Facilitation Foundations Online Course - September 19

Ideal for: Introductory Level

This 10-week course uses highly interactive activities to build your capacity to facilitate meetings and coalitions that are efficient, effective, and lead to results.

To be a more effective and efficient facilitator, we’ll help you first understand your own facilitation style. Learn how to anticipate, prevent and intervene in difficult situations to keep the group from derailing and halting progress. Explore structured strategies you can use to generate ideas, evaluate and select ideas, and make a group decision. You’ll learn to help a group meet its goals and take ownership of the process.

What to Expect

We use a flipped-classroom approach, so you’ll work through course content independently and then connect with a small cohort of peers weekly for live learning sessions that provide an opportunity to ask questions, share your knowledge, and learn from others.

5 Live Learning Sessions: EVERY OTHER MONDAY, 12Pm-2pm (MT)

Each session will include a facilitated discussion among class participants related to that week’s topic. A subject matter expert will lead the discussion, engage participants, and answer questions. Below is the schedule for our live sessions.

1. 9/19: Session 1
2. 10/3: Session 2
3. 10/17: Session 3
4. 10/31: Session 4
5. 11/14: Session 5

Successful completion of this course requires your participation in these sessions by video using a webcam or built-in camera on your device. Contact us if you need assistance accessing a webcam.

weekly Online Learning activities

Each week, you must complete assigned online learning activities that include reading and watching videos. There will also be a short assignment in preparation for each live learning session that should take about an hour to complete.

course ACCESS

Look for an email from us 2 weeks before your first live session with instructions on how to access the course online. If you don’t see an email (don’t forget to check your spam folder), email registration.rmphtc@ucdenver.edu. Make sure you sign in prior to your first live session to complete the required activities and ensure you know how to connect with your camera.

Successful Completion

To earn a Certificate of Completion, you must complete the following:

• Attend 4 out of the 5 live sessions.
• Post a minimum of 4 responses to the discussion board.
• Complete a 5-minute presentation during session 5 to share your skills.
• Complete the post-course evaluation.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Self-Assess: Interpret your facilitation style and focus.
• Know the Information: Define the 5 types of social power.
• Act Appropriately: Compare appropriate facilitator actions at each stage of group development.
• Engage Participants: Describe engagement strategies that encourage inclusivity and address power.
• Facilitate Group Think: Compare approaches for idea generation, idea evaluation, and decision-making.
• Gather Feedback: Describe how to gather and use feedback for continuous improvement of your facilitation.

Click on "register" to register for the course. You will need to log in or create an account. Please email registration.rmphtc@ucdenver.edu with registration questions.

Live Sessions

You must join the Live Learning Sessions by video (an external webcam or built-in camera in your laptop, tablet, or smartphone).  Our staff can help you get set up if this is new for you.

Online course materials

You will be sent an invitation to the Learning Management System approximately 2 weeks before the first Live Learning Session.  You will need to sign in, do some activities and make sure that you know how to connect to the Live Learning Session.  Don’t worry about the technology!  We have staff to help you.  You’ll receive all the information you need once you log in.