Facilitator training

Learn to lead better group experiences.

Greater Than One facilitator training helps people lead groups with more clarity, confidence, safety, and purpose. No public dates are currently scheduled — register your interest below, and organizations can request private or partner-hosted sessions.

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Best for

— New and developing facilitators— Camp, recreation, and outdoor program staff— Team building and experiential learning facilitators— Ropes course and adventure program staff— Managers or trainers who lead active learning experiences

Course formats

Open enrollment

Individuals can register interest now and join scheduled facilitator training courses once public dates are announced.

Team training

Organizations can bring Greater Than One in to train their internal staff, seasonal teams, or program leaders.

Custom focus

Training can emphasize team building, ropes course facilitation, leadership programs, corporate groups, youth programs, or debriefing skills.

What students learn

Facilitation skills that survive contact with real groups.

The course is built around practice, feedback, and decision-making. Participants learn how to guide experience without over-controlling it, and how to help people make meaning from what happens in the room, on the course, or in the field.

Design purposeful openings, transitions, activities, reflection, and closing moments
Read group energy and adjust facilitation choices without losing the program goal
Ask stronger debrief questions that help participants connect experience to behavior
Manage participation, resistance, dominant voices, quiet voices, and group tension
Sequence experiential activities so challenge, support, and learning stay connected
Hold physical, emotional, and social safety during active group learning
Give clear instructions, frame activities well, and recover when plans need to change
Use observation, feedback, and practice to keep improving as a facilitator

Course interest

Tell us what kind of facilitator training you need.

Use this form for individual course interest, team training, or organization-specific facilitator development. Greater Than One will follow up with options and next steps.