Facilitating Engaging Meetings
Leading meetings is a core skill for environmental and community work. Whether you’re convening partners, guiding your internal team, or facilitating community input, your facilitation helps shape what groups can accomplish together.
Do you want to lead more productive meetings?
Are you struggling with getting folks to participate in meetings?
Do you wonder how to prevent or manage difficult group dynamics in meetings?
Join this live, online training to increase your understanding of meeting facilitation and your confidence as a facilitator. Together, we’ll learn and practice skills through guided, highly interactive sessions. You will learn from ICL’s expertise facilitating hundreds of collaborations focused on protecting our air, land, water, and communities.
This training series emphasizes skill-building through engagement with the content and your peers in the environmental, conservation, and community health sectors.
Who is this training for?
This live, online training is for anyone who has to lead or design meetings—and wants to make every one count. You will learn and practice skills that you can use during:
- externally facing meetings (for community members, other organizations, etc.)
- internal meetings such as team check-ins
- a series of meetings, or iterative meetings
- times a group is working through conflicts or decisions
Cost
$325 early bird
$350 regular
Training Purpose
Equip individuals with skills and tools to design and lead more productive meetings while navigating common facilitation challenges.
Outcomes
by the end of the training series, you will:
1
Be oriented to your role and stance as a facilitator who supports productive and engaging conversations
2
Build the core skills for planning an engaging meeting, which include how to:
- set clear meeting outcomes
- listen, summarize, and redirect in a meeting
- apply an understanding of group dynamics to inform your facilitation choices
- develop clear and practical agendas
3
Explore approaches that address key facilitation challenges to become more confident in your unique facilitation style
4
Learn from ICL’s expertise in facilitating meetings through real-world examples, strategies, and guidance
What is the focus of each session?
What's Included
- Three 90-minute interactive sessions emphasizing skill building + practicing facilitation tools and approaches
- Opportunities for peer learning through breakout rooms and group engagement in sessions
- Assignments between sessions to deepen your learning
- Slides and ICL handouts/worksheets from each session
- Recordings available for 60 days after the training ends