Designing and executing workshops and learning experiences isn’t for the faint-of-heart…between making sessions flow nicely, engaging and entertaining folks, and ensuring the content is fully (or at least mostly) absorbed, good facilitation requires many different skill-sets separate from the expertise that probably put us in the position of teaching other folks in the first place 🥴 (no shade 🕳, just love ❤️)
Our Just Facilitation Intensive is designed to help you:
- Cultivate authentic connection and collaboration amongst attendees
- Design facilitation days that feel both fun and fulfilling
- Manage time, agendas, and scheduling with the least pain possible
- Create energizing single-day and multi-day learning arcs
- Set the stage with pre-work, expectations, and boundaries
- Use tools and tech to facilitate group work, track progress, and share learnings across people/teams
- Build confidence in your facilitation moves, even in challenging scenarios
- Collect, interpret, and implement feedback
- Become pretty dang great at all things virtual facilitation, sans digital hiccups
- Nurture honest group convos and fruitful group dynamics, adjusting for power and size
- Understand what makes a great facilitator and what those competencies might look like for you
OK, SO HOW DOES THIS WORK?
For three weeks, we will send you an email every Tuesday through Friday (4 days per week, 12 lessons total) with 30-40 minutes of content on a facilitation topic that covers the theory and philosophy underneath our approach, how we do it, with concrete examples, and access to any templates or samples for you to work from - things you can implement immediately in your upcoming facilitations.
Mondays of each week we'll have a workshop call where you can bring your questions about the content, implementation issues you've faced, or a way you're planning to use the content for feedback about your specific situation.
After the intensive, each participant has access to a 90 minute coaching call where you will meet with Christine to discuss any facilitation plan or agenda that you'd like. This call can be used to co-create a session, review a past or upcoming agenda or facilitation plan, or troubleshoot a tricky situation.
THE DATES:
all times Eastern Standard Times
Cohort kicks off Tuesday, October 13 and ends Monday November 2.
Live workshops are Monday October 19, October 26 and November 2 from 2-3:30pm est.
**While we highly recommend that you try your best to make the Monday workshops, recordings of all 3 90-minute sessions will be made available to you within 24 hours.**
PRICE:
Just you? $699 or 2 payments of $350. Use coupon code ALUM if you've done any of our past trainings for a 20% discount. If you want to enroll a group or team, or need us to invoice your organization we're happy to do so - just sent us an email.
ARE Y’ALL ACTUALLY ANY GOOD AT WHAT YOU’RE TEACHING?
Well, virtual equitable facilitation is our bread and butter and we apply equity design principles to our own iterative virtual facilitation improvement process, but, since you asked, here are some 😎 Unsolicited Compliments😎 ™ that we've received on our facilitation/facilitation education:
- “Your guidance was invaluable and led to arguably the most productive retreat the partners have had to date. Thank you again!”
- “I keep holding you up as an example of an organization that does this so well.”
- “Y'all are fire.”
ACTUALLY, MY JOB SHOULD TOTALLY FREAKING PAY FOR THIS!
We agree, which is why you should send them this Employer FAQ and ask👏🏽 them👏🏽 to👏🏽 pay👏🏽 up👏🏽 🤑 💸
Got questions? Write us at sayhello@equitymeetsdesign.com and we’ll get back to you super soon. 🤓
Your Instructor
Dr. Christine Ortiz is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for innovation through equity-centered design. She has launched k-12 microschools, consulted for schools in the US and internationally, designed and coached entrepreneurs, coordinated a national competition for innovative school models, and designed and taught graduate-level courses on redesigning schools at the Stanford d.School and Harvard University. Her current venture is Equity Meets Design, a think/do tank merging the consciousness of equity work with the power of design methodologies.
Christine spent her teenage years creating the national Truth tobacco prevention campaign and consulting with states and other countries interested in implementing the model. The first in her family to have a college degree, Christine has a BS from MIT, Masters in Education and Non-Profit Management and a Doctorate in Education Leadership from Harvard University. In all her endeavors, she has been motivated to address the barriers innovators face when tackling complex equity-based social issues.