Facilitation template for your next workshop or course planning sitch

This detailed template can help you look (and feel!) like a facilitation pro.

I've honed this template over nearly 20 years of my facilitation experience for hundreds of school groups and thousands of adults.

Last week I suggested we all dig ourselves out of our doomscrolling purgatory loops and find our way back to actions that help us find meaning in our lives and communities.

One of the central ways I do that is by developing and sharing tools that help people accomplish what they are trying to do to make a difference in the world.

In a lot of cases, people are trying to share science more effectively. Or they are doing work I also do: trying to help scientists and science-trained professionals to share science ethically and meaningfully. Frequently, our efforts to do so involve trainings, workshops, or courses. Planning to deliver these types of learning opportunities for others is no small task. There are a lot of logistics that need to run smoothly alongside the nuanced, important work of effectively helping someone learn something.

So, this week I’m sharing a simple tool that has saved me countless hours of starting from scratch. It has also helped me look (and feel!) like I know wh…