Facilitation skills training course

Build the confidence to facilitate and lead teams, meetings and projects in a collaborative way.

Gain skills to navigate difference, challenging dynamics and enhance your self-awareness and emotional resilience.

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Price

From $1,515 inc. GST

Duration

2 days (2.5 days for Workplace Training)

Study method

Face-to-face or Online (check dates)

Location

Melbourne or Online

Enrol in our public course

Upcoming course dates:

Learn the art of effective facilitation

Effective facilitation enables people and groups to work well together. It enhances communication, fosters creativity and makes space for difference and sound decision-making.

Our two-day public training provides you with the foundational skills, principles and self-awareness required for good facilitation.

Our workplace facilitation training can be tailored to your organisation’s needs and can run from 2 - 6 days. (Inquire here.)

What will I learn?

During our two day course, you can develop:

  • Practical facilitation: group processes and the skills required to apply them

  • Understand the essential principles of facilitation

  • Create safety and welcome difference to harness group wisdom

  • Ability to maximise participation

  • Develop greater self-awareness in groups

  • Emotional resilience

  • Skills to make meetings work well

  • Capacity to manage hotspots and challenging conversations

  • Confidence to facilitate challenging group dynamics

This training is versatile and can be applied to all facilitation areas; organisational, community engagement and therapeutic.

The training is oriented towards your learning needs. We welcome your challenges and aspirations into the course.  This provides opportunity to practice your learning in situations most meaningful to you.

Facilitating is like swimming: you can’t learn without getting in the water – so our training is highly hands-on and experiential.

Why our facilitation education?

We are internationally recognised as leaders in the field of facilitation education and training, having established this work in 1984. Our two day course, derived from our Advanced Group Facilitation Program, is consistently booked out.

We give you a practical, well-framed approach to build skills, self-awareness and confidence.

We differ from most communications skills courses in our approach to emotional intelligence – what we prefer to call emotional resilience. Challenges can be handled much more effectively when you understand what holds you back as a facilitator.

Facilitator training pricing

We offer tiered pricing for our public short course. Please select the appropriate tier on registration.

Prices below include GST and ticket fees.

We also offer a 10% discount if two or more people are booking from the same organisation. (Simply enter discount code: GROUP-DISCOUNT on checkout.)

For workplace training pricing, inquire here.

TIERED PRICING OPTIONS

  • Tier 4: $2090 - For larger institutions and/or for those who can offer more support for others to attend.

  • Tier 3: $1880 - By paying this rate you also support others to attend.

  • Tier 2: $1724  - This price covers our costs.

  • Tier 1: $1515 - This is for people that may not be able to access or afford a higher rate. We want to facilitate attendance, this rate does not cover our costs.

    (Prices include Humanitix ticket fees - please note, all Humanitix profits are donated to charity.).

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In the words of our students…

“Unusually fun and enjoyable for a work training. Great environment!” (Freya)

“I loved that everything we were learning was being modeled by the facilitators - so we could see and feel it in action. The facilitators felt very genuine and I loved that they kept things light and easy - while teaching and sharing so much knowledge.” (Jane)

A woman with red hair writing on a whiteboard, which has words and lines, during a presentation or brainstorming session.

“The facilitators were exceptional in: creating a safe, comfortable and chill environment, keeping to time, keeping the content understandable and achievable, clear instructions, allowing us to be human and diverse. I liked that the course wasn't simply, "here are a bunch of activities you can do", but rather focused on the self awareness and what we, as facilitators, can control and how we can work with ourselves to create that confidence to facilitate and feel good in the role. Also loved no handouts or PowerPoints!”

Libby, Brotherhood of St Laurence

Public course pricing details

    • Tier 4: $2090 - For larger institutions and/or for those who can offer more support for others to attend.

    • Tier 3: $1880 - By paying this rate you also support others to attend.

    • Tier 2: $1724  - This price covers our costs.

    • Tier 1: $1515 - This is for people that may not be able to access or afford a higher rate. We want to facilitate attendance, this rate does not cover our costs.

      (Prices include Humanitix ticket fees - please note, all Humanitix profits are donated to charity.)

  • Group Discount available:  We offer 10% off when two or more people from an organisation book into the same dates for this course. 

    Simply enter the discount code GROUP-DISCOUNT on checkout.

    Please note we have a cap of maximum 4 people from the same organisation at any one workshop.

  • Payment can be made via credit card at the time of registration, or via invoice.

    We appreciate your prompt payment. Unless otherwise agreed, our payment terms are 14 days from the invoice date.

  • Upon enrolment, you agree to the cost of this course. All course fees are to be paid prior to the course commencement date. 

    Reschedules:

    In the event of needing to reschedule, the following will be required:

    • Reschedule requests must be received 4 weeks prior to course commencement. (Requests received after this point will only be granted if the place can be filled by another participant. If the place cannot be filled, the registration and any monies paid are forfeited.)

    • When a reschedule request is granted, the enrollee must select another course date within two (2) weeks. (Course dates as listed on the course calendar).  If this does not occur, the participant will lose their place and forfeit any monies paid.  Notification to the participant about this requirement will be given twice before a forfeiting of monies will follow. (All participants need to be booked into a session to be able to access their rights to any further re-scheduling amendments or changes.

    • The course must be completed within six months of the original registration date. After this point the registration and monies are forfeited.

    • A person may re-schedule up to a total of three (3) times with a $50 administrative fee required for each reschedule, regardless of the period of time before the newly scheduled event and regardless of the reasons for re-scheduling.  A person will lose their spot and forfeit any monies paid after the third reschedule.

    • In the event of sickness a reschedule can be granted in the 24 hours preceding the course start date.

    Cancellations

    Cancellations received more than one month prior to the commencement datewill receive a 100% refund.

    Cancellations received less than one month prior to the commencement datewill receive a refund if and only if your place in the course is filled by someone else. You will be refunded the course cost, less a $50 administration fee.

    If we are unable to fill the place then your course fee will be forfeited.

    NOTE: In the event that any registration fees are still outstanding at the time when a registration is forfeited (due to cancellation or rescheduling); these fees remain owing and will be billed to the participant.

Interested in workplace facilitation training?

Inquire here

For an indication of our facilitation training course content, please see the ‘What will I learn?’ section above.

  • Our workplace training is tailored to your specific organisational context and needs.

  • We are based in Melbourne, however workplace facilitation training can be offered in-person throughout Australia.

    We also offer our training in online and hybrid training formats.

  • Our two-day training provides a strong foundation in the core skills, principles and self-awareness required for facilitation.

    We also offer advanced modules and topics in conflict; rank, power & diversity; collaborative decision-making and more.

    Your training program is designed in consultation with you and can extend beyond the two-day foundation.

  • Our facilitation training provides teams with shared language, principles and approaches to working together.

    Beyond ‘facilitation skills’, the training is a valuable means to build collaborative culture, strengthen communications and boost team effectiveness across all aspects of work.