Bringing Content to Life: Techniques for Effective Group Facilitation Video Series
Ideally, facilitation is engaging, empowering, exciting, and fun. As a new or experienced facilitator, it’s best to keep your skills sharp and innovative. This video series provides best practices for group facilitation with a focus on youth engagement, but many of the techniques shared can also be helpful for group sessions with adults. These videos are intended for staff who facilitate group sessions with youth, for example health educators.
The RHNTC developed this video series in partnership with Fact Forward.
Video Series Introduction
This video introduces the Bringing Content to Life: Techniques for Effective Group Facilitation Video Series.
Video 1. Setting the Tone for a Positive and Supportive Group Session
This video provides best practices for group facilitation with a focus on youth engagement.
Video 2. Managing a Group Session as a Solo Facilitator
This video explores techniques that a facilitator can use when they are facilitating a group session on their own.
Video 3. Just the Two of Us: Effectively Working with a Co-Facilitator
This video provides tips that facilitators can use to plan, implement, and reflect on co-facilitated sessions.
Video 4. Group Management: Creating an Optimal Learning Environment
This video provides strategies that facilitators of group sessions can use to create an optimal learning environment. Tips shared in this video have been adapted and are courtesy of Health Resources in Action (HRiA).
Video 5. Collaborative Learning: Using Paired and Small Group Activities
This video provides strategies facilitators can use to introduce and manage paired work and small group activities.*
Video 6. Using Role-Play Activities in Group Sessions
This video provides tips that facilitators of group sessions can use to introduce and manage role play activities.*
Video 7. Reflecting and Debriefing After a Group Session
This video provides strategies facilitators can use to debrief after any group session, like a meeting, training, team-building session, or educational program.
| *Note: Adaptations are changes to the content, delivery, or core components of an effective program. These changes may be needed to improve program fit for participants, the implementation setting, or the community. It is important for program administrators and facilitators to be extremely cautious about making changes to effective programs. Be sure to talk with your project director and/or project officer before making any changes to your program. |
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