2008/9 Workshop Series
June 26, 2009 Facilitation Techniques for Staying Present and Spontaneous Tracy Washington Enger	This will be a training/remembering/focusing event where we will do some real work -- exciting work. The session will be highly interactive, engaging, challenging and rewarding. Everyone who comes to it will have an opportunity to learn and remember a set of powerful tools and proven methods for designing and facilitating spectacular events. And, everyone who comes to this event will use our time together to immediately apply these methods to the design of an actual event that you agree to conduct in the immediate days/weeks/months after our session.
May 22, 2009 Draw the Iron Curtain – Here’s the MuSCoW List! Arunkumar V. Iyer	With the advent of Spiral methodologies in project management it is ever more important to engage all players in a project. This is an implied invitation for Facilitation in Project Management. This workshop will give you a quick overview of comparison between methodologies and concepts of the spiral approach. It will bring out the salient features of iterative and incremental achievement of project objectives. In addition, it will highlight the challenge of prioritization between competing requirements and show you the use of a MuSCoW List as a tool for productive requirements gathering. The presenter brings the lessons learned from hands-on experience and is a practitioner and proponent of this method.
April 17, 2009 Appreciative Inquiry: Focusing on What Works – It’s All About the Possibilities Helene C. Sugarman	Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a powerful approach for energizing the positive change in an organization. It is based on a simple assumption: every organization has something that works well. Appreciative Inquiry rejects the conventional approach of focusing on problems (looking at “what is wrong around here”) and instead seeks to identify what is working well and finding opportunities for positive change. In a nutshell, Appreciative Inquiry is the study of “what works.” Appreciative Inquiry is a process which focuses organizations on their positive qualities, and leverages those qualities to enhance the organization. By shifting attention away from the problems of the past and focusing on the potential of the future, Appreciative Inquiry aspires to transform individuals and organizations and having dialogue about strengths, successes, values, hopes and dreams.
March 27, 2009 Exploring Our Mental Models A Path to Better Communication Laura E. Jones, CPF	How well do we listen to each other? Do we share our own views openly? Are we able to open our minds to another’s perspective? Are we aware of our hidden and tacit assumptions? How do we create shared meaning? Are we skilled at asking questions that invite open exploration? As facilitators, we are asked to guide participants through purposeful discussions, invite multiple perspectives, reach consensus and achieve results. We invite openness and creativity while managing conflict. How do we encourage individual and group awareness while focusing on achieving results?
February 27, 2009 Translating Robert’s Rules to Facilitated Events Colette Trohan CPP-T, PRP	What on earth does Robert’s Rules of Order have to do with facilitation? Isn’t it something that we want to avoid? Actually, these processes are not mutually exclusive. Just as good facilitation skills can be an asset for anyone running a formal meeting, understanding of the fundamentals of this common decision-making process can give facilitators an advantage, especially when working with difficult people. Every time a facilitator begins with “ground rules” or “norms” he’s really setting up special rules of order, and when taking straw polls it’s just another way of taking votes. This session will investigate ways to adapt the commonly accepted and familiar ways of handling participants in a meeting under Robert’s Rules to facilitation settings.
January 23, 2009 Facilitating the How® of Retreat Planning & Facilitation Rebecca Twitchell	Facilitators are much more than that and deserve to be recognized for it – especially when a retreat is involved. This workshop will not only include some sure fire ways for facilitators to keep people motivated and busy on retreats, but more importantly, it will make a facilitator look like a rock star. Look at the bigger picture of the responsibility to “facilitate.” Look at it from the standpoint that it means facilitator of life, of challenges, of overcoming obstacles, of planning, of organizing, of … then he or she will be looked at with a tremendous amount of respect and admiration.
December 19, 2008 Improv Facilitation Part 3: Creating Dynamic Learning Michelle James	In this program you will learn and experience a variety of improvisational theater principles and practices designed to enliven your workshops and accelerate participant learning. Effectively getting groups to open up to experiential creative approaches begins with increasing your own comfort and flexibility with the techniques you facilitate. This workshop will focus on two levels at the same time - you as a professional facilitator and you as a creative individual.
November 21, 2008 Teambuilding Using Latin Dance Dr. Barbara Bernstein	Are you as fascinated with “Dancing with the Stars” as much as I am for the amount of cooperation and coordination it takes for a group of dancers to make it look good? Don’t you wish that your teams could work together like that? Danceintime is a program that enhances team-building and cooperation through the use of Latin music and dance. This program focuses on enhancing the connection and cooperation among people who work together. Music/dance activities are the vehicles used to achieve the teamwork among participants. No prior knowledge or experience is assumed, and the dance program is done in a relaxed environment.
October 24, 2008 Understanding Your Type: Myers-Briggs Implications on Facilitation Dawn Rhine, CPF	According to Carl Jung, we are born with innate personality preferences. Through the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), you can explore how you are wired and how it can potentially impact your interactions with others. This practical tool utilizes a personality inventory assessment to help you discover your individual personality preferences. You will not only become aware and understand yourself better, but will also gain a better understanding of the personality differences of others. By discovering your personality preferences, you can capitalize on individual strengths to be more effective as a facilitator.
September 26, 2008 Facilitating the Strategic Planning Process Gloria Trope	In order to move an organization through the strategic planning process, the use of a variety of facilitation methodologies is necessary. Do you know the best methodologies? How do you choose the most appropriate? Can you keep the participants fully engaged during the process? These, and other questions you may have, will be addressed during this session. Additionally, you will get to model some of the key methodologies and add more tools to your toolbox. Do you know the best methodologies? How do you choose the most appropriate? Can you keep the participants fully engaged during the process? These, and other questions you may have, will be addressed during this session.
2007/8 Workshop Series
June 27, 2008	"What Hat Do I Wear? -- How facilitators use mediation to resolve group disputes - Andy Pizzi
May 16, 2008	Facilitating Results from High Performance Teams - Wayne J. Vick, CPF, Dynamic Leadership Consulting Group, Inc.
April 25, 2008	From Yawn to Fun, on Purpose - B. Olsen, CPF, Olsen Innovations This Workshop was Cancelled by the Speaker
March 28, 2008	The More the Merrier"..Nuts and Bolts for Facilitating Large Groups – Marianne Scippa, Scippa & Associates
February 22, 2008	Facilitating the Risky out of Risk Management - Lynda Ramirez-Blust
January 25, 2008	The Business End of Facilitation: How to Set Up Your Independent Facilitation Business – JR Holt,CPF, CMF, JRH Associates
December 14, 2007	Designer Democracy: Public Participation in an Age of Cynicism - Joel Mills
November 16, 2007	Positive Deviance – Linda Barker
October 26, 2007	Instructional Moments: Insightful, Intuitive Facilitation using Improv Theater Techniques – Izzy Gazel, IzzyG & Co.
September 28, 2007	What Our Body Language Really Says – Margarita Rozenfeld Yes! Circle
2006/7 Workshop Series
June 22, 2007	Experimentations with Collaborative Technology - JR H
May 25, 2007	Scenario Planning: The Facilitators Perspective - Barbara Collins & Ross Van Horn, Centre for Strategic Management
April 27, 2007	Facilitating Workgroups through the Assumption Trap - Kathy Joyce, M.K. Joyce & Associates
March 23, 2007	Emergenetics - Thinking preference communications tool - Jan Gravel, Janus Development Group, LLC
February 23, 2007	Ontological Coaching: Enhance Your Facilitation Practice - Fran Lowe, CPF, J. Cogan PhD, C. Stevens
January 26, 2007	Future Facilitation Panel: Technology in Virtual Events - Karen Buehler, CPF, K.L. Buehler Consulting
December 15, 2006	Facilitating in the Open Space Technology - Debby Sugarman
November 17, 2006	Creativity by the Book - Charles Markert, CPF, Dynamic Leadership Consulting Group, Inc.
October 27, 2006	The Up-Side of Change: How to Avoid the Crusader/ Resistor Trap - John Lesko, CPF, Anteon Corporation/SAFTAS A Team Innovation Center
September 22, 2006	Dynamic Facilitation - Jim Rough, Jim Rough & Associates
2005/6 Workshop Series
June 23, 2006	7 Levels of Change, a Thinkshop on Facilitating Change - Bill Olsen, CPF, Olsen Innovations
May 19, 2006	Creative Facilitation through Improv II - Michelle James, Center for Creative Emergence
April 28, 2006	Appreciative Inquiry Workshop - Peg Patterson, Social Security Administration
March 24, 2006	Facilitating Vision Development for Sustained Performance - Margarita Rozenfeld, Yes!Circle
February 24, 2006	Decision Making and Consensus: Is Consensus Always The Right Approach? - Becky Roberts, CPF, Catoctin Consulting, Inc.
January 27, 2006	Working the Room: Indoor Options for Developing Individuals & Teams - Marianne Scippa, Scippa & Associates, Inc.
December 16, 2005	Birds of a Method Share a Feather - Wayne Vick, CPF Dynamic Leadership Consulting Group, Inc.
November 18, 2005	Whole-Scale Approach To Accelerating Strategic Change - Mary Eggers, MSOD; Marsha Hughes-Rease, MSOD, Dannemiller Tyson Associates
October 28, 2005	Facilitating Champions - John Lesko, CPF, Anteon Corporation
September 23, 2005	Avoiding False Mirrors: Realistic Strategies for Facilitating Change - John Tieso, Silver Bullet Solutions, Inc.