Facilitating Engaging Meetings - Winter 2024

Do you want to lead more productive meetings? Are you struggling with getting folks to participate in meetings? Do you wonder how to prevent or manage difficult group dynamics in meetings?

Join our 3-part interactive virtual program to increase your understanding of meeting facilitation and your confidence as a facilitator. We’ll learn and practice skills though guided interactive virtual sessions. This workshop series is designed to emphasize peer learning and to build connections with your peers who also care about the environment and community health. You will walk away from this program with a new set of facilitation tools and a plan to apply what you learn in your own context!

Overall Outcomes:

By the end of the program participants will gain knowledge and skills about:

• Your facilitation role and stance
• Planning an engaging meeting
• An understanding of group dynamics
• Core facilitator skills, including listening, summarizing, and redirecting
• Specific activities and tools that support engagement
• A personal plan for your future facilitation efforts

When will it be held?

This interactive workshop series consists of three separate sessions and takes place over the course of three weeks.

Session 1 – Tuesday, December 3rd, 1:30 – 3:00 pm (Eastern Time)

• Focus: Your personal tendencies, strengths, and stance as a facilitator, planning for engaging meetings, creating clear outcomes and expectations

Session 2 - Thursday, December 5th, 1:30 – 3:00 pm (Eastern Time)

• Focus: Tips for creating engagement and productivity, specific tools for leading meetings (virtual and in-person meetings), applying the facilitation skills of listening and summarizing

Session 3 - Tuesday, December 10th, 1:30 – 3:00 pm (Eastern Time)

• Focus: Group dynamics and facilitation strategies, self-awareness and self-management, practice facilitation skills, create a personal plan as a facilitator

Your tuition covers a pre-session orientation video, three 90-minute workshop webinars, assignments between workshops, a package of materials (ICL handouts and worksheets, as well as all content co-created by the group). In addition, recordings of the workshops will be available for 60 days following the end of the program.

Host or Publisher The Institute for Conservation Leadership