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Hi, I'm Gwyn Wansbrough👋

I am an online facilitator and experience designer who has spent 1000s of hours on Zoom. I help online professionals design and lead instantly engaging live online sessions. ✍️In my newsletter The Quest, you'll get expertly curated tips, insights, and resources that you can use straight away to make your live sessions ✨energizing✨ (and not exhausting). Questions? Let's connect!

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🎙️ My Favorite Facilitation Podcasts

Hey Reader, Welcome to week 3 of our 5-week Go-To Resource series 🎉 Whether you’re leading team meetings, online courses, group coaching sessions, or training, you'll find loads of gems that will spark fresh ideas and inspire your work with groups. So far I've shared: Week 1: 📚10 Brilliant Books for Bolder Live Sessions Week 2: 🧰 10 Free Toolkits I Can't Live Without This week: 🎙️ My 10 favourite facilitation podcasts, the first episodes I'd recommend from each one, plus a Spotify playlist...

Hey Reader, Most people are using AI to create content faster. But what if we used it to make our sessions better? That’s the question at the heart of this "April AI Mini-Quest"—exploring how facilitators, trainers, and course creators can use AI to increase impact (not just speed things up). This week, I’m sharing my biggest takeaways from a conversation with expert facilitator and AI experimenter Spud Marshall—whose work completely changed how I think about using AI in live sessions. We dug...

Hello friends, Greetings from Barcelona.☀️ 🙌Many thanks for reading The Quest, your weekly round-up of tips and insights to help you design and lead exceptional online sessions that your group members will love.❤️ If you were forwarded this email, you can subscribe and receive The Quest straight to your inbox every Monday👇 Sign me up! Let's jump right in. 🤔"What's in it for me?" This is not just a passing thought. It's the #1 question on your audience's mind when they join your live session....

Hello friends, Greetings from Barcelona.☀️ 🙌Many thanks for reading The Quest, your weekly round-up of tips and insights to help you design and lead exceptional online sessions that your group members will love.❤️ If you were forwarded this email, you can subscribe and receive The Quest straight to your inbox every Monday👇 Sign me up! 🔥How You Can Take Your Closings from Good to Unforgettable? There is so much to say about closings I've made this a two-part series. In case you missed it, last...

Hello friends, Greetings from Barcelona.☀️ 🙌Many thanks for reading The Quest, your weekly round-up of tips and insights to help you design and lead exceptional online sessions that your group members will love.❤️ If you were forwarded this email, you can subscribe and receive The Quest straight to your inbox every Monday👇 Sign me up! 🔥How You Can Take Your Closings from Good to Unforgettable There is so much to say about closings I've decided to make this a two-part series. 💪 Today: The...

Hello friends, Greetings from Barcelona.☀️ 🙌Many thanks for reading The Quest, your weekly round-up of tips and insights to help you design and lead exceptional online sessions that your group members will love.❤️ If you were forwarded this email, you can subscribe and receive The Quest straight to your inbox every Monday👇 Sign me up! Let's jump right in. 🤝How can you bridge differences when finding commonalities seems impossible? I know I'm not the only one who has been feeling a mix of...

Hello friends, Greetings from Barcelona.☀️ 🙌Many thanks for reading The Quest, your weekly round-up of tips and insights to help you design and lead exceptional online sessions that your group members will love.❤️ If you were forwarded this email, you can subscribe and receive The Quest straight to your inbox every Monday👇 Sign me up! Let's jump right in. Here's one of the greatest paradoxes of facilitation: You don't notice when it's happening. But you do notice when it's missing. 🔎 Let me...

Hello friends, Greetings from Barcelona.☀️ 🙌Many thanks for reading The Quest, your weekly round-up of tips and insights to help you design and lead exceptional online sessions that your group members will love.❤️ If you were forwarded this email, you can subscribe and receive The Quest straight to your inbox every Monday👇 Sign me up! Let's jump right in. So it's time to start the group discussion in your session. 😃 You launch your first question to get the conversation rolling. Someone...

Hello friends, Greetings from Barcelona.☀️ 🙌Many thanks for reading The Quest, your weekly round-up of tips and insights to help you design and lead exceptional online sessions that your group members will love.❤️ If you were forwarded this email, you can subscribe and receive The Quest straight to your inbox every Monday👇 Sign me up! How do you flip facilitation failures into learning? Let's jump right in. As soon as I pressed "end meeting" I felt my heart sink. I had prepared for days. I...

Hello friends, Greetings from Barcelona.☀️ 🙌Many thanks for reading The Quest, your weekly round-up of tips and insights to help you design and lead exceptional online sessions that your group members will love.❤️ If you were forwarded this email, you can subscribe and receive The Quest straight to your inbox every Monday👇 Sign me up! Was it just me or did anyone else jump on the AI bandwagon back in January? Most of the initial hype focused on how to use AI to research and write. To create...