2026 Facilitating Beautiful Futures

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Facilitating Beautiful Futures: A 4-part virtual facilitation training.

Over the course of four iterative sessions, participants will have the opportunity to learn creative facilitation skills that can be applied across a wide range of in-person and virtual settings. This professional development series will give you a hands-on opportunity to try new facilitation tools in a “no-stakes” environment.

Participants will receive generative feedback on their facilitation.

Training Dates: All sessions are from 9-10:30 am PST / 12-1:30 pm EST

Session One: February 19, 2026 - Principles and Practice

Session Two: February 26, 2026 - Tools and Practice

Session Three: March 5, 2026 - Tools and Practice

Session Four: March 12, 2026 - Application and Practice

Fees: Sliding scale $100, $150, $200, $250, $300, $400

No one is turned away due to a lack of funds — email info@marknsparks.com for information.

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Training

Our professional development workshops encourage participants from all kinds of organizations, non and for-profits, foundations, city councils, to share knowledge, ask questions, and practice facilitation and problem-solving. We model diverse facilitation styles and strategies to help organizations and people reconnect with their values and strengthen their processes and community outcomes.

Training and Development services include:

  • The future is coming, and it will require excellent facilitation skills to create something beautiful.

    We offer a 4-part professional development series for folks with an active facilitation practice.

    Participants learn creative facilitation skills, try-on new facilitation tools in a “no-stakes” environment, and receive feedback on their facilitation.

  • Build creative facilitation skills to create more dynamic, engaging, and transformative meetings. Explore your facilitation superpowers, and learn how to co-develop creative agendas, clarify a meeting’s purpose and outcomes, and ensure equity and accessibility.

  • Strengthen your team’s ‘imagination muscles’ and discover new solutions within a safe, “no-stakes” environment. Great for mapping out policy pathways and exploring technical topics.

  • What happens when we recall that statistics can represent people and that data can become poetry? Find ways to powerfully convey your data to your audience.

  • What’s possible at the intersection of health and housing? Working across multiple sectors can create pathways for collaborations to meet human/community needs, now and into the future.

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