PeerNetBC Spring Series 2026: Foundations of Facilitation

What is a facilitator and what skills do we need to facilitate? This workshop will discuss what a facilitator’s role is in a group.

Curious about expanding your anti-oppressive and peer-based facilitation skills? Interested in learning within an intersectional and decolonial framework? Join us for 2 interactive, virtual workshops in March. 

Our workshops are small (capped at 15 participants) and involve peer-based learning, experiential activities, and group discussions.  We aim to accommodate a variety of access needs - see accessibility description below. Our workshops are interactive and are not webinar/presentation format.  If you are no longer able to attend a workshop, please let us know by emailing alexa@peernetbc.com so that we can let someone else in from the waitlist.

While this is a series of workshops, you do not need to attend each session. Each workshop may have a different time. Please make sure to register for each workshop topic so you can stay up to date on any related news or deliverables from that session.

1. This is a series of workshops but each workshop requires you to register separately. If you want to attend both workshops, please sign up for both.
2. Please note that we DO NOT record or send out our workshop sessions due to attendant confidentiality. Thank you!
3. We will follow up each session with an opportunity to provide feedback through a Google Form survey using the email you registered with.
4. For more information on our facilitators please go here.

About This Workshop: Foundations of Facilitation

What is a facilitator and what skills do we need to facilitate? This workshop will discuss what a facilitator’s role is in a group. Participants will explore foundational tools for facilitating and how to create safer, more supportive, and productive peer-led groups. This introductory workshop is open to folks with little or no facilitation experience as well as those with facilitation experience looking to brush up on their foundational skills and connect with peers.

Accessibility Description: Virtual

1. Sessions will be offered online using the Zoom platform. Please make sure you have the app or web-browser compatibility to use Zoom on your device.
2. If you need to access the workshop by phone, please let us know in your registration form.
3. We encourage you to attend to your access needs (e.g. eating, bathroom breaks, etc.) during the workshop. You are also welcome to use the chat box at any time instead of audio.
4. We will provide Zoom automated closed captioning.
5. ASL interpretation will be provided.
6. Sessions will be 2.5 hours long with a short break. You are welcome to keep your camera on or off, however some activities might involve more visual participation.
7. For more information and /or accessibility requests, please email Alexa, at alexa@peernetbc.com. We also welcome any feedback on our registration system!

Registration and Fees

To register for our workshop, we require you to reserve your seat for $5 dollars, but nobody is turned away for lack of funds. The price for our workshops is an optional additional suggested donation of $15-125 dollars, again, with nobody turned away for a lack of funds. Your donation and registration fee go toward Eventbrite fees, and our organization. Please see the Event description for more information.

No one will be turned away due to lack of funds! Please contact alexa@peernetbc.com if you cannot afford the reservation fee or if you have technical barriers in the registration process. We want to see you there, so please don’t hesitate to reach out. Please let us know if you will need an invoice for your registration.

Membership

PeerNetBC is seeking to expand our membership. To address this, membership is required in order to attend a PeerNetBC standard workshop.

As a member Of PeerNetBC, you will be invited to participate in our annual general meeting (AGM) and have the opportunity to support us in other ways. Please note that membership is renewed annually and all activities related to your membership are optional (you do not have to attend / do anything further with PeerNetBC). Member contributions are incredibly valuable to us, and we also acknowledge that membership is a construct with which we must comply within the nonprofit sector.

In addition, your membership supports PeerNetBC to continue to:

• Provide capacity-building workshops and consultations to peer-led initiatives across the province
• Engage with community to inform our organization’s work
• Provide low-cost or free programming for multi-marginalized individuals and communities
• Partner with and support grassroots groups, especially prioritizing those led by BIPOC and multi-marginalized folks

Membership Consent Question Terms & Conditions

In order to attend any PeerNetBC workshop, event, or training we now require you to sign up as a member of PeerNetBC. When you become a member at PeerNetBC, you will be invited to participate in our annual general meeting and have the opportunity to support us in other ways. This is incredibly valuable to us, and we definitely appreciate your membership. We also acknowledge that membership is a construct in which we must comply with in the non-profit sector.