Marius Ketels
Marius Ketels is co-founder of The Nordic Learning Company, where he leads much of our work with companies and organisations, designing and facilitating programmes around leadership, teams and human performance.
Read more →Facilitation Skills for Better Meetings and Workshops
Can the meetings you lead become places where people think together, decide well and move work forward?
A full diary does not create progress. Teams need leaders and facilitators who can design conversations with a clear purpose, draw out the right contributions and help a group leave with decisions, ownership and next steps.
- Price
- SEK 16,910per participant, excluding VAT
- Next date
- Starts 21 April 2027
- Duration
- 2 days + online follow-up
More details
- Format
- In person
- Location
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Venue
- Details to follow
- Language
- Svenska
- Designed by
- Marius Ketels
What you’ll be better able to do
- Design meetings and workshops with a clear purpose, structure and sequence.
- Choose the right group process for the decision at hand, based on Sam Kaner's participatory decision-making model.
- Work with different views, uncertainty and tension while keeping the group moving towards its goal.
- Turn discussion into clear decisions, ownership, and next steps.
- Open, focus and guide group work with confidence, based on the core competencies of the International Association of Facilitators.
A redesigned live session, practical ways to choose and sequence a group process, and feedback on your own facilitation that you can use in the next meeting you lead.
Dates
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21 – 22 April 2027
In person · Stockholm, Sweden · Venue to be confirmed09:00–16:00SvenskaSEK 16,910 per participant, excluding VAT - Choose this date →
3 – 4 June 2027
In person · Stockholm, Sweden · Venue to be confirmed09:00–16:00SvenskaSEK 16,910 per participant, excluding VAT - Choose this date →
16 – 17 August 2027
In person · Stockholm, Sweden · Venue to be confirmed09:00–16:00EnglishSEK 16,910 per participant, excluding VAT
Price and what’s included
SEK 16,910 per participant, excluding VAT
Two days of facilitation, all materials, a certificate of participation from The Nordic Learning Company, lunch, fika and refreshments. Travel and accommodation are not included.
For organisations
Are your important meetings places where people think together and decide?
We can run Facilitation Skills for Better Meetings and Workshops privately for your organisation, working with the meetings and workshops your people actually lead.
Tell us who the course is for, roughly how many people, and what you would like to be different afterwards. We will come back with a proposal.
Course details
Programme & method
- Day 1: Read the work before you design the room
- Explore purpose, participation, structure and sequencing. Work with the decisions that sit behind an effective meeting or workshop, and notice what a group needs from a facilitator at different moments.
- Day 2: Facilitate under pressure
- Choose a real session from your own context. Design it, lead part of it and receive feedback on how you open, focus, handle different views and help a group reach a useful next step.
- Online follow-through
- Run or prepare a real session, then return to examine what happened. Refine the design and use individual coaching to work with a facilitation question that matters to you.
How you’ll learn
Participants experience facilitation from the inside, analyse why particular structures work, practise leading short processes, receive feedback, and redesign a real meeting, workshop or decision forum from their own organisation.
Evidence & methodology
Participants experience a facilitation process from the inside, then examine why it worked. They practise leading short pieces of group work, receive feedback and redesign a live meeting, workshop or decision forum from their own organisation.
Sam Kaner's model of group decision-making.Amy Edmondson's research on psychological safety and Bruce Tuckman's stages of group development. Priya Parker's work on intentional gathering. the course draws on the International Association of Facilitators' Core Competencies as its skill framework.
Practicalities
Who it’s for
- Managers and team leads who run recurring meetings
- Project, product and programme leaders running kick-offs, reviews and retrospectives
- People and Culture, L&D and internal consulting teams
- Change and transformation leads who need groups to commit, not just attend
- Anyone who wants to sharpen how they run meetings for better outcomes
What you need
- No specialist facilitation background is required. Participants bring a real meeting, workshop or decision challenge to redesign.
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Before you book
When is the course confirmed?
A course is confirmed once six people have joined. We confirm your place separately, and ask you not to book travel until you have our confirmation.
What if someone cannot come after all?
Open sessions can be transferred to another date free of charge up to fourteen days before. Inside fourteen days, send a colleague in their place. Private programmes follow the terms agreed in the contract.
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