Ordinary Presenter to Extraordinary Facilitator

For Professionals Ready to Master the Craft of Leading the Room

If you already lead rooms and know your sessions are not consistently powerful, you may be hitting a professional ceiling, “good” is no longer enough.

The Advanced Facilitator Training (AFT) experience begins with two live virtual sessions on April 28 and May 5 at 3PM EST, followed by an immersive in-person training May 11–14 in Grand Rapids, MI. You will refine how you command attention, navigate dynamics, and create measurable impact without relying on slides, scripts, or performance, so your message doesn’t just land, it creates real change.

Limited to a small cohort to ensure individualized feedback and real-time facilitation coaching. Enrollment closes once the cohort reaches capacity.

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AFT is designed for presenters, educators, trainers, and facilitators who:

Regularly lead meetings, workshops, classes, or trainings
Know their content but sometimes doubt their delivery
Depend on slides or notes more than they want to
Feel the room go flat and are unsure how to pull it back
Want to create sessions people remember, not just attend

Program Details

Location: Grand Rapids, MI

Format: Virtual + In-Person

Key Dates & Times:

Virtual Sessions: April 28 & May 5 (3-4 PM EST)
In-Person Immersion: May 12–14 (8 AM start / 4 PM end)

Investment: $2,655

Audience: Facilitators, presenters, educators, trainers, and leaders who guide groups

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Limited seats available.

From Frustration to Facilitation Mastery

You don’t need more content, you need the ability to lead the room with presence and authority.

The Problem Presenters Face

What AFT Helps You Do

Lead with visible executive presence and composure.

The room feels disengaged or resistant.

Engage even the most resistant participants.

Attendees sit back with crossed arms or scroll their phones.

Replace self-doubt with grounded confidence.

You second-guess yourself mid-session or mid-sentence.

Lead without relying on slides or scripts.

You feel stuck to your slides, script, or podium.

Turn flat moments into meaningful learning experiences.

Your sessions don’t create the results you expected.

Facilitate powerful conversations that invite change.

You end up talking at people instead of leading them.

AFT develops facilitators who influence rooms, not just present to them.

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What You'll Walk Away With

By the end of this experience, you will:

Show up as a composed, steady leader in any room
Engage participants from the very beginning
Navigate difficult dynamics without losing momentum
Design sessions that drive participation and clarity
Facilitate conversations that create measurable change

You will not just deliver information. You will lead transformational experiences.

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How We Build Mastery

Extraordinary facilitation is built on five integrated disciplines:

Presence and Self Awareness: Understand how you show up and how it impacts the room.
Confidence and Inner Authority: Trust your voice, expertise, and leadership under pressure.
Facilitation and Communication Skills: Create dialogue, flow, and meaningful engagement.
Instructional Design: Design experiences that move people from insight to action.
Applied Mastery: Practice live with structured expert feedback.

Arrive with your real workshop, training, lesson, or presentation and apply every principle directly to your own material, leaving with a refined and elevated version of what you already teach.

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Our Process: The 4 P’s

You will move through a four-part learning experience intentionally designed for real-world application and lasting skill development.

01

Preparation

Complete focused pre-work that sharpens your awareness and prepares you to maximize the in-person training.

02

Participation

Learn directly from master facilitators as they model high-level techniques and break down the decisions behind their delivery.

03

Practice

Apply what you learn in live, guided facilitation sessions with real-time feedback that accelerates growth.

04

Peer Learning

Refine your craft alongside other professionals, gaining insight, perspective, and accountability that extends beyond the program.

This process ensures you don’t just understand facilitation. You embody it.

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Proven Results Across Settings

Participants conistently report:

✓ Career advancement

✓ Expanded leadership opportunities

✓ Requests to return to facilitate again

✓ Increased engagement and participation

✓ Improved feedback and facilitation outcomes

This training doesn't just improve delivery. It elevates leadership.

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Meet the Trainers

David VanderMolen

Drawing on decades of hands-on expertise, David is passionate about transforming lives through an artful form of facilitation that unlocks deeper growth and connection. Known as a teacher's teacher, David excels at elevating the confidence and capabilities of trainers, facilitators, and leaders, equipping them to guide others with greater impact and authenticity.

“I can testify that David creates truly transformational instruction. David weaves content and process brilliantly, engaging learners of all styles at many levels with a beautifully intentional plan for bringing out their best selves. At the same time, his designs comprehensively prepare trainers for deeply personal presentations with professionalism and style. I wholeheartedly endorse David's course and training creation genius!”

- Christopher (Kit) Tennis, Ph.D, DEI Consultant for Belonging Engagement and Innovation

Sarah Weisbarth

Sarah is a seasoned facilitator, trainer, and coach with extensive experience developing facilitators across diverse organizations nationwide and abroad. She specializes in teaching the core skills of presence, listening, empathy, and instructional agility that empower facilitators to lead with confidence and create meaningful learning experiences. Known for her authentic connection and intuitive teaching style, Sarah helps individuals and teams grow through purposeful, transformational facilitation.

“Her passion for facilitation and training, paired with her confidence, competence, and professionalism, puts Sarah in the 'we must hire her for our organization' category. Your group will be better equipped to collaborate and reach your goals. Hiring Sarah will provide an ROI across the board for your organization.”

- Molly Kennedy, MA, Keynote speaker, author, educator

Lisa Tarkington

Lisa brings a blend of corporate, nonprofit, business and entrepreneurial experience to her work as a facilitator, coach and keynote speaker. A three-time business owner and Associate Certified Coach through ICF, Lisa is known for her energy, presence, reliability and how she helps individuals transform. She helps facilitators and leaders build confidence from the inside out so they stop performing, start trusting themselves, and lead others with clarity, connection, and purpose.

“Lisa's presentation about leadership gave me actionable items to accomplish. A lot of speakers will talk about buzzwords, but it's hard to get takeaways, but with Lisa's approach and using her strategies, our group was able to set a 30-day plan on some items we needed to address right away.”

- Clarissa Lange, Director of Sales, DoubleTree by Hilton Bay City-Riverfront