Advanced Facilitator Skills
Welcome to the Advanced Facilitator Skills courses. They are meant for coaches, leaders, educators, or anyone working with groups of people, large or small. These courses will help you become more dynamic, adept, creative, and relaxed working with groups. You will learn skills and methods for enhancing meeting structures and group flow states for better results.
Real LIFE Advanced Practice : Voice Dialogue, Mediation, Emergence & Energy
With Diane Musho Hamilton
A Seven-Month Journey Expanding Awareness, Deepening Practice,
And Enhancing Skills
November, 2026 - May 2027
Real LIFE Advanced Practice is a seven-month developmental journey for deepening the capacities that matter most in how we live, work, and relate: self-awareness, emotional intelligence, communication, resilience, and meaningful relationships.
Building on the learning of Real LIFE Foundations and the interpersonal skills developed through Real LIFE Facilitator Training, this advanced seminar takes the next step: from understanding powerful ideas to embodying them in practice.
Past Programs & Events
Sameness and Difference: Working with Intensity in the Nervous System
With Diane Musho Hamilton
4-week Online Course
February 17 - March 10, 2026
Tuesdays, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm MT Via Zoom
Explore and practice one of the most fundamental dimensions of effective conversation and productive group work - balancing our experience of what we have in common (sameness) with our ability to identify, explore, and learn from our differences.
Mediation Fundamentals
3-Day Online Workshop
With Diane Musho Hamilton
February 26-28, 2025
Any time we are facilitating, leading meetings, or supporting group discussions, we engage in moments of mediation, negotiation, problem-solving, and conflict resolution. This three-day online course will set out the building blocks of the mediation process, demonstrating how they can be adapted to work in many different settings. These skills are essential to anyone who works in the domain of human communications and the effort to promote better cooperation.
Pathway Through Conflict
3-Day Practice Seminar
With Diane Musho Hamilton
February 6-8, 2025
Today, humanity faces overwhelming global challenges. Our greatest challenge, however, is our inability to work together. We have deeply ingrained habits of rivalry, competition, and scarcity. Many individuals actively seek ways to handle conflicts differently but need to develop the confidence and techniques that will work.
Acquiring reliable conflict-resolution skills is not just a journey, but a practical and achievable goal. This three-day practice seminar, designed for real-world application, will allow you to engage differences and to experience how conflict can be transformed into creativity, giving you the confidence to handle conflict in any context.
Essential Skills for Systems Change: Dealing with Difference
With Diane Musho Hamilton, Lisa Gibson, and Jennifer Berman
Friday, March 8, 2024 Via Zoom
9:00 am - 4:00 pm MST
This one-day workshop is designed for leaders and facilitators guiding systemic change in various settings — in multi-stakeholder initiatives, government, philanthropy, the nonprofit sector, or corporate environments.
Facilitating in Complexity
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday,
October 4-6, 2023 Via Zoom
A three-day experiential workshop exploring the personal, interpersonal, and structural dimensions of systemic change, supporting you to facilitate change with greater awareness, compassion, and clarity.
Day of Integral Diversity
One Day Workshop
Friday, May 12, 2023
9 am - 4 pm MT, via Zoom
As facilitators, we’ve all had the experience of trying – and sometimes failing – to facilitate difficult conversations about race, class, power, and identity. In this day-long exploratory workshop, we will explore how Integral Theory might help us to work more skillfully with these and other challenges.