TRAIN-THE-TRAINER

Mastery Level Training and Certification Programs for Professional Coaches, Facilitators, and Leaders who want to being more creativity into their work, and out of those they serve.

Whole-Brain Creative Facilitation Trainer Training

Using Whole-Brain Creativity Practices and Principles for Vibrant, Engaging, and Transformational Learning Environments
This workshop is for professional facilitators, trainers, leaders, practitioners, coaches, consultants, educators and anyone else who wants to facilitate creativity, dynamic learning, and positive change for their participants...and become more creative, adaptive, and improvisational as a facilitator
  • In this workshop you will learn and experience a variety of whole- and body-centered approaches and techniques designed to enliven your workshops.

  • You will learn how to:
  • Quickly and easily engage participants
  • Modify activities for the particular group and learning objectives
  • Draw forth the energy, passion, and assets already in the room
  • Cultivate the attitudes and behaviors for using whole-brain approaches
  • Create a safe and receptive learning environment
Effectively getting groups to open up to experiential creative approaches begins with increasing your own comfort and flexibility with the techniques you facilitate. This workshop will focus on two levels at the same time - you as a professional, authentic facilitator and you as a creative individual. You will have the opportunity for personal expansion as you gather useful tools. You will experience whole-brain training activities based in storytelling, improvisational theater, visual imagery, somatics, accelerated learning, ritual, systems thinking, Socratic and analytical processes...and more! You will learn key creative facilitation principles, creativity training design guidelines, and whole brain approaches to design and facilitate innovative learning environments. You will explore using whole brain methods to:
  • Get your own creative juices flowing
  • Draw forth your natural gifts as a facilitator
  • Explore the applications of these new tools
  • Have fun. Surprise yourself and each other
  • Let go of controls; think and respond spontaneously
You will leave with creative activities for: Icebreakers, Energizers, Group Storytelling, Innovation & Idea Generation, Team & Community Building, and more. In this pattern-breaking program, you will learn how to let go of controls and mindsets that otherwise inhibit your creative thinking. As you facilitate this for your participants they will experience a deeper level of meaning, learning, and embodiment.

Improvisational Facilitation Trainer Training

Using Improv, Storytelling, and other Creative Approaches in Facilitation and Training

• Be more at ease creating, improvising, and adapting in the moment.• Enliven your facilitation with accessible, fun, purposeful activities.• Cultivate and trust your own and your participants creativity• Create original exercises based on who YOU are and who you serve This program is filled with creative activities. It id desgined to support you in bringing more of your own creativity, ease, spontaneity, and adaptability into your facilitation - and out of your participants - in creative and practical ways.
Improvisation, movement, and embodiment take us out of our habitual interactions and ways of being and delivers us back into the "blank canvas" of the moment. As we learn to be present, we let go of controls and the linear/rational-only mindsets that otherwise inhibit our creative thinking and risk taking. Storytelling brings connections, purpose, humor, and relate-ability...and gives meaningful context to facts and information . Visual thinking allows novel connections and insights to emerge. In this workshop, we integrate these approaches.
We'll explore and experience:
  • ways of being and ways of doing
  • moving through resistance and breaking down barriers
  • quickly and easily engaging participants in experiential activities
  • feeling more confident improvising and creating on your feet
  • using basic improv and creative principles
  • trouble-shooting in the moment when things don't go as planned
  • creative resilience and thinking on your feet
  • improv mindsets and skillsets of facilitating creative process
  • enlisting a group to help co-create your way out of "mistakes" into what's most useful and alive for them
  • create a FUN, safe, vibrant, and receptive learning environment
Photos are all from events Michelle facilitated

Creative Emergent Facilitation Certification Program

Contact info@creativeemergence.com to learn more about this program and bringing this into your organization or team. The next public program will be in 2026.
What Participants Say:
"Thank you for a great, informative and fun workshop, packed with creative ideas. Appreciate your engaging and active way to train. I learned many new ways to augment my client work." Susan Levin, President, Dialogue for Solutions For facilitators looking for ways to enliven their techniques, this workshop is a winner. Michelle's methods of facilitation are fun, effective and very energizing." Bill Olsen, President, Olsen Innovations, Certified Professional Facilitator "Michelle was an exceptional workshop leader and inspirational guide as we explored creativity and applied playfulness...and provided a pathway which inspired my confidence to shine. This experience is a must for personal and professional development and pushing the boundaries of inventiveness." Leanne Wild, Leadership and Performance Coach "Michelle was an exceptional workshop leader, making us all feel good, special and safe to jump into these creative exercises." Sarah de Greef, Professional Facilitator "I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop! Throughout the day, Michelle teaches helpful skills, shares exercises, tailors the work to the the needs and desires of the group, fields questions and comments with ease." John Countryman, Professional Facilitator "As an improv practitioner, I was familiar with the principles and some of the activities - and yet it was wonderful to discover new activities, or insightful ways of debriefing the ones I knew. I particularly liked how relevant and accessible all these activities were." Clotilde Mayer, Professional Facilitator