BETTER CONVERSATIONS - A Program Design & Facilitation Skills Training
This training is for anyone, at any level of experience, who wants to learn a clear framework for designing and facilitating powerful experiences that lead to tangible change.
If you want your workshops, trainings, meetings or events to enable people to think and act differently…
If you want to change culture or guide groups with diverse needs towards a unified goal…
If you’re a teacher wanting to facilitate highly engaging conversations with students about wellbeing, mental health or consent…
If you’re a coach, trainer, health practitioner or counsellor wanting to increase the impact of your work empowering change with groups…
This training will give you the knowledge, skills and confidence to build strong connections within a group; to guide them into rich conversations and meaningful contemplation; to explore new ways of being; and to support them to implement meaningful changes.
This is an interactive, experiential training where we will mine the wisdom of the group and you will be able to pick the brains of Mike’s experience on hundreds of leadership retreats, corporate workshops, rites of passage camps, and in-school programs.
You’ll network with a group of like minded humans for 3 days, jam packed with presentations, workshops and opportunities to practice the skills. You will learn and practice:
Using Mike’s Program Map to design and facilitate transformative learning, embodied growth and behavioural change in groups and individuals.
A facilitation mindset that maximises engagement and psychological safety.
Growing your facilitation toolbox of activities that foster connection, stimulate mindful reflection and open conversation.
A framework of great questions that catalyse light bulb moments.
Clear guidelines for safely guiding groups through moments of vulnerability.
Using resistance, disengagement and difficult behaviour to build trust.
A framework of essential interpersonal skills and practices for cultivating the facilitation mindset.
Pulling it together to redesign existing programs, and/or create new programs from scratch.
Tradewinds Hotel, East Fremantle, WA.
Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, 27, 28 & 29 August, 2025.
8:30am - 4:30pm each day.
Lunch, afternoon and morning teas provided.
$1,495. Early rate $1,295 - Limited tickets.
Group discounts, concession rates and payment plans available. Please contact us.
This training is for anyone, at any level of experience, who wants to learn a clear framework for designing and facilitating powerful experiences that lead to tangible change.
If you want your workshops, trainings, meetings or events to enable people to think and act differently…
If you want to change culture or guide groups with diverse needs towards a unified goal…
If you’re a teacher wanting to facilitate highly engaging conversations with students about wellbeing, mental health or consent…
If you’re a coach, trainer, health practitioner or counsellor wanting to increase the impact of your work empowering change with groups…
This training will give you the knowledge, skills and confidence to build strong connections within a group; to guide them into rich conversations and meaningful contemplation; to explore new ways of being; and to support them to implement meaningful changes.
This is an interactive, experiential training where we will mine the wisdom of the group and you will be able to pick the brains of Mike’s experience on hundreds of leadership retreats, corporate workshops, rites of passage camps, and in-school programs.
You’ll network with a group of like minded humans for 3 days, jam packed with presentations, workshops and opportunities to practice the skills. You will learn and practice:
Using Mike’s Program Map to design and facilitate transformative learning, embodied growth and behavioural change in groups and individuals.
A facilitation mindset that maximises engagement and psychological safety.
Growing your facilitation toolbox of activities that foster connection, stimulate mindful reflection and open conversation.
A framework of great questions that catalyse light bulb moments.
Clear guidelines for safely guiding groups through moments of vulnerability.
Using resistance, disengagement and difficult behaviour to build trust.
A framework of essential interpersonal skills and practices for cultivating the facilitation mindset.
Pulling it together to redesign existing programs, and/or create new programs from scratch.
Tradewinds Hotel, East Fremantle, WA.
Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, 27, 28 & 29 August, 2025.
8:30am - 4:30pm each day.
Lunch, afternoon and morning teas provided.
$1,495. Early rate $1,295 - Limited tickets.
Group discounts, concession rates and payment plans available. Please contact us.
This training is for anyone, at any level of experience, who wants to learn a clear framework for designing and facilitating powerful experiences that lead to tangible change.
If you want your workshops, trainings, meetings or events to enable people to think and act differently…
If you want to change culture or guide groups with diverse needs towards a unified goal…
If you’re a teacher wanting to facilitate highly engaging conversations with students about wellbeing, mental health or consent…
If you’re a coach, trainer, health practitioner or counsellor wanting to increase the impact of your work empowering change with groups…
This training will give you the knowledge, skills and confidence to build strong connections within a group; to guide them into rich conversations and meaningful contemplation; to explore new ways of being; and to support them to implement meaningful changes.
This is an interactive, experiential training where we will mine the wisdom of the group and you will be able to pick the brains of Mike’s experience on hundreds of leadership retreats, corporate workshops, rites of passage camps, and in-school programs.
You’ll network with a group of like minded humans for 3 days, jam packed with presentations, workshops and opportunities to practice the skills. You will learn and practice:
Using Mike’s Program Map to design and facilitate transformative learning, embodied growth and behavioural change in groups and individuals.
A facilitation mindset that maximises engagement and psychological safety.
Growing your facilitation toolbox of activities that foster connection, stimulate mindful reflection and open conversation.
A framework of great questions that catalyse light bulb moments.
Clear guidelines for safely guiding groups through moments of vulnerability.
Using resistance, disengagement and difficult behaviour to build trust.
A framework of essential interpersonal skills and practices for cultivating the facilitation mindset.
Pulling it together to redesign existing programs, and/or create new programs from scratch.
Tradewinds Hotel, East Fremantle, WA.
Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, 27, 28 & 29 August, 2025.
8:30am - 4:30pm each day.
Lunch, afternoon and morning teas provided.
$1,495. Early rate $1,295 - Limited tickets.
Group discounts, concession rates and payment plans available. Please contact us.
“I’m so grateful for this training. Not just for the professional support - but for the personal journey. Mike is knowledgeable, experienced and has an incredible wealth of wisdom - but he is also intuitive, supportive and inspiring. I walked away feeling clear and connected for my next stage of the journey”
“The most impactful piece of this training is understanding the arc - placing the pieces that I might have intuitively known into a framework to lean back on. I am walking away with some structures to share with staff to empower them to ‘do the work’ with our students”
The PROGRAM
DAY ONE
We’ll introduce the Program Design Map in great detail and you’ll learn how to use it as a facilitation guide and also to design powerful programs.
We’ll explore engagement and connection - how to get a diverse range of people on board and make them feel comfortable, connected and engaged within a group.
We’ll explore facilitation mindset and how it differs from coaching, training, teaching, mentoring and leading. I’ll explain an approach to facilitation that makes it easy to switch into facilitation mode to garner maximum engagement on difficult topics with a minimum of energy.
You’ll develop your facilitation toolbox of activities and there’ll be opportunities for some participants to practice facilitating activities with real time feedback.
And all the while, we’ll be networking with other facilitators, and learning from each others intentions and ideas for group work.
DAY TWO
We move from connection to reflection, and learn a framework for creating safe spaces for deeper conversations. We’ll practice leaning into open and honest conversations and learn how to create an environment where participants feel enthusiastic about exploring deeper topics as a group.
We’ll build further upon the facilitation skills toolbox, exploring a wide range of activities that can be moulded to fit any purpose. We’ll explore perspectives in framing, holding and debriefing activities for maximum reflection and group learning.
We’ll explore group dynamics and managing a groups energy across the journey of a program towards a desired outcome.
We’ll practice working with difficult participants and situations. We’ll troubleshoot and problem-solve real and imagined situations and build confidence in transforming conflict into opportunities for real learning and growth.
We’ll explore the key interpersonal skills of facilitation and reflect on our personal challenges and obstacles as facilitators and program designers as a group. We’ll consider how embracing our own challenges can be a tool for increasing engagement in participants.
DAY THREE
We’ll explore action and direction - how we can support participants to clarify their goals and hopes and to solidify this into real growth and change.
We’ll examine the importance of participants in acknowledging their strengths and harnessing those strengths in service of personal and group goals.
You’ll have a good amount of time to write down program ideas and to brainstorm ways of putting the knowledge into practice.
We’ll consider how to provide ongoing support and brainstorm effective solutions to one of the great challenges of group work, supporting participants after the program.
You’ll leave this training with a new perspective on all aspects of group work, a stack of new ideas and a community of like minded facilitators to continue to learn and grow alongside. You’ll also expand your ideas of your own strengths and cement the value of your unique perspective as a facilitator.
“This training was nothing short of inspirational. There were a plethora of skills introduced and a really accessible framework taught. I feel well equipped to move forward.”
“I expected to walk away with knowledge but I have walked away with so much more... I have a community of support”
“Mike’s program Map is immediately implementable and scalable. The content was incredibly valuable. SO GOOD!”
“Mike’s work is life-changing. This training gave me such excellent opportunities to practice the skills of facilitation, but more importantly, the confidence that I can.”