Facilitating a Beautiful Future
Want to build more creative and dynamic experiences for community stakeholders?
Whatever happens, we know the future is coming and it’s going to need excellent facilitation skills to create something beautiful.
Join Mark-n-Sparks this spring to learn critical skills for community engagement in challenging times.
Over four iterative sessions, participants will have a chance to learn creative facilitation skills, try-on new facilitation tools in a “no-stakes” environment, and receive feedback on facilitation skills.
Register HERE.
Option A: Tuesdays
9-10:30am PST/ 12-1:30 EST
March 25: Principles and Practice
April 1: Tools and Practice
April 8: Tools and Practice
April 15: Strategy and Application
Option B: Thursdays
9-10:30am PST/ 12-1:30 EST
March 20: Principles and Practice
March 27: Tools and Practice
April 3: Tools and Practice
April 10: Strategy and Application
Training
Our professional development workshops encourage participants from all kinds of organizations, non and for-profits, foundations, city councils, to share knowledge, ask questions, and practice facilitation and problem-solving. We model diverse facilitation styles and strategies to help organizations and people reconnect with their values and strengthen their processes and community outcomes.
Training and Development services include:
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Build creative facilitation skills to create more dynamic, engaging, and transformative meetings. Explore your facilitation superpowers, and learn how to co-develop creative agendas, clarify a meeting’s purpose and outcomes, and ensure equity and accessibility.
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Strengthen your team’s ‘imagination muscles’ and discover new solutions within a safe, “no-stakes” environment. Great for mapping out policy pathways and exploring technical topics.
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What happens when we recall that statistics can represent people and that data can become poetry? Find ways to powerfully convey your data to your audience.
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What’s possible at the intersection of health and housing? Working across multiple sectors can create pathways for collaborations to meet human/community needs, now and into the future.
Mark-n-Sparks and Great Leap Co-host a series of virtual meet-ups for facilitators. All sessions are from 9-10:30 am PST / 12-1:30 pm EST. Register below. Wednesday, March 12: Facilitation as CareWednesday, June 11: Facilitation as LeadershipWednesday, September 10: Facilitation as Community BuildingWednesday, December 10: Facilitation as Strategy2025 Virtual Facilitation Meet-ups
Illustration: Doors by Jake Pinholster
