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Events & Learning Opportunities

MAFN offers a wide range of learning opportunities to develop new skills and master new techniques and approaches. For almost 20 years, MAFN has been the leader in professional development opportunities in facilitation across the Mid-Atlantic region. Catering to all levels of facilitation experience, MAFN's workshops receive rave reviews from participants!

MAFN workshops feature a variety of topics related to deepening and broadening the skills of facilitators. Our workshops are designed to be interactive and provide experiential learning for all participants as they learn from the expertise of others. 

Each month MAFN hosts two workshops: a 90 minute workshop and a three hour workshop.

Our 90 minute workshops offer grounding and resources on the focus topic and are included in MAFN membership.  Our three hour workshops offer more time for discussion and practice during the session.

Both types of workshops will begin at 12:00pm Eastern and are being offered online through June of 2022. 

Occasionally MAFN will also host special events or speakers. See details below for upcoming events. 

Upcoming events

    • 09/29/2023
    • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
    • Online using Zoom
    Register

    Duration: 90-minute workshop

    About the workshop

    Are you optimizing your engagement and outcomes in your workshops? Adults bring significant insights, experiences, and connections from prior learning to new learning opportunities. The Learner Variability Navigator (LVN) is designed to help you leverage the different factors that can impact adult learners and provide research-based strategies to support them. Join us to learn how two veteran educators use this free tool to design creative and engaging learning experiences for adults. We will show you how to use the LVN, reflect on your own learner variability, discuss a case study, and then provide an opportunity for you to try yourself.

    Learning Objectives 

    In this session, participants will be able to:

    • Understand the meaning of “learner variability”
    • Learn how to use the Learner Variability Navigator (LVN) to support facilitation and planning
    • Apply the LVN to a sample scenario
    NOTE: This workshop will be recorded for distribution to all who register (breakout rooms will not be recorded).

    This is a 90-minute workshop. It will take place from 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT.

    Speakers: 

    Jessica Jackson is director of professional learning for the Learner Variability Project at Digital Promise where she designs professional learning for educators that helps them address the needs of the whole learner through research-based practices. Jessica has over 20 years of experience in education which reflects her passion for creativity, curiosity, leadership, and social justice. As a New Leader alum, she founded an integrated arts elementary school in Memphis, TN where she designed a pathways program that helped students explore their own curiosity and creativity. As Director of Academics, she designed instructional systems, coached leaders, and organized full-scale professional development for a network of schools at Capstone Education Group. She has her Masters in Education from Pace University and her undergraduate degree from the University of Richmond.


    Julye M. Williams founded The Project 2043 Institute, a U.S.-based company whose mission is to educate and prepare organizations for an inclusive, equitable, and diverse multiracial society. In her 20 years in education, Julye has established free tutoring programs in NYC, created and led international youth exchange programs, co-founded a public elementary school, and created resources on race & diversity, trauma, and social-emotional learning that have been downloaded by over 75,000 educators nationwide. Julye is a passionate advocate for racial and social justice, fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, and holds an MBA from Florida A&M University.

    ONLINE WORKSHOP REMINDERS

    • No refunds or credits for registration cancellations.
    • Registration closes at midnight the day before the workshop.
    • 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.
    • Workshops begin promptly at 12:00PM Eastern.  Please log on at least 15 minutes in advance to ensure your internet connections, audio and other settings are functioning properly.
    • MAFN Members have access to all online workshop recordings via the MAFN website.
    • For registration or membership questions contact info@mafn.org.
    • 10/13/2023
    • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • Online using Zoom
    Register

    Duration: 2 Hour workshop

    About the workshop

    The virtual world is static. We spend days seated and glued to our computer screens as we attend virtual meetings, watch webinars, and participate in virtual training. If we want our learners to learn, retain and recall new information and skills, they need to stand and move. Happily, there are kinesthetic activities that can be used to get participants up and out of their seats during virtual presentations. This session will introduce and model the use of six kinesthetic activities that can be incorporated into virtual training programs. Participants will leave the session ready to infuse movement into their own programs.

    By its very nature, the virtual world is static. We spend the day seated and glued to our computer screens as we attend virtual meetings, watch webinars, and participate in virtual training programs. Creative trainers and presenters take advantage of the different bells and whistles offered by virtual platforms to keep their training programs participative and interesting. They invite their learners to use the various reaction options, to chat, take polls, play with annotation tools, write on whiteboards and collaborate in breakout rooms. These are excellent techniques to engage learners, but- the learners are still seated. And, if we want our learners to learn, retain and recall new information and skills, they need to stand and move.

    Happily, there are kinesthetic activities that can be used to get participants up and out of their seats during virtual presentations.

    This session will introduce and model the use of six kinesthetic activities that can be incorporated into virtual training programs. Participants will leave the session ready to infuse movement into their own programs. Virtual training will not need to remain static anymore.

    Learning Objectives 

    In this session, participants will:

    • Learn the definition of kinesthetic learning

    • Explore why it is important for all learners

    • Experience and create six kinesthetic learning activities

    • Select two activities you plan to implement in your own virtual training programs.

    NOTE: This workshop will be recorded for distribution to all who register (breakout rooms will not be recorded).

    This is a 2 hour workshop. It will take place from 12:00pm to 2:00pm EDT.

    Speaker:

    Deborah Spring Laurel has been a workplace learning and performance improvement consultant for over forty years. The President of Laurel and Associates, Ltd., a certified woman-owned small business, Deborah is internationally recognized as a quality trainer of trainers and a specialist in curriculum design. She consulted with J.J. Strossmeyer University in Osijek, Croatia to design the first Eastern European participant-based Master’s Degree program in Entrepreneurship. Her work has taken her to: South Africa for UNIDO; Jordan, Kenya, Nigeria and Zambia for USAID; Jordan for Mercy Corps; and Dubai, UAE for ICBA.  She is published in the 2004- 2013 Pfeiffer Annuals, The Leadership Challenge Activities Book and 101 More Ways to Make Training Active. She authored two Info-Lines: Conducting a Classroom Learning Audit and Jump-Start Your Learning Objectives. Deborah publishes a free weekly e-zine: Laurel Learning Tips. Over 900 Tips can be found at:http://laurelandassociates.com/blog. She has her Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

    ONLINE WORKSHOP REMINDERS

    • No refunds or credits for registration cancellations.
    • Registration closes at midnight the day before the workshop.
    • 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.
    • Workshops begin promptly at 12:00PM Eastern.  Please log on at least 15 minutes in advance to ensure your internet connections, audio and other settings are functioning properly.MAFN Members have access to all online workshop recordings via the MAFN website.
    • For registration or membership questions contact info@mafn.org.
    • 12/08/2023
    • 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • Online using Zoom
    Register

    Duration: 3 Hour workshop

    About the workshop

    All around we’re experiencing major changes to every aspect of our environments - to our communities, how we work, the tools and technology we use, and so on. Yet, most people struggle with being open to, embracing, and adapting to change. This poses a challenge for us facilitators who lead change initiatives with clients.

    The goal of this combination workshop-mastermind session is to build our collective knowledge and confidence in encouraging reflection, so we can better prime our clients for growth and change. The workshop component will share some of Barometer XP’s activities and strategies to help people practice and get more comfortable with reflection. The mastermind piece will source best practices and lessons learned from the community.

    Learning Objectives 

    In this session, participants will:

    • Explore why reflection is so critical, and how to craft great reflective questions.
    • Practice applying self and situational awareness by playing a few games.
    • Collect best practices and lessons learned for how to encourage reflection in different change initiatives.

    NOTE: This workshop will be recorded for distribution to all who register (breakout rooms will not be recorded).

    This is a 3 hour workshop. It will take place from 12:00pm to 3:00pm EST.

    Speaker:

    Alex Suchman (she/her) is cofounder and CEO of Barometer XP, a company that drives real behavior and culture change through games and play.

    After a decade of experience working in operations and organizational development, Alex realized that building stronger emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills are key to organizational success. She noticed a gap in the industry for solutions that bridge the knowledge-to-action gap, and discovered game-based experiential learning for teams as an effective tool.

    Prior to Barometer XP, Alex founded AIS Collaborations, a consulting firm that helped small organizations through simple systems, stronger organizing techniques, and better planning.

    ONLINE WORKSHOP REMINDERS

    • No refunds or credits for registration cancellations.
    • Registration closes at midnight the day before the workshop.
    • 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.
    • Workshops begin promptly at 12:00PM Eastern.  Please log on at least 15 minutes in advance to ensure your internet connections, audio and other settings are functioning properly.MAFN Members have access to all online workshop recordings via the MAFN website.
    • For registration or membership questions contact info@mafn.org.

CANCELLATION POLICY

For our online workshops, there are no refunds or credits for registration cancellations. Unless specified, the online workshops are recorded and the recording will be sent to those registered.

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