@everyone In the interest of streamlining my work and reducing costs, I will be moving this community to another platform. It functions very similarly to Skool but won't cost me extra each month. Once I have that group up and running, I'll post it here before the middle of July.

Today I posted a way to simply your planning for collaborative meetings using a simple structure.

I just posted the second of my weekly YouTube video series. It's important to me that these videos are beneficial to people in this group and anyone who is trying to make changes in their community. If you have any topics you'd like to learn about, or would like to talk about, let me know!

If you recently took Facilitation FUNdamentals, I have loaded the resources into the Classroom tab above. This tab will host all future courses, training material, and articles or PDFs of interest. Please check it out!

I'm so excited you are here! This is place for anyone who is looking to lead or participate in making change for good in their communities. In my 30 years of work, I’ve learned many skills across multiple fields that the teacher in me wants to share. I will begin with collaboration because that is a foundational skill needed to be a change-maker. My hope is that this will be a place for people like you from all over the world to learn together how to make this world better - now and into the future. We will include many topics, such as - collaboration, - negotiation, - planning and projects - office technology education - government basics from entry level to elected leaders, - leadership - Emergency preparedness - Social work and case management - learn ethical use of AI and strategies to implement, and anything else needed to improve how we do our work and the livability of our communities. This must remain a non-political space. Anyone participating in political banter, bashing, or boorishness will be violating our policies which may result in removal from the group. So let’s be kind and respectful - and have fun!