What You'll Learn
- How to design virtual sessions that honor adult learning principles and keep participants energized and engaged
- How to build trust and foster authentic connection across screens
- How to facilitate virtual conversations that drive insight, curiosity, and meaningful action
- Techniques and tools to maintain energy, focus, and equity throughout online learning experiences
- Strategies for anticipating and overcoming common virtual learning challenges with skill and confidence

How You’ll Spend Your Time
Self-Paced Prework
~2 hours
Before the live workshop, you’ll complete a self-paced exploration of essential frameworks and tools—giving you the foundational knowledge needed to design and lead transformational PD with confidence.
Live Learning
4 hours total, 2 learning blocks
This highly interactive workshop includes two 2-hour learning blocks, with a 1-hour break in between. You'll build skills quickly through expert modeling and hands-on activities.

How You’ll Spend Your Time
How You’ll Spend Your Time
This training is offered as a 2-day in-person workshop and a virtual blended learning experience. Explore the differences and determine which best meets your needs by clicking on each option below.

Explore Your Options
In-Person
Virtual
Self-Paced Prework
~2 hours
Before the live workshop, you’ll complete a self-paced exploration of essential frameworks and tools—giving you the foundational knowledge needed to design and lead transformational PD with confidence.
Live Learning
4 hours total, 2 learning blocks
This highly interactive workshop includes two 2-hour learning blocks, with a 1-hour break in between. You'll build skills quickly through expert modeling and hands-on activities.
What Else You Need To Know
Requirements
All participants must have their own copy of The PD Book: 7 Habits That Transform Professional Development (not included in the registration fee). The book is required for the prework and live sessions.
Investment
Access to Program Content
All virtual workshop sessions will be recorded in the event you cannot make a session or if you would like to rewatch them at a later time. Participants have access to content for 30 days after the last session to help supplement learning.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you create engaging virtual professional development?
Engaging virtual professional development is designed specifically for the online environment—not created by simply moving an in-person agenda onto Zoom.
Effective virtual learning requires intentional decisions about pacing, participation, cognitive load, transitions, technology, and how people will process and apply what they are learning. Participants should regularly be asked to think, contribute, connect, reflect, or practice—not simply watch a screen.
Virtual Facilitation teaches you how to design and lead that kind of experience.
How is virtual facilitation different from in-person facilitation?
In a virtual environment, facilitators have access to fewer physical and nonverbal cues. Participants may also be navigating screen fatigue, distractions, technology challenges, and different expectations about how they will participate.
Because of this, virtual facilitators must be especially intentional about pacing, instructions, interaction, transitions, and how they gather information about participants’ experiences. The principles of adult learning remain the same, but the way facilitators apply them needs to change.
How do I keep virtual participants engaged?
Engagement does not mean keeping everyone visibly active every minute. Participants also need time to think and process. The goal is to design participation purposefully rather than depending on “Any questions?” to determine whether people are still with you.
This question is more search-friendly than “Will I learn strategies to keep virtual participants engaged?” I’d use it as the primary heading, then answer the buyer’s question in the final sentence:
In Virtual Facilitation, you’ll learn how to select and facilitate these structures based on the learning you want to create.
Is this workshop appropriate if I already facilitate online?
Yes. If you already facilitate virtually, the workshop will help you examine the choices and habits you have developed through experience and become more intentional about your practice.
You’ll consider what is working, what may no longer serve your participants, and what you can do when attention, participation, energy, or learning begins to drop.
Will I practice virtual facilitation during the workshop?
Yes. Virtual Facilitation is experiential, so you will both participate in and practice effective online facilitation. You’ll have opportunities to apply what you are learning and consider how the approaches can be adapted to your own workshops, meetings, and professional learning experiences.
What virtual facilitation skills will I develop?
You’ll develop skills in designing virtual learning experiences, giving clear instructions, pacing online experiences, facilitating meaningful participation, managing transitions, using technology purposefully, and responding to participants' needs in real time.
The goal is not to master a collection of virtual tools. It is to become a more intentional facilitator who can create online experiences in which adults actively think, participate, connect, practice, and learn.
Our workshops are included in the Bright Morning Membership—along with ongoing support, on-demand learning, and monthly practice sessions to help you keep growing.















