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SUMMARY:Become an Effective Facilitator!
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our WASHRM Monthly Chapter Meeting!\n\nMembers are FREE and guests are only $25.00!\n\n\n\nOctober 22\, 2025\n\n8:00 AM - 10:30 AM\n\n\n\nThe George Washington Hotel\n\n103 E. Piccadilly Street\n\nWinchester\, VA 22601\n\n\n\n8a-8:45a Registration\, Breakfast\, and Networking\n\n8:45a-9:30a WASHRM Business Meeting\n\n9:30a-10:30a Presentation\n\n \nFeatured Speaker: \n\nLorne Epstein\n\nBecome an effective facilitator\n\nThis interactive\, experiential workshop prepares participants to become confident and effective facilitators of group learning\, team meetings\, and professional development sessions. Whether you're leading a workshop\, training session\, or internal team dialogue\, facilitation skills are essential for engaging groups\, managing dynamics\, and driving meaningful outcomes.\n\nParticipants will explore the core competencies of effective facilitation\, setting a purpose\, asking powerful questions\, guiding the group process\, and maintaining neutrality. The workshop emphasizes practical tools and frameworks\, drawn from adult learning theory and group dynamics\, that participants can immediately apply to their roles.\n\nThe session includes hands-on practice\, where participants will design and facilitate short segments\, receive real-time coaching\, and develop the confidence to facilitate with clarity\, presence\, and adaptability in various settings.\n\nAbout Lorne:\n\nLorne Epstein\, SHRM-SCP\, MSOD\, is a social scientist\, keynote\, and Vistage speaker who consults with senior leaders on methods to improve the ROI of decision-making by reducing biases. Over 50\,000 professionals have taken his workshops worldwide. He has been quoted in Forbes\, Cosmopolitan\, Christian Science Monitor\, and other publications.\n\nHis research focuses on improving decision-making and reducing the impacts of unconscious bias in the workplace. Lorne has been leading experiential workshops since 1993. His book\, You're Hired! Interview Skills to Get the Job has been downloaded over a half-million times worldwide. Lorne is currently studying cognitive neuroscience at the master's level at George Mason University. He was admitted to the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and Psi Chi\, The National Honor Society of Psychology.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<span style="font-family:arial\,helvetica\,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Please join us for our WASHRM Monthly Chapter Meeting!<br />\nMembers are FREE and guests are only $25.00!</span></span><br />\n<br />\n<strong><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:arial\,helvetica\,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(13\, 13\, 13)">October 22\, 2025</span><br />\n<span style="color:rgb(13\, 13\, 13)">8:00 AM - 10:30 AM</span><br />\n<br />\n<span style="color:rgb(13\, 13\, 13)">The George Washington Hotel</span><br />\n<span style="color:rgb(13\, 13\, 13)">103 E. Piccadilly Street</span><br />\n<span style="color:rgb(13\, 13\, 13)">Winchester\, VA 22601</span><br />\n<br />\n8a-8:45a Registration\, Breakfast\, and Networking<br />\n8:45a-9:30a WASHRM Business Meeting<br />\n9:30a-10:30a Presentation</span></span></strong><br />\n&nbsp\;\n<p><span style="font-family:inherit\; font-size:18pt"><strong>Featured Speaker:&nbsp\;</strong></span></p>\n\n<p><span style="color:rgb(53\, 152\, 219)\; font-family:georgia\,palatino\,serif\; font-size:36pt"><em><strong>Lorne Epstein</strong></em></span><br />\n<em style="color:rgb(53\, 152\, 219)\; font-family:georgia\,palatino\,serif\; font-size:24pt">Become an effective facilitator</em></p>\n\n<p><em><span style="font-family:georgia\,palatino\,serif">This interactive\, experiential workshop prepares participants to become confident and effective facilitators of group learning\, team meetings\, and professional development sessions. Whether you&rsquo\;re leading a workshop\, training session\, or internal team dialogue\, facilitation skills are essential for engaging groups\, managing dynamics\, and driving meaningful outcomes.</span></em></p>\n\n<p><span style="font-family:georgia\,palatino\,serif">Participants will explore the core competencies of effective facilitation\, setting a purpose\, asking powerful questions\, guiding the group process\, and maintaining neutrality. The workshop emphasizes practical tools and frameworks\, drawn from adult learning theory and group dynamics\, that participants can immediately apply to their roles.</span></p>\n\n<p><span style="font-family:georgia\,palatino\,serif">The session includes hands-on practice\, where participants will design and facilitate short segments\, receive real-time coaching\, and develop the confidence to facilitate with clarity\, presence\, and adaptability in various settings.</span></p>\n\n<h2><span style="color:rgb(53\, 152\, 219)\; font-family:georgia\,palatino\,serif\; font-size:27px"><em>About Lorne:</em></span></h2>\n\n<p><span style="font-family:georgia\,palatino\,serif">Lorne Epstein\, SHRM-SCP\, MSOD\, is a social scientist\, keynote\, and Vistage speaker who consults with senior leaders on methods to improve the ROI of decision-making by reducing biases. Over 50\,000 professionals have taken his workshops worldwide. He has been quoted in Forbes\, Cosmopolitan\, Christian Science Monitor\, and other publications.</span></p>\n\n<p><span style="font-family:georgia\,palatino\,serif">His research focuses on improving decision-making and reducing the impacts of unconscious bias in the workplace. Lorne has been leading experiential workshops since 1993. His book\, You&#39\;re Hired! Interview Skills to Get the Job has been downloaded over a half-million times worldwide. Lorne is currently studying cognitive neuroscience at the master&rsquo\;s level at George Mason University. He was admitted to the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and Psi Chi\, The National Honor Society of Psychology.</span></p>\n
LOCATION:The George Washington Hotel 103 E. Piccadilly Street Winchester\, VA 22601
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