This is the 13th season of the DC Facilitator's Workshop Series. Participants include some of the top facilitators in our region as well as people new to the skill set. It includes small consulting group owners, corporate facilitators and consultants, and government employees that use the skill in their job and even a few that are full time facilitators. Workshops are an extremely interaction rich environment.

Workshops are hosted by the Government Accountability Office, 441 G St, NW, Washington, DC, usually in room 2N30. Because these are held at a government facility advanced registration and a government issued photo identification is required. Get a Map & Directions. Doors open at 7:45 am for check-in, breakfast, catching up with friends, and networking. The workshop starts at 9:00 am and ends at 12:00 noon. Wayne Vick, CPF is the Creator and Director of the DC Series. He can be reached at 703-913-6513 (Office), 202-498-2310 (Cell), or at Wayne@facilitationCenter.com . See who is attending this series.

Registration for the series is no longer available for the current series.  The series price is $350 for a member $400 for a non-member.If you wish to attend individual workshops, instead of the series, you may sign up for them by clicking the registration link in the right column of the table below for the workshop you wish to attend. Here is the line up of workshops for this season:

Sep 26 08 - Jun 26 09	2009 DC Workshop Series Member Series Registration Non-Member Series Registration	This is the registration for all workshops in the 2009 DC Facilitator's Workshop Series. Earlybird Registration begins Friday, June 27, 2008 and ends at 5:00 pm (ET) on Tuesday, August 26, 2008. What do you get? Series registrants receive: a Series notebook with color cover, index, and tabs for the series. We've done this for 14 years and it makes an impressive element to anyones library. routine reminders of the upcoming workshops via email. guaranteed materials. Miss a session and you can pick up the materials for sessions you've missed at the next one. Free attendance to the end of the series luncheon and celebration. a Certificate of Development for attending at least 3 of the 10 workshops. the opportunity to meet and learn from the best facilitators in our region. a 10% discount certificate for a friend that has not attended the series before. a 10% discount certificate for you for each referral that you make that signs up for the series. Get 6 other people to register and your registration is FREE.
Sep 26, 08	Facilitating the Strategic Planning Process Member Workshop Registration Non-Member Workshop Registration	Gloria Trope, Sr. Wash Sub Sanitary Commission	During this session, we will review the components of a strategic plan. The first step is to know where to start the process. Some companies and organizations may begin with their current state and others may start with their future vision. We will look at the impact the starting position has in developing the plan. 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.
Oct 24, 08	Understanding Your Type: Myers-Briggs Implications on Facilitation Member Workshop Registration Non-Member Workshop Registration	Dawn Rhine, CPF, Synergy Forces, LLC	We are all wired differently. 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.
Nov 21, 08	Teambuilding Using Latin Dance Member Workshop Registration Non-Member Workshop Registration	Dr. Barbara Bernstein, Institute For Team-Building, Leadership, and Cooperation Through Latin Dance	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. For more details, please visit her website www.TeambuildingThroughLatinDance.com.
Dec 19, 08	Improv Facilitation Part 3: Creating Dynamic Learning Member Workshop Registration Non-Member Workshop Registration	Michelle James, Center for Creative Emergence	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. The paradox of improv: practice being spontaneous. In this high-energy session, you will learn and experience the core improv principles, key improv interaction skills, improv training design guidelines, and practical applications of using improv to design and facilitate dynamic learning environments. We will using improv-based practices to help you think on your feet when you facilitate this for others.You will leave with exciting improv activities for icebreakers, energizers, creativity, and team building.
Jan 23 09	Facilitating the How® of Retreat Planning & Facilitation Member Workshop Registration Non-Member Workshop Registration	Rebecca Twitchell, Half Full, LLC	Often, as facilitators, after being asked “what do you do?” we are given a look of boredom and disinterest when the words “I am a facilitator” come out of our mouths. Try adding “…of experiences” or “…of changing lives” to the end of that big, bad, ugly word ‘facilitator’ and see what type of reaction you get. Facilitators are not and should not be people we entrust to merely keep track of time and systematically go through workshop #1, #2, #3. 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. What better time to show that off at a retreat. There is much to do – and we will show how to facilitate these off sites in an easy, fun and successful way.
Feb 27, 09	Translating Robert’s Rules to Facilitated Events Member Workshop Registration Non-Member Workshop Registration	Colette Trohan CPP-T, PRP, A Great Meeting	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. Bring your case studies and problems, leave with solutions and ideas.
Mar 27, 09	Exploring Our Mental Models – A Path to Better Communication Member Workshop Registration Non-Member Workshop Registration	Laura E. Jones, CPF, Colleague Consulting	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? In this workshop we will discover ways to increase skills in communication through learning to explore our mental models. We will review and discuss a variety of models and look at a few of our own stories first. We will participate in activities that demonstrate ways to help our clients to achieve desired outcomes while practicing new skills.
Apr 17, 09	Appreciative Inquiry: Focusing on What Works – It’s All About the Possibilities Member Workshop Registration Non-Member Workshop Registration	Donna Walsh, RedShoes Solutions	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 thorough inquiry and having dialogue about strengths, successes, values, hopes and dreams. During this interactive workshop, participants will be introduced to the following: What is Appreciative Inquiry? Explore the theory and foundation of Appreciative Inquiry Review the Appreciative Inquiry Process Experience an appreciative conversation Participants will be provided with an AI Resource handout.
May 22, 09	Draw the Iron Curtain – Here’s the MuSCoW List! Member Workshop Registration Non-Member Workshop Registration	Arunkumar V. Iyer, VA Associates, LLC	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.
Jun 26, 09	Facilitation Techniques for Staying Present and Spontaneous Member Workshop Registration Non-Member Workshop Registration	Tracy Washington Enger, U.S. EPA Office of Air & Radiation	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.
Jun 26, 08	Series Completion Luncheon & Celebration Registration for All	Wayne Vick, CPF	Join us to celebrate the completion of yet another Workshop Series. We are planning a hot buffet style lunch. We will take time to recognize all of our speakers as well as the three top rated speakers. As always we will have door prizes. We will announce these door prizes at a later date. This luncheon will start following the morning workshop (about 12:30) and will end around 2:30 pm. The Cost: DC Series Registrants and Presenters get in FREE (price was included in the Series fees). Cost for Non-Series Registrants is $20.