by Beth Cougler Blom | Jun 3, 2019 | Facilitation, Professional development
Over the weekend I participated in Power of Hope’s Creative Facilitation workshop. It was divided into three sessions: two hours on Friday night, a full day on Saturday, and Sunday afternoon. I’ve been reading Lynda Barry’s Syllabus book –...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Feb 15, 2019 | Business back end, Professional development
A few months ago I created a business Instagram profile after being on it for some time personally. I’ve been really enjoying using Instagram to document some of the things I’m doing, business-wise, including some of my professional development reading and...
by Beth Cougler Blom | May 29, 2018 | Professional development
In a post last year I gave you three recommendations for good podcasts I was listening to a lot at the time. It’s time to do it again! Here are three more podcasts which I play quite regularly and really enjoy. I hope you’ll check them out. How I Built...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Apr 18, 2018 | Facilitation, Professional development
It’s National Volunteer Week in Canada – a great time to celebrate volunteers and talk about volunteering. I spent many years working in and around volunteering and volunteer management – and have been a volunteer myself all my life – so I...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Apr 10, 2018 | Learning design, Professional development
Last fall a connection of mine told me about the Canada-B.C. Job Grant, a pot of money available to B.C. employers to “support skills training for their current and new employees”. Since I employ myself in my own business, I was happily able to take...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Mar 18, 2018 | Professional development
Attending the Victoria-based SOHO Victoria conference is now becoming an annual “date” with my entrepreneur self and many other like-minded people. SOHO is aimed at entrepreneurs and I’ve now had the pleasure of attending twice. As I was reviewing my...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Nov 16, 2017 | Facilitation, Professional development
A few weeks ago I wrote a post announcing that I had co-facilitated the Facilitator Development Workshop (FDW) at Royal Roads University in September, at which I got ‘mentored in’ to the role of Trainer by working with Doug Kerr. The FDW is the course that...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Nov 3, 2017 | Facilitation, Professional development
It was back in February this year that some of us, while gathered at the Liberating Structures immersion workshop in Vancouver, began talking about starting a Victoria-based user group to continue to deepen our practice in using Liberating Structures. Tracy Kelly from...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Oct 3, 2017 | Facilitation, Professional development
A couple of weeks ago I got the opportunity to co-facilitate a Facilitator Development Workshop with Doug Kerr and David Stevenson for Royal Roads University. The FDW is the workshop that people take to learn how to facilitate the Instructional Skills Workshop, a...
