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Full-Stack Facilitator 

Our transformational 4-day training bootcamp where you’ll learn the fundamentals of facilitation, group dynamics & workshop design. 
It’s immersive, it’s practical, it’s fun!

Facilitation      Group Dynamics      Workshop Design

Duration

4 days

Locations

Palo Alto, USA
Berlin, Germany

Price

$8,600 (Palo Alto)
€8,300 (Berlin)

Certification

Signed AJ&Smart
Certificate of Completion
What's included in
Full-Stack Facilitator?

In-Person Training

4 days of immersive, hands-on training,
in a small group size of 14-20 people.

Digital Course Access

6 months access to our digital companion course, covering the training's content.

Continued Online Coaching

3 months access to high-level group coaching calls with one of our trainers.

Private Community Access

3 months access to our private community for ambitious facilitators.

Printed Workbook & Resources

Resources covering the learning objectives, allowing you to focus on participating.

Certification

Our official signed certificate of completion, so you can promote your new skills!
Why Learn Facilitation?

... because the default way teams collaborate is fundamentally broken!

$100 Million

is the annual cost for large enterprises for employees attending useless meetings.
Source: 
Useless Meetings Waste Time and $100 Million a Year for Big Companies,
Bloomberg 2022

65%

of senior managers said that meetings keep them from completing their own work.
Source:
Stop the Meeting Madness,
Harvard Business Review 2017

58%

of Americans would rather go to a doctor's appointment than attend a work meeting.
Source:
How Much Time Americans Spend in Meetings,
Deputy 2022

75%

of decision-makers say they need to improve collaboration within their own department.
Source:
Unlocking the Value of Open Collaboration to Drive Enterprise Agility,
Forrester Research 2021
The Fix?
Facilitation and Workshop Design!
Collaboration is complicated, and almost every team gets it wrong. Complex projects and workflows, remote teams, and competing demands lead to lots of endless unproductive meetings, frustration, and a lack of progress.
Skilled facilitators create a profound impact on reducing complexity, and massively increasing effectiveness and team satisfaction by introducing structures, processes, frameworks and tools.   
Who's This Training For? 

Whether you're a total newbie or seasoned-pro, Full-Stack Facilitator has something for you! 

Beginner
Interested in learning Facilitation and Collaboration from the ground up? 

We'll teach you all the fundamentals you need to start your facilitation journey. 
Intermediate
Have some experience but want to build a more robust foundation for your skills? 

We'll teach you a framework that will carry you through your entire facilitation career.
Advanced
Interested in learning how AJ&Smart approaches facilitation and collaboration? 

We'll show you our 'secret sauce' that powers all of AJ&Smart's workshops.
We've Trained 10,000+ People From 100s of Companies

For over a decade we've been designing and running collaboration-focused training bootcamps for companies of all shapes and sizes. The only thing they all have in common is their desire to make working together more efficient and valuable!

Learn Through
Edu-tainment!

Facilitation Training has a reputation of being pretty boring and old-school. Not ours! 
We believe what you learn "sticks" when you're having fun. We'll never host our training in a badly-lit conference room, ever.

But there's more!

AJ&Smart is the #1 facilitation education company in the world, with over 19 million views on YouTube

AJ&Smart sold 250,000 copies of our Workshopper Playbook

Our podcast "Jake & Jonathan" is the #1 facilitation podcast in the world.

Over 10,000 learners have taken our facilitation-focused online course.

Powered by Workshopping®️

We're not dogmatic about tools and methods! We'll teach principles and fundamentals that can be utilized in any context, any method, any process.

Day 1

Collaboration Fundamentals

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Day 2

Facilitation Fundamentals

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Day 3

Workshop Design 101

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Day 4

Wrap up and Certification

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Day 1

Collaboration Fundamentals

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Day 2

Facilitation Fundamentals

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Day 3

Workshop Design 101

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Day 4

Wrap up and Certification

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A Decade of Experience,
Turned Into Days of Learning

Our bootcamp compresses over 13 years of experience in teaching companies how to collaborate better through Facilitation and Workshop Design into 4 days of practical learning!

Day 1

Collaboration Fundamentals

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Day 2

Facilitation Fundamentals

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Day 3

Workshop Design 101

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Day 4

Wrap up and Certification

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Day 1 of 4
Collaboration & Decision Making
Learn and deeply understand the fundamental reason why teams struggle to collaborate on complex challenges (and how Facilitation can help).
Core Topics

Group Dynamics, Decision Making, Problem Solving

Here's what you'll learn:
  • A simple but powerful framework for understanding group dynamics: How groups make decisions, solve problems and come up with innovative solutions.
  • ​Why collaboration breaks down within most groups, including common pitfalls and challenges.
  • ​​How our brains are not equipped for the complexity of the challenges we work on, and how this affects decision-making and solution creation.
  • ​​How Facilitation and Workshop Design can dramatically improve a team’s ability to collaborate without changing everything about how they already work.
Day 2 of 4
Facilitation Fundamentals 
Understand the foundational theory, skills and techniques designed to enable facilitators to help groups to collaborate better and make better decisions, faster. 
Core Topics

Facilitation Theory, Facilitation Core Skills

Here's what you'll learn:
  • The Foundations of Facilitation: Understand what facilitation is, what a facilitator does and why facilitation is essential for a team’s success. 
  • ​When and Why We Need Facilitation: Learn about the situations where having a skilled facilitator is crucial, and understand why facilitation is quickly becoming THE skill of the future.
  • ​​The Facilitator’s Toolbox: Learn the core skills and techniques every facilitator should master to help manage group dynamics and make teamwork smoother and more effective. Here you’ll gain the confidence and skills necessary to lead any collaborative session with ease.
Day 3 of 4
Workshop Design 101
Learn the practical tools every facilitator needs to be familiar with to design, modify, and run successful purpose-built, custom workshops.
Core Topics

Workshop Principles, The Anatomy of a Workshop, Core Materials and Activities

Here's what you'll learn:
  • A streamlined blueprint for understanding the structure of a workshop: Our famous "4Cs Framework" which gives you a deep-dive into the anatomy of a successful workshop.
  • How to design, modify, and run workshops from scratch, making sure you have a good grasp of exactly what to do before, during and after a workshop.
  • ​The core materials and activities we recommend for running successful workshops.
Day 4 of 4
Live Practice and Certification
You'll put your new skills to the test in a low-risk, fun, live practice session, and receive your certification.
Core Topics

Practical application of everything you learned

Here's what you'll learn:
  • Putting what you’ve learned into practice: With your peers, you’ll plan, design and run a mini workshop using everything you’ve learned!
Certification

On completion of the training, you’ll receive a signed printed & digital certificate of completion to show off your new skills:

Day 1

Collaboration Fundamentals

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Day 2

Facilitation Fundamentals

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Day 3

Workshop Design 101

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Day 4

Wrap up and Certification

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Meet Your Trainers
Laura Faint
Laura is the Head of Marketing at AJ&Smart. She is an expert marketer and sales strategist.
Dom Nyari
Dom is the Sales and Growth Lead at AJ&Smart and talks about digital marketing, funnel building, ad strategies, analytics.
Jonathan Courtney
Jonathan is the co-founder and CEO of AJ&Smart. He's a lifelong entrepreneur, and product strategist.
Jonathan
Jonathan is AJ&Smart's founder and CEO. His lifelong passion is to help people work better together
Rebecca
Rebecca is AJ&Smart's Facilitation Coach and has trained thousands of people from all over the world
Amr
Amr is AJ&Smart's Lead Facilitator and has lead workshops for large  enterprises and startups
Tim
Tim is AJ&Smart's workshop designer and created several high-impact workshop formats
Jonathan
Jonathan is AJ&Smart's founder and CEO. His lifelong passion is to help people work better together.
Rebecca
Rebecca is AJ&Smart's Facilitation Coach and has trained thousands of people from all over the world.

50% Learning. 50% Doing.

100% Practical & Fun!

In-Person – Incredible!

Zoom-fatigue? Us too! We believe there's a unique magic that's created when people come together to learn, in-person. We're excited to be offering our trainings in Palo Alto, the heart of tech in the US, and in Berlin, the heart of creativity in Europe.

Small Groups.

Big Results!

Full-Stack Facilitator is not a mass training where you're anonymous. Each bootcamp is limited to 14-20 participants to ensure you get the best possible training experience and outcome.
Check our upcoming bootcamps and reserve your seat!

Upcoming Training Dates

We run a very limited number of in-person trainings, and spots are filled quickly.
Secure your ticket to one of our next trainings now!

Full-Stack Facilitator
Europe Bootcamp

  Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
   May 14 - 17, 2024

€8,300.00

Training Almost Full!

Full-Stack Facilitator
US Bootcamp

   Palo Alto, CA 🇺🇸
   July 30 - August 2, 2024

$8,600.00

2 Tickets Remaining

Full-Stack Facilitator
Europe Bootcamp

  Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
   October 15 - 18, 2024

€8,300.00

9 tickets remaining
Got further questions or need assistance?

Want to train an entire team?

If you'd like to train an entire team of at least 6 people, our Training Coordinator Laura would love to talk to you about your options!

General Questions and Support

Do you have questions or need some assistance? Our Operations and Support Manager Ryan is here to help! 

Want to train an entire team?

If you'd like to train an entire team of at least 6 people, our Training Coordinator Laura would love to talk to you about your options!

Satisfaction Guaranteed

We’re very confident that you’ll love Full-Stack Facilitator. If you're not satisfied by the end of the first training day, you have the option to get a full refund on your ticket, no questions asked.

Here’s how it works: At the end of the first day, you can hand in your badge, workbook and materials to your trainer and you’ll receive a full refund. It’s as simple as that!

Cancellation and Refund Policy

If you buy a ticket and later realize you can no longer attend the training, you can get a full refund if you let us know at least 30 days before the training begins, and a 50% refund if you let us know at least 14 days before the training begins.

Cancellation requests that happen less than 14-days before the training do not qualify for a refund.

If the event needs to be cancelled by us because of unforeseen circumstances, we'll issue you a full refund.

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