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Facilitator Rescue: What to do when a workshop goes wrong

Pick the situation you are in (running behind, silent room, dominant participant, tech failure) and get an immediate, practical rescue plan. Works fast enough to use mid-session.

You bring
The situation, how much time you have and what is at stake
You leave with
A 60-second rescue plan, what to say, and what to cut or add

When to use Facilitator Rescue

The room has gone silent, one person is dominating, or you are twenty minutes behind with two activities left. Facilitator Rescue gives you an instant playbook for the situation, and a tailored plan in seconds if you describe it.

It is built to be used mid-session on a phone, so the advice is short: what to do, what to say, what to cut.

How to use it

  1. Tap the situation you are in.
  2. Read the instant playbook straight away.
  3. For a tailored plan, add how much time you have and what is at stake, then run it.
  4. Use the words to say, and the list of what to cut or add.

Questions about Facilitator Rescue

Is it fast enough to use during a live session?
Yes. Tapping a situation shows an instant playbook straight away, with what to do, what to say and what to avoid. The tailored plan takes a few more seconds and uses one AI run.
Which situations does it cover?
Running behind, running ahead, a silent room, a dominant participant, side conversations, off-topic tangents, a skeptical or hostile participant, tech failure, an energy crash, a lost room, someone upset, a question you cannot answer, and an activity that flopped.
Is Facilitator Rescue free?
Yes. You get 3 AI runs without an account and 40 a month with a free account. No credit card, and sign-in is a link we email you, so there is no password.
What happens to the content I paste?
It is sent to our server and on to Anthropic's Claude API only when you press the run button. It is not written to our database unless you press Save, and it is never used to train a model.