Classroom Facilitator Pillows

"It's frustrating! I try to teach the class the next lesson, but I spend a lot of time trying to catch up those students who've been absent for several days!"

"Shall we start with an icebreaker?"

Inclusive speech

'Complete sentences?? Jeez, how verbose can you get?'

The Importance of Planning Thoroughly in Advance

'Who I played in Summer Stock.'

'All those in doubt, raise your eyebrows.'

"This isn't the big city anymore, Jim. I'm the facilitator now."

"This is the communications workshop, right? Let’s get started, I’m prepared!"

'I thought people were quite receptive to the change seminar.'

The first week of the brainstorming session went slowly.

'Come on, Walter, you're wasting out time! Stop using complete sentences!'

"You're wondering why I've called you here."

Substance Abuse Seminar: How Not To Get Hooked!

How to engage an audience

'I'm feeling a sense of conclusion here, so let's draw things to a close.'

'He has a very open mind. Everything goes in one ear and out the other.'

"We'll start with some 'ice breakers' and 'team building' games..."

Keys to Success: Focus, Alertness, Concentration...

Start the session by doing something unusual.

'This training session is all about challenging assumptions. For example you see someone looking depressed, dishevelled, unkempt it's easy to jump to conclusions. But they may not be a social worker, they may be a client!'

'Is that why our games of hide and seek are over so quickly?'

"Tell me again how many young minds I will have shaped by the end of my teaching career."

As the Chief Corporate Adrenal Gland of the company, Fred's recommendations were rarely a surprise.

The meeting will start a little late, intelligence is lost in the building somewhere.

"I hope I haven't taken you aback by asking you to attend the change seminar."

The facilitator from hell.

'And now, Gentlemen, that we have our thinking caps on, let us continue.'

'Ladies and gentlemen, today we're going to get down to nuts and bolts.'

'Do you get the feeling that, in educational workshops, there are way too many buzzwords thrown around?'

'Benson will you stop trying to dominate the meeting.'

'We're running late and I have much to cover. Can you hold your eight-part question for later?'

"Well...this meeting is about...ummhh...structure and...ummhhh...preparation. Well...ummhh...at least I think so..."

The First Powerpoint

"Let's welcome our new member, Bob!" "You, too!" "'You, too'? Idiot!"