Unlocking Your Facilitation Potential

CATDC creates transformative learning experiences with educators, supporting dynamic collaborations that center equity, spark innovation, and foster impactful teaching and leadership.

California Teacher Development Collaborative

You will gain invaluable insights and tools to enhance your facilitation abilities!

Harvard-Westlake Upper School

Unlocking Your Facilitation Potential is a comprehensive 2-day workshop designed specifically for educators who want to hone their facilitation skills. Whether you’re an aspiring leader, department head, group leader, or administrator, you recognize the pivotal role of facilitation in driving productive group dynamics. This interactive session goes beyond theory, offering practical strategies to navigate complex discussions and decisions with confidence. You will gain invaluable insights and tools to enhance your facilitation abilities, empowering you to unlock your full potential in guiding groups toward meaningful outcomes. Join us for a transformative journey towards facilitation excellence.<h4> WORKSHOP FOCUS</h4>Foundation &amp; Engagement<ul><li>Establishing Facilitator Identities: Reflect on and clarify your personal facilitator identities</li><li>Active Listening &amp; Engagement: Develop active listening skills and engagement techniques to foster collaboration within groups</li></ul>Navigating Challenges &amp; Inclusion<ul><li>Facilitating Tough Topics: Learn strategies for managing conflicts and facilitating challenging discussions</li><li>Fostering Inclusion: Create inclusive environments that value diverse perspectives and promote belonging within groups</li></ul>Effective Practices &amp; Decision-Making<ul><li>Agenda Design &amp; Delivery: Build effective and responsive agendas to guide discussions and deliver on group objectives</li><li>Decision-Making Frameworks: Utilize decision-making frameworks to facilitate creative thinking and consensus-building among participants</li></ul><h4> COACHING COHORT OPTION (Additional Ticket Required)</h4>The cohort is designed to apply learning done in the workshop to our day-to-day work at school. We’ll gather in four monthly Zoom sessions to discuss participant-generated questions and problems of facilitation practice. Each session is responsive: facilitators will seek participant insight and feedback in advance of each session and design the agenda accordingly. This is a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of workshop concepts, receive tailored feedback on your facilitation practices, and develop actionable strategies for continued growth and success. In addition, you’ll build your network by being in conversation with leaders at a variety of schools.Each Zoom is one hour, and participants will be provided with supplemental resources to continue learning in between sessions. Additional office hours are to be determined.Session 1: Thursday, September 12, 3:30 - 4:30pmSession 2: Thursday, October 10, 3:30 - 4:30pmSession 3: Thursday, November 14, 3:30 - 4:30pmSession 4: Thursday, December 12, 3:30 - 4:30pmAdditional Office Hours: TBD<h4> AUDIENCE</h4>This Summer Institute is designed for aspiring and current leaders, department heads, group leaders, and administrators.CANCELLATION POLICY Life happens. We understand that there will be times when you cannot attend a workshop that you have registered and paid for.Registration may be transferred to a different person up to 7 days before a session. However refunds will not be given, and a session missed for any reason will not be refunded.Below we have outlined our cancellation and refund policy, which we have in place to ensure the most accurate numbers when we secure well in advance locations, catering, and facilitators. Thank you for understanding.For our ongoing programs or one-day intensives, refunds are available (less a $50 processing fee) up to 22 days before the scheduled starting date. We are unable to provide refunds for cancellations made 21 days or less prior to the first day of a workshop. A missed session that is part of an ongoing program is non-refundable and non-transferrable. For our summer institutes refunds are available (less a $50 processing fee) up to 30 days before the scheduled starting date. We are unable to provide refunds for cancellations made 29 days or less prior to the first day of a summer institute.Please contact us by <a href="mailto:gallagher@catdc.org" title="mailto:gallagher@catdc.org" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">email</a> as soon as you know you cannot attend a workshop. This will allow us time to contact our waitlist and hopefully fill your spot.

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