Using MURAL for Virtual Facilitation: Canning the Brain Jam
We surfaced dozens of facilitator challenges we're facing, and wise-crowds-ed solutions.
The Facilitator Cards Blog
Welcome! Here you will find posts about Facilitation & Training Resources, Using Facilitator Cards (how-tos, theory, sequences, etc.), and About the Cards themselves (how they're made, how they came to be, expansions and updates, etc.).
Join Our First Facilitator Brain Jam: Using Mural for Virtual Facilitation
We're bringing facilitators together to explore new digital tools and crowdsource creative ways to use these tools in our facilitation.
Modifying In-Person Activities for Virtual Facilitation
From the digital tools you'll need, to the questions to ask yourself as you're rewriting your agendas, here's a great place to start if you're transitioning from physical rooms to Zoom.
Facilitating On-Camera: A Jumpstart into Video-Based Facilitation
Are you struggling for ways to connect groups during the pandemic? Don’t know your Zooms from your Hangouts? Have you never before considered the roles of lighting or microphones in your work?
Why Are These So Expensive?
A response to a comment on our Kickstarter, and explanation of what went into the price of the Facilitator Cards.
How to Facilitate Magnet Statements
A preview chapter from the Facilitator Cards Facilitation Guide
My Essential (Tiny) Facilitator Kit
The items that always make my facilitation packing list
Why I See Facilitation as Essential to Living Social Justice
There are lots of ways we can engage groups in learning. This one just happens to be inherently equitable and just.
Get Un-Stuck in Your Facilitation Planning
5 Strategies to help when you’re drawing a blank and wondering if you’ll ever have a creative idea again.
Facilitation Sequence: Magnet Statements + 5 Whys
A pairing of activities to help you better understand your group, help them understand each other, and to dig into what is bubbling under the surface.
Adding Modularity to Your Facilitation Planning
One small change you can make for big creativity & flexibility.
My Go-To Facilitation Rider
After years of back-and-forths, these are the facilitator supplies I ask every client to provide for maximum flexibility.
12 Free Facilitation Tools to Boost Your Creativity
For your convenience: Meet the Facilitator Cards Preview Pack
How to Pick the Right Activity: Ask yourself what it's for
Group size and energy levels matter, of course, but those need to come second to this.
Goodbye Dry Erase. Hello Wet Erase.
We planned for the cards to be dry erase. After testing our prototype, we realized how bad of a plan that was.
Changing the Game
How I gradually made my facilitations more about my participants than my plan.
The Questions We Asked Every Potential Manufacturer
We're trying to make and ship a physical product that's high quality, ethical, and sustainable.
Intro to the Facilitator Cards Blog
Let's start with a little housekeeping: framing the blog, instructions for where to find things, and our intended outcomes.