Design sessions that harness collective power.
Enhance your facilitation and training skills in this two-day online workshop, which lasts three hours per day. We’re offering it twice to accommodate different time zones:
- February 11th & 12th from 10am to 1pm UTC (check your time zone)
- February 18th & 19th from 4pm to 7pm UTC (check your time zone)
During this workshop, you will build a solid foundation in designing participatory and interactive sessions for both online and in-person formats. This will enable you to facilitate sessions that promote copowering, learning, and knowledge sharing, thereby advancing your work and that of your participants.
On the first day, we’ll explore adult learning theories and participant-centric session formats, such as ADIDS (Activity, Discussion, Input, Deepening, and Synthesis). The second day will focus on designing a session using the methods you learned on the first day, followed by an opportunity to review your design with other participants. We’ll also cover best practices and tactics for engaging participants before and after sessions.
Really great session that gave me practical tools and more confidance to facilitate workshops in my work.
Session Design Lab Participant
By the end of the lab, you’ll have:
- A peer-reviewed session design ready for implementation.
- Increased expertise in facilitating practical workshops and convenings.
- An understanding of how to build collective power through meaningful and purposeful connections.
- Access to The Session Design Canvas
- Connected with others on a similar journey
This laboratory is specifically designed for individuals working with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), non-profit organizations (NPOs), civil society organizations (CSOs), and charities.
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The Session Design Lab is facilitated by Dirk Slater, who has spent the last quarter of a century finetuning his training and facilitation techniques. He is the Facilitation Coach for RightsCon and is the editor of The Collective Power Playbook
Dirk is very attentive and helpful in giving me the resources and insight I needed to make my campaigning session a reality. He taught me some things that seem so obvious but things I never considered before. Incredibly beneficial!
Session Design Lab Participant
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