Facilitating Engaging Meetings
Virtual & Interactive Facilitation Skills Program
Do you want to lead more productive meetings? Are you struggling with getting folks to participate in meetings? Do you wonder how to prevent or manage difficult group dynamics in meetings?
ICL’s 3-part interactive virtual program increases your understanding of meeting facilitation and your confidence as a facilitator. We’ll learn and practice skills together through guided interactive virtual sessions.
This workshop series emphasizes skill building through engagement with the content and your environmental sector peers in the course. You will walk away from this program with facilitation tools and approaches that can be applied to your own context!
Workshop Descriptions
Session 1 –
Focus: Your personal tendencies, strengths, and stance as a facilitator, planning for engaging meetings, creating clear outcomes and expectations
Facilitators will also focus on participant needs, priorities, and concerns to address throughout the training
Session 2–
Focus: Tips for creating engagement and productivity, specific tools for leading meetings (virtual and in-person meetings), applying the facilitation skills of listening and summarizing
Session 3 –
Focus: Group dynamics and facilitation strategies, self-awareness and self-management, practice facilitation skills
Overall Outcomes
By the end of the program you will gain knowledge and skills about:
- Your facilitation role and stance
- Planning an engaging meeting
- An understanding of group dynamics
- Core facilitator skills, including listening, summarizing, and redirecting
- Specific activities and tools that support engagement
- Setting intentions for your future facilitation efforts
What you get from the program
- A pre-session orientation video with introductory activity
- Three 90-minute interactive workshops that emphasize skill building and practicing different facilitation tools and approaches
- Emphasis on breakout rooms and group engagement in sessions
- Assignments between workshops to build each session
- Opportunity to win 1-1 office hours with Senior Associate of your choice
Post session information
- All ICL handouts and worksheets from session with templates to use for your future facilitation efforts
- Slides from the session with session engagement content embedded in
- Recordings of the workshops, available for 60 days following the end of the program
Upcoming Dates
February 2025
All Sessions 1:30 – 3:00 pm (Eastern Time)
1. Tuesday, February 11th
2. Thursday, February 13th
3. Thursday, February 20th
Early Bird pricing until January 10th
Registration closes on February 4th
June 2025
All Sessions 1:30 – 3 pm (Eastern Time)
- Tuesday, June 3rd
- Thursday, June 5th
- Tuesday, June 10th
Registration coming soon!
Tuition Cost
Early Bird Pricing: $325
Regular Pricing: $350
Additional Information
- Facilitating Engaging Meetings is designed as a series of interactive workshops. Please come prepared to interact and contribute to the sessions.
- Please direct any questions about this workshop series to Sarah Dietz at info@icl.org.
- A calendar invitation and Zoom link will be shared with you after registration and before the workshop series begins.
- There is a no refund policy for this program. Registration transfers will be accepted on a case by case basis. Reach out to info@icl.org with any questions on this policy.
Curious what past program participants are saying?
“Since the program ended, I’ve already referred back to what we learned multiple times. The material in this facilitation series felt like something that everybody should have a chance to learn.”
-February 2024 participant
I found this training session to be extremely beneficial and informative! I am excited to take what I learned and apply it to my future agendas.”
-Spring 2024 participant