This is for anyone who leads groups and wants more participation, connection and meaningful conversation.

You might be a facilitator, trainer, team leader, manager, educator, HR or L&D professional, consultant, coach or community builder.

You don’t need to call yourself a facilitator. If part of your role involves bringing people together and getting them involved, the Campfire Method can help.

Absolutely.

The book gives you the framework. This training gives you the opportunity to experience it, practise it and apply it to your own work.

You’ll work on a real session you’re planning, build your own Campfire Session Map and bring your own questions and challenges into the conversation.

This isn’t a five-hour summary of the book.

It’s a chance to make the method your own.

No.

The Campfire Method isn’t about collecting beginner icebreakers or adding more activities to your toolkit.

It’s about understanding how participation builds, how to diagnose where a group is and how to make intentional decisions about what to do next.

Experienced facilitators often have plenty of activities. What they don’t always have is a clear framework for knowing why, when and in what sequence to use them.

You’ll also have the opportunity to apply the method to a real challenge from your own work.

You’ll leave with your own Campfire Session Map, designed around a real workshop, meeting or group experience you’re planning.

You’ll also leave with a practical framework for reading your group, building participation gradually and adjusting when things aren’t working as expected.

Plus, you’ll receive access to my Connection Activities Database.

On Toronto Island. We meet at the Jack Layton Ferry Terminal at 8:30 AM and take the ferry over together (ticket is included in your ticket).

The island gives us trees, water, quiet, and a real campfire, all within a short walk of the dock.

Because the environment is part of the learning.

We’ll get outside, use natural materials, have conversations while walking, and step away from the usual workshop-room setup.

And yes, we’ll end around a real campfire.

The goal isn’t to turn this into a camping trip. It’s to create a different kind of learning environment and give us opportunities to experience the Campfire Method in ways that wouldn’t be possible sitting around a conference table.

Weather:

We’ll keep an eye on the forecast and have a backup plan.

The training will still happen. Depending on the weather, we’ll adapt the outdoor elements or move parts of the experience indoors or under cover.

I’ll send everyone the final details before the training, but expect to dress for the weather.

The book gives you the method. This experience helps you make it your own.

Reading about the Campfire Method is one thing.

Experiencing it with a group, practising the principles, applying them to your own work and getting the chance to bring your real questions into the room is something else.

This isn’t five hours of me reading the book back to you.

You’ll experience the method from the inside, understand why it works and leave with a plan for putting it into practice.

I’ll provide some snacks to keep us going during the training.

We’ll finish near a spot where anyone who wants can grab lunch together afterwards. Lunch isn’t included, so there’s no pressure to join, but it could be a nice way to keep the conversations going.

Please bring a water bottle and any other drinks you’d like to have during the day.

Your ticket includes the full 4.5-hour, small-group training with me.

We’ll work with a maximum of 12 participants so there is plenty of room to participate, practise, ask questions, and get to know the other people in the group.

I’ll also provide any materials you need for the activities.

If your plans change, let me know as soon as possible. You can transfer your spot to someone else at any time.