Advanced Facilitation Training 2025
Take your facilitation skills from ordinary to extraordinary through hands-on practice, quality feedback, and powerful new tools.
Join 10 experienced trainers in a 2-day immersive training experience about facilitation tailored for YOU.
- November 2025 in Zagreb or August 2025 in Amsterdam -
Are you a trainer who feels your facilitation can be improved?
Always on the lookout for new creative ideas and tools to get more effective in your facilitation?
Would feedback on your facilitation skills push you to that next level?
Facilitation takes your workshop from a simple lecture to a powerful, transformative learning experience.
It enables you to deliver learning experiences that are deeper & more engaging, creates stronger participation from the learners’ side, and makes you more flexible and adaptable to the needs & preferences of the group.
Without strong facilitation skills, you risk either talking at the group too much, without engaging them deeply and actively – or losing control of the conversation and missing the opportunity to create meaningful insights.
But facilitation is also one of the most challenging skills for a trainer to develop!
While there are clear principles, often it feels more like an art than science.
You don’t learn this skill from books – you need practice!
The Advanced Facilitation Training is your chance to dive in.
Join us for two immersive days to take your facilitation from ordinary to extraordinary – with hands-on practice, valuable feedback, fresh tools, and plenty of new ideas, tips & inspiration.
See you in November 2025 in Zagreb? Or in Amsterdam in August 2025?
Why Advanced Facilitation Training?
The Advanced Facilitation Training is designed to give you the tools, feedback, and real-world experience to elevate your facilitation skills.
Here’s what will happen when you join:
➤ Receive actionable feedback on your facilitation style
Get personalized feedback from experienced trainers to refine your skills and recognize any blindspots.
➤ Practice key aspects of facilitation
Strengthen essential skills like asking powerful questions, converging conversations to deeper insights, and diverging them into more open and more creative discussions.
➤ Discover new creative tools and techniques
Gain hands-on experience with diverse facilitation tools, approaches, and techniques to bring more creativity and engagement into your workshops & conversations.
➤ Build confidence in your facilitation skills
Expand your ability to manage diverse situations and challenges, staying adaptable and confident even in unpredictable situations.
➤ Networking and collaboration with other trainers & facilitators
Meet like-minded trainers, share insights, and discuss best practices, forming connections that last long after the training ends. Seeing their authentic styles, you will also get new ideas on how to approach facilitation.
➤ Customized learning experience
Learn through a program shaped around your unique needs, goals, and preferences. Prior to the training, you’ll share your focus areas and learning objectives in a needs analysis, and the program (as well as custom individual tasks) will be tailored accordingly, putting your priorities in focus.
Whether you’re sharpening existing skills or taking on new facilitation challenges, this training will leave you with practical tools and strategies you can implement right away.
How do previous participants see it?
While 2024 marks the first year when we are introducing the Advanced Facilitation Training, here’s what our alumni have to say about similar programs on Trainers Toolbox:
- “This training goes beyond learning new skills; it’s a space of autonomy and accountability where every detail is designed to empower adult learning.”
– Irina Hagiu, Business Practice Manager & Trainer, Romania - “I gained great insights into creating meaningful workshops and learned ways to support myself as a trainer. This training is perfect for anyone interested in science-based, engaging approaches to teaching.”
– Maja Zivanovic, Personal Development Trainer, Croatia - “This program offered a rare opportunity to explore facilitation in depth with like-minded people. I walked away with new perspectives and methods that have changed my approach to training.”
– Max Willie Georgi, Pharmacist & Trainer, Germany
Ready to take the next step toward facilitation mastery? Join this group of trainers to gain the tools for impactful, engaging workshops & conversations.
How does the Advanced Facilitation Training work?
At the Advanced Facilitation Training, you won’t just sit and listen—you’ll be in action.
You will step into the role of the facilitator, delivering a session on a key facilitation topic and receiving rich, personalized feedback.
Every Advanced Facilitation Training is different, as it is hugely co-created by trainers & facilitators who join.
It is adapted to your specific needs and goals through a series of meaningful, custom-designed challenges and exercises.
Alongside learning from diverse facilitation sessions delivered by other facilitators in the group, you’ll also participate in sessions facilitated by me (Mirna).
Throughout the training, you’ll practice your facilitation skills and experiment with innovative tools and techniques to elevate your sessions.
The whole course will be enriched with many discussions and exchanges on the best tools and practices.
All about this advanced, hands-on experience is designed to push your skills to the next level.
Sign up early – as the program is custom-built with chosen topics, preparation tasks, and exercises specifically for those who join, early sign ups give us time to create a highly personalized experience.
Signups will be open until exactly one month before the training live days.
Key topics covered
Here are some of the core areas we’ll explore:
(This list of the exact topics will be finalized after all participants have signed up, as the topics will be prioritized according to your needs and preferences):
- The art of asking powerful questions: Develop your ability to ask questions that spark deep thinking, navigate the discussion ahead, and keep participants engaged
- Exploring facilitation dimensions: Dive into key facilitation aspects, such as pace, individual vs. group focus, and goal vs. process orientation, and you will open up a whole new perspective on facilitation
- Balancing divergent and convergent sides of conversation: Master the art of encouraging broad, creative discussions, while guiding conversations toward clear conclusions
- Building self-awareness and reflecting on your style: Explore and keep developing your unique facilitation style
- Deepening participation and ownership: Learn tips & tools to foster deeper engagement and active involvement from participants
- Quick immersion in top facilitation books: Get condensed insights from the best facilitation books to expand your theoretical foundation
- Using physical space to enhance facilitation: Discover how to use spatial factors to support facilitation process that you designed
- Practical tips for visuals in facilitation: Learn how to effectively incorporate visuals to support the discussion or the learning experience
- Using voice and body language as facilitation tools: Turn your voice and body language into powerful tools to navigate the discussion
Sounds like the right type of experience for you?
Sign up now, and take your facilitation skills to the next level!
Who is Advanced Facilitation Training for?
This training is for you if you are a trainer who wishes to be stronger in facilitation within your workshops, or a facilitator who wishes to receive extensive feedback, discover new tools, strengthen your confidence, and build up you skills.
It is a training that works both if you recently graduated from Train the Trainer or 20 years into your career!
Still, we could say that the ideal time to attend is 1-3 years after finishing the Train the Trainer (or starting your career as a trainer or facilitator), as that would give you enough time to gain experience, but it would also speed up the toughest part of your learning curve.
The prerequisite for attending this course is to have finished Train the Trainer or to have at least a couple of years of experience as a trainer or facilitator to ensure all participants have a similar understanding of the learning process.
(Not exactly you, but you would still like to join? Contact us to discuss if this program is the right fit for you).
Logistics and practical details
Dates
August 2025 in Amsterdam: 2 full live days 21st-22nd of August (+ evening 2h virtual module 2 weeks before)
November 2025 in Zagreb: 2 full live days 27th-28th of November (+ evening 2h virtual module 2 weeks before)
Location
Amsterdam in August 2025 & Zagreb in November 2025.
Future locations depend on the preference of interested participants – so do get in touch and share your preference!
Fee / investment
Regular Price: 1,350 € for applications received by 21st of July for Amsterdam (or 27th of October for Zagreb)
Early Bird: 1,250 € for applications received by 21st of May 2025 for Amsterdam (or 27th of August for Zagreb)
Super Early Bird: 1,080 € for applications received by 21st of March 2025 for Amsterdam (or 27th of June for Zagreb)
Discounts: A 10% discount is available for alumni of Train the Trainer, other Advanced Bootcamps, or members of Trainers’ Conversations.
What’s Included:
- 2h virtual module
- 2 full days of live training in Zagreb/Amsterdam (including materials, training room & coffee breaks, but not accommodation nor lunches) in a small group of up to 10 participants
- working in a small group of 10 attendees
- engaging and highly interactive program, with a lot of practical exercises, reflection and discussion, and all the program materials
- highly customised according to the attendees’ needs, experiences, and learning goal, including customized tasks to which you will get feedback from peer trainers
Contact us to explore if this is the right program for you – or to share your preference on future locations.
If you need help with planning the travel to Zagreb, or any questions related to logistics, don’t be shy to reach out via contact form or signup form.
About the trainer - Mirna Šmidt
Mirna Šmidt brings 17 years of hands-on training experience and a strong foundation in psychology and adult learning. With an MSc in Engineering & Computing from the University of Zagreb and an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology from Cambridge, she combines scientific insight with practical experience to create memorable, goal-driven learning experiences.
Since completing a one-year Train the Trainer program in 2008, she has refined her expertise across diverse fields, including NLP, coaching, and brain-based learning.
Mirna has delivered programs in over 30 countries for NGOs, startups, and corporations like Cisco, L’Oreal, and Molson Coors, engaging participants from more than 50 nations and leading workshops at global conferences like HR Week and Women in Data Science.
As the founder of Trainers Toolbox and Happiness Academy, she focuses on advanced facilitation, positive psychology, and empowering trainers to design impactful learning environments.
What do participants say?
“I loved being part of Train the Trainer Advanced co-creation. This is more than a training. More than a personal grow, more than learning new things. It is a place where you connect on value’s level, under Mirna’s magical conceptual design for the training, with like-minded people with and from whom you are learning. It is a learning by doing, where no detail is misplaced. It is a way of practicing of “this is how adults learn”. It is a space of autonomy and accountability. It is a place of beauty and structure.”
Irina Hagiu, Trade Finance Business Practice Manager and a Trainer, Romania
“Train the Trainer Advanced gave me great insights into what is possible when you want to create meaningful and fluent workshops. It inspires me everytime to be around people that share the same passion for education but in different niches. This Train the Trainer gave me opportunity to learn a lot more about what can I give as a trainer but also how to support myself in the process.
I would reccomend this to all interested in science based, engaging, fun and supportive ways od teaching and training others.”
Maja Zivanovic, trainer for horses & personal development with horses, Croatia
“Train the Trainer Advanced is a great opportunity to get in touch with other Trainers. Throughout the event I was able to share and gain experience with the other participants, while exploring new aspects within the world of training and facilitation.“
Max Willie Georgi, Pharmacist & Trainer, Germany
“I would highly recommend the Train the Trainer Advanced program to anyone who has already enjoyed the fundamental trainer education and really wants to deepen their knowlegde, gain more experience and appreciate a safe space to grow and develop as a trainer/educator. I loved that we could shape the events according to our wishes and needs.
As with the first Train the Trainer, Mirna created a warm, energetic atmosphere and a lasting learning experience.“
Chiara Zeroni, psychologist, Germany
“I would always recommend Mirna’s trainings for trainers! Train the Trainer Advanced is my fourth training with Mirna (after Train the Trainer, Keys to Virtual Training and Brain-Based Learning) and every time I am still learning and re-learning about trainer methodology, myself and life. Thank you for that, Mirna!“
Marija Malkoc Kust, scrum master & agile trainer, Croatia
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
The Advanced Facilitation Training is designed for trainers and facilitators with foundational experience who want to take their facilitation skills to the next level. This program is ideal for Trainers Toolbox alumni or Train the Trainer graduates from similar programs with 1-3 years of experience. Contact us if you’re unsure of your fit!
While we welcome beginners, the training is best suited for those with some experience who want to deepen their skills. Reach out if you’d like guidance on whether this is the right next step for you.
The fee includes:
- A 2-hour virtual module to set the foundation
- 2 full days of live training in Zagreb or Amsterdam in 2025, including materials, training room, and coffee breaks (lunch not included)
- Customized tasks and personalized feedback in a small group of up to 10 participants
Once you invest in the program, refunds are not available as the training is customized for each participant. If you’re unable to attend, we encourage you to find someone else to take your place and notify us. Join only if you’re fully committed to active participation, as your engagement greatly benefits both you and the group.
Yes, flexible payment options are available. Contact us to discuss installment options or other payment arrangements.
We’re open to future locations based on participant interest. Let us know where you’d like to attend!
Absolutely! We’re here to help with travel logistics, accommodation recommendations, and any other questions you might have.
Still have questions? You can get in touch via the signup or contact form and let us know how we can help!
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