Workshop: Facilitating Collaborative Meetings

Workshop Dates and Times:

Day 1: Tuesday, February 11, 2025. 1pm – 4:00pm ET (US & Canada)

Day 2: Wednesday, February 12, 2025. 1pm – 4:00pm ET (US & Canada)

ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP

Engaging in collaborative work involves a lot of multi-stakeholder meetings. These meetings are critical for building relationships, sustaining momentum, maintaining accountability between partners, and advancing the collaborative’s work. But how do you design and facilitate these meetings in a way that is intentional, meaningful, and spurs action?

In this two-day online workshop, learn about tools and strategies to help you more intentionally plan, design, and facilitate meetings that are results-driven and move your collaborative forward. This will be an active workshop including facilitation resources, small group discussion, and personal work.

Who is this session best for: This workshop is most ideal for individuals who are new to facilitation/facilitating collaborative meetings and/or are interested in a facilitation refresher.

Session Recordings: This session will be recorded, and attendees will have access to the recording for three months after the workshop.

Session Time Zone: Please note this session is held in Eastern Time (US & Canada.) If you are joining from another time zone, please make note of the time difference.

Faculty: Courtney W. Robertson, Director of Programs and Partnerships, Collective Impact Forum

Registration Details

Workshop Rates:

• Early-bird registration is $199 USD through December 31, 2024. With processing fees, the final cost per person is approx. $214.19
• General registration is $225 USD and starts January 1, 2025. With processing fees, the final cost per person is approx. $241.94 USD.

Group Rates: Please contact Tracy Timmons-Gray at [email protected] to access one of the below group discounts.

• Groups of 10-19 people receive a a 10% discount
• Groups of 20 or more people receive a 15% discount

Scholarships: A limited number of reduced-price registration scholarships are available for this workshop. This scholarship reduces general registration from $225 to $99. Scholarship applications will close on Wednesday, January 22, 2025. Awardees will be notified if they are selected for a scholarship by January 24. Apply for a registration scholarship.

Cancellations and Refunds: Refunds are available, minus a 10% fee to cover non-recoupable administrative and staff expenses associated with event preparation, as long as registrants contact us in writing ahead of the cancellation deadline of February 5, 2025. Please see our FAQ below for cancellation information.

Workshop Speaker

Courtney W. Robertson: Courtney serves as the Director of Programs and Partnerships–Collective Impact Forum at FSG where he is responsible for the design, implementation, and management of programming that supports individuals, backbones and communities engaging in collective impact work.

Courtney has a decade of experience in the nonprofit sector including work in adult learning, coaching, facilitation, training design and implementation, and project management. His professional experience has focused on building the capacity of direct service organizations to engage in collaborative and collective impact work by focusing on access to and use of data to inform practice and navigating organizational change by addressing adaptive and technical challenges.

Prior to his role with the Collective Impact Forum, Courtney spent seven years at the education nonprofit Seeding Success, based in Memphis, TN, most recently serving as the Director of Operations supporting staff by focusing on internal culture and climate; identifying, managing, and standardizing systems to improve workflows; and partnership management. He also led the organization’s DEI efforts and supported training development and delivery in Results-Based Facilitation, Data Use for Continuous Improvement, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and Understanding Boundaries of Authority, Role, & Task. He also held roles as a Network Facilitator and Manager for School Improvement at Seeding Success, managing a team of Data Analysts working with 15 secondary schools in Memphis-Shelby County Schools to more effectively leverage data to drive interventions, practices, and policies to improve chronic absenteeism and behavior.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this workshop in-person or online? This is an online workshop. We will be using Zoom Meeting for this session.

What currency is this workshop using for registration? The Collective Impact Forum is based in the United States and registration is in U.S. dollars.

What timezone is the workshop held in? The workshop is held in Eastern Time (US & Canada.)

Who would find this session valuable? This workshop is most ideal for individuals who are new to facilitation/facilitating collaborative meetings and/or are interested in a facilitation refresher.

What with the workshop entail? This six-hour online workshop, split over two days, will be a mix of presentation, Q&A, personal reflection, and small group discussion. This is an active workshop that will include practice with facilitation tools.

Will the workshops be recorded? The workshop presentations and full group discussion will be recorded. Small group discussions during the workshop will not be recorded. Recordings will be shared within one week of the workshop. Recordings are available for paid attendees for three months after the workshop.

Should I attend if I joined a previous session of Facilitating Collaborative Meetings? This workshop will be similar to past ones we held on this topic, although this version is expanded from 3.5 hours to 6 hours, split over two days. If you have attended this session in the past, we would recommend this session if you are looking for a refresher of that content, or as a new learning opportunity for your teammates or partners.

What accessibility practices will this workshop be using? We will have Zoom auto-captions turned on for this workshop. In the days ahead of the workshop, we will send out copies of workshop presentations/handouts. After the workshop, we will share recordings of the workshop and full group discussion. Please contact Tracy Timmons-Gray at [email protected] if you have other access needs not addressed above.

Can my whole team sign-up with one registration? No. Each person will require their own registration as this is an active workshop where attendees will be broken up into small groups throughout the workshop to discuss learning questions during the session.

How do I cancel my registration and request a refund? All cancellation requests must be submitted in writing. Registered participants who decide to cancel their participation will receive a refund of their registration fee minus a 10% fee. The 10% fee covers non-recoupable administrative and staff expenses associated with event preparation. All refund requests should be emailed to Tracy Timmons-Gray at [email protected] We are unable to process refunds after the refund deadline of February 5, 2025.