by Carla | May 2, 2023 | Facilitation, Professional development
Meg Bolger is a social justice educator, facilitator trainer, and the founder of Facilitator Cards, a set of activity cards used to help design and facilitate group learning. Recently, I (Carla) had the opportunity to participate in a virtual workshop Meg hosted...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jan 29, 2023 | Facilitation, Professional development, Workshops
I often get asked how folks can learn more about facilitation, so I thought I’d do another post about it here. I’ll start by saying generally that if you are interested in “facilitation” it would be good to decide whether you’re...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Aug 30, 2022 | Business back end, Facilitation, Learning design, Online facilitation, Podcast, Professional development, Teaching, Teaching online
I’ve been working on an exciting project for a while, and I’m very happy to let you know that it is almost ready. I’m launching a podcast called Facilitating on Purpose and it will be all about designing and facilitating learning experiences....
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...
