by Beth Cougler Blom | May 10, 2023 | Podcast Episodes
In this episode, Beth Cougler Blom talks with Kirsty Lewis about how we facilitators need to do our own inner and outer work to be able to take care of and invest in ourselves as well as serve our clients. Beth and Kirsty also discuss: finding people to help us at...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Apr 26, 2023 | Podcast Episodes
In this episode, Beth talks with Rebecca Sutherns about her book, ELASTIC: Stretch Without Snapping or Snapping Back, and how its insights can apply to facilitators and their groups. Rebecca uses the metaphor of a rubber band to explain how people can try to find the...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Apr 12, 2023 | Podcast Episodes
In this episode, Beth Cougler Blom talks about some of the ways we might experience self-doubt as designers and facilitators of learning and what to do about it. She reveals some of the ways self-doubt has crept up for her and shares some of the things she thinks...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 22, 2023 | Podcast Episodes
In this episode, Beth talks with Chad Littlefield about designing group experiences for contribution, not just consumption. They explore Chad’s concept of “connection before content” and how to do that particularly at the starts and ends of meetings...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 8, 2023 | Podcast Episodes
In this episode, Beth and facilitator Romy Alexandra explore the topic of experiential learning. But they don’t just talk about experiential learning, they actually do it! Romy and Beth each facilitate the other through several sense-based activities, then...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Feb 22, 2023 | Podcast Episodes
In this episode, Beth chats with Maya Chupkov of the Proud Stutter podcast about facilitators who stutter. They talk about how groups might perceive stuttering and what to do about that, strategies that facilitators who stutter might use when working with groups, and...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Feb 18, 2023 | Educational technology, Facilitation, Learning, Learning design
I finally got a chance to jump on the ChatGPT bandwagon. The first task I asked this AI tool to complete was to “Create a 200 word blog post in the style of Beth Cougler Blom about why participatory learning experiences are effective.” What do you think?...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Feb 8, 2023 | Podcast Episodes
In this episode, Beth shares several recommendations about how to work with course content that you might, at first, consider dry or boring and make it come alive for your learners. It’s not the content of our sessions that is naturally “dry” –...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jan 29, 2023 | Facilitation, Professional development, Workshops
I often get asked how folks can learn more about facilitation, so I thought I’d do another post about it here. I’ll start by saying generally that if you are interested in “facilitation” it would be good to decide whether you’re...