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Facilitating Engaging Meetings - Winter 2024
Join ICL for a 3-part virtual program where you'll learn meeting facilitation skills through guided interactive sessions.
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About this event
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 – Thursday, February 15th, 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, February 22nd, 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 - Thursday, February 29th, 1:30 – 3:00 pm (Eastern Time)
- Focus: Group dynamics and facilitation strategies, self-awareness and self-management, practice facilitation skills of summarizing and redirecting, 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.
Frequently asked questions
This virtual workshop series will be co-led by ICL Senior Associate, Pri Ekanayake, and ICL President, Dianne Russell. https://www.icl.org/about/our-staff/
A Zoom link will be sent to you after registering and before the program begins. Also look for pre-session materials in your inbox.
Please direct any questions about this program to info@icl.org. Visit our webpage for additional information https://www.icl.org/facilitating-engaging-meetings-winter2024/
To support healthy communities and a healthy Earth, the Institute for Conservation Leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions, and networks. Please visit our website to learn more about who we are and what we do - www.icl.org
If this program is sold out and you've been added to the waitlist, we will contact you if a spot becomes available. If no spots become available in this series, you have been added to our email list, and will be informed first when we open new dates for this program. You can unsubscribe at any time.
We do not offer refunds for this program. If you register and cannot attend, you can reach out to us to transfer your registration. We will send you the learning materials for the program whether you can attend live or not.