Stretching Your Practice
Tools and Techniques to Enhance Your Action Learning Outcomes
Are you ready to take your facilitation skills to the next level? If you’ve already learned the principles, processes, and skills of Action Learning, this follow-on course is designed to help you expand your range of interventions while staying true to the core Action Learning philosophy.
Why join this course?
The Stretching Your Practice course offers practical tools and techniques to keep your sessions fresh, dynamic, and impactful. Through hands-on practice and guided debriefs with an experienced trainer, you’ll build confidence in flexing your approach and discover new ways to support your sets.
What you’ll gain:
Firsthand experience of a variety of tools and techniques — and when to use them.
- Creative ways to incorporate pictures and images.
- Innovative uses for post-it notes to enhance group engagement.
- Master the magic of metaphors to deepen reflection and insight.
- And much more!
Who is it for?
Stretching Your Practice is for newly trained or experienced Action Learning facilitators who want to broaden their toolkit and refresh the practical skills they bring to their Sets. Across four online sessions you will learn and try out a range of tools and techniques that support deeper reflection, smoother rounds and more confident facilitation. You will practise using these approaches in real time, receive feedback, and explore how to apply them in your own facilitation. The course strengthens what you already do well and adds new methods you can take straight back into your work.
Course Description
Stretching Your Practice is designed for facilitators who already understand the foundations of Action Learning and want to extend their repertoire. The focus of the programme is practical: you will work with a variety of tools and techniques that can support stronger questioning, clearer exploration and more effective group process.
Across four online sessions, you will:
- Learn a variety of tools and techniques designed to support reflective questioning
- Apply these tools in timed facilitation rounds
- Take part in debriefs that focus on what each tool offers, when it’s most useful and how to introduce it simply and confidently.
- Consider variations and adaptations that suit different groups and contexts
- Build confidence through practice and application
- Clarify how to bring these tools into your own Sets without losing the core principles of Action Learning
The programme blends live practice, structured reflection and brief inputs to give you a clear sense of how and when to use different techniques. It is a chance to widen your repertoire, refine the skills you already have and leave with practical approaches you can immediately apply.
By the end of the course you will:
- Have a wider set of facilitation tools
- Greater confidence in choosing and introducing techniques
- A clearer understanding of how these approaches can help your Sets at different stages of the
- Earn ICF Continuing Coach Education (CCE) 6 Core Competence & 2 Resource Development units
Course Structure
The course runs over two weeks.
Session 1 takes place in week one and 2.5 hours. It includes the welcome, course overview, introductions and an introduction to the tools.
Session 2 also takes place in week one. It focuses on two full practice rounds with debriefs and time to draw out the learning.
Session 3 takes place in week two and offers three further practice rounds with debriefs to build confidence and familiarity with the tools.
Session 4 also in week two, includes one final practice round, a short exploration of wider applications of Action Learning, and a closing reflection to consolidate what you are taking away.
Sessions 2-4 all 3hr 15 mins
All sessions recorded and supported by additional video and written content
Payment Options
We offer two pricing routes across all of our products and courses.
• The Standard Price applies when booking through our online checkout
• The Reduced Admin Price is available when choosing our invoice option, which reflects the lower administrative and processing costs involved. Invoices are settled by bank transfer
Course Dates 2026
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Course Size: Limited to 5-6 participants to ensure a high-quality, interactive experience.
ICF Accreditation: CCE units – 6 Core Competence & 2 Resource Development points
Certificate on completion.
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Ready to stretch your facilitation skills and breathe new life into your Action Learning practice?
Join us for the next course and discover fresh approaches to deepen your impact.
“I thoroughly enjoyed the Stretching Your Practice course. The training was rich and powerful. Before taking this course, I felt comfortable with the basics, and this course has moved me on in a big way. It’s not only given me more confidence to use different tools and techniques, but it’s also really helped me to be clear about when to use them and how to introduce them.”
Rose Gardner,
Facilitator, Birmingham
