I’ll call her Lois.

She’s a literacy coordinator I’ve known for ages, and she keeps me on my tippy tippy toes, y’all. Lois is ex-military. She has a husband, two dogs, four children, a doctorate, and thirty years of hard fought public school teaching and leadership experience under her belt.

And that belt? Well, it carries a notch for every edu-charlatan who ever tried to sell a single drop of snake oil to any colleague in her system.

I love working with people like Lois.

And? They also terrify me.

“Angela,” she sighed heavily at the end of a particularly rigorous day of learning just last spring, “I have sat through dozens of keynote addresses, workshops, webinars, and PLC meetings. Actually, hundreds. I’m always checking email by the second slide, making my grocery list during the break-out sessions, and counting down the minutes until I can escape back to my classroom.”

I nodded and smiled, my stomach sinking a bit as I waited for her to drop whatever criticism was coming.

But she paused, looking almost surprised at herself. “Girl, today I actually forgot to check my phone. For three hours. Three hours!”

We can all relate to Lois, now can’t we?

“And you know what’s really wild?” she continued, “I have dedicated the last decade of my career to coaching teachers on how to keep kids engaged and make their learning stick. When it comes to doing the same for teachers, we don’t talk about this enough. It seems that boredom is just the price of admission. We’re supposed to suck it up.”

Here’s the question hovering below Lois’s revelations, and maybe you’ve asked it, too: Why do we demand engaging and authentic learning experiences for children but accept sit-and-get tedium for adults?

If you’re an instructional coach who designs professional learning for your building, you’ve felt this. You know how to teach kids. You’re good at it. But standing in front of your colleagues—people who have decades of experience, people who didn’t ask for your help, people who are checking their email by your second slide—that’s a different kind of hard.

If you’re a consultant who walks into systems you didn’t build, you’ve felt it too. They hired you because you know your stuff. And you do. But knowing your content and knowing how to move a room full of skeptical adults are two very different skills, and nobody taught you the second one.

If you’re an administrator who facilitates PLC meetings or leads professional learning days, you’ve felt the gap between what you want those sessions to be and what they actually are. You leave wondering whether anything you just did will survive Monday morning.

And here’s a sharp stone in your shoe: You can feel the difference between sessions where something real happened and sessions where people were just being polite. You know satisfaction and significance are not the same thing. You know those 5-star feedback forms might just be measuring whether people had a nice time or want to protect their relationship with you.

But, you want people to be more than merely nice to you. You want them to trust you. You want them to want to do hard things with you, too.

And you’re navigating this largely alone. There’s no course for this in your degree program. There’s no mentor pulling you aside to say, “Here’s what I’ve learned about reading a room, building trust with resistant participants, and designing learning that actually sticks.” The people around you are either too busy or facing the same questions you are.

this is why i built this course.

I know you don’t need another set of tips or tricks.

This is a cohort-based learning experience where you will build a facilitation practice rooted in intention—from how you assess needs before you ever enter a room, to how you measure real impact long after you leave it.

You’ll walk away with tools you can use immediately. But more importantly, you’ll walk away with a way of thinking about this work that changes how you show up in every professional learning space you enter. And you’ll leave with a community to lean on, too.

“I think taking the time to focus on my own learning rather than always teaching others was so powerful. I set aside time each week to learn and reflect upon my own practice. So often I’m rushing from one thing to another, and skimp on the reflection time. I realized in this program that is what I really need and Angela gave me many ways to do that.”

—Kristin Ziemke, Chicago, IL

Here’s What We’ll Work On Together

Session 1 — March 16: Your Ethical Vision We begin with the most critical element of intentional facilitation: who you are when you walk into a room. This session explores how your values drive not just what you do, but how you show up. We’ll work on developing your ethical framework, preparing mentally and emotionally for high-stakes facilitation, earning your place within organizational cultures, and the economics of deep work—charging what you’re worth so you can serve people responsibly and well.

Session 2 — March 23: Need-Finding Before we can facilitate effectively, we must become expert need-finders. This session focuses on the detective work that happens before and during professional learning—and how to pivot gracefully when your initial plans don’t match what people actually need. We’ll build pre-engagement frameworks, real-time assessment protocols, and responsive agendas that honor both your learning objectives and your learners.

Session 3 — March 30: In-Flight Facilitation This is the session about what happens when you’re in it—reading the room, adjusting energy, building feedback loops, managing complex group dynamics, and documenting learning as it unfolds. You’ll leave with protocols and strategies you can use the next time you’re on your feet in front of people who need you to be better than good.

Session 4 — April 20: Measuring What Matters What happens when the formal learning experience ends? This session tackles the question most facilitators avoid: How do you know if what you did actually worked? We’ll get beyond satisfaction surveys to measure genuine shifts in thinking, behavior, and practice—and build sustainable follow-up systems that don’t overwhelm you or your clients.

Session 5 — April 27: Working with Challenging Participants Even the most skilled facilitators encounter distrust, disengagement, and disrespect. This session provides frameworks for working with the hardest people in the room while protecting your boundaries, maintaining group safety, and—this is the part most people miss—preserving the relationship. We’ll also dig into self-care and sustainability practices, because this work will wear you down if you let it.

“Angela’s Intentional Facilitator workshop has improved my facilitation and training practice. She offers practical, immediately usable tools and protocols that can be applied across any setting. Whether I’m guiding new faculty, coaching leaders, or supporting teams in strengths-based development, I can apply what I learned.”

—Penny Kuckkahn, Director of Academic Resources and Engagement, Wisconsin

Everything That’s Included

Five 90-Minute Live Webinars The first sixty minutes of each session are dedicated to tangible tools and replicable practices. The last thirty minutes are framed as a fireside chat—bring your questions, your dilemmas, your “what would you do if…” scenarios. This time is for you. Choose the morning or evening session each week based on what works for your schedule. No need to pre-register.

The Intentional Facilitator Playbook This is the e-book I spent a year writing. It includes customizable design canvases, facilitation protocols, and tools and templates you can lift and drop directly into your own plans and programs. This isn’t a book you read and shelve. It’s a working document you’ll return to every time you design a new learning experience.

A 1:1 Coaching Hour with Me One full hour of personalized coaching and feedback—during the course or long after it ends—at a time that’s convenient for you. Bring a design you’re working on. Bring a challenge that’s keeping you stuck. Bring the participant who’s making you question your career. I’ll be there.

Sustained Virtual Support Voice notes, video replays, and optional provocations between sessions for those seeking ongoing learning. Plus an invitation to join a community of practice with fellow facilitators who get this work—because isolation is one of the biggest threats to your growth.

A Lifetime Invitation Join any future cohort at no additional cost. Your access to all print tools and resources is evergreen. This isn’t a transaction. It’s a professional home you can return to whenever you need it.

“The Intentional Facilitator course was an excellent opportunity to dig in deeply to the process of supporting the learning of others. It helped bring focus to the surrounding context of facilitating learning—systems, relationships, accessibility—and think through ways to design each component for maximum impact and flexibility.”

—Kennedy Schultz, Founder, NY

The Schedule

Monday Mornings or Evenings, Spring 2026: 3/16, 3/23, 3/30, 4/20, 4/27

Times: 7am EST (6 CST, 5 MST, 4 PST) or 7pm EST (6 CST, 5 MST, 4 PST) Choose the time that best meets your needs from week to week. You’ll have access to each recording until May 15, 2026 if you’re unable to join live.

This Is For You If…

You coach teachers and facilitate professional learning inside your school or district—and you want your sessions to be the ones people actually talk about afterward. Not because they were entertaining, but because something shifted.

You consult independently and you’re tired of relying on content expertise alone to carry you through facilitation challenges that require a completely different set of skills.

You lead from an administrative role and you want your PLC meetings and PD days to stop feeling like compliance exercises and start feeling like the professional learning you wish someone had designed for you.

You teach from the front of your classroom and would like to begin creating a learning environment where you can decenter yourself a bit more without compromising rigor or quality.

You’re early in your facilitation journey and you want to build your practice on a foundation that’s principled, practical, and informed by what actually works—not just what looks good on a slide.

You’re experienced and excellent—and you know that excellence requires continued investment in your own growth, not just everyone else’s.

“I would recommend any of Angela’s classes! As someone new to the work of professional facilitation, this course really helped me get my bearings before designing a new learning experience of my own.”

—Shaylin Montgomery, Teacher, Missouri

A Word About Me

I didn’t build this course from theory alone. I built it from twenty years of walking into rooms where people didn’t want to be, earning the trust of the Lois’s in (almost!) every system I’ve served, and learning—sometimes the hard way—that expertise without intentionality is just noise.

I’ve studied cognitive science, organizational psychology, systems thinking, and instructional design. I’ve observed master facilitators across industries. I’ve documented and experimented relentlessly with my own practice. And every partnership I’ve built over two decades has come from a referral—someone telling someone else, “You need to work with her. Not because she’s the smartest person in the room, but because she’ll make sure you are.”

I don’t have all the answers. But I have a deep toolkit, a community of brilliant practitioners, and a commitment to sharing what I’ve learned with people who take this work as seriously as I do.

“If you are seeking deeper understanding of the nuances of facilitation, professional development and supporting educators, this program will be a great addition to your learning. I deepened my understanding of how to design and engage with the educational audience by participating in this program. Highly recommend.”

—Heather Cowap, Education Consultant, NH

Intentional Pricing

This learning should be accessible to everyone, not only those with economic privilege. Our community-supported pricing model honors different financial realities while maintaining program quality. Choose your level through honest self-assessment. I trust your judgment. No verification needed, no explanation required. Scroll down to the bottom of this page to learn more.

Leadership Tier — $700 For administrators, consultants, business owners, and other leaders. Your investment at this level recognizes the weight of this intellectual property and true program costs while creating access for participants with constrained budgets.

Builder Tier — $500 For those with consistent earnings and month-to-month financial stability. A balanced option that honors the depth of this work and supports your full participation as well as program sustainability.

Seeker Tier — $250 For participants managing financial uncertainty, limited resources, or challenging economic conditions. This tier removes barriers for those who bring valuable perspectives but face monetary constraints.

Accessibility Grant — $0 If these options still present obstacles, accessibility grants provide additional pathways through a streamlined process and dignity-centered support. Contact me if you’d like to participate at no cost by donating your time or talent back to our community.

“I have consistently found Angela Stockman’s professional learning experiences to be impactful and thoughtfully designed. This professional learning experience is well worth the time and investment for anyone who facilitates professional learning.”

—Doreen Pietrantoni, Instructional Technology Specialist, NY

We Start March 16th.

The cohort is intentionally small. The work is deep. And the window is closing.

If you’ve been thinking about this—if something in these words felt like it was written for you—trust that instinct. This is the kind of investment that pays you back every single time you stand in front of a room full of people who deserve your best.

Questions? I’m here. Reach out anytime, and let’s talk about whether this is the right fit for you.

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