Experience ways to help an individual clarify their motivation to move towards change or better cope with the transition they are experiencing.

Attendees will be able to:

• Explain the stages of relationship as it applies to working with individuals.
• Understand the four layers of a "problem" and facilitate a client from their current state into a desired future state and identify ways to work through the gap.
• Explain how messages from home and society can be repressive to parts of oneself. Understand how these lost parts show up in individuals and us as facilitators.

From co-parenting to business partnerships, professional facilitation plays a crucial role in transforming polarization into productivity.

Professional Facilitators can support any two people in changing how they see the other person in their business or personal life - from a threat or disappointment to another human with a unique and valuable perspective. 

Experience ways to help two people explore the dynamics between them. Help them uncover what they need and their personal challenges to accepting the differences between them. Move them towards an effective collaboration while supporting and even appreciating each other's differences with open, productive communication.

Attendees will be able to:

• Articulate how the 'space-between' is co-created and how it in turn creates the dynamic of a relationship between two people.
• Use sentence stems to effectively facilitate communication keep the dialogue moving between two people when they find themselves stuck in a disagreement.
• Identify what your potential is as a Professional Facilitator and find ways to add value in your professional domain. 

Group dynamics are stimulating for a variety of reasons, both conscious and unconscious. A stressful interaction can activate parts of ourselves that are quite surprising to others and even ourselves, bringing up subtle reminders of past groups and even family dynamics that caused us harm. 

From support groups to classes, from coaching groups to professional teams, you will learn to facilitate a group process that supports each person's voice and experience in a way that holds the tension of transformation.

Learn how to "read" a group and manage the flow of information between the members to support the type of risk-taking, connection and belonging necessary to accomplish the mission of that group. 

Experience ways to help a group of people explore the dynamics between them. Help them uncover what they need and their personal challenges to accepting the differences between them. Move them towards an effective collaboration while supporting and even appreciating each other's differences with open, productive communication.

Attendees will be able to:

• Articulate how the 'space-between' is co-created in a group and how it in turn creates the group dynamic in ways that support or prevent outcomes
• Use group processes and craft sentence stems to effectively facilitate communication and keep the dialogue moving in a group when one or several members find themselves stuck in a disagreement or feeling 'triggered.'
• Identify what your potential is as a Professional Facilitator and find ways to add value with groups in your professional domain. 

Experience ways to help more than two people explore the dynamics between them, their unmet needs, and challenges so that they can move towards effective collaboration while supporting each other's differences and open communication.

Attendees will be able to:

• Articulate how families, often our first group, create norms and expectations for future group interactions.
• Use family processes to explore the implicit and explicit messages and agreements a family uses to relate to each other. 
• Identify the types of family relationships they may work with as a Professional Facilitator and when to refer a family for therapy. 
• Learn additional group processes 

Experience ways to help teams explore the dynamics between them, their unmet needs, and challenges so that they can move towards effective collaboration while supporting each other's differences and open communication for better decisions, greater productivity and more effective outcomes.

Attendees will be able to:

• Articulate how teams are different and the same as groups.  
• Use group communication processes to help manage polarization and conflict.

Learn ways to help organizational leaders facilitate change and increase motivation in their organizations and teams. 

Attendees will be able to:

• Understand the benefits of organizations becoming Growth Mindset oriented and ways that structure and policy supports or undermines a relational culture.
• Learn group processes that organizations and teams may use to facilitate decisions while supporting difference and diversity for better outcomes.
• Make connections between their history and chosen profession. 
• Process their past experiences in organizations to better understanding the introjections and projections involved. 
• Explain how defensive reactivity patterns build and how a conscious response cycle can transform groups and organizations.