Name: Elevate Your Facilitation Toolbox: Playful Tools and Real-World Practice
Start: 2026-06-18T09:00:00-0400
End: 2026-06-18T12:30:00-0400

Elevate Your Facilitation Toolbox: Playful Tools and Real-World Practice

Thursday June 18, 2026 9:00am - 12:30pm EDT

Step into a high-energy, hands-on series designed to expand both your creative skillset and your facilitation toolbox. Through playful methods and real-time practice, participants will build practical tools while strengthening their ability to guide groups with confidence, presence, and flow. Experience what it means to learn by doing as you explore approaches that spark collaboration, deepen thinking, and elevate group outcomes.
Day 4 (Thur): Play, Connect, Create: Improv-Inspired Tools in Action
Bring energy, spontaneity, and connection into your creative facilitation and training. This experiential, interactive session explores how applied improvisation can be leveraged within creativity-based workshops, trainings, and group sessions to strengthen collaboration, trust, communication, and creative thinking. Improvisation is built on principles such as listening, accepting offers, co-creating, redefining risk and failure, and building on ideas through “yes, and.” These same principles are at the core of deliberate creative problem-solving. Through hands-on activities and shared experiences, participants will discover how improvisation techniques can help groups clarify situations, generate fresh ideas and connections, develop and refine concepts, and prepare teams for implementation.

Participants will actively play, explore, take risks, support one another, and experience how improv-based methods can create more engaged, open, and collaborative group dynamics. The session emphasizes practical application, helping facilitators understand not only how to use improvisation activities but also when and why to integrate them into facilitation and training environments.

Participants will:

Acquire a selection of improvisation activities that can be adapted and applied with groups, teams, trainings, and workshops

Learn how to use the principle of “yes, and” to build trust, encourage creative collaboration, and strengthen group interaction

Explore how and when to integrate improvisation techniques into creative sessions to support idea generation, development, team connection, and implementation readiness

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Jane Fischer

Lead Creativity Trainer/CPSI Emcee, Creative Education Foundation

Jane has always drawn on three things: a love of humor and performing, her imagination and ideas, and the desire to help others. Her professional life began with a focus on “helping others." She has two decades of experience and leadership in health education and human services... Read More →

Thursday June 18, 2026 9:00am - 12:30pm EDT

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Creative Problem Solving Institute 2026

Jane Fischer

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Creative Problem Solving Institute 2026

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