". While it is possible to be both, I don't recommend it. My response is that they should make the decision to do one or the other but not both. What's your take on being a facilitator AND a participant during a workshop?

I was speaking with a colleague with ADHD recently who was telling me about how she often struggles to stay focussed as a workshop participant. She went on to tell me about one workshop where the facilitator gave everyone a small toy to fidget with throughout the session. She said this was incredibly helpful for her, and she was able to focus much more intently. I thought this was really interesting, and I guess it relates to the theory of Lego Serious Play i.e. engaging our hands engages more of our brain. I wanted to see if anyone had had any experience of this they wanted to share?

I’m currently training to be an executive coach as I believe it will give me a complementary set of skills for the work I do as a facilitator. As part of my training I need to log a certain number of practice hours and so I’m looking for people who might be willing to try being coached…for free! A few details for anyone who might be interested: I am still in training, and won’t qualify officially for a few more months, but I am being taught by a very reputable coaching institution The offer is for 2 or 3 hour long coaching sessions, conducted virtually, where we can discuss and explore any career goals you have and what steps you might need to take to achieve them It doesn’t have to be about your facilitation career, but given this forum I’m expecting that’s what you might want to discuss There is absolutely no charge If you’re interested, please like this post and I’ll message you to set up some time to discuss things in a bit more detail, Thank you!

Hi folks ✌️ I would like to create a workshop specifically for the creative industry, agencies dedicated to publicity, branding, content creation, or social media. Have any of you facilitated a workshop for this type of business? What is the biggest problem or pain that can be solved using workshops? Thanks for your support 🔥

i am currently working on a session where we will use the Value/ effort exercice for each key idea. Regarding the effort, we will use the T-shirt sizing with a reference point like XL: 1year L:6 months etc... but i am struggling a bit regarding the "VALUE" what kind of reference point you can have for value ... because value can be in so many different ways ? any suggestions from the club ;) i would like to have a similar approach than XL : 1year , etc... but for the value / impact. thanks JP All ideas more than welcome.