Gwyn Wansbrough
🧭 Are you over-facilitating your live sessions? The other day someone asked me, “Can you over-facilitate a live session?” 🤔 It made me pause and think. Can you? Then I immediately thought of an online workshop I joined early on in my online facilitation journey. The facilitator was calm. Unhurried. She paused often. Asked thoughtful questions. And […]
Greetings from sunny Toronto! ☀️ So I’m curious… If you had to name the #1 most important skill for leading live sessions—what would you say? Tough one, right? There are so many. But after 20+ years of facilitation, here’s my pick👇 Listening. Not just nod-and-smile, eye-contact kind of listening. I mean deep, focused, stay-present-even-when-your-brain-wants-to-jump-ahead kind of listening. I believe […]
I’m excited to share some big personal news with you. I’ve just moved from Barcelona ☀️to Toronto! 🇨🇦 After 10 amazing years in Spain, we decided it was time to be closer to family and friends in Canada. It’s been a whirlwind of goodbyes, boxes, and big emotions. One of the hardest things to pack? […]
Have you ever had a participant pause, unmute, and say— “Wait… I’ve never thought about it that way before.” That happened during the very first cohort of my course Breakthrough Facilitation. We were in the middle of an experience design exercise to help people define the before and after transformation for their live sessions. Suddenly, one […]
Ever felt like your slides are silently sabotaging your live session? You plan a great session. You spend hours building a robust slide deck. You hit “Share Screen.” And then… the energy drops. Been there? I definitely have. When I started leading live online trainings, I thought having a polished slide deck was the sign […]
🌀 Ever feel like your virtual group discussions almost hit the mark, but something more was waiting to surface? That used to happen in one of my favorite Zoom workshops with young teachers-in-training here in Spain. We’d run small-group improv games 🎭Then gather in the main room to reflect, share, and connect the dots.It worked pretty well. […]