🌤 November Monthly Mailer from Facilitator Cards
Well howdy facilitators, welcome to November! Did you know there are only 8 weeks left in the year? Oh you didn’t? Oh you didn’t want to know that…moving on!
We’ve got quite a bit coming up this month, so let’s get into it.
📆 Trainings Coming Up This Month!
🧑🏫 Holding Space: Generous approaches to problematic statements and conflict - November 14 @ 3PM ET — $49
If you hate feeling caught off guard when someone says something problematic or conflict-inducing in the groups you lead — this is the session for you!
There are so many moves we can make as facilitators to help diffuse those moments, unpack ideas, and reconnect the group after being thrown off course.
Join us for a 90-minute session to learn what those moves are and feel ready the next time conflict arises.
< RSVP FOR HOLDING SPACE https://lu.ma/holdingspacenov >
🚨 Navigating Triggers As Facilitators - November 29 @ 1PM ET - $49
As facilitators, we’re in a uniquely tricky position being responsible for holding the space for the emotional well-being of a group while having our own emotions and realities to navigate. But what happens when we get triggered during a session?
What options do we have, how do we handle it, and what can we do even before the event begins that can help us steer through triggers that pop up unexpectedly?
That’s what this event is all about! Strategies for how we can navigate our triggers as facilitators.
< RSVP FOR TRIGGERS https://lu.ma/triggersworkshop >
📆 Community Events Coming Up This Month!
🦈 Become a Card Shark - November 30 @ 4PM ET — FREE
Card Sharks is the session designed to help you get the most out of your deck of Facilitator Cards. In this 60-minute session, you will:
- Learn new cards and combinations you can easily implement in your next workshop or meeting
- Figure out how to find the cards you need (and not get overwhelmed by the rest!)
- Work through real-life scenarios and experience how to plan with your Facilitator Cards
It’s totally free, you’ll meet other wonderful facilitators in our community, and if you’ve got your deck of Facilitator Cards then you can RSVP right now! This is the last Card Sharks of 2022!
And if you don’t have a deck yet, order them today! Use code CARDSHARK for 10% off your deck.
🙋♀️ Volunteers Needed for Facilitation Festival!
Have you ever heard of the NeverDoneBefore Festival? It is a 24hours annual facilitation festival hosted by Myriam Hadnes and her NeverDoneBefore global community on the 18th of November from midnight CET to midnight CET. For a whole day, facilitators and other facilitation practitioners from all over the world gather online to play and learn together exploring the fringes of the practice.
NBD is looking for volunteers!
Help out for 4 hours during the festival and get full access to the festival, 20 hours of participation and 2 months of access to this fantastic community (from November 1st until December 31st). Apply here!
📸 From the Insta!
Looking for some quick & easy ways to jazz up your virtual sessions and get more people participating online? Check out these pro tips!
💬 Three creative ways to use the Zoom chat
🎥 Improve your event’s Zoom recording!
🕶 Three things to know about Breakout Rooms on Zoom!
📝 And one of our all-time favorite hacks — How to give every participant a link to make their own copy of a google doc!
🔴 From The YouTube
Whoa, we’ve got ✨even more✨ to say about Zoom and how to navigate increasing participation online in these YouTube videos!
⚡️ Favorite Zoom features for Virtual Facilitators — learn all about how we use the chat to increase participation, why the zoom whiteboard feature is a hidden gem, and how to use annotations to create a fun creative icebreaker!
☔️ The worst ways to get participation online - why “video on” doesn’t necessarily create more participation, how to avoid mandatory/arbitrary rules, and what it means to actually “respect everyone’s time” when it comes to online sessions!
🏃 How to run the best Zoom sessions & meetings - ways to vary the types of engagement you’re asking for, how changing group size is a total game changer when it comes to getting folks to share, and our best tip for avoiding Zoom Fatigue!
🃏Card Of The Month:
Each month, we highlight a card in every newsletter so you can get to know the deck one at a time. This month, we’re spotlighting one of our favorite cards when it comes to debriefs and large group discussions: Fishbowl.
To learn all about how/when to use Fishbowl (including variations and even more opportunities to use it) check out our blog post!
Let us know when & how you use a Fishbowl in your workshops, meetings, or sessions this month!
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November is a great month to reflect on all the things we’re thankful for, so we’re jumping ahead a few weeks to say: thank you all so much for being part of our community, we truly appreciate that you’re here, reading this, and sharing your time & energy with us.
Until next time, happy facilitating!
Meg & the Facilitator Cards Team