The Art of Team Building
Level 1
2 Day Certification Experience
Experiential Facilitation is the intentional use of some very powerful skills and tools that help us to support participants in interpreting and deriving meaning from their experiences. Skillful facilitation invites participants to gracefully step beyond their comfort zones to greet challenges as opportunities and to overcome obstacles and their perceived limitations in a safe and supportive environment. It promotes self-assessment, personal reflection and the celebration of all successes both big and small in a genuine way.
The research is clear about the need to engage people’s differentiated learning styles, but often people find themselves at a loss for some unique, proven and effective strategies for truly capturing their students’ interest and imaginations. This program expertly explores the role of adventure and outdoor activities as powerful and often therapeutic catalysts for engaging participants in their own learning, the building of important “Life Assets” and the excavation of Leadership.
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Leaders of the Day certainly made an impression at Habitat for Humanity’s Global Village Team Leader conference! We were looking for someone who could equip our international team leaders with the tools to bring a group of strangers together in a developing world setting and form them into a team that would build a house.
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Tony and his team were definitely up for the task. Based on our initial conversations they put together an energetic and engaging workshop that received rave reviews from everyone involved. We are looking forward to a repeat performance at our upcoming conference this year. Thanks Tony and Leaders of the Day for showing what excellence in facilitation is all about. Rick Tait, Senior Director, Habitat for Humanity Canada, Global Village Program
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Thank you for the wonderful 2-day Experiential Facilitator Training. We'll never forget the great experience we had together and look forward to working with Leaders of the Day again! Office of Aboriginal Initiatives, Nipissing University
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Words cannot describe how enriching this experience was. Thank you! Aaron
Learning Objectives:
This program will explore in depth:
- Proven techniques for engaging participants across a spectrum of different learning styles,
- How to facilitate a progression of powerful trust building activities
- The deepening and development of presentation and group facilitation skills
- Relationship and Rapport Building
- How to design effective and engaging experiential Lesson Plans
- Processing and reviewing activities that effectively harness participant learning
- Capturing the attention and imaginations of your students
- The deep importance of creating an environment of Physical and Emotional safety
- Tips for facilitating engaging processing activities that inspire participation
- The importance of progression in the quest for meaningful successes
- How to capture “Teachable Moments”
- Group Development and how to design timely and meaningful thematic programming
- Risk assessment and risk management of your activities
- Building your own “back-pocket” of ready to go activities, games and processing tools
- Fun and creative tools for assessing your changing group and the individuals within it
- Transformational Education vs. Theme park style programming
This program is ideal for Teachers and other Educators looking to deepen their tool boxes or broaden their spectrum of approaches and is an absolute core competency for those seeking work as Outdoor Professionals. Leaders of the Day currently partners with School Boards and Outdoor Education Centres throughout the province and even assists in training Habitat for Humanity’s International Team Leaders as they embark on their projects throughout the world. Come get the skills you need to take your work to the “next level!”
Our All-inclusive package for this program includes the cost of your tuition, shared accommodation at the beautiful Spirit Point Lodge near Algonquin Park, a delicious meal plan and the opportunity to participate in an exciting High Ropes experience during your program.
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Program Tuition
$320.00
Fall dates coming soon.
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