An insight-filled, easy-to-use how-to for people looking to design and deliver engaging sessions that drive training and Human Resource professionals, CEOs and team leaders, and anyone else who facilitates and presents. This "cookbook" draws on years of experience using non-traditional approaches - improv, story telling, in-the-moment experiences, images, metaphors and more - to harness the full energies of a group of participants. The seven basic "recipes" provide fresh, smart, unexpected ways to make facilitated sessions (and their design) more collaborative, impactful and even more fun. Includes practical tips and pitfalls to avoid, as well as real-life examples from small creative firms to Fortune 500 clients. For facilitators serious about expanding their get out your mini blow torch!