Our meetings, workshops and events, our world, are increasingly moving online – now more than ever! So as leaders and facilitators we must be prepared to move with them.

Virtual sessions can have advantages over face-to-face, but disadvantages too – not least, shorter attention spans and greater potential for distractions. How can we keep people engaged and focused when meeting online?

Join us to connect, share & learn!

This session is scheduled in partnership with ICA:UK as one of its new Online Focused Conversation Series: Taking time to connect, learn and reflect.

ICA:UK, in collaboration with lead trainers of it's ToP facilitation training, is pleased to offer a series of taster sessions around different topics - both to examine and explore the topic, and to demonstrate the use of the ToP Focused Conversation Method.

All the sessions will be online, for 60 minutes, and will consist of a facilitated conversation followed by a brief run through of the method used. The sessions will be run by different trainers in their own style, around topics they have chosen.  In this session, the method will be adapted to accommodate whatever number attend.

In addition to participants learning more about the topic, the sessions will serve as an introduction to the method for those new to ToP and will be a useful reminder of the method for those who have already attended our popular Group Facilitation Methods course. Participants may opt to go on and take further training (either online or face to face) and/or to learn and share as part of a community of people using facilitation.

All the sessions will be recorded, with the recording being publicly available after the session is over, and any materials used by the facilitator will also be shared. Participants will also be “signposted” after the session to opportunities on how they can build on their experience. You may opt out of receiving further communications at any time after the session. 

If this free 1-hour taster with  over 100 others won't be enough for you, join me also for an (engaging, online) 2.5 hour training session with  no more than 25 for some top #facilitation tips & tools to take away as well - book now for Introduction to Facilitation Online, June 4 or July 8!

For more on this occasional series of free facilitation webinars, including recordings and other outputs of previous sessions, please visit free facilitation webinars.

For details of sessions with other ICA:UK lead ToP trainers, and to register for those, please see the ICA:UK Online Focused Conversation Series.  

Login details will be circulated to registered participants within 7 days of the session. 

The session will be hosted in Zoom. To make sure that you will be able to join and participate, especially if you haven’t used Zoom before, please join this Zoom test meeting in advance and then follow any instructions to download and install the Zoom app and configure your settings as necessary - https://zoom.us/test

You will need a stable broadband internet connection with speed of at least 10 Mbps download / upload. You can test yours at www.speedtest.net. For greater functionality to maximise everyone's engagement and learning, please use a laptop rather than a phone or tablet and join via the Zoom app not a browser. Please each use your own laptop (one per person) with headphones and mic, and join the meetup from a quiet and well-lit place so that you can be seen and heard without distractions for yourself or others.

We reserve the right to cancel any session without notice and without liability for any consequential or indirect loss, however in this case we will give us much advance notice as possible by email to those registered.