by Beth Cougler Blom | Jun 3, 2019 | Facilitation, Professional development
Over the weekend I participated in Power of Hope’s Creative Facilitation workshop. It was divided into three sessions: two hours on Friday night, a full day on Saturday, and Sunday afternoon. I’ve been reading Lynda Barry’s Syllabus book –... by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 5, 2019 | Business back end, Consulting
I would like to talk with a few people who work in the nonprofit sector – in Canada – who could use some advice about how to train people effectively. This quick video will tell you more. If you’re interested in this (it will likely look like a...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Feb 15, 2019 | Business back end, Professional development
A few months ago I created a business Instagram profile after being on it for some time personally. I’ve been really enjoying using Instagram to document some of the things I’m doing, business-wise, including some of my professional development reading and...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jan 31, 2019 | Teaching, Teaching online, Workshops
It feels like a good time to do a ’roundup’ of workshops going on in the next several months that are available to people in Victoria or online and related to facilitation, learning design or public speaking. If you know of another workshop that I...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jan 3, 2019 | Business back end
These past few days I’ve been doing a lot of looking back and reflecting on my past year, business-wise. Normally I do this in December so this post is a little late, but it feels like a good way to start the new year as well. A little looking back in order to...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Dec 13, 2018 | Consulting
For the second year I’m offering a special discounted rate on educational consulting sessions, for a limited time only. Educational Consulting Sessions Consulting sessions are 1.5 hours in length and take place over Zoom web conferencing or phone. During the...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Oct 13, 2018 | Facilitation, Learning design
I’ve been working on some interesting writing, research, design and facilitation projects lately so I thought I’d talk a little about them here. This wide variety of educational projects has been keeping me busy and engaged. Here are some highlights: FLO...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Sep 21, 2018 | Facilitation
Back in July through my work with Royal Roads University I was able to help facilitate the coming together of over 90 people – in person and online – to discuss the establishment of a Community of Practice (CoP) for administrative professionals at the...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Sep 15, 2018 | Learning design
This past year I was part of a project funded by the Research Universities’ Council of British Columbia (RUCBC), an entity which represents the interests of BC’s research universities (UBC, TRU, RRU, UVic, SFU and UNBC). The project involved creating...