Facilitation Skills Course

Gather the group, hold the space, manage conflict. Learn to lead the room confidently, using the tools of creative facilitation

Train online with me, in this course for therapists, coaches, leaders, and anyone who wants to lead groups with confidence and care.

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Facilitation Skills

A course for coaches, therapists and trainers who want to start leading groups. In this small cohort, interactive course you will:

  • Transform your facilitation with a skill that’s valued by clients and organisations and enables you to start leading groups with confidence

  • Engage a diverse range of people by leading inclusively

  • Explore how you can use facilitation tools to transform your coaching work with others

  • Build your own group facilitation toolkit

  • Develop your own style as a facilitator

  • Bring your sessions to life using techniques from theatre and creative education

The Details

Learning Hours | 8 hours spread over 2 × 4 hour days or 4 × 2 hour weekly sessions

Dates |  I try and run the course at least quarterly, check below for dates and sign up to the waiting list to hear about future options

Venue |  All sessions take place over Zoom - link will be sent after booking 

Recordings | Sessions will be recorded and will be accessible to you for at least 2 months after the course

Course Workbook | PDF full of more detail, notes from sessions and reflective exercises for you to complete at your own pace

Cost | £250

About Course Leader Freyja Winterson

I'm Freyja, and I’m a Facilitation Specialist working in theatre, community and charity sectors. I am an Associate Director for the National Theatre’s nationwide festival of youth theatre and work with the Old Vic, Almeida Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith and the Donmar Warehouse. I work as a facilitator with multiple charitable organisations including National Autistic Society, Tender, Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation, Artis, Fumble and Winston’s Wish.

I have been facilitating groups of people of all ages, and from all walks of life for over ten years; from young people in Pupil Referral Units, groups for over 60s, groups of up to one hundred people. I love enabling a group to work together, managing difference and friction, and connecting people through the work I deliver.

I teach facilitation for the Old Vic, at universities and at multiple conferences and CPD sessions for professionals including the YPF Foundation, and Young Culture Bucks. 


Facilitation Skills - Session Guide

    • Framing your sessions -  how the first 3-5 minutes of any workshop define how successful it will be. 

    • The Facilitation Spectrum, a model for understanding your role (or roles) in a workshop - how does coaching and facilitation intersect?

    • Aims and Learning Objectives - what are you doing in your workshops and why. 

    • Tasks - what are people going to do in your sessions? How can you keep it dynamic, relevant to the aims, and inclusive for everyone

    • Difficult conversations, conflict and leading when it’s all gone a bit wrong

    • Useful models for challenging behaviour and difficult conversations

    • Using a technique from community theatre, practice these techniques 

    • Applying everything we’ve learned to your own coaching practice/discipline

    • Making your sessions accessible to you (the leader)

    • Receive top tips for delivery and feed back on your facilitation.

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