We need to know how to effectively facilitate conversations in a virtual setting, because it’s very different from in person, right? Not everyone knows how to put up a hand… So how to effectively run a workshop… that’s the first thing I would say because many instances where I have seen and some people may have… felt isolated.
– Participant 67
Running great online meetings
Watch these videos about preparing, facilitating and closing virtual meetings. For your future reference, tipsheets are below.
Here’s how to see the closed captions on the videos.
Preparing and closing meetings
Facilitating meetings
Tips for using online meeting tools
See our videos that explain how to use these online meeting tools: Zoom, Eventbrite and Padlet.
Online meetings tipsheets
…if you can’t build the community online, you can’t do anything else.
– Participant 55
More resources
- Pedagogies of Community Engagement is a research project that offers some resources on in person and online facilitation. Visit the Facilitation Validation Imagination Machine.
- Sunnybrook Hospital. Box breathing relaxation technique: how to calm feelings of stress or anxiety.
- 350.org is an environment-based activist organization with all kinds of useful tools for community leaders including Resources for Meeting Facilitators.
- Drawing for Change.
- Rewa, J. & Hunter D. (2-24) Leading groups online: Your essential guide to leading online courses, meetings, trainings and events. Daniel Hunter Pub.
- Seeds for Change UK offers a number of in person and online tips for facilitation and mobilization.
- Training for Change has an incredible number of tools and resources for all kinds of facilitation including a section on online facilitation.
