17-18 June 2025, 10:00am-4:00pm ET each day
Delivered Virtually

Join Erin Fischer and Dr. Michael McRee from the Leadership and Training Studio and The Whitespace Group for a virtual, two-day, hands-on session. (You might know Erin who has hosted Program Design School for 10 years and has graduated nearly a thousand higher education professionals through that experience.)

 Why should you (and your team) go? When we think about facilitation, we know the right facilitator can make all the difference. You know this to be true if you remember the last bad facilitator you had. So, we have created content to help you deliver the best for your audience. First, as your guides, we have scoured through Mike’s Ph.D. research and are sharing the top 12 things participants need from facilitators and the results are fascinating! Join us if you want to practice your facilitative skills, increase your audience’s evaluations score on your work, learn how to flex your style to meet your audience, figure out how to make your work more interactive using the 70/30 rule, practice your pace and pitch, and learn where facilitators can often go wrong. Finally, we will teach you how to read your audience when they make a face that stresses you out.

As we share, you never went to camp to watch videos about canoeing, horseback riding, and the ropes course. Why would your participants come to your course to watch you read the PowerPoints when they could be trying something themselves? Let us help you get better—fast.

Who Should Attend?

Folks representing the Dean of Students, Academic Student Services, Career Services and Prep, Student Union, Housing & Residence Life, Financial Aid, Student Involvement & Leadership, Fraternity & Sorority Life, Student Connections & Support Center, Student Success, Campus Mentoring Programs, Managers of Student and Registered Organizations, Shared Business Services, Dining, Admissions and New Student Programs, Managers of Peer Mentors, First Gen Student Programming, Orientation, Parent and Family Programming, Educational Access Center, Undergraduate Advising, Grant-Funded Projects, High Impact Educational Programming, Community-Based Learning, Communication and Partnerships, and the Office of the Vice President.

Registration Rates

Each attendee of the Facilitation School Online must be registered. Individual and team rates are available. Select “Add Additional Registrant” before submitting registration to add a team member from the same institution at a reduced rate!

In order to qualify for member rates for Facilitation School, membership with ACPA must be valid through 18 June 2025. You must have your own individual membership. ACPA Members who purchase a Facilitation School Registration understand their membership needs to be active through 18 June 2025. If it is not active prior to the start of Facilitation School you will not be provided with the link to access the Facilitation School Event unless you renew your membership or pay the difference between the non-member and member registration cost.

Registrations can be paid by check, VISA, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express. All fees must be prepaid. Purchase orders are not accepted. Refunds will be given for cancelations, received in writing at ACPA by 16 May 2025. Registrations can also be withdrawn by registrants using the event registration system through 16 May 2025. After 16 May 2025 there are no refunds. ACPA reserves the right to charge a service fee of US$50 for returned checks. Registrations are non-transferable. The conference may be canceled or postponed due to insufficient enrollment or other unforeseen circumstances. In this case, the fees will be fully refunded; however, ACPA will not be responsible for other additional costs, charges or expenses.