FacXYZ LIVE FULL Michelle Cummings

Meg and Sam of FacilitatingXYZ chat with Michelle Cummings an experiential educator, team builder, and long time facilitator. Michelle shares her adventures from 20+ years of facilitation, advice for new facilitators starting out, how to make activities your own and much more.
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Show index!
Michelle’s intro. • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
How did Michelle come up with the name “Training Wheels”? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
What is team building (vs. team bonding vs. team development)? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
What led Michelle into facilitation? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
How much training did Michelle have when she started facilitating? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
What is it about experiential educators that resonates? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
How to address resistance in participants: • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
What allows Michelle to realize that people have bad experiences and others don’t have that awareness • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
What are some of Michelle's favorite intro activities? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
How does Michelle help new facilitators learn without the experience? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
Advice for new facilitators for getting the most out of their conference experiences? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
What should you do before your get to a conference? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
What would you recommend for people new to facilitation who want to get in touch with more seasoned facilitators/mentors? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
Michelle’s example of adding a metaphor for integrity to an activity: • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
How can people connect with facilitators they admire at a conference? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
How do you debrief differently with a co-facilitator vs. a group? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
What is helpful to focus on (or not focus on) in debriefing? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
How long do you let people go down the habit hole? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
What can all facilitators learn from experiential educators? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
How to balance not giving people an answer when trying to prompt participants? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
Michelle’s favorite wrap up activity-the body part debrief: • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
Michelle’s advice for facilitators looking to make a workshop their own: • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
Michelle’s most epic facilitator story ever! • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
How to throw questions back to the group: • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
How to work with large groups as a facilitator? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
Rapid Fire Questions
Three words for facilitation • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
One ground rule for the entire world that everyone would have to follow, what would it be? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
What do you still need to be reminded of as a facilitator? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
What do you do right before a facilitation and right after? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
What is a piece of facilitation advice for your 5-years-ago-self? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
What stresses you out as a facilitator and how do you handle that stress? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
What’s a unique place that you’ve facilitated? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
What’s a non-facilitation related experience every facilitator should have? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
What books do you recommend most to others? • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
Online resource recommendations: • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...
Piece of advice for everyone listening: • FacXYZ LIVE FULL Miche...