by Beth Cougler Blom | Jul 2, 2024 | Facilitation, Online facilitation
As we head into the summer months, it’s a perfect time to plan ahead and book professional facilitation services for your fall or winter meeting. We support organizational clients every year to plan for and facilitate effective meetings. We’d love to work with...
by Beth Cougler Blom | May 24, 2024 | Facilitation
Does your society or association convene regular members’ meetings for which you’re constantly seeking ways to engage them as the organizer? Here are four simple methods you can use to engage your group, drawn from a collection of activities known as...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Apr 12, 2024 | Facilitation, Learning design
We love our learning design and facilitation work for clients—and sometimes we get so busy doing the work that we forget to tell the stories of what we’re up to! It’s time to rectify that situation and share a few short examples of some of the projects we’ve been...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jan 30, 2024 | Facilitation, Podcast
We are thrilled to share that Beth’s podcast, Facilitating on Purpose, has been voted into the Top 5 Most Listened-To Podcasts featured in SessionLab’s State of Facilitation 2024 report. This report highlights “essential information and expert...
by Carla | May 2, 2023 | Facilitation, Professional development
Meg Bolger is a social justice educator, facilitator trainer, and the founder of Facilitator Cards, a set of activity cards used to help design and facilitate group learning. Recently, I (Carla) had the opportunity to participate in a virtual workshop Meg hosted...
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 | 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...
by Carla | Nov 22, 2022 | Facilitation, Learning
When I think about learning opportunities, I often think of the learning that happens in formal settings first. The workshop. The course. The virtual training session. But what about the learning opportunities that occur as we go about our day? What about the broader...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Oct 18, 2022 | Facilitation
A number of years ago I facilitated a meeting for an organization with which I was very familiar, to help them have a conversation about a certain area of their work. I led about a dozen people through several Liberating Structures, one of which was the activity...
