It is in group events – meetings, workshops, retreats, and more – that much of our work is accomplished and connections made between people. Group events are most effective when led by powerful and transformative facilitators; leaders, managers, committee chairs, and anyone leading groups on a regular basis can become a powerful and transformative facilitator. Mastering Group Facilitation provides the tactics, theories, and self-awareness practice to help you become a superb facilitator. Along the way, in this three-day workshop, you'll discover tools and techniques that will transform other parts of your life because parenting, marriages, friendships, and all forms of relationship are improved through the same tools that produce good facilitation and dialogue.

Mastering Group Facilitation – 3 Day Workshop, October 2023
Tue, October 3 @ 8:00 am - Thu, October 5 @ 4:30 pm EDT

Come join us for a 3-day intensive led by Laura Freebairn-Smith and Leah Hancock where we will explore and practice the skills of a master facilitator. In this workshop, you will experience:
- How to run an effective meeting
- Data collection and analysis tools
- The role of a facilitator
- Videotaped facilitation practices
- Cases, readings, and experiential exercises
- A fully designed meeting of your choosing that you will lead

This event is from Tuesday, October 3 – Thursday, October 5, 2023 with location TBD.
Pricing based on your ability to pay:
As OPG grows and looks for better ways to live into our mission, we are searching for ways to make MGF available to anyone who might want to benefit from this course and change the way their organization operates. We are proud to present pricing on a sliding scale: Starting from a base tuition of $500 to cover our costs and materials, we now leave it to you to tell us what you can pay. We ask for some information on your organization to help in our decision making, and may request a call if we have some questions!
Space: We will only be accepting 30 registrations for this run of MGF.


Tuition for this course is $2,500 when participants register 21 days or more before the event begins, plus a $500 materials fee. Tuition increases to $2,775 when participants register within 21 days of the start of the event.
Discounts are available to individuals paying out of pocket and organizations that meet certain criteria. Check out the registration page below to see our sliding scale payment system.