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 Beth Cougler Blom | Nov 4, 2022 | Books, Learning design, Teaching, Workshops
My clients often buy more than one copy of my book, Design to Engage: How to Create and Facilitate a Great Learning Experience For Any Group, for their groups of faculty, facilitators or staff. Now is a great time to be thinking of whether you could do this for the...
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 13, 2021 | Online facilitation, Teaching online, Workshops
Come learn with me in these remaining workshops and practice/conversation sessions before the summer hits… May 19, 2021 – More Elements of Fun: Virtual Games and Activities for Groups (1.5 hours) Join me this high energy session featuring all new games and...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Feb 4, 2020 | Facilitation, Teaching, Workshops
It’s been four years since I attended my first Liberating Structures immersion workshop, with Keith McCandless, Fisher Qua, and Tracy Roberts and Leva Lee from BCcampus. Not too many months before that, I’d never heard of Liberating Structures 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 | May 15, 2018 | Teaching, Workshops
In late April I co-facilitated a workshop with my friend and colleague Tracy (Kelly) Roberts, it was a two-day Liberating Structures immersion for Royal Roads University. We had 27 participants with us learning how to use Liberating Structures, a set of 33...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jan 23, 2018 | Learning design, Online facilitation, Workshops
Last October I co-facilitated the “FLO Synchronous” course for the third time, with a class of over 20 people from various BC post-secondary institutions. FLO Synchronous is short for “Facilitating Learning Online: Synchronous”, a three-week... by Beth Cougler Blom | Jun 13, 2015 | Facilitation, Workshops
I’ve been reading a lot about human-centred design these days and one of the “mindsets” of HCD is to have creative confidence. To help achieve this, experts advise that we should venture out of our comfort zone, including learning about and immersing...
