Vulnerable?…
We do not know it all.
We also have stomach pain sometimes, did not sleep well or not at all before a session, and sometimes our kids are sick at home and we have to deliver a session.
Sometimes we are just putting half of the water glass on us 1 minute before we start the session 🤣.
Or simply we are literally concerned about the outcome of the session….
Yes, all the above happened to me as well!
How to stay “perfect” in front of your participants? You don’t have to….
It’s ok to be vulnerable.
It’s ok to say what you feel, what you are experiencing.
It’ok to share what your needs are and to set expectations towards them.
One of the things I do in the setting expectations part at the beginning of a session is to add how I feel at that moment and what needs I have ( I refer if I will need help with something during the session, etc.).
And I do this using humor about myself. Independent of how bad it is, humor about myself is one of the things that helps the participants to relax, they sometimes relate, and they see I am not something special, but human :)
I also like to share some emotional rollercoasters with them, and how they might feel during the session. In some moments, it might be uncomfortable to work on a specific activity and that’s normal, but it will be all fine at the end.
Want to practice how to deal with different situations and connect with your participants in a few minutes?
Register your intention for the on-demand training: Facilitation - neuroscience behind.
A 3h online session where I would explain some neuroscience principles I use in most of my workshops in order to create brain-based workshops that are universally applied independent of culture, industry, etc.
Let’s see if you can relate to specific situations, let me know in the comments which situations did you encounter in your sessions with participants or in everyday work/life?
someone is insisting on one idea just for the sake of winning?
negative pushback in different situations
changing deadlines without consulting anybody?
micromanaging someone?
people having different needs and hard to align them
no sense of belonging in the team?
someone takes credit for other’s people work?
What will you be able to do during and after this training?
🎲 Practice how to connect with people or help them go out of emotionally stressed moments
🎲 Discover a universal human interaction framework
🎲 Reflect on which workshop / trainings situations you can apply this method
I need your help to make this happen!
If the above learning objectives are appealing to you, please register your intention to attend to this training by filling in this survey.
It is important to find a date that fits to most of you, so you have in the survey also the option to pick up which dates work best for you :)
What is different at this training?
🎲 It is a brain-based training which means it is made for you to be able to apply the learnings immediately, during the training directly.
🎲 It is a practical, very interactive, and focused session.
🎲 It will be bringing you my experience from more than 200 workshops facilitated during the last 2 years, know-how from the trainings I have attended, books, and podcasts that I get inspiration from.
I find this difficult when people pay for my facilitation. I remember one workshop where I felt exhausted when it started. The session went smoothly and participants were happy. I told them at the end how it was for me.
Luckily, I had a co- facilitator who knew from the start. He supported greatly and took over the heavy thinking activity.
A co- facilitator is gold on those days.