MAFN 2025-2026 Workshop Season

MAFN Call for Facilitators is OPEN! 

The MAFN Professional Development Team invites you to submit one or more proposals for the 2025-2026 workshop season which runs from September 2025 through June 2026.  

NOTE: Proposals are due by midnight, Saturday, May 31. 

For 2025-2026, we are inviting proposals to facilitate online 90-min workshops, online multiple-session cohort learning series, and facilitated networking opportunities (in-person or online). 

And we are always open to new innovative and creative options!

NEW this year: MAFN will also host a full-day in-person event in the DC area that will include learning and networking opportunities. This event will replace our quarterly in-person workshops. Planning is just beginning, so stay tuned!

Program Descriptions

We invite proposals for one or more of the following types of programs:

• • Single Workshops (Online)*: 
• • Monthly online events will remain free for members. We will consider traditional workshops, Mastermind sessions, panel discussions, and other formats. There are many formats this could take and we welcome creative approaches. For 2025-2026, our online workshops will be scheduled for 90 minutes and will begin at noon Eastern one Friday per month.

*Any facilitator (or two-person team) who presents a single online workshop will be offered a free one-year MAFN membership (new members) or renewal extension (current members).

• • Multi-Session Cohort Learning Series (Online)**:
• • For the Multi-Session Series, facilitators should design a series of sessions, where each session would build upon the previous session, offering participants an opportunity to explore a topic more deeply. 

  • These sessions are recorded and made available only to participants who register for the program. The recordings will not be posted to the MAFN recording library.

  • • Participants pay a single fee to attend all parts of the series.

    • We prefer proposals for 3-part series to be held 3 weeks in a row. 

*Any facilitator (or two-person team) who presents a single online workshop will be offered a free one-year MAFN membership (new members) or renewal extension (current members).

**Since we know that these longer-term series commitments can be a significant investment of a facilitator’s time, MAFN offers a $200 stipend for facilitators who offer these types of learning cohort options. The stipend is for the team and can be split among team members if more than one facilitator.

If you would like to propose an alternative format or have a suggestion for an event that would help build community among MAFN members, please be sure to clearly articulate the value of the alternative format/idea in your workshop description when you submit your proposal.

NOTE: Proposals are due by midnight, May 31, 2025. 

Proposals are starting to come in already, so get yours in soon!

Be advised that MAFN events and workshops are NOT speeches or presentations. We are looking for highly engaging, interactive sessions – the kind that motivates participants to pay close attention and stay engaged. Your proposal must explain how you plan to make your session interactive.  Providing a link to a video where you are facilitating or presenting a similar presentation can also be very helpful in demonstrating your facilitation style.

We welcome content that covers a wide range of skills, frameworks, techniques, and processes related to facilitation. In response to member interest and as facilitators committed to helping groups reflect, converge, and act, we encourage sessions that focus on:

• Technical tools relating to facilitation
• AI in Facilitation / Ethical Considerations for AI
• Rethinking our roles and behaviors in furthering racial and social justice 
• Workplace Culture Change
• Strategic planning
• New Methodologies and Techniques
• MAFN community-building
• Team Development / Team Coaching
• Conflict Management
• Engagement / Interactivity
• Facilitating dialogue groups to bring polarized groups together
• Negotiation and Mediation skills for facilitators
• Other topics of interest to facilitators - be creative!

Please note that all online workshops are recorded unless special arrangements are made with MAFN when scheduling the workshop. Recordings  (except for multi-session series)  will be made available to workshop participants (and to all MAFN members via the password-protected MAFN website). 

If you have questions, please contact Linda Howard at workshops@mafn.org.

Be sure to see additional details about the MAFN audience and suggestions for a successful workshop in the Speaker Information Sheet.

Ready to submit a workshop proposal? 

SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL HERE