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Top 10 Facilitation Methods for Community Meetings
April 23 @ 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM CDT
Top 10 Facilitation Methods for Community Meetings
Wednesday April 23, 2025
- Pacific time: 10am-11am
- Mountain time: 11am-12pm
- Central time: 12pm-1pm
- Eastern time: 1pm-2pm
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Meetings work best when we facilitate with a variety of methods. In this event experienced facilitator, Karen Gimnig, will describe and demonstrate 10 of her favorites for facilitating community meetings in The Top 10 Facilitation Methods for Community Meetings Webinar.
About the event
Do your members look forward to your community meetings or do they attend out of duty or not at all? Do your meetings engage and excite members or drag them along? Do your meetings bring you closer together or just wear you down on important decisions? One of the best ways to make meetings more enjoyable, more engaging and more effective, is to vary the methods you use for information sharing, discussion and group processing.
In this one hour session, Karen will do a quick review of her favorite meeting facilitation methods, demonstrating each one as she goes. Participants will get a taste of each one and a sense of how varying the methods can shift the energy of the meetings. Please note that Karen doesn’t actually recommend using 10 different methods in one hour for a real meeting. This will be a fast paced presentation with partial group participation for the sake of demonstration. Attendees are encouraged to try these methods at home, allowing a lot more time and space for each.
Join us to see examples of rounds, spectrums, temperature checks and much more.
In this session, you’ll learn about:
- Varying your facilitation methods
- Spectrum activities
- Rounds
- Context building
- 7 more great techniques
About your presenter
Karen Gimnig
Karen is a group facilitator, motivational speaker and relationship coach. Her passion is to help groups achieve their goals for connected and trusting relationships through skill building and personal exploration.
As an Imago Facilitator, Karen uses the theory and practice of Imago Relationships to guide teams and communities through the complexity of working together. She helps groups and individuals identify root causes of challenges and then walks beside them offering gentle support as they seek solutions.
Karen enjoys working with non-profit organizations, communities (including communities of faith), and workplaces. Her clients describe her as “profoundly effective,” increasing trust and providing simple (but not easy) tools for improved communication and relationships.
You can learn more about Karen and her services here.
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The Online Event Experience
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Affordable and Accessible
All our events are run on a sliding scale basis. Generous donations cover the costs for low-income attendees. FIC is committed to making our programs accessible to people of all walks of life.
Watch the Recording
You’ll receive the recording of your event to view for 60 days. So don’t worry if you can’t attend a live session. Watch or listen whenever it is convenient for you. Transcripts available upon request.
Registration
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