ADVANCED FACILITATOR TRAINING

“I love it so much I might get an F-Club Tattoo”

“I’ve gained so much insight into me, the facilitator”

“F-Club is quite simply the best thing I’ve ever done!”

Welcome to F-Club

A facilitator can make or break a meeting or a project – success is literally in your hands. Facilitation is an advanced skill, and it’s not something that everyone wants to do – or can do.

Being a facilitator is a hugely rewarding yet also strangely under-recognised profession. Have you ever wondered where facilitators go to go to sharpen skills, deepen knowledge and become more ninja?

And the world of facilitation has changed – now you need to be a brilliant in the physical and the virtual setting.

This is what F-Club is all about. Honing the skills you’ve already got and adding new ones to make sure your facilitation stands out (for the right reasons) in any setting.

F-Club is the place where you can spend time with like-minded facilitators and develop everything you need to future-proof your practice and ensure you are never stuck for new ways of doing things ever again

If you’re looking to take your personal style of facilitation to the next level and create the right impact in any room, real or virtual, then F-Club is for you. 

Let’s celebrate Facilitators!

It takes a certain kind of individual to volunteer to stand at the front of a room, and you’re one of them. We salute you!

Facilitation is an advanced skill, and it’s not for everybody. There’s a lot of pressure and expectation to get things right and a lot of variables to manage.

But facilitators rarely get the training and skill development investment they deserve:

  • The available training courses are elementary level: experienced facilitators don’t need to learn how to use a flipchart or create a timing plan. 
  • It’s not something facilitators think about often: we’re so focussed on others that it can be difficult to find space for ourselves.

F-Club changes that. 

F-Club – where everyone knows your pain!

Facilitation is an advanced craft, and facilitators deserve the kind of development reserved for craft masters. 

It can also be a singular world where no-one in the room really appreciates the skill and endeavour that goes into planning and running brilliant workshops.

Well, we appreciate it and so do all the other members of F-Club!

F-Club is the world’s first coaching program and community that recognises the importance of great facilitation.  

The F-Club approach is all about the small nuances that can turn a good-enough session into a world-class workshop.  

Structured around the 6F model, the programme enables you to develop your facilitation skills in real-time and apply the learning to your upcoming sessions.

The combination of a monthly live online workshop, coaching sessions, a 24/7 facilitation hotline, peer to peer feedback and the legendary F-Club Whatsapp community means you have all the support you need to be on top of your game.  

The Magic of F-Club:

F-Club builds on all the experience you already have as a facilitator. We’ll help you take all your hard won learnings and build on them to make you even better in a room – a real one or a virtual one!

There are only 6 members of each F-Club cohort and they’re all there for the same reason as you – to hone, improve and grow your facilitation skills.

Each month we focus on a particular area and delve in deep – if you’ve ever wanted to have a deep discussion about energy management or how to handle tricky delegates then F-Club is the place for you!

F-Club is a learning Journey (it’s not the destination but how you get there..) 

Rather than try and give you all the good stuff in one go F-Club is a 12 month curated journey that allows space for all the principles to land and become part of your toolkit for ever.

How does it work? 

Every month we have a 2.5 hr live online session for your cohort and a 1hr coaching session open to all members.

There is a bit of homework between each session but this mostly consists of applying your learnings to one of your workshops so it won’t involve hours of extra-curricular activities that you can probably do without!

What will I learn?

Whether you want to relight your facilitation fire or further unlock your facilitation brilliance, F-Club will develop your style and elevate your practice to ninja level. 

F-Club members are facilitators of all disciplines: training, leadership development, coaching, strategy consulting, systemic constellations, group moderation and more. 

Your learning objectives will all be different, and they’re the best kind! Some of the outcomes we help you move towards are:

Always be inspired by an ever growing bank of ideas you can draw on to keep things fresh – for you and your participants.

Ensure that groups will always be onside and lead any kind of interaction with ease.  

Become known for leading fully engaging experiences that create brilliant outputs.

Be comfortable with any level of preparation – design in full or flex in the moment as your engagements require.

Understand and tap into your own authentic energy and presence.

Handle ‘tricky’ customers with confidence – never have a session or project derailed again. 

Know how to look after yourself in the run-up, during and after a workshop.

End every interaction feeling energised and full of positive thoughts about what went well.  

Embrace the rules of F-Club – none of which involve fighting or giving people black eyes!

And Translate everything you do in a physical workshop, to a virtual workshop (and vice versa)  

If you’re serious about facilitation and want to take your craft to ninja level then F-Club is for you.

Because this is a small group live program we only open up the F-Club doors a few times a year for new cohort membership.  

If you think F-Club might be for you why not have a chat with us to see if we’re a fit for your learning needs and of course you can meet some current F-Clubbers to hear how they rate their F-Club experience.

“You get a real understanding about your facilitation strengths and weaknesses and what to do with them.”

“It’s great to learn the things you need to do as a facilitator to open up the creative space for all of the participants.”

F-Club Founders: Liz and Matt

We could never have predicted, as an introvert and a performer with stage fright, that our career paths would take us towards becoming professional communicators. It would come as an enormous surprise to our younger selves, that we now have over 40 years of speaking and facilitation experience between us, and a list of satisfied clients who ask us back again and again to work with their teams.  

While Liz’s background lies in delivering multi-disciplinary global projects for some of the world’s largest companies, Matt’s been designing process and training facilitators for decades. The combination of these strengths means we have a pragmatic approach that’s born from experience and tested in the real world.

We’re obsessed with the science behind human interaction and we have a relentless curiosity to deeper understand and codify everything that makes up the art of facilitation. We’re practitioners not professors: everything we share has been tried and repeatedly improved to make it as effective as possible – and we’re still learning and evolving our approach every day.

We’ve run meetings and workshops and given speeches for thousands of groups, across audiences of all sizes, nationalities and industries. This stuff is our craft and our passion and we’re sharing our knowledge to help others succeed.