Upcoming Trainings & Webinars
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Advanced Facilitator Training - Lecture Based (single-session event)
Facilitation Tips & Problem Solving Deep Dive This single-session, 1 1/2 hour training covers advanced facilitation tips, handling challenging group dynamics, check-in & check-out strategies, and scripts to introduce the listening and response rounds. There will also be time to address challenges your are facing in your groups. Soul Matters founder, Rev. Scott Tayler, leads the sessions in a lecture-oriented style, with room for questions.
*Important Note: Participants must take our single-session New Facilitator Training prior to this training. DATE & TIME: Monday, October 26 at 7:30-9pm eastern COST: $20 per participant Register and pay by clicking the button below. |
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Advanced Facilitator Training - 5 Month Experiential Small Group
Fall offerings are full. New sessions coming in late January or early February. This five-session, once-a-month facilitator group is an experiential training, with each monthly meeting run as a small group. This approach is an entirely different way of training facilitators. Instead of being told how to facilitate, group members learn through participation and watching Rev. Tayler, our Team Lead, model facilitation.
Along the way, Rev. Tayler pauses to offer facilitator tips and comment on group process. This also allows participants to experience a “dry run” of the session they will be leading with their groups in the following month. After each 2 hour session, facilitators can stay on the call for an optional and more personalized troubleshooting and tips session with Rev. Tayler. This is a chance for facilitators to receive monthly support for the particular challenges they are wrestling with in the groups they run in their home congregations. In addition to training, this approach provides participants with personal spiritual nourishment as they bond and share with fellow facilitators from around the country. *Important Note: Participants must take our single-session New Facilitator Training prior to this training. DATES & TIMES: This training will start up again in 2027 COST: $100 per participant |
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New Facilitator Training
Fall offerings complete. New sessions coming in late January or early February. This two-hour online training for new small group facilitators covers the Soul Matters facilitation model, our unique approach to deep and disciplined listening, tips for handling facilitation challenges and start up strategies. Soul Matters founder and Team lead, Rev. Scott Tayler, leads the training. Designed for new facilitators but also serves as a great tune-up training for long-time facilitators!
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Taste of Soul - How To Training (Recorded Training)
This unique training teaches you how to run a "Taste of Soul" event at your church. Taste of Soul is a drop in meeting, usually held after Sunday service, at which people interested in joining a Soul Matters small group can experience one first hand, in an abbreviated form. Our Team Lead, Rev. Scott Tayler, leads the training. He covers the structure of these meetings, best practices, facilitating tips and marketing strategy.
It is one of the most effective ways to get people excited about joining your small groups! This is a recorded training, so once you purchase by clicking on the button below, you will receive the recording and handouts. COST: $15 per person |
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Facilitator Trainings Tailored to Your Congregation
We now offer trainings designed for just your congregation. Rev. Tayler, our Team Lead, meets with your leadership to hear about your unique needs around facilitator training and/or growing your small group program. He then creates a training or set of trainings to address those needs and issues.
To learn more and explore if this might be right for you email Rev. Tayler by clicking on the button below. |
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Recordings of Past Webinars
A number of our past webinars are available, many of them free. Topics include: new subscriber orientation, adapting our small group model, social media tools, crossing paths, vibrant music on small budgets, leading meditation with children and an intro to our Starting Point newcomers program.
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