by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 13, 2018 | Facilitation
Yesterday I facilitated a short session for a local networking group, the Sooke Women in Business, about how to engage participants when doing speaking events. Of course I planned for the session to be very participatory and I asked the group to come up with...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Nov 16, 2017 | Facilitation, Professional development
A few weeks ago I wrote a post announcing that I had co-facilitated the Facilitator Development Workshop (FDW) at Royal Roads University in September, at which I got ‘mentored in’ to the role of Trainer by working with Doug Kerr. The FDW is the course that...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Nov 3, 2017 | Facilitation, Professional development
It was back in February this year that some of us, while gathered at the Liberating Structures immersion workshop in Vancouver, began talking about starting a Victoria-based user group to continue to deepen our practice in using Liberating Structures. Tracy Kelly from...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Oct 3, 2017 | Facilitation, Professional development
A couple of weeks ago I got the opportunity to co-facilitate a Facilitator Development Workshop with Doug Kerr and David Stevenson for Royal Roads University. The FDW is the workshop that people take to learn how to facilitate the Instructional Skills Workshop, a...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Sep 5, 2017 | Facilitation
A few years ago I got a chance to tag along with a school group at the Royal BC Museum for a few hours, a sort of spin-off activity to a facilitation project I was working on at the time. I was really impressed with the educators at this wonderful venue and was...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jul 9, 2017 | Facilitation
On Friday I was downtown Victoria at the H.O.S.T. (Home Office Support Team) meetup group, speaking to those gathered there about the topic of engaging their audience at their next speaking event. While I never refer to myself as a “speaker”, or even...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jun 6, 2017 | Educational technology, Facilitation, Professional development
Last week I was in Kelowna to attend the ETUG Spring Jam, a two-day conference hosted by the Educational Technology Users Group out of BCcampus. (BCcampus is an organization which supports all public higher educational institutions in British Columbia.) I attended...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 31, 2017 | Facilitation, Professional development
I heard on one of my favourite podcasts today that March is #TryPod month, a month to get people who aren’t listening to podcasts already to try them. I think I still have time to slip a post on this under the wire, this being the last day of March, so here are...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 21, 2017 | Facilitation, Online facilitation
Last week I wrote a post detailing Part 1 of my experience trying out Facebook Live, and I shared a few things that I learned while getting started with this tool. In this post I want to share with you some of the things I learned while doing the session itself and...