The Art of Facilitation | online (Australasian and European Time Zones)

06 February - 27 March 2025

Stage 1 of the Zenergy Diploma: The Art of Facilitation (40 hours) will run over eight weekly 4-hour sessions starting Thursday 06 February and ending Thursday 27 - March 2025.   Online session times are 5 - 9 pm  (AEST - Australia, Melbourne).  The training will include 8 hours of essential offline content and practical work between sessions.  This experiential facilitation training is based on The Art of Facilitation (Hunter, 2007).

The need for ongoing effective online facilitation has become increasingly apparent over the past few years.  We need new ways of working together,  bringing our humanity and whole-person presence to this online world.  Participants will gain an embodied understanding of whole-person facilitation, developing skills in building relationships and accessing collective intelligence for the greater good of the teams, groups and communities in which they work.  A central focus of the training is to allow participants to build confidence by practising their facilitation in the safety of a supportive group without being exhausted or overwhelmed.

Course outline and dates

Online Format:  eight 4 hour sessions over eight weeks (mornings / afternoons / evenings depending on your time zone) plus practical work

The course is delivered over eight weeks, with one 4 hour online session per week (32 hours total) plus 1 hour per week of independent practical work (8 hours total).  This format builds online facilitation capabilities while also enabling greater accessibility for participants across  different time zones. Our delivery approach maximises online engagement and minimises 'zoom fatigue'.

The online course covers the same content as the in-person course: Creating the Programme, Facilitating Self and Others, Making Interventions, Facilitating Challenges, Integration and Assessment.

Session Dates

  • 06 February     Pre-Session (Optional) Miro and Padlet Training and Technical Preparations (2hours starting same time as session times below)
  • 13 February      Session 1:  Creating the programme
  • 20 February     Session 2:  Programme Frames
  • 27 February     Session 3:  Facilitating Self and Others
  • 06 March          Session 4:   Making Interventions (Halfway review)
  • 13 March           Session 5:  Making Interventions 2
  • 20 March          Session 6:   Facilitating Challenges
  • 27 March          Session 7:  Personal Facilitation Practice
  • 3 April               Session 8:  Reflection, Integration and Assessment

Session Times

  • 6:00 am - 10:00 am  (London, United Kingdom)
  • 7:00 am - 11:00 am    (Central Europe)
  • 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm   (Melbourne, Australia)
  • 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm  (New Zealand)
  • 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm   (Manila, Philippines)
  • 11:30 am - 3:30 pm   (Mumbai, India)

Online platform

The course will be delivered via Zoom Videoconferencing (participants do not require a paid account). We will use online collaboration tools, including Google Drive, Miro Boards, and WhatsApp, to connect as a group between sessions. We may also explore other collaboration platforms of interest to participants.

Learning outcomes

  • Understand whole-person online facilitation (including barriers and opportunities)
  • Understand the role of a facilitator and group development cycles
  • Create an empowering group purpose and safe group culture
  • Explore aspects of whole personhood and being present to self, others and the group
  • Recognise and work with different energy levels in self, others and the group
  • Practise facilitation processes, techniques and interventions in a group
  • Become comfortable with a range of behaviours and effectively manage conflict
  • Practice online facilitation and work with online collaboration platforms
  • Learning together with other facilitation professionals
  • Create meaningful connections online
  • Learning to work with Miro

Who is it for?

The Art of Facilitation has been developed for facilitators with varying levels of facilitation experience working in government, community and/or business sectors as it meets people at their own level of expertise. It is also suitable for team leaders, community facilitators, consultants and emerging facilitators and will be adapted to meet the specific needs of the group.

The group will have a maximum of 12 participants.

Additional information on Zenergy Stage 1: The Art of Facilitation

Trainers

Simone is our Zenergy Trainer in Melbourne, Australia, and has been a trainer with Zenergy Global since 2013. She was born in Leipzig, Germany, in the land of the Saxon people. In 2015, she relocated from New Zealand to Australia and brought the Zenergy work to Australia. Simone is active with the Victorian Facilitators Network (VFN) and delivers Zenergy programs in Australia, Europe, Asia, the USA and the UK. Since its establishment in Australia, Zenergy Global Australia has been growing and had several programs delivered worldwide. Simone is an experienced facilitator, coach and trainer working in government, corporate business and community sectors. She is passionate about helping leaders embed the spirit of collaborative leadership and sees whole-person facilitation skills as essential to effective collaboration.

 

Corina is our Zenergy Trainer in Europe and has been using whole-person technology for the last 20 years. Corina gets teams into flow and unleashing their collective intelligence to solve their biggest challenges and serve their purpose.  Corina is super passionate about helping facilitators, project managers, leaders and entrepreneurs up level their online and in-person collaboration skills.

 

 

Costs

2,750 AUD ex. GST / 1,650 GBP / 1,925 EUR / 1980 USD (corporate, business and government)

Early Bird: 10% discount on Full Price if registered and payment received by Friday, 10 January 2025.

Cost includes:

  • Soft copy of Participant Course Manual
  • 40 hours of experiential training, including weekly 1:1 coaching
  • Certificate of Attendance

What our participants say

Course Registration

Please fill out the form below to register to the course or get in touch to ask for information

    Please complete this form to register for the course.
    (all fields are required)




    You will be contacted to confirm your registration.
    How would you prefer to be contacted?
    EmailPhone

    Further enquiries

      Please use this form to contact our trainers with any questions.
      (the * fields are required)





      How would you prefer to be contacted? EmailPhone

      Scroll to top