Episode 58: Hold your workshop outcomes lightly with Kirsty Lewis
Our guest today is really passionate about how learning is designed and delivered. She believes that good things happen when you bring likeminded individuals together from the world of training, facilitation and coaching to learn, to grow, to share and connect. She’s also here to support businesses who have a passion and desire to develop their facilitation and training talent internally.
Our guest today is really passionate about how learning is designed and delivered. She believes that good things happen when you bring likeminded individuals together from the world of training, facilitation and coaching to learn, to grow, to share and connect. She’s also here to support businesses who have a passion and desire to develop their facilitation and training talent internally.
Her name is Kirsty Lewis, and she’s the Founder of the School of Facilitation, based in the UK. She is the perfect person to have on this show for First Time Facilitator listeners, as in her business she hosts classes and events that bring new ideas, skills and ways to facilitate, train or design and works with corporates to design learning and coach in-house trainers and facilitators
On this episode you'll learn:
How boldly writing down a career goal changed her direction in life
Why she encourages facilitators to take care of themselves first: mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually
How she preps the night before and morning of a workshop
How she resets the energy in a room
Why she believes time on your feet matters (but you also need another essential ingredient
Systemic constellations: What it is, and how it can transformational for people when you don’t have the words to describe what’s happening to you)
How she differentiates between workshops and gatherings
Some of the common themes she notices when First Time Facilitators work with the School of Facilitation
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