Facilitation Mastery: From Draining Meetings to Driven Outcomes
Facilitation Mastery helps you move beyond ineffective, routine meetings to sessions that foster collaboration, manage group dynamics, and create clarity and alignment. Learn how to change the meeting dynamic in your workplace to engage people, unlock ideas, and deliver results—whether in-person or online.
Overview
Over two practical, high-energy days, you’ll learn how to design and lead meetings and workshops that foster collaboration, manage group dynamics, and create clarity and alignment. You’ll leave with a ready-to-use toolkit and the confidence to apply it in your workplace immediately.
The course covers online facilitation and how to use AI tools to support you.
Participants will receive a Radically Certificate of Completion.
Audience
This course is ideal for anyone involved in running meetings and workshops.
Why Attend?
Build a powerful facilitation mindset
Transition from facilitator-as-task-owner to facilitator-as-enabler, guiding teams to achieve outcomes, through collaborative and high-performance, not just processes.
Master tools, techniques & frameworks
From pre-meeting planning to real-time adaptation, you’ll learn how to script powerful session flows, apply visual facilitation, and handle unpredictable team dynamics with confidence.
Learn by doing
This course emphasises experiential learning. You’ll co-design and facilitate real meetings in small groups, receive live feedback, and refine your skills in a safe environment.
Upcoming Classes
The next classes will be taking place in Auckland on:
Tuesday 12th August to Wednesday 13th August — BOOK HERE.
Course Outline
Day 1: Foundations of Great Facilitation
We lay the groundwork for effective facilitation by exploring mindset, foundational skills, and key frameworks.
- What makes sessions succeed (or fail)?
- Defining facilitation and exploring its impact
- Understanding your facilitation context
- Core facilitation frameworks
- Workshop design and agenda-building essentials
- Introduction to the Facilitation Canvas
- Exploring the role of AI in facilitation
- End-of-day reflections and retro
Day 2: Practising and Deepening Your Skills
Day two focuses on application — practising techniques, refining your style, and addressing real-world challenges.
- Morning check-in and recap of key takeaways
- Identifying and managing unhelpful behaviours in sessions
- Setting up physical and virtual spaces for success
- Tools, props, and practical facilitation tips
- Inclusive facilitation: supporting diverse needs and perspectives
- Online facilitation: tools and techniques for digital delivery
- Live facilitation practice and feedback
- Building trust and presence as a facilitator
- Decision-making techniques and frameworks
- Asking powerful questions and reading the room
- Stakeholder alignment: real-world activity and application
- Final reflection and course wrap-up
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