You will...

• Experience the 5 Behavioural Facilitation Pillars
• Gain exposure to 5 engaging facilitation activities
• Identify participant challenges and develop effective solutions
• Examine how Adult Learning Principles and Behavioural Facilitation go hand in hand

Who would benefit?  Anyone who leads meetings or delivers presentations or workshops.

Points of interest: The 5 Pillars of Behavioural Facilitation will be examined and role played by participants. Participants will learn in a fun, safe and positive environment and share experiences & resources

Participant Feedback

I would strongly recommend this course to anyone seeking to develop and enhance their skills in leading and/or facilitating meetings effectively.  It has significantly increased my level of confidence in leading. 2015

“I found this workshop to be tremendously valuable in demonstrating practical skills and techniques, and creating assurance to facilitators that a workshop on any topic can be informative and engaging. I highly recommend this training to anyone who provides facilitation in any area that requires learning retention and engagement by participants.” 2014.

Self Care for Professionals

In an age when we are expected to do more with less resources and less time, we can find our own energy supply depleting. It’s important to take care of yourself before you burnout.

What Will You Learn?

• Healthy habits to handle stress
• Re-affirm your gifts, talents and accomplishments
• Tobuild up encouragement and reduce discouragement
• How past lessons can make sense of the present
• What has been working for you and what to let go
• To include humor in the process of ongoing personal development
• How to restock your emotional and spiritual shelves

This rejuvenating workshop will benefit individuals who:

• Want to maintain healthy balance and manage stress effectively
• Feel stuck in a professional rut
• Never take time for themselves
• Seek to focus on the positive in life 
• Need a pat on the back
• Find themselves distracted by workplace politic

Points of Interest and Benefit

• 8 - 18participants per session which provides for maximum support
• Participantswill create resources that they can take with them and use to maintain a positive focus
• Presentersand peers share resources, techniques and experiences
• Theworkshop hasvariety and is highly interactive

 Participant Feedback:

“Re-affirming the beauty and value of spending positive healthy time with my team!”

“Giving me some sound ideas I can implement in personal / work life to be a more productive person”

“Reminding myself to put ‘things’ or desired changes into actions”

“Being able to be myself and laugh a lot!”

“Being reminded of the importance of take care of myself, and focusing on the simple things in life”

“I found all activities useful in different ways. I will be able to use and incorporate them in my day-to-day life.”

Practical Workshop Facilitation Skills Certificate

Proven and practical workshop facilitation skills are critical if a facilitator is to effectively motivate learners, encourage participation and promote on-the job application of learning. 

The Practical Workshop Facilitation Skills Certificate provides ample opportunity to exchange learning and facilitating ideas and experiences with other professionals. Through extensive group work and practice, participants demonstrate the 15 Key Behavioural Components identified and developed over twenty years by Winnipeg Transition Centre. At the completion of the session, each participant understands and has demonstrated the skills necessary to be an effective facilitator.

This five-day training is highly interactive, incorporates hands-on exercises, role-plays, as well as small and large group discussions.

How is this Different From Other Training?

• Small class size (max 9) allows for one-to-one assistance and feedback
• Resources used during lab can be easily implemented immediately afterwards
• Facilitation issues are work shopped in multiple ways so each skill is not just recited, but integrated and learned
• Peer-to-peer learning provides opportunity to learn from a wide-variety of skilled peer facilitators

Facilitating each day means participants have the opportunity to integrate feedback from presenters and peers in subsequent sessions

Certification - The Practical Workshop Facilitation Skills Certificate (PWFSC) is awarded jointly between the Winnipeg Transition Centre and University of Winnipeg Professional, Applied & Continuing Education (40 hour credit.)* and in Ontario awarded jointly with Humber College and the WTC.

 Participant Feedback:

"I took away a lot of information from this facilitation workshop. Some of the knowledge that really helped me was relating the topics to the 15 behavioural facilitation components. This caused me to view our current practices and how we use these components as well as how others can be brought out more clearly in our current sessions. Also, this has allowed me to think about future training for our organization and how to better shape and create sessions to get the best possible results for the people involved."
Cayman Persichini
Training Coordinator /Training & Development
The Beer Store, Mississauga, ON

"The greatest benefit to me from attending this workshop was gaining knowledge. Knowledge about what makes a good facilitator. Knowledge about how I can apply tools. I was given time to practice lesson planning. I learned what my strengths and weaknesses were as a facilitator. By giving constructive feedback to my peers, I was able to learn from them and their experiences too. In five days I learned how to stay off the stage, give positive reinforcement and much, much more! Whether you are a seasoned facilitator or a novice, you will come away from this workshop with more knowledge, self-awareness and tools you can use right away."
Edward Ulzen - Caseworker
Consilium Place Employment and Social Services, Toronto, ON