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The
Improvisational Facilitator
Are you
afraid of encountering the
unexpected in your groups?
Learn
improv techniques to deal with this and many other concerns
encountered by facilitators, trainers, and group leaders
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Do
you encounter any of these problems when working with groups?
1. Do you take your work with groups way too seriously? So seriously
that sometimes you get uptight and afraid about what might happen. In
this class, you'll learn and practice tools that will help you relax
and have a lot more fun with your groups.
2. Are you afraid of encountering the unexpected? Learn simple
strategies that will help you to be more open and flexible to the specific
and dynamic needs of your groups.
3.
Are you bothered when participants try to take the group off on a tangent?
Be able
to connect whatever people share to the group purpose or theme.
4. Do you have a tough time being "present" with your groups,
trying to juggle all that needs to be done? Learn and practice strategies
that will let you take a breath and get comfortable being "in the
moment" with your groups..
5. Do you ever fear that you'll "lose your place" in your
workshop? In this class, you'll learn exactly what to do in that
circumstance.
6. Is "speaker's block" a problem? You'll learn a tool
so that you never have speaker's block again.
7. Do you sometimes question your creative abilities? Discover
reservoirs of creativity within you that you didn't know existed.
8. Do you often feel like you're doing this group leadership think
all alone? Come collaborate and learn from a community of your peers,
all passionate about empowering groups.
If you answered
"yes" to any of these questions, then read on. You'll find
help overcoming these issues and more in this dynamic 5-day teleclass.
When...
February 27th-March 3rd, 2006, 10:00 AM Pacific, 1:00 PM Eastern
(NY Time), 75 minutes each day.
A week after the course I have
found myself talking about and actually using the techniques taught!
The experiential based learning really worked for me and I learnt whilst
having fun – always a good way to retain new learnings. The course
has provided me with a toolkit of great techniques to improve my own
facilitation, as well as some enjoyable exercises to use with delegates.
I have nothing but praise for both Sue and Steve, who walked their talk
with their own facilitation skills – they simply flowed through
the course with grace and intelligence. The content, the materials and
the facilitators is 5 star stuff and I highly recommend it to any facilitator.
--Amanda Alexander, Coach
and Founder of CoachingMums.com--
The
Improvisational Facilitator Teleclass...
The inner attitudes of facilitators, trainers, and leaders is the key
to their success with groups. However, very few trainings address the
development of those inner qualities that can make a good leader great.
That's why I'm thrilled to be offering this class where we'll
present powerful, practical improv techniques that are actually inner
attitudes and practices that you can use to immediately enhance your
facilitation, training, and group leadership skills.
This dynamic teleclass, led by master trainer, Sue
Walden, is for anyone who facilitates, manages, teaches, mediates, coaches,
counsels, directs any group. This highly interactive course provides
an experiential approach using very novel exercises to help you build
the skills to create an environment for participation; one that encourages
openness and risk-taking for you and groups.
When...
February 27th-March 3, 2006, 10:00 AM Pacific, 1:00 PM Eastern
(NY Time), 75 minutes each day.
Improvisational
Facilitator Training Agenda...
Here's what you'll be learning and doing during the course...
Being present
to your natural creativity
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Overview
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Introducing the Parking Lot
- Awareness
experience
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What is your default facilitation skill set?
- Improv
Core Skills that support facilitation
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Exploring 1st Core Skill: Present Time
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The "Voice Mirror," a simple and powerful listening tool
- Facilitation
Applications
Building the "muscle"
that encourages participation
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Check in on practice assignment
- Explore
2nd Core Skill: Openness
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Experiencing the look and feel of openness
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Building the openness “muscle”
- The
"Yes and..." approach
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Facilitation Applications
Making flexibility
a way of being
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Check in about practice assignment
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Explore 3rd Core Skill: Flexibility
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Combining Being Present and Open to become more flexible
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Identify unexpected challenges in facilitating
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Building the options and possibilities “muscle”
-
Facilitation Applications
Witnessing the magic
- Check
in about practice assignment
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Introduce “The Observer”
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Apply Core Skills to self
- Getting
present with self
- Quiet
the inner critic
- Think
on your feet
- Be
aware of your language
- Facilitation
Applications
Further applications
and applied Improv
- Check
in about practice assignment
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Explore other applications of Improv Core Skills
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Emptying the Parking Lot
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Q & A with the Applied Improv Process
I've
been to lots of teleclasses but have never done offline partner exercises
like this and they worked great, they really heightened the learning.
Excellent resource book.
The sessions were very complimentary to the skills that I have gained
over a number of years. As well as practical exercises the trainers
provided useful insight to support their theory. It was enlightening
to hear everybody participate and be engaged in the subject. An excellent
class that I highly recommend. --Chris Whitehead ,Managing Director
of Facilitating Change--
How
the Training works...
1. You dial into your class every day for a 75-90 minute focused training
segment using a conferencing bridge.
2. Several times we will leave the bridge line for short 8-12 minute
periods to give you the opportunity to engage in short exercises with
a partner to practice and deepen your skills.
3. You work through a learning/resource workbook which accompanies the
class including practice assignments after each session.
4. You will have the opportunity to discuss issues on the subject matter
with the instructors and your classmates via an online listserve during
the course.
5. During the course, you may access the instructors via email for help
or situational questions.
Also
included with your training...
In addition to the training described above, you also receive:
1. Free Learning/Resource Workbook ($20 value) to help you drill
down deep and master the art of improv for use in facilitation,
training, leadership, and group work.
2. Free access to the RealAudio version of the training ($69 value).
3. Free pre-recorded one-hour real audio teleclass, "The Art of
Improv in Facilitation, featuring Izzy Gesell, who discusses the use
of humor and improvisational theater techniques as facilitation tools.($20
value).
4. Articles and resources around using Improv in leadership and facilitation:
__-
Collection of humor and improv resources.
__- The Six Paradoxes of Improv.
Six paradoxes that will help free you to be a better facilitator
____and trainer.
__- Leadership Through Improv.
Article on how Improv techniques can be applied to leadership.
Pricing...
The full cost of training/access is only $99 including the free items
( worth $109) listed above. Everything you read about above is included.
And, we offer a 100%-satisfaction-guaranteed guarantee.
Registration...
Immediately upon
completion of your registration, you will receive an email with instructions
to access the course and free article bank.
This course is limited to 20 individuals on a first come basis.
I really
enjoyed the Improv class. Great material, excellent delivery including
the opportunities to "try it out" in partner settings. --Sandy
Brown, Facilitator, Intel Corporation--
Dates...
February
27th-March 3, 2006, 10:00 AM Pacific, 1:00 PM Eastern (NY Time),
75 minutes each day.
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above to register
Self-Guided
Real Audio Version
If you'd like to learn this material
at your own pace and on your own schedule, you can purchase the real
audio version of this teleclass complete with the learning guide. You'll
be provided with access to recorded offerings of the five-hour teleclass
(5 hours total) that you can listen to online and follow along in the
learning guide is used in the live class. Click
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One-Day
Live Version
Interested
in a four-day "live" version of this class offered to your
group? Email
us to
discuss options.
Your
instructors
Sue Walden.
Sue Walden is the Founder and Director of ImprovWorks, a not-for-profit
organization dedicated to building Life Skills through Improvisation.
Her experience includes a BA in Education and 26 years of teaching,
performing and adapting and widely applying the techniques of improvisation.
She approaches improv training as a powerful and joyful way to peel
away constraints, restraints and inhibitions, allowing the naturally
expressive, collaborative and creative self to emerge.
Sue is a skilled
teacher in ImprovWorks' public workshop program, a dynamic corporate
facilitator, an engaging speaker, an author (Working with Groups to
Enhance Relationships, Whole Person Assoc.), the delightful "Playmeister"
of both the public and corporate Recess! programs, the director and
a regular performer with San Francisco's longest-running improvisational
theater company, "Flash Family". She has been a member of
the Specialty Staff for the year-long Co-Active Leadership Program since
its inception eight years ago.
Her current passion
is training trainers and consulting on how to design powerful experiential
workshops. Sue promises that, in any of her programs, while the learning
may be challenging, it will also be fun!
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Davis. Steve
Davis, M.A., M.S., is an Facilitator's Coach, Infoprenuer, and free-lance
human, helping facilitators, organizational leaders, educators, trainers,
coaches and consultants present themselves confidently, access their
creativity, empower their under-performing groups, enhance their facilitation
skills, and build their business online and offline.
Steve spends most of his time building and running FacilitatorU.com.
He also publishes a weekly ezine for facilitators called, the Master
Facilitator Journal, continues to write ebooks, design teleclasses,
and maintain a part-time coaching practice. His breadth of experience
spans business, corporate management, engineering, teaching, spiritual
psychology, and wellness, offering a pragmatic yet creative coaching
foundation. To learn more about Steve, visit his website at www.livingmastery.com.
About
the satisfaction guarantee
If, for any reason, you are not satisfied with this package, simply
email us with a request to refund/credit your credit card in the full
amount and we will do so immediately. It's our policy to do this and
we honor this in every single case. This policy completely removes the
buying risk for you and keeps our customer-satisfaction rates extremely
high.
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