Hey There! Each time I find a critical conversation that is worth designing well, I try to make a conversation guide for it. There are links to Medium articles I've written about each that can help you use them, and the links to download the PDFs take you to my gumroad site, where you can download them for free, or pay whatever you wish
Free Course: Developing your facilitation style
Videos, self-guided exercises and 42 days of emails to help you understand what value you bring as a facilitator…and to increase the range and breadth of what you feel comfortable bringing into the room. The course uses the metaphor of “hats” to get you to visualize and clarify how you want to show up as a facilitator and leader.
Self-Paced Courses
Facilitating remote icebreakers and warmups that work
Dramatically expand your toolbox of icebreakers and warmups for virtual settings, and learn a new mindset of facilitation along the way.
What ice are you breaking? What are you warming up? How do you get groups into the mindsets and headspace you intend to? Beyond the basic icebreakers are eye-openers - activities designed to expand people’s minds. You’ll learn some of my favorites and watch them in action!
38 Videos and 19 PDF guides.
HOW TO DESIGN POWERFUL AGENDAS: The 9Ps of Planning
What makes an amazing session plan? How do you get there?
I'll share tools, templates and patterns to make session design fun and fast. You'll learn a simple framework that will help you leave with a clear plan to make your next important workshop as powerful as you need it to be.
45 minutes of video learning and 4 essential frameworks for planning sessions that deliver impact.
Pay-What-You-Wish Resources
The Conversation OS Canvas
The Airplane Experiment: Desiging Collaboration
read more on Medium
The 5-10-20 Sketching Studio Conversation Guide
Read more on Medium
17 pages that dig into the frameworks, mindsets and skills of successful facilitators of group conversations.
Radical Active Listening
Two Party Negotiation Prep Guide
Dive deep into negotiation in my full-length interview with Harvard Professor and Negotiation Coach Bob Bordone here.
The Experience Inventory Conversation Guide
Membership and Access to all Resources in One!
The Conversation Factory Library
Access all the current conversation design guides available for download, plus future guides, too!
Get invites to monthly events and workshops and view the archive of past events.
Plus get access to a slack group to connect with other facilitators for support.
Choose your own level of support on the conversation factory insider page here👇🏽
The Facilitator’s Hats Card Deck
The Facilitator’s Hats Card Deck
52 cards including:
46 Facilitator’s Roles to pick at random for inspiration or to help you plan how to show up for your meeting or workshop
5 Visual Synthesis Cards to help you structure, parse and reflect on your facilitation.
Develop your own Facilitation Model!
The Digital download to print and cut your own cards is $5
Get the Physical Cards for $40