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Group Facilitation Skills

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Build your confidence and skills as a facilitator. Engage with your audience and make quality decisions. Create interactive and productive group meetings.

09 Jul 2025
19 Nov 2025
Next date
Delivery
In-Person
Location
Wellington
Duration
2 days
CPD/PLD Hours
15

Course overview

It takes confidence and skill to facilitate groups. Meetings are supposed to be interactive; they are a time when a group can collaborate and generate better solutions than on their own. In the hands of a skilled facilitator, a group meeting can make good quality decisions, come up with great solutions, and move forward the action on a project.

This workshop is highly practical and interactive. We take a maximum of 12 people so you get one-on-one attention. There are multiple opportunities to practice and we follow each exercise with a feedback session. Participants are taught a constructive and supportive feedback model which you use to coach each other, which is another great tool for the workplace.

Facilitated by

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Trish Stonestreet

FACILITATOR 

In partnership with

Maygrove Consulting logo

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What you'll learn

  • Use a simple, thorough and flexible planning process to design meetings that are fit-for-purpose
  • Keep your group engaged and interested
  • Navigate a group to uncover needs and gather information, make decisions or create solutions
  • Utilise useful tools and strategies to generate active and constructive participation 
  • Manage group dynamics and conflict and challenging situations
  • Answer questions or concerns so as to forward the group’s outcomes

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Course modules

  1. Defining facilitation
  2. Structuring and designing facilitations
  3. Setting clear outcomes for group sessions
  4. Creating team agreements to manage group behaviour
  5. Stakeholders and group members
  6. Setting up a group session
  7. Building safety and trust with your group 
  8. Managing conflict
  9. Brainstorming and other group discussion techniques
  10. Handling challenging behaviour
  11. Managing the group’s “state” so they remain engaged and interested
  12. Handling “hot” questions and concerns

Further Information

To get the most out of the course there is a small amount of preparation to do over lunch on the first day, as well as in the evening between day one and day two of the course.

Here's what others are saying

“This course is your one stop shop for facilitation. You don’t know facilitation until you have done this course.”

“Really empowering and encouraging course.” “This course opened my eyes to the power of skilled facilitation.”

This course is well worth it. For anyone who is a facilitator or who is considering becoming one. This course is a must!

Upcoming Courses & Delivery Options

8 spaces remaining

09 Jul 2025 | Wellington

Duration: 2 days

Sessions
Session 1 | 9 Jul 9:00am - 4:30pm
Session 2 | 10 Jul 9:00am - 4:30pm
Session 1 | 9 Jul 9:00am - 4:30pm
Session 2 | 10 Jul 9:00am - 4:30pm

$NZD 1,495

excl. GST

19 Nov 2025 | Wellington

Duration: 2 days

Sessions
Session 1 | 19 Nov 9:00am - 4:30pm
Session 2 | 20 Nov 9:00am - 4:30pm
Session 1 | 19 Nov 9:00am - 4:30pm
Session 2 | 20 Nov 9:00am - 4:30pm

$NZD 1,495

excl. GST

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