(Members Only) MAFN Community of Practice: Conversations about Facilitation in Training

Duration: Each session is 1 hour (60-minutes)

Core facilitation skills and values inform not only facilitation practice but aligned professions such as training (where trainers often describe themselves as “facilitators!”). In this bi-monthly peer-led COP, we discuss how facilitation expertise enhances training delivery, sharing best practices from our experience as facilitators and/or trainers. These online facilitated conversations are standalone topic-based forums, with discussion groups limited to encourage maximum participation from all attendees. Topic suggestions and volunteer leaders are always welcome. Come with curiosity; participate with passion; leave with new learning.

You are welcome to attend as many meetings in the series as your schedule allows. They will not build on each other. Once you register for the series, you will receive a notification for each meeting.

Please note that this is for MAFN members only. These sessions will NOT be recorded.

Recipient of the inaugural 2024 NYS Justice Peer Initiative Impact Award in Training & Development, Ruth Riddick, CARC-RCP/f, is a coach and trainer with a specialization in addiction recovery and a 20-year practice at Sobriety Together.  She is co-founder and program manager of the New York Certification Board Trainer Registry, an organization of professional trainers enhancing standards in non-clinical role training.  As a curriculum developer, she has contributed to role training for Veteran Supported Recovery, CRPA-Family and CRPA-Youth trainings for professional certifications.  She serves on the Board of the New York Association of Treatment Court Professionals.  She has been widely honored for her work.

Our guiding principles are:

• Come open to learning

• Bring your questions, share your expertise

• Don’t expect closure - our shared learning is a process!

ONLINE CoP Discussion REMINDERS

• If you register and cannot attend, please cancel to allow someone else to come. 

• Registration closes at midnight the day before the discussion group.

• Registered participants will receive instructions for joining the live session and any additional details 1 day in advance and the morning of the event. Please be sure to look for the link in your email.

• MAFN CoP discussions will not be recorded in order to support space for learning.

• For registration or membership questions contact manager@mafn.org.