For people who facilitate, teach, lead, direct, guide or host in classroom, arts, public engagement, community meeting, organizational, municipal or team contexts.

If you do the work of facilitating groups and projects, of imagining possibility, you are making opportunities for connection, and you are stewarding hope. You are doing the hard work of building trust. And America in 2025 is dangerously low on trust. Harmful policies abound; public narratives don’t match and talking with strangers has never felt so fraught. This course invites you to strengthen your capacity to hold space for trust, dialogue and change.

Whether you are starting out as a facilitator or have been leading conversations and group process for years, this course equips you with tools to design and shape experience, help groups productively accomplish goals, and move through difficult moments when they arise. The course is structured as six sequential three-hour workshops that focus on curiosity, deep listening, boundary setting, the transformative power of understanding context and purpose, and specific strategies for navigating the challenges your participants will encounter within themselves, and with each other.