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Custom Facilitation for Meetings and Retreats
We create two main types of facilitation experiences for our clients: facilitated learning experiences and facilitated meetings. In our most recent post, we shared examples of custom workshops we’ve designed and facilitated to help groups build facilitation skills. In...
Custom Workshops for Facilitators and Faculty
We create two main types of facilitation experiences for our clients: facilitated learning experiences and facilitated meetings. While both draw on strong design and facilitation skills, they serve different purposes. Sometimes clients hire us to help a group learn...
Why Learning Designers Make Great Facilitators
Not every great facilitator is a learning designer, but many learning designers make exceptional facilitators. Here are just some of the reasons why we think our learning design expertise makes us great facilitators of both meetings and workshops. We care about...
Helping Leaders Master Difficult Conversations
One of the things we love doing in our work is providing support to small businesses that want to offer quality courses to their clients. That’s why we were pleased to work with the human resource consulting firm Reimagine Work last year to help them create the Master...
Writing Everyday Acts of Facilitation
All this year I (Beth Cougler Blom) have been working on a special project: writing and publishing my next book, which will be called Everyday Acts of Facilitation: Learning to Facilitate Through Life's Ordinary Moments. I've been documenting some of my writing...
Editing Support That Fits Your Needs
Over the past few years, we’ve quietly added formal editing services to our projects in both learning design and facilitation. We weren’t trying to keep this quiet on purpose (!); we’ve just been enhancing our services as we typically do over time and hadn’t yet...
Redesigning a Leadership Series for Women in the Skilled Trades
Imagine a tradeswoman at the start of her career, stepping into her first leadership role. Or another who’s been in the industry for years and is ready to take on more responsibility. Both need practical tools, confidence, and a community behind them to help reach...
Supporting Pain BC’s Learning Programs with Plain Language
In our latest newsletter, we featured a brief spotlight on our longtime collaboration with Pain BC. We’re sharing it here too for those who may have missed it. (Want to get updates like this delivered to your inbox every few months? You can subscribe to our newsletter...
Plain Language and Health Literacy
At its heart, plain language is clear communication. It helps everyone understand information, regardless of literacy level or expertise. And the more complex the subject, the more important this becomes. Think about signing a legal contract or consent form without...
Thinking About Booking Facilitation? Here’s What to Expect
This post is about preparing to meet with us about our facilitation services. To learn about exploration meetings for our learning design services, read this post. We offer two types of facilitation services: Meeting facilitation: To help your group have...