- Do you need to develop and design meeting and workshop agendas as a part of your work?
- Do you find yourself facilitating meetings and workshops, or breakout groups?
- Are you working on a big conference that brings together many stakeholders or communities to learn and work together?
- Do you want all these events to have real results, and are memorable for being interactive and enjoyable?
If you answered "yes" to any of the above questions, then you should take a look at some of the courses being offered in 2017 by Bright Green Learning Academy (featured on our site last year). As Certified Professional Facilitators and Trainers, they are starting their new series of winter and spring courses on 23 January, with courses designed to help people build their facilitation skills, and design their meetings and workshops better, making them interactive, and ensuring they get results. (No more boring and useless meetings!)
Courses include: (just a sample from the 14 courses on offer!):
- Fundamentals of Collaboration by Design: Core Module (for the basics of Facilitation) ( (23 January)
- Fundamentals of Collaboration by Design: Optimising and Capturing Results (how to capture outputs, synthesize and summarise results and more) (24-25 January)
- Facilitation and Collaboration Approaches and Methodologies (add some new workshop facilitation tools to your toolkit) (6 February)
- Strategic Review and Planning Workshops (how to design these special types of workshops (7 February – morning only)
- Interactive Workshops at Large Conferences/Congresses (how to work with groups of all sizes) (6 March)
- Working with Multi-cultural groups (working with diversity in workshops) (7 March)
- Webinars and Online Tools in Virtual and face-to-face meetings (running online meetings and workshops)(18 May)
- Communicating Complex Challenges using Tools from Systems Thinking (using systems thinking in your work) (2 June)
To encourage more people to sign up for their courses, Bright Green Learning Academy are offering knowitall.ch readers 30% discount on all courses booked until the end of January. To claim your discount, use the coupon code "BGLHNY2017" when booking online, and the discount will be applied at checkout.
The courses are small to maximize learning, and are held in the Geneva/Nyon area from 9h to 17h (unless specified on their website). Click here to see the new 2017 course list.
You can find out more about Bright Green Learning Academy on their new website. If you want to learn more about facilitation and hear about upcoming courses, you can sign up for their newsletter here.
Bright Green Learning Academy
https://brightgreenlearning.com/
