The 5 Principles of Facilitation

Learn the foundational principles of facilitation

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About this course

The 5 principles of facilitation will help you develop the mindset of an expert creative facilitator with the ability to create a collaborative environment so that you can efficiently innovate and solve problems!

In this course, you'll learn: 

  • The roles involved in facilitation
  • Tips for avoiding bias in your creative session
  • How to enable collaboration among your participants
  • How to foster creativity to surface the best ideas

We’ll mainly focus on creative facilitation but these principles can also apply to facilitating sessions for Agile Planning, Training, and Business Process Transformation. No matter your context, these principles will help you guide your team toward success! 

Note: This is the first course of the Creative Facilitation badging pathway. These courses were designed to be taken in the following order: 

  1. The 5 Principles of Facilitation
  2. Planning + Designing Effective Sessions
  3. Conducting Creative Sessions
  4. Document + Deliver on Your Ideas
  5. Accept Your Creative Facilitation Badge!

For a better experience, you'll want to have: 

Curriculum30 min

  • Welcome!
  • What to expect from this course 2 min
  • Mindset Principles
  • Mindset Principles 5 min
  • Practice it 7 min
  • Environment Principles
  • Environment Principles 9 min
  • Practice it 7 min
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • The 5 Principles of Facilitation Quiz
  • Wrap Up
  • Feedback
  • Next Steps

About this course

The 5 principles of facilitation will help you develop the mindset of an expert creative facilitator with the ability to create a collaborative environment so that you can efficiently innovate and solve problems!

In this course, you'll learn: 

  • The roles involved in facilitation
  • Tips for avoiding bias in your creative session
  • How to enable collaboration among your participants
  • How to foster creativity to surface the best ideas

We’ll mainly focus on creative facilitation but these principles can also apply to facilitating sessions for Agile Planning, Training, and Business Process Transformation. No matter your context, these principles will help you guide your team toward success! 

Note: This is the first course of the Creative Facilitation badging pathway. These courses were designed to be taken in the following order: 

  1. The 5 Principles of Facilitation
  2. Planning + Designing Effective Sessions
  3. Conducting Creative Sessions
  4. Document + Deliver on Your Ideas
  5. Accept Your Creative Facilitation Badge!

For a better experience, you'll want to have: 

Curriculum30 min

  • Welcome!
  • What to expect from this course 2 min
  • Mindset Principles
  • Mindset Principles 5 min
  • Practice it 7 min
  • Environment Principles
  • Environment Principles 9 min
  • Practice it 7 min
  • Test Your Knowledge
  • The 5 Principles of Facilitation Quiz
  • Wrap Up
  • Feedback
  • Next Steps