by Beth Cougler Blom | Sep 28, 2022 | Podcast Episodes
In this episode, Beth shares why she chose the name of the podcast, Facilitating on Purpose. She talks about what that means and why we might want to facilitate learning with our groups on purpose, as well as some initial ideas of how to do that. Listen in to learn...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Sep 14, 2022 | Podcast Episodes
In this episode, Beth shares a little about who she is, why she started the Facilitating on Purpose podcast, who it’s for, and what you can expect from it. Listen in to learn more about: How Beth became somewhat of an accidental facilitator How falling into...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Sep 7, 2022 | Business back end, Podcast
The Facilitating on Purpose podcast launches next Wednesday, September 14 – woot! It’s a podcast for people who design and facilitate learning experiences. Enough people have asked me about the process of creating the podcast that I thought I’d write...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Aug 30, 2022 | Business back end, Facilitation, Learning design, Online facilitation, Podcast, Professional development, Teaching, Teaching online
I’ve been working on an exciting project for a while, and I’m very happy to let you know that it is almost ready. I’m launching a podcast called Facilitating on Purpose and it will be all about designing and facilitating learning experiences....
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jul 8, 2022 | Business back end, Facilitation, Teaching, Workshops
In May I facilitated a half-day workshop at a Vancouver-area college and it marked my first in person facilitation since the pandemic took hold of us all in March 2020. I was thrilled to be back in a physical room again and revelled particularly in the sound of...
by Beth Cougler Blom | May 25, 2022 | Learning design, Online facilitation, Teaching online
I got a lovely email recently from someone who said that she has so appreciated my book because it’s full of great ideas. She asked me if I would share my top five or ten most important points for people to consider when teaching virtually, which I was doing...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Apr 25, 2022 | Learning design
As a learning designer I get the chance every year to work with great organizations to build courses on interesting topics. Every topic is worthwhile of course, but sometimes one comes along that also has direct relevance to my own life. This happened last year when I...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 21, 2022 | Learning design
Recently I was working with a client in a 1:1 consulting session and we were looking at their emerging lesson plan for a 2-hour workshop. I noticed some misalignments between the draft learning outcomes they’d written and the content and activities they’d designed...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 10, 2022 | Facilitation
In my last post I described how to facilitate the Back to Back Listening activity virtually. What I didn’t know then was that I would soon receive negative feedback about that activity from a participant. And it prompted me to think more intentionally about my...