The Deeper, Funner Facilitation Cookbook : Keep Them on the Edge of Their Seats and Propel Real Change

An insight-filled, easy-to-use how-to for people looking to design and deliver engaging sessions that drive results: training and Human Resource professionals, CEOs and team leaders, and anyone else who facilitates and presents. This "cookbook" draws on years of experience using non-traditional approaches - improv, story telling, in-the-moment experiences, images, metaphors and more - to harness the full energies of a group of participants. The seven basic "recipes" provide fresh, smart, unexpected ways to make facilitated sessions (and their design) more collaborative, impactful and even more fun. Includes practical tips and pitfalls to avoid, as well as real-life examples from small creative firms to Fortune 500 clients. For facilitators serious about expanding their toolkit: get out your mini blow torch!

Julie Huffaker is a cultural anthropologist with an MBA - a relentlessly curious entrepreneur and consultant in the field of communication, leadership skill-building and organization change. She is a partner in boutique international consultancy On Your Feet, where she and her colleagues use highly experiential methods - including improvisation - with clients including Nike, Intel, DreamWorks, Disney, GE and others. A Morehead Scholar with the University of North Carolina and a Carnegie Fellow at Portland State University, Julie is also an avid traveler and a humble yoga practitioner. For more information about Julie or On Your Feet: www(dot)oyf(dot)com.

Gary Hirsch, lllustrator. Gary is the other co-founder of On Your Feet. He is also an accomplished improviser, wannabe marine biologist, and voracious /artist/illustrator/doodler. Gary has been teaching and performing professional improv for seventeen years, and is the founder of Super Project Lab: a long-form improv group based in Portland Oregon. His public art commissions can be seen in Portland, Dallas, and Melbourne Australia. He is the founder of Doodle House which features his illustrations and wearable art.

Gary's improv clients include GE, Nike, The North Face, Disney, P&G and others. He teaches at Wieden + Kennedy Advertising's experimental advertising grad school 12. He has just completed illustrating his first children's book called Dare. Gary lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, two children, and two hyper King Charles Cavaliers.