Facilitative Leadership Alumni Webinar Series
Facilitative Leadership Alumni, join us for a webinar series to continue building your facilitation skills. You can sign up for individual webinars or the complete series. There are four interactive sessions.
While a portion of each session will be recorded, the full session, including discussions and activities, will not. Recordings will be made available to paid participants upon request, but will not have the full value of the live session.
Pre-Requisite: This series is only available to those who have participated in a Facilitative Leadership workshop with Purdue Extension or Michigan State.
Cost: $25 a webinar or $80 for the series
Limit: 40 people per session
- Tuesday, January 27, 10:30 am-Noon ET- Tool Deep Dive- Relationship Diagram and Criterion Grid- Tanya Hall
- Master two powerful facilitation tools that support divergent thinking. Learn when and how to deploy criterion grids to help groups evaluate options systematically, and discover how relationship diagrams illuminate connections between ideas, stakeholders, or system components. This hands-on session includes real-world applications, common pitfalls to avoid, and practical tips for adapting these tools to your unique facilitation contexts. Perfect for alumni ready to deepen their understanding of these two tools.
- Thursday, February 19, 10:30 am-Noon- Creating Effective Process Agendas-Tamara Ogle
- Learn strategies and tips for designing process agendas that drive meaningful outcomes. Discover how to sequence activities strategically, allocate time realistically, and build in flexibility while maintaining focus. Leave with templates and confidence to design process agendas that will support your best facilitative work.
- Tuesday, March 17, 10:30 am-Noon ET - Tips for AI in Facilitation- Kris Parker and Cheyanne Geideman
- Explore practical applications of artificial intelligence to enhance your facilitation practice. Discover how AI tools can help with pre-meeting preparation, agenda design, generating discussion prompts, synthesizing participant input, and post-session analysis. Learn ethical considerations, limitations to understand, and best practices for integrating AI while maintaining the human-centered essence of effective facilitation.
- Thursday, April 16, 10:30 am-Noon ET -Facilitating Online- Bethany Prykucki- Michigan State Extension
- Learn proven strategies for building engagement in digital spaces, managing technology challenges gracefully, and creating inclusive environments when participants are scattered across locations. Translate the tools and skills you learned in Facilitative Leadership to a virtual platform. This interactive webinar will help participants gain the confidence to create meaningful connections and achieve productive outcomes, regardless of the platform.
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If you are in need of accommodations to attend this program, please contact Kym Schwinkendorf prior to the meeting at 219-386-5232 or kschwink@purdue.edu by January 13, 2026.
If you need an interpreter or translator, please contact Kym Schwinkendorf prior to the meeting at 219-386-5232 or kschwink@purdue.edu by January 13, 2026.