Facilitation training (2 days)

Thursday 9th April 2026

How do you help groups to come to a decision? Or to come up with new ideas for products or services? Jointly develop a vision? To get to know each other better? How do you set up such a session? How do you design a program with a clear goal and inspiring storyline to engage stakeholders? What is your role as a facilitator? Why is creating a level playing field important? What is the art of facilitating in such an (offline or online) session?

Equip yourself with the process and tools to design and facilitate meetings, workshops or programs.

Why a facilitator?

  • A group wants/needs to prepare for change, wants to innovate
  • A group wants to work in a different way
  • A group wants to be inspired, make new plans
  • A group has to make decisions

Learning goals

  • Better understand the importance of a structured and creative program
  • Become aware of your own responsibility and role as a facilitator
  • Better understand how people behave in a meeting (e.g. resistance) and how to deal with that
  • Practice the design and flow of programs for different types of meetings
  • Experience different working methods
  • Get to know the process of Design Thinking and TheoryU to structure the change you facilitate

Methods and tools

  • Program design & program building blocks
  • Spatial layout
  • Rules of Engagement
  • Design thinking methodology to structure facilitating change processes
  • Check-in and check-out
  • Power of Questions (incl. Design Question)
  • Various conversation processes, including World Café
  • Different brainstorming techniques

Overview

  • 2-day training (9 en 10 april of 1 en 2 oktober 2026)
  • personal intake to define learning needs
  • workbook
  • (optional) follow up assignment
  • (optional) 1-hr Teams reflection session
  • 1000 euro incl. btw

Voor whom?

Professionals who like to guide groups in small or bigger sessions. E.g. HR, learning & development professionals, (project) managers, strategists, consultants, trainers and facilitators

Reference

‘Best training ever! I feel more confident to facilitate meetings and understand better what my role as a facilitator can be.” – Sanne Chateau (Senior HR Professional, Quintop HR Consultants)

“Facilitating is a skill. I already knew that, but it became even clearer through this intensive two-day training with the master in this field, Yvette Pasman. Yvette combines theory with practice and adds a nice touch of humour. Inspired and equipped with many handy tools, methodologies, and a framework for building a program, I returned home. Highly recommended!” – Monique Vering (social entrepreneur, project coordinator, program manager)

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Register directly for one of our programs or a training. Would you like to receive more background information? Please send an email to school@onthemorro.com or call Yvette Pasman on 06-42461750

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