I’m currently training to be an executive coach as I believe it will give me a complementary set of skills for the work I do as a facilitator. As part of my training I need to log a certain number of practice hours and so I’m looking for people who might be willing to try being coached…for free! A few details for anyone who might be interested: I am still in training, and won’t qualify officially for a few more months, but I am being taught by a very reputable coaching institution The offer is for 2 or 3 hour long coaching sessions, conducted virtually, where we can discuss and explore any career goals you have and what steps you might need to take to achieve them It doesn’t have to be about your facilitation career, but given this forum I’m expecting that’s what you might want to discuss There is absolutely no charge If you’re interested, please like this post and I’ll message you to set up some time to discuss things in a bit more detail, Thank you!

I'm in Vietnam at the moment, and am now preparing to move into training and certifying educators, trainers and facilitators in LEGO® Serious Play® methods. It wasn't what I planned on doing when I arrived, but due to a turn of events, I'm in the midst of preparing for this, and there seems to be a lot of interest. I'm bringing a master trainer in from Australia, who is training me to be a trainer of facilitators. If there is anyone in South East Asia who would like to come and join myself and Michael Fearne in this adventure, reach out. I'll be posting some videos introducing the method on LinkedIn over the next couple of weeks. Some details about the training is here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/betterworks-asia_come-join-us-for-the-lego-serious-play-certification-activity-7194641423734906881-mPyR?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Hello Facilitators👋 I'm really curious about where everyone is from. I'd love to make this a mega post where we can see how diverse the Facilitator Club community is. Who knows, you might find a lot more people in your area than you thought! Once I have lots of answers on this post, I want to make a nice graph!

hey all, I've been chewing on this for a while and especially after reading @Jonathan Courtney 's recent post about doing all in one session and dealing with procrastination. I love the approach of Shawn Twing: "I've learned that I need the right mix of creative inputs and output to feel right. Too many inputs and not enough output makes me feel lazy, overwhelmed, and less able to focus. Too much output and not enough input leads to feeling empty and overtaxed. The Muse shows up far less often too. Somewhere in between there's a beautiful sense of balance where inputs fill the well I can draw from, and output creates room for more inspiration." I don't feel I have the right mix of creative inputs and output. What I struggle with is that for the last 7 years I've put caregiving first. It's not been a conscious choice. It just happens when a loved one suddenly becomes dependent on you and other people are further away emotionally and/or physically, or feel/take less responsibility. I promised myself to break through this and put myself, my life and business more upfront now, but caregiving is hard to plan and predict. I just cancelled a holiday because of sudden physical and mental deterioration of the loved one. This uncertain situation can take weeks, months or longer. She gets 24/7 professional care but I can't (and wouldn't want to) outsource my love. Even if I take a day or more off it's hard to empty my head and feel energized to work on structuring, planning, hosting a facilitation meeting. My idea is to automate the process from sign up to matching people, to grow and warm up my community, but facilitation cannot be automated (which I consider a good thing:-) Any suggestions how to deal with this and handle and improve this as smooth as possible?