Facilitator Development Workshop (FDW)
Upcoming Dates:
November 16-20, 2026, each day from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm Pacific time zone
Location: Online on Zoom with asynchronous support and materials through a learning management system
If you have completed an Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW), then you may be interested in becoming a facilitator and offer ISWs at your institution or organization. To become a facilitator, your institution or organization must support your pursuit of the FDW and you will become part of the team offering ISWs. Through the Facilitator Development Workshop (FDW), you will gain facilitation skills suitable for the ISW, with those skills being transferable to other facilitative work. As with the ISW, the FDW takes an experiential learning approach to provide you with new facilitation approaches and to receive feedback from colleagues. You will take on four roles, as a learner, instructor, facilitator, and participant. Upon completion of all requirements of the program, you will receive a certificate. After completing the FDW, to be a qualified facilitator, you will be required to co-facilitate two ISWs with an experienced ISW facilitator.
To learn more about the ISW network, please visit here.
Cost: $800.00 CAD or $600.00 USD per person
To apply for the program, fill out the following form and an application will be sent to you.
Testimonials:
Your ability to bring us all together and guide the process as an amazing mentor is an incredible gift, thank you!
FDW participant
Thank you, Cynthia, for building and hosting the whole FDW session for us to work in a fluid and flowing peer-based learning community that shapes a growing generation of instructors, facilitators, trainers, and educators! All the best to you and your growing team in this collective endeavour!
FDW participant
Cynthia, I could fill many pages with my thanks for your continued mentorship and support. You have seen me through all the ISW, FDW, and now TDW. I admire your patience, guidance, and thoughtfulness. There is still so much for me to learn from you, thank you for sharing your wisdom.
FDW participant
I so appreciated your calm presence this week, you have such a graceful way of dealing with the unexpected, and all with kindness and a smile on your face. I can’t thank you enough for your mentorship this week.
FDW participant
I am forever grateful for your friendship and the many times we’ve collaborated over the years… I will never forget those times working together. You were a force then and now!!
FDW participant
You truly have the power to hold people together in whatever situation. Whenever I saw your smiling face, I felt empowered. Thanks!
FDW participant
Cynthia Korpan, PhD
Director
ITeach: Certification in Higher Ed Inc
About me
I have been an ISW facilitator and trainer for over 20 years. ISW facilitators are trained to provide a supportive and enriching environment for faculty, adjuncts, administrators, graduate students, or those teaching in organizations. Through highly effective facilitation techniques and opportunities for feedback, I will ensure that you have what you need to be successful.
I have over 20 years experience in Educational Development in Higher Education and over 35 years related to workplace learning. As the former Director of Teaching Excellence at the University of Victoria, I garnered significant experience in developing programs and courses, teaching undergraduates, graduate students, and professors, and mentoring many about learning and teaching in higher education. In 2017, I was honoured with the Educational Developers Caucus Leadership Award for my national work related to educational development. My research focuses on emerging and early career academics’ first teaching in the academic workplace. This work and my expertise have been and continues to be shared with institutions around the world, such as Canada, the United States, China, Uganda, Pakistan, and Ghana.
