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(Members Only) MAFN Community of Practice: Conversations about Facilitation in Training

  • 07/22/2025
  • 07/28/2026
  • 7 sessions
  • 07/22/2025, 5:00 PM 6:15 PM (EDT)
  • 09/30/2025, 5:00 PM 6:15 PM (EDT)
  • 11/25/2025, 5:00 PM 6:15 PM (EST)
  • 01/27/2026, 5:00 PM 6:15 PM (EST)
  • 03/24/2026, 5:00 PM 6:15 PM (EDT)
  • 05/26/2026, 5:00 PM 6:15 PM (EDT)
  • 07/28/2026, 5:00 PM 6:15 PM (EDT)
  • Online using Zoom

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Duration: Each session is 75 minutes (5:00 - 6:15 pm EST).


  • July 22nd, 2025: Topic - "How does spontaneity show up in your practice?" 
  • September 30th, 2025: Topic - "How do you manage 'stuck' individuals or groups?"
  • November 25th, 2025: Topic - "Working with vulnerability."

Interested in participating in lively conversations with your peers about where our professional practices intersect?  What can we learn from each other's professional experience, knowledge, skills and abilities?  The MAFN Conversations About Facilitation in Training community of practice explores intersections of three separate but compatible practices of MAFN members: facilitation, coaching, training.  In small-group topic-based breakout-room conversations led by rotating volunteer practitioners, we share best practices, challenges and strategies to stimulate new insight and expand our individual practices.  Topic suggestions and volunteers are always welcome. Come with curiosity; participate with passion; leave with new learning.  MAFN CoPs are member-only forums, a benefit of MAFN membership.


You are welcome to attend as many meetings in the series as your schedule allows. They will not build on each other. Once you register for the series, you will receive a notification for each meeting.

Please note that this is for MAFN members only. These sessions will NOT be recorded.



Recipient of the inaugural 2024 NYS Justice Peer Initiative Impact Award in Training & Development, Ruth Riddick, CARC-RCP/f, is a coach and trainer with a specialization in addiction recovery and a 20-year practice at Sobriety Together.  She is co-founder and program manager of the New York Certification Board Trainer Registry, an organization of professional trainers enhancing standards in non-clinical role training.  As a curriculum developer, she has contributed to role training for Veteran Supported Recovery, CRPA-Family and CRPA-Youth trainings for professional certifications.  She serves on the Board of the New York Association of Treatment Court Professionals.  She has been widely honored for her work.


Our guiding principles are:

  • Come open to learning

  • Bring your questions, share your expertise

  • Don’t expect closure - our shared learning is a process!


ONLINE CoP Discussion REMINDERS

  • If you register and cannot attend, please cancel to allow someone else to come. 

  • Registration closes at midnight the day before the discussion group.

  • Registered participants will receive instructions for joining the live session and any additional details 1 day in advance and the morning of the event. Please be sure to look for the link in your email.

  • MAFN CoP discussions will not be recorded in order to support space for learning.

  • For registration or membership questions contact info@mafn.org

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