Greetings from Barcelona ☀️ where I am preparing for tomorrow’s free demo session called “The Exceptional Virtual Facilitator Workshop”. More on that below👇
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If you are joining for the first time, welcome to our deep dive into facilitation, learning, and how to live a creative life.
This week I’m excited to share a training technique that will dramatically accelerate learning. PLUS don’t miss your chance to save US$300 on Breakthrough Facilitation Cohort 3 starting September 19.
Let’s jump right in!
🤫Pre-sale cart opens today for Breakthrough Facilitation Cohort 3 (Sept 19 – Oct 27).
If you want to level up your virtual facilitation skills AND save $300 you are in luck! The pre-sale cart for Breakthrough Facilitation Cohort 3 opens today. But keep it on the low down:) The pre-sale rate is only available to members of the BF waitlist. And to give you the best course experience I’m capping registration at 30 spots. Make sure that you get first dibs!
Interested in finding out more? Here are two actions you can take:
1/ 👉Join the waitlist and you’ll receive an email later today with a private course page link, and a coupon code. I’m throwing in a special bonus (that will be revealed in the same email) for the first 10 people who register. Click 👉 here to join the waitlist.
2/ 👉Join the free interactive webinar “The Exceptional Virtual Facilitator Workshop”. The workshop will be happening tomorrow, August 16 @5pm CEST. You’ll get tools and techniques that you can use straight away to make your virtual sessions memorable. And you’ll get a taster of how I run my live sessions. If you can’t make it live, register anyway and you’ll receive the video replay. Click 👉 here to register for the webinar.
✋Hands up if you have you have ever taken a course, only to flounder when you tried to put your new skills into practice.
I have. And it’s one of the reasons I am so passionate about making learning stick.
Most instructors teach skills through a combination of lecture and application.
🏃🏽But the leap from learning a concept to putting it into practice can be a huge one.
Sometimes way too big. It can be frustrating for your students because it leaves the learning process unfinished. What’s often missing is a step in between. And it’s a step that can accelerate the learning process.
🎫 It’s a technique I call “lifting the curtain”.
With the lifting-the-curtain approach, you reveal your own techniques, processes, systems, and templates to your students. It’s like giving them a VIP ticket with backstage access.
When you lift the curtain you don’t keep your cards close to your chest. You put all of your cards on the table for your students to see and learn from.
It’s powerful because:
✅ It makes it easy for learners to put their skills into practice quickly
✅ It saves your students time and guesswork
✅ It builds trust between you and your students
How can you do it? In the spirit of lifting the curtain, here’s how I do it👇
1/ 📝Use examples from your work. We all know that real examples make concepts tangible. When you lift the curtain, you draw from your own examples. So when I teach session design, I take people through an example of a session I designed. I walk students through my own process, and how I made design decisions. And even things I would change the next time.
2/ ✨Create experiences. Giving people first-hand experience bridges the gap between theory and practice. But like John Dewey says, “We do not learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on experience.” (Thanks Alexandra A. for sharing that quote!). So when I teach how to build psychological safety, I give students an experience of what it feels like. And then we reflect on the facilitation techniques I used and how students can adapt these techniques with their own groups.
3/ 📈Give away your templates. Templates eliminate the problem of not knowing where to start. Templates include outlines, session plans, spreadsheets, Notion templates, and more. In my course, I share step-by-step frameworks and virtual session outlines. This gives students something tangible that they can easily adapt to their live online events.
4/ 🧗♂️Share your struggles. An important part of learning new skills is making mistakes and learning from them. Your students can learn a lot from your struggles, and how you overcame them. It helps your students avoid making the same mistakes. And it builds trust in you.
How could you lift your curtain in your sessions?
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