Facilitator’s Toolkit : Unveiling Effective Methods – online workshop

Dates: 24 & 26 April 2024
Time: 4-7pm CEST
Location: Zoom
Language: English

Facilitation is surely about the attitude and skills to design and guide a group through a holistic and participatory learning experience. Facilitation from behind the scenes, meaning your attitude and values as a facilitator, the goals of the meeting, and the broader vision of your educational work, is key. However, what ultimately reaches the participants are the methods. No matter if you just start your facilitation journey or you have been doing it for a long time, we all need a suitcase with the best methods to be used in different contexts that come in handy with different groups. At the end of the day it’s the method and way of facilitating that makes the difference between  standard moderation or teaching and FACILITATION.

In this workshop, we will dive deep into  a variety of methods that you can use in your work from big events to small meetings to practices that foster collaboration and unlock creativity. Besides the theoretical inputs, we will also practice some of these methods together to make them more tangible and give space for your questions.

The workshop covers:

• a deep dive into the world of methods, incl. overview over different types of methods for group work
• examples of methods broken down by four categories:

1. Participatory methods for big groups – accommodating different needs of people in one learning event
2. Backbone of every meeting: check-in and energizers, ideas for collecting expectations, feedback and check-out methods
3. Methods unleashing creativity and holistic learning  – simulations, visualisations, embodied methods
4. Methods for dialogue and meaningful discussions – deep listening, sharing power, getting different voices be heard

• practice sessions – we will try out at least 1 method from each category
• links to several toolboxes with descriptions of methods
• creation of own “roadmap” for methods you will use in your daily work

You will experience:

• a good balance between theory and practice delivered in two 3 hour-long online sessions on Zoom
• interactive online sessions implemented by experienced facilitators
• a learning community, with opportunities to exchange ideas and gain feedback from other participants
• a purpose-driven and process-oriented training design

This workshop is for you if:

• you are a project manager working in a team, a leader in your organisation, a teacher, a trainer
• you are looking for good methods to apply in your everyday work withour prior facilitation knowledge but also it suits you if…
• you have a solid background in facilitation as an approach but miss methodological skills
• you design and facilitate meetings, events, workshops in different contexts and want to do it better
• you need orientation in what method works best in which situation
• you want to connect with other facilitators, project managers and educators to exchange and learn from each other

Facilitators

Tino Rasche studied physics in Germany and Russia but today he is more passionate about values and critical thinking and how to show that they are very connected to nature, as proven by science. As a facilitator, he is creating educational spaces for diversity-conscious value-based cooperation of individuals, teams, and organizations. He is passionate about finding creative solutions by combining various spheres of life (philosophy, natural and social sciences, economics, education, health, language, music, technology, theater…) with an active personal attitude.

Marta Gawinek – Dagargulia is a born cosmopolitan and lover of diversity, an educator and facilitator for 15 years now with very thorough experience in online facilitation. Her professional passions are lifelong learning, civic education and the development of key competencies for the working environments of tomorrow. She is an experienced project manager and team lead who has created spaces for empowering individuals and communities in Georgia, Central Europe and Germany.