Facilitative Leadership: Aug. 12-14, 2025

August 12, 2025 - August 14, 2025

Registration Deadline: July 29, 2025 - 11:59PM

MSU Brody Square, 241 W. Brody Rd., East Lansing, MI 48825

Contact: Will Cronin

This three-day class focuses on creating an inclusive culture of collaborative learning in teams, communities and organizations. It is for both new and experienced leaders, managers, facilitators and graduate students who would like to develop or improve their facilitative leadership skills.

Workshop Schedule:
August 12: 9:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
August 13: 8 a.m. - 6 p.m.
August 14: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

The cost of the workshop is $900.

You will need to reserve and pay for lodging on your own; view the registration page for information lodging and available room blocks.

Participants will be expected to attend one of two Zoom orientations before the session:

  • Tuesday, July 29, 2025, 10-11:30 a.m. ET
  • Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025, 3-4:30 p.m. ET

What is facilitative leadership? 

Facilitative Leadership workshops help build the capacity of groups or organizations to use the collective talents of its members to coordinate actions, strengthen relationships, and enable the group to meet its goals. It is designed to build and strengthen the skills and personal confidence necessary to lead and facilitate productive meetings.

The goal of the class is to provide experiential grounding in leading groups to have more effective and efficient meetings and work together in a positive and productive way. During the workshop participants practice skills in leading a group discussion, reaching consensus, encouraging creativity, setting outcome-based goals for meetings, keeping a group focused, and creating action plans. Every participant facilitates during the workshop and receives extensive written and verbal feedback from the instructors and colleagues in the course. All practice facilitations are based on real-world situations brought in by the participants.

Class size is limited to 24 to 30 participants. This allows time for every participant to practice facilitating and receive coaching and feedback in small groups. Due to the focused nature of the workshop, participants are asked to participate fully in the three days without phone calls, meetings and other interruptions which diminish the learning experience for all. You will apply what you've learned in practice facilitation sessions, in a safe and supportive environment.

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