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Dynamic Facilitation Training - for Adults
At The YES, we believe in the power of building transformational programs that help people grow their potential, develop their gifts and find new ways to make an impact on their organizations, families, and communities.
This year we're ready to expand our offerings, and provide this training for adults!
Explore Your Potential as a Facilitator
Are you ready to go beyond traditional facilitation and create experiences that move people? Join us for a two-day facilitation workshop that will expand how you show up as a facilitator.
Who Should Attend
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Facilitators, Educators, Youth workers
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Professionals & Consultants
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Community Leaders
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Anyone ready to create deeper engagement
DYNAMIC FACILITATION
Dynamic Facilitation is a training for facilitators, educators, professionals and community leaders who want to explore what it looks like to be a more dynamic facilitator. This means expanding your capacity, your toolkit, your repertoire and your overall range as a facilitator.
This approach is about engaging more of who we are as human beings. It's about bringing in the body, the imagination, the heart and the ingenious mind. Research suggests that active engagement in learning significantly increases retention rates and integration. A dynamic approach keeps people present and more committed to showing up again and again. It's about designing a program that doesn't just ask your participants to sit and listen, but instead engages them fully, ignites their energy and offers them the opportunity to contribute and get involved.
At the heart of this work, dynamic facilitation is a calling. A calling to expand yourself. To step into your own ability and utilize more of what you already have. Sometimes we don't realize how much we have inside us and how these gifts can be incorporated into our own unique facilitation style. To arrive at this training is to hear this call and show up to grow.
Join us, in a journey of expansion, fun and facilitation competency.
Date: October 1-2, 2026, 9am-4pm
Location: VanDusen Gardens, Vancouver
Facilitators: Warren Hooley and Chelsea Lake
Meet the Facilitators
Chelsea Lake
Chelsea first encountered The YES Camp back in 1999 as a participant in the program. Her profound and transformative experience inspired her to pour her time and energy into The YES. She worked as a volunteer, summer student and administrator before becoming Camp Director in 2009. Having worked with thousands of youth through The YES Camp, classroom workshops and Change it Up! program, Chelsea feels honoured to be able to support and witness the formation of life-changing communities and relationships with The Youth Excellence Society. Her work with the program inspired her to complete her Master of Education in Leadership Studies at the University of Victoria. She brings to The YES a rich history with the organization as well as masterful facilitation skills and a deep knowledge of leadership and education.
Warren Hooley
Warren Hooley is originally from Penticton, British Columbia. Having mixed roots of Okanagan/Syilx, English and Ukrainian heritage, Warren has passionately facilitated over 2500 workshops over the past 13 years on topics like Compassionate Communication (NVC), and A Values Approach to Decolonization and Healthy Masculinity.
Today, living in Vancouver B.C, Warren’s overall vision is to help create communities where every single person can thrive and live a sustainable fulfilling life. Warren likes to weave in engaging activities, fascinating diagrams and and practice time for skills that can create genuine change in people's lives.
Partnership Opportunities
Chelsea and Warren would love to work with your organization to bring Dynamic Facilitation training to your team members. If you would like us to run a private course, please contact us at info@theyes.ca with your organization name, approximate number of attendees, and date and time options. Trainings would optimally require between 4 and 12 hours, and can be split over multiple dates.
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Program Payment & Refund Policy
Payment of Program Fees:
Program fees can be paid in full at registration or broken into smaller payments through a payment plan.
A $75.00 non-refundable registration fee applies to all program registrations and is retained for administrative purposes.
Cancellation and Refund Policy:
If you need to adjust your registration, please contact our office as soon as possible. Refunds are issued according to the timelines below and are calculated based on the full program fee, excluding the non-refundable registration fee.
Cancellations Over Two Weeks Before Program Starts Cancellations received over two weeks before the program start date will receive a full refund of the program fee, minus the $75.00 non-refundable registration fee. Cancellations Two Weeks Before Program Start Date Cancellations received two weeks before the program start date will not receive a refund. Medical Cancellations Full refunds of the program fee will be issued for cancellations due to illness when supported by a medical note, excluding the $75.00 non-refundable registration fee. Participants can also chose to receive credit which would include the program fee and the $75 non-refundable registration fee.