Feast Facilitator Gifts

"We think it's terribly important that you meet the people responsible for the food you're eating tonight."

"Shall we start with an icebreaker?"

'This might be the common ground we've been looking for.'

Inclusive speech

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

The Importance of Planning Thoroughly in Advance

'Thanksgiving's no holiday for turkeys or the women who cook them.'

'All those in doubt, raise your eyebrows.'

"Vegetables, vegetables, vegetables, welcome to my dystopian world!"

"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.'

"Not guilty?"

The first week of the brainstorming session went slowly.

'Tom will coordinate our pre-holiday point-of-purchase displays and Mark will coordinate our post holiday point-of-return displays.'

"Tia Carmen, if you had a bucket list, what would you put in it?"

New Year's Eve party for dogs

'Our guest tonight certainly needs no introduction.'

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.'

"Now that everyone's in...how do we get the food?"

Start the session by doing something unusual.

Thanksgiving: The holiday where aluminum foil is king!

Title page from 'The Scouring of the White Horse'.

The facilitator from hell.

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

'Do you have a traditional Christmas dinner, but for a lacto-vegan fruitarian?'

Tenafly International Film Festival

'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?'

Santa School.

Passover Plague

Today's seminar is going to be so much fun...

"How much longer are you going to be?"