Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom

Facilitator Skills Training Module 2: Practicing - Putting Skills into Practice
2026-05-18 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Overview of the Facilitation Skills Training Pathway
This training programme is designed to strengthen your skills and impact as a group facilitator.
Whether you’re just beginning to lead sessions or exploring how to enhance your practice, it will support you in building the confidence and capability to guide meaningful, inclusive, and safe group experiences.
The online training is delivered in three modules that build on one another, while each module can also stand alone as a complete and self-contained learning experience.
Facilitator Skills Training Module 2: Practicing – Putting Skills into Practice
This two-hour online practice lab deepens the eight core facilitation skills through application. The focus is on the shift from knowing what to do, to knowing how to be as a facilitator if situations become complex, emotional, or unpredictable.
While Module 1 focused on awareness, ethics, core tools and recognizing what good facilitation looks like, Module 2 is about practicing those skills in challenging scenarios. We explore making sound judgment calls, working with presence and intuition and adapting skillfully when things are uncertain or under pressure
Through reflection, demonstration, and peer learning, you will:
• Strengthen your ability to facilitate from embodiment, not just technique
• Build adaptive facilitation skills to respond wisely to unpredictability, emotion, group dynamics, and conflict
• Practice ethical decision-making in complex situations, where there is no perfect response
• Develop confidence in their authentic facilitation style during challenging moments
• Be able to recognise and facilitate progress, and to nurture momentum- for a group and for themselves
Schedule
The training will be offered on 2 different time zones to accommodate all those who are interested:

PM session: 18 May2026 at 5pm to 7pm BST, check your time here
AM session: 19 May 2026 at 8:00 am to 10.00 am BST, check your time zone here

Who is this training for:
This training is for Facilitators, educators, meditation leaders and anyone leading group discussions or activities.
Registration:
To register, please fill in this form
Once you register you will receive the Zoom link and all the information you will need in order attend.
If you have any questions, please contact info@compassionandwisdom.org
What Happens after the training?
Participants are invited to attend Module 3 of the Facilitation Skills Training where you will explore embodied facilitation, intentional facilitation moves and working with complexity. Dates TBC
Generosity
In a spirit of generosity this training is offered on a donate what you can basis, with a suggested donation of £25. To make a donation of any amount, please visit our support page.
**As always all of our trainings and courses are offered free to ordained sangha, this one included.
Who are the trainers?
Wendy Ridley- Wendy is a Senior Faculty member teaching all levels of 16 Guidelines, 16G for children and teens, Unlocking Your Potential and Building Balanced Empathy and training our next generation of facilitators. She is an Education Consultant and is on the FDCW board.
Wendy has over 30 years experience working in education – as a teacher, university lecturer, local education authority adviser and consultant specialising in religious education and diversity issues. This provided her with skills and passion to develop, deliver and oversee training programmes so she thrives on the sharing involved in facilitating 16G workshops and developing UE materials.
Lizzy Lewis- Lizzy is a 16 Guidelines Level 1 facilitator based in West Sussex (UK.). She has worked in education for the past 27 years as a teacher, teacher educator, senior charity manager, consultant and writer.
She specializes in Philosophy for Children (P4C), Mindfulness, Oracy, Global Education and Values-based Education.
You can watch Lizzy leading a short meditation on ‘Enhancing Friend Connections‘, Lizzy shared this meditation during the Growing Compassionate Hearts Conference. It invites us to reflect on our friends ‘What is it that makes a good friend?’ and ‘How can we be one?’
