6 February - 27 March 2025 | Online
This is an excellent opportunity for anyone in Europe, Southeast Asia, India, Australia, and New Zealand to join in and benefit from the incredible benefits of whole-person facilitation and unlock collective intelligence.
Stage 1 of the Zenergy Diploma: The Art of Facilitation (40 hours) will run over eight weekly 4-hour sessions starting Thursday 06 February and ending Thursday 27 - March 2025. Online session times are 5 - 9 pm (AEST - Australia, Melbourne). The training will include 8 hours of essential offline content and practical work between sessions. This experiential facilitation training is based on The Art of Facilitation (Hunter, 2007).
The need for ongoing effective online facilitation has become increasingly apparent over the past few years. We need new ways of working together, bringing our humanity and whole-person presence to this online world. Participants will gain an embodied understanding of whole-person facilitation, developing skills in building relationships and accessing collective intelligence for the greater good of the teams, groups and communities in which they work. A central focus of the training is to allow participants to build confidence by practising their facilitation in the safety of a supportive group without being exhausted or overwhelmed.
Course outline and dates
Online Format: eight 4 hour sessions over eight weeks (mornings / afternoons / evenings depending on your time zone) plus practical work
The course is delivered over eight weeks, with one 4 hour online session per week (32 hours total) plus 1 hour per week of independent practical work (8 hours total). This format builds online facilitation capabilities while also enabling greater accessibility for participants across different time zones. Our delivery approach maximises online engagement and minimises 'zoom fatigue'.
The online course covers the same content as the in-person course: Creating the Programme, Facilitating Self and Others, Making Interventions, Facilitating Challenges, Integration and Assessment.
Session dates
06 February Pre-Session (Optional) Miro and Padlet Training and Technical Preparations (2hours starting same time as session times below)
13 February Session 1: Creating the programme
20 February Session 2: Programme Frames
27 February Session 3: Facilitating Self and Others
06 March Session 4: Making Interventions (Halfway review)
13 March Session 5: Making Interventions 2
20 March Session 6: Facilitating Challenges
27 March Session 7: Personal Facilitation Practice
3 April Session 8: Reflection, Integration and Assessment
Session times
6:00 am - 10:00 am (London, United Kingdom)
7:00 am - 11:00 am (Central Europe)
5:00 pm - 9:00 pm (Melbourne, Australia)
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm (New Zealand)
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm (Manila, Philippines)
11:30 am - 3:30 pm (Mumbai, India)
Online platform
The course will be delivered via Zoom Videoconferencing (participants do not require a paid account). We will use online collaboration tools, including Google Drive, Miro Boards, and WhatsApp, to connect as a group between sessions. We may also explore other collaboration platforms of interest to participants.
Learning outcomes
Understand whole-person online facilitation (including barriers and opportunities)
Understand the role of a facilitator and group development cycles
Create an empowering group purpose and safe group culture
Explore aspects of whole personhood and being present to self, others and the group
Recognise and work with different energy levels in self, others and the group
Practise facilitation processes, techniques and interventions in a group
Become comfortable with a range of behaviours and effectively manage conflict
Practice online facilitation and work with online collaboration platforms
Learning together with other facilitation professionals
Create meaningful connections online
Learning to work with Miro
Who is it for?
The Art of Facilitation has been developed for facilitators with varying levels of facilitation experience working in government, community and/or business sectors as it meets people at their own level of expertise. It is also suitable for team leaders, community facilitators, consultants and emerging facilitators and will be adapted to meet the specific needs of the group.
The group will have a maximum of 12 participants.
Trainers
Simone is our Zenergy Trainer in Melbourne, Australia, and has been a trainer with Zenergy Global since 2013. She was born in Leipzig, Germany, in the land of the Saxon people. In 2015, she relocated from New Zealand to Australia and brought the Zenergy work to Australia. Simone is active with the Victorian Facilitators Network (VFN) and delivers Zenergy programs in Australia, Europe, Asia, the USA and the UK. Since its establishment in Australia, Zenergy Global Australia has been growing and had several programs delivered worldwide. Simone is an experienced facilitator, coach and trainer working in government, corporate business and community sectors. She is passionate about helping leaders embed the spirit of collaborative leadership and sees whole-person facilitation skills as essential to effective collaboration.
Corina is our Zenergy Trainer in Europe and has been using whole-person technology for the last 20 years. Corina gets teams into flow and unleashing their collective intelligence to solve their biggest challenges and serve their purpose. Corina is super passionate about helping facilitators, project managers, leaders and entrepreneurs up level their online and in-person collaboration skills.
Costs
2,750 AUD ex. GST / 1,650 GBP / 1,925 EUR / 1980 USD (corporate, business and government)
Early Bird: 10% discount on Full Price, if registered and payment received by Friday 13 September 2024.
Cost includes:
Soft copy of Participant Course Manual
40 hours of experiential training, including weekly 1:1 coaching
Certificate of Attendance
