Future-Oriented Facilitation Studio

This CPD is an in-person, hands-on course. Participants will experience generative dialogue and emergent scenarios from a learner’s perspective, before unpacking what makes these techniques effective and practising how to facilitate them in their own teaching contexts.

The session kicks off with the concept of future orientation and the key ideas behind future-oriented facilitation. Participants explore how traditional approaches can underuse the rich experiences that adult learners bring, and how a future-oriented approach shifts the educator’s role from expert explainer to designer of sensemaking and knowledge-building conversations among learners. Participants will learn to recognise and apply concrete markers of generative dialogue and emergent scenarios. They will design their own emergent scenarios based on their own contexts, and practise facilitating generative dialogue that surfaces, stretches and transforms learners’ perspectives. Finally, they will explore the Lumina “buddy in your pocket” platform and use it to analyse a short facilitation segment that they conduct, gaining practical, data-informed insights to strengthen their future-oriented facilitation practice.

After the class, participants will use Lumina to generate a report of their first teaching session in which they have integrated future oriented techniques. They will meet with a coach to review this report and explore specific ways to strengthen their facilitation practice. Participants will carry out two more practice sessions, before a final coaching conversation to review their overall progress and consolidate key shifts in their practice.

Singapore’s TAE sector is expected to do more than deliver content; it must help working adults adapt, reskill and apply learning in fast-changing workplaces. At the same time, national commentary has consistently stressed the importance of training that draws on learners’ existing experience and connects more directly to real work. In this context, facilitation approaches that encourage meaningful dialogue, peer learning, collaborative sensemaking and problem-solving, actually mirroring how work is accomplished in real workplaces, are valuable. By bringing out these same behaviours through facilitation, adult educators move beyond teaching content to supporting learners in practising ways of learning, thinking, communicating and working that matter on the job. This CPD equips adult educators with future-oriented facilitation methods that meet these needs. Generative dialogue helps learners build understanding together, while emergent scenarios create learning conversations grounded in real workplace complexity.

Through their participation, learners strengthen capabilities that sit at the centre of work – communication, judgement, adaptability, and collaboration. With Lumina, adult educators have a resource that supports self-reflection on their facilitation practice, so they leave each lesson with evidence and recommendations, not hunches and hypotheses. Together, these features make the CPD highly relevant to adult educators, and address current training expectations and the shift toward skills-first, data-informed adult education.

^ Assessment: Formative Assessment(s), Assignments/Presentations/Practical Performances)

^ Completion: Upon 100% attendance and meeting Assessment requirement, learners will receive a Certificate of Completion from IAL (and other partners where applicable)