A unique day of interactive and participatory learning to build your skills and confidence as a facilitator, meeting organiser or workshop leader.
We will look closely at what facilitation is, the role facilitators may play and how facilitating can encourage long term community or organisational development. The day will build the confidence of anyone keen to be a good facilitator and give them a solid basis on which to develop their own skills. There’ll be guidance and discussion on the different challenges and opportunities for on-line and face-to-face meetings. You’ll take part in engaging exercises and discuss where you might or might not use them. You’ll look at ways to work with people in large and small groups and how and when to leave a group to their own devices. The day covers the practical ‘tools and techniques’ along side the underlying principles, that make meetings in a variety of contexts work.
Facilitation Training
- When? Dates to be confirmed
- Where? Online, A venue near you
- Enquire now or, book bespoke
Our Facilitation Training course gives you the practical tools and techniques to make your meetings engaging and productive, both online and face-to-face. *New 2027 dates coming shortly*
"Fantastic training with a very holistic delivery, that was really effective in enhancing our knowledge and experience"
Smita Patel (The Children's Society)
Learn how to:
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- Facilitate enjoyable and effective meetings – face-to-face and online
- Develop an experiential and co-productive approach
- Clarify and explore the roles and responsibilities of the facilitator
- Equip your facilitator’s toolbox
- Understand what a good meeting looks/feels like
- Develop a useable session plan
- Use your toolbox to work through challenging situations
It was confidence giving and very practical – Sanghanath Kamble (Karuna Trust)
Who is this course for?
The event will benefit anyone working with groups of people in formal or informal settings. Whether a novice starting out, or an experienced facilitator wishing to expand on their techniques, the course will provide a valuable insight into good facilitation. This course gives you tools and techniques to use during your sessions. Our Advanced Facilitation course looks more at power dynamics, privilege and rank when working with groups.
Subsidised places are available if you are unwaged. Please contact us for more information.
"Extremely helpful with my facilitation’ "
Ruth Campbell (Waste Aware Scotland)
Course resources
Meet the trainer
Joel Lazarus
Dr Joel Lazarus combines his work as a facilitator with his work as a university researcher and lecturer at the University of Bath.
Joel provides facilitation, training, organisational development, consensus-building and conflict resolution services to a wide range of co-operatives, third sector organisations, and activist groups. His practice is informed by a rich variety of participatory and liberatory approaches which he calls a ‘relational needs-based’ approach to facilitation and community organising. Joel is the lead author of the Terre des hommes Handbook for Relational Needs-Based Organising, that sets out this approach.
Between 2020 and 2024, Joel served as Project Manager and Qualitative Research Lead for WorkFREE, a major Universal Basic Income pilot and research project in Hyderabad, India. Joel holds master’s in development studies degrees from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the University of Oxford and a DPhil in Politics and International Relations from the University of Oxford. He is also a qualified secondary school teacher. He lives with his wife and three children in Bristol, UK.
Enquire about our Facilitation Training course
There are currently no scheduled public dates for this course
Please get in touch with us for more details on how you can attend.
Any questions? Want to know more?
We’re always happy to answer any questions about our course. Drop us a line on training@talkaction.org or call us on 0203 488 7010.