by Beth Cougler Blom | Nov 4, 2022 | Books, Learning design, Teaching, Workshops
My clients often buy more than one copy of my book, Design to Engage: How to Create and Facilitate a Great Learning Experience For Any Group, for their groups of faculty, facilitators or staff. Now is a great time to be thinking of whether you could do this for the...
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 | Jul 8, 2022 | Business back end, Facilitation, Teaching, Workshops
In May I facilitated a half-day workshop at a Vancouver-area college and it marked my first in person facilitation since the pandemic took hold of us all in March 2020. I was thrilled to be back in a physical room again and revelled particularly in the sound of...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Feb 4, 2020 | Facilitation, Teaching, Workshops
It’s been four years since I attended my first Liberating Structures immersion workshop, with Keith McCandless, Fisher Qua, and Tracy Roberts and Leva Lee from BCcampus. Not too many months before that, I’d never heard of Liberating Structures and...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jan 31, 2019 | Teaching, Teaching online, Workshops
It feels like a good time to do a ’roundup’ of workshops going on in the next several months that are available to people in Victoria or online and related to facilitation, learning design or public speaking. If you know of another workshop that I...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jul 20, 2018 | Teaching
I was on vacation last week and drove up to Barkerville with my family, following a lot of British Columbia’s Gold Rush Trail to get there. Barkerville is an historic town that commemorates BC’s gold rush and Billy Barker’s historic strike in 1862 at...
by Beth Cougler Blom | Jun 29, 2018 | Facilitation, Teaching, Teaching online
As a facilitator I’ve been interested in the skill of questioning for some time. The right question can change a “presentation” into a more active learning environment for students and help increase their engagement. Because I see questioning as one...
by Beth Cougler Blom | May 15, 2018 | Teaching, Workshops
In late April I co-facilitated a workshop with my friend and colleague Tracy (Kelly) Roberts, it was a two-day Liberating Structures immersion for Royal Roads University. We had 27 participants with us learning how to use Liberating Structures, a set of 33...
