People Party Facilitator Training
Learn one facilitation method and every room you lead changes. Each person takes part at their own level, and the room commits to the goal and follows through after it ends. Use it in any meeting or event, with your team, your clients or your community.
What we discovered
After hundreds of interviews and thousands of conversations, six patterns stood out in people who reach their goals. When Stacey tested them, one turned out to be the missing piece nobody talks about: My People, a group of people chasing the same goal as you (not your friends or family). Stacey took that idea to the TEDx stage, and nearly two million people have watched it. The other half of the missing piece is the environment: a room built so every person can participate and engage. That’s what the People Party Method creates.
How most rooms are built
A team shares an org chart. A conference shares a venue. A meeting shares an agenda. Someone plans the room and hands it to the people in it. They watch, nod and go back to their desks.
How the People Party Method builds a room
Apply the People Party Method, and the room gets created with the people in it. The room shares one goal, and each person has their own goal inside it. Now people have a reason to take part, help each other and follow through, in whatever way fits the size of the room and their own comfort level.
When a room is bonded by the same goal, people who would never normally talk to each other open up: different departments, roles, backgrounds and beliefs. The goal makes it safe, because everyone is on the same journey.
It can start with two people and a shared goal. It also spreads: when we trained 100 people in the method, they used it to run 36 gatherings of their own within two weeks. Every room built this way creates people who can build the next one.
Why this matters in your work
You have a new goal and you’re excited about it. You call the meeting and explain why it matters. You get quiet nods and a question about logistics. By Wednesday it’s business as usual, like the meeting never happened.
Or you want more clients. So you post more, write more content, run more ads, host another webinar and present to a room of muted squares. People listen, say “great session” and leave. And the new clients still aren’t coming.
People don’t build commitment by listening.
They build it by taking part. That goes for your team and for your clients. Every meeting, offsite, client event and breakout session is either a room where people watch or a room where people act.
Google’s two-year Project Aristotle study of its own teams found the biggest difference between high and low performers was whether people felt safe enough to speak up. Talent and resources mattered less.
Your most capable people notice first, and they have the most options. Gallup estimates replacing an employee costs one-half to two times their annual salary.
A client who sat through your presentation knows what you do. A client who spoke up, met other clients and helped shape what happens next is invested. They stay longer, refer more and tell you what they’ll buy next.
Most leadership training teaches the words: trust, courage, psychological safety. Almost none teaches a repeatable way to produce them in a specific room, on a specific day.
What the People Party Method is
The People Party Method is a facilitation method for bringing any group together around a shared goal. It goes inside the meetings, conferences, hot seats, Q&A sessions, town halls, book clubs and meetups you already hold, or you use it to create a new one. The room moves toward the shared goal, and each person moves toward their own goal inside it, with the people around them as support. Attendees become contributors, strangers become connections, and the relationships and momentum keep going after the room ends. It works with two people or a thousand.
Two ways in · One method
Every leader asks people to rally around a vision, embrace change, trust each other and move toward a goal. Almost nobody is taught how to gather people, make it safe to speak, and guide a room so every voice counts. So you learn it yourself first, then use it with everyone you lead.
For yourself
For your organization
How it works · The People Party Method
Part 1 · The Do The Thing Formula (I’M GAME)
Stacey interviewed people who had mastered doing the thing, then codified what they had in common. Each letter is one of those patterns. The formula is the heart of the People Party Method: the facilitator builds the structure, and the people create the experience.
The host goes first and shares something real, a reason that costs something to say out loud. That gives everyone else permission.
The room names its real struggles before it gets to goals. People find out they aren’t the only one who feels stuck, and safety gets built.
One shared goal for the room. Inside it, each person has their own micro goal, the specific thing they want from being here. In a small room they say it out loud. In a big one they might share it with a partner, a small group or the chat.
Nobody has to enforce it. Naming your goal in front of others, whether that’s the whole room, a small group or one partner, does the work a follow-up email never will.
The missing piece. People chasing the same goal become each other’s support, across departments, roles and backgrounds that would never normally mix.
Contribution comes from the room, not just the front. People stop learning only from the leader and start learning from each other, and that’s what keeps the momentum going.
Part 2 · Comfort Circles
Every step toward the goal has a version for each circle, so the introvert and the extrovert, the new hire and the VP all take part. Facilitators stop asking “why won’t this person participate?” and start asking “which circle are they in?”
Horse. Present but not ready to be seen yet. That isn’t disengagement. You leave the door open and never drag anyone through it.
Find Your Voice. The first question or the first admission. It looks small, but it’s the turning point.
Share Your Voice. They contribute without being prompted.
Create Opportunity, Create a Movement, Global Reach. They turn their voice into opportunity, bring others with them and start hosting rooms of their own. At work, this is the person who gets promoted because people follow them.
Part 3 · The P.A.R.T.Y. System
The formula runs the room. P.A.R.T.Y. brings people into it and makes sure the momentum doesn’t stop when the room ends.
Tell people about it where they already are, in a way that makes them want to be there.
Ask people what they want from it before you build it, so they arrive already invested.
Invite people personally, and bring in co-hosts and experts who bring their own people.
Every room ends with one clear next step, whether that’s a commitment, a meeting or an offer.
Celebrate what people did. It’s how they see what they were part of, and why they come back.
Everything you can do with it
Bring the method into something you already run, or use it to create something new. The goal is what you bring. The facilitation process stays the same whether it’s two people or a thousand.
People leave with a goal they named, so the plan outlasts the meeting.
Turn a session people sit through into one they take part in, and remember afterwards.
Host a meetup or Q&A session around a topic your ideal client cares about. A room run this way isn’t just where you make the offer. It’s where you discover what people want from you.
People who helped build the change don’t resist it. Give them a room to build it in.
Clients meet you and each other. Clients who feel connected don’t shop around.
Rally employees, leaders and clients around a cause and raise money together. Fundraising is one goal among many.
What happens when people run it
On the spot
At a session about growing an audience, run with the People Party Method, nobody pitched anything. People shared what they were stuck on and helped each other brainstorm. By the end it was obvious what people wanted, so the hosts launched a new membership right there, and people joined immediately. A room run this way isn’t just where you make the offer. It’s where you discover it.
36 rooms
We trained 100 people during People Party Palooza. Two weeks later they had used it to run 36 gatherings of their own, each around their own goal. There was no marketing push. They had a repeatable system and they used it.
One invite
A TEDx curator wanted more people to apply to speak. Instead of an info session, we used the People Party Method to run a session called “What Is Your Idea That Can Change the World?” People said their ideas out loud, the room encouraged them, and the only pitch was an invitation to apply.
In their words
“I hosted a My People Party with 26 attendees using just an AddEvent link, no funnel, no complex setup. Multiple people asked how they could work with me. I simply dropped a Calendly link and gained five new clients from one event.”
“I don’t know what you did here, but it feels magical… something big is happening. I want to replicate it with as many people as I can because of the results achieved in a short time, when it didn’t feel hard, it felt really fun.”
“I had close to 15 people go through it in my community. Everyone was really engaged and it was awesome. I think I had eight people convert into paid membership, which is great, more people than I was expecting.”
Why this training pays off
Training is worth what it delivers, multiplied by how likely it is to work, and divided by how long it takes and how hard it is. So we pushed the top two up as far as they go and the bottom two down to almost nothing.
▲ Pushed up · The result
Quiet people find their way in. Goals people name get kept. Teams, clients and communities that keep moving after the room ends.
▲ Pushed up · The likelihood
Hundreds of interviews, thousands of conversations, and the Do The Thing Formula used in 30+ communities. It depends on structure, so it doesn’t need a natural performer at the front.
▼ Pushed down · The time
Every level ends with a real room you run. Most people run their first within weeks, many the following week.
▼ Pushed down · The effort
Ready-made formats, prompts and templates that plug into the meetings and events you already hold. No stage and no production budget.
Every reason it might not work, handled
The path · Three levels
You don’t finish a level by watching videos. You finish it by running the method with real people. A real goal, real people and a real result. That is the method.
Each level gives a person a clear role. When an organization trains people at every level, everyone has a part in how the company’s rooms run. Hosts run rooms with their own teams, and facilitators lead rooms across the company and coach the hosts. Everyone shares the same method and the same language.
Best for: anyone new to the method, and whole teams who’ll be taking part in rooms run with it.
The three parts of the method (the Do The Thing Formula, Comfort Circles and the P.A.R.T.Y. System) and why a shared goal builds trust faster than good intentions.
Your real room:join a live session run with the method as a guest, and name your own goal. Feel it from the inside first.
After this you can see what your meetings are missing and explain the method to your team.
Best for: managers, team leads, founders, salespeople, coaches, anyone who leads a group of their own.
Choose a goal and a format, fill the room, run the six moves and give people a clear next step. The full virtual program, self-paced.
Your real room:run your next team meeting, town hall or client meetup with the method, then fill in the Reflection Sheet.
After this you can run rooms for the people you lead, again and again.
Best for: senior leaders, HR, People Ops and L&D, executive coaches, and whoever will lead the method across a company.
Two days in person with Stacey. Practice every move live, read any room with the Comfort Circle, and design rooms for groups you don’t lead yourself.
Your real room:facilitate a meeting, session or event for another team, department, client or community group, then debrief it with us.
After this you can run rooms for anyone and teach your managers to host their own.
Each level builds on the one before. Level 3 includes Levels 1 and 2.
Why people choose it
The person who can bring people together, get them talking and get them moving is the person who gets noticed, trusted and promoted. It’s a skill that makes you stand out in any role.
You’ll be the one asked to run the offsite, the kickoff or the client event, because people know your rooms work.
AI can write the agenda. It can’t get a room of people to trust each other and commit to a goal. That human skill is becoming more valuable every year.
Stronger retention, faster buy-in on change, better client relationships and meetings that actually move the work forward.
Every organization has meetings, clients and goals. The structure is the same in a hospital, a law firm, a startup, a nonprofit or a sales team.
There’s nothing to renew. Once you know how to engage a room, you use it for the rest of your career, in every job you hold.
The offer
Every option comes with two seats, because facilitators work best in pairs. Bring a colleague, a business partner or a co-host.
Facilitate $3,000 (save $2,000)Host $600 (save $400)
Use your member code from the Playground at checkout.
Not a member yet? Join the PlaygroundLevels 1–3 · In person in Coronado, California
for 2 seats
Extra seats $2,500 each
Two days in person with Stacey. Levels 1 and 2 online before you arrive. Format Library, Facilitator Toolkit, Comfort Circle Field Guide, Invitation Scripts and a First-Room Debrief.
25 seats per cohort. Dates announced by the end of November.
25 of 25 seats left
Levels 1–2 · Online, at your own pace
$1,000
for 2 seats
Extra seats $500 each
The People Party Method online, plus the Format Library and Facilitator Toolkit. Run your first room with the people you already lead.
From
$25,000
+ travel
Stacey comes to your organization and trains your team around your goals and the meetings you already run. Levels 1–2 online included for everyone.
Or email stacey@dothethingformula.com
Dates are announced by the end of November. If they don’t work for you, you get a full refund or a seat in the next cohort. Your choice.
Why seats are capped: each in-person intensive is limited to 25 people. Everyone runs the moves live and gets feedback, and that doesn’t work in a bigger room.
Learn the method by running it. Practice every move live, get feedback, and design your next real room before you leave.
All three parts of the method: the Do The Thing Formula (I’M GAME), Comfort Circles and the P.A.R.T.Y. System. Complete it before the intensive and keep it for refreshers.
Facilitators work best in pairs. Bring a colleague, business partner or co-host at no extra cost. Training your team or your leaders? Add as many seats as you need.
Ready-to-run formats for any goal: team meeting, town hall, hot seat, Q&A session, meetup, breakout session, lunch and learn, mastermind, book club, launch, auction and more.
The Host Guide, run-of-show template, conversation prompts and Reflection Sheet.
A one-page guide to reading a room in real time, with a version of the action for each circle.
The words to invite people into the room, inside your company or outside it.
A 60-minute call with our team after your first facilitated room: what worked, what to adjust, and what to run next.
That covers two people, so it’s $2,500 per trained facilitator. That’s less than one outside-facilitated offsite, and the skill stays with you.
Where this comes from
For twenty years I co-owned a staffing company that grew to $35 million a year in revenue, with sixty people on our own team and six hundred more in the field, plus the executives we hired for. That gave me a view most leaders never get. Employees, clients and executives were all stuck in the same way, in different rooms, for different reasons.
I was stuck too. I’d spend $25,000 producing a polished event, then avoid calling my own management team into a room because I was scared I wasn’t polished enough to lead it.
Stuckness doesn’t break with more information or more polish. It breaks when people take action together.
After I sold my stake, I set out to find out why some people move and others freeze. That became the five-year Do The Thing experiment: a podcast about people who had mastered doing the thing, hundreds of interviews, thousands of conversations, and the formula tested in real communities until the pattern held. It became my TEDx talk, then my work at the United Nations, and now this training.
Trusted in rooms at the United Nations · TEDx · Virgin Unite · Pinnacle Global Network · Rise Alliance for Children
Questions people ask
Anywhere people come together. The People Party Method is a facilitation method, so it goes into any meeting, conference, hot seat, Q&A session, town hall, book club or meetup, or you use it to create a new one. Fundraising is one goal. The same structure works for a team meeting, a breakout session, a marketing event, a client night, an onboarding day or a launch. You bring the goal.
Yes. The skill is yours whoever pays for it, and you can use it with your team, clients or community straight away.
Team-building is usually a one-off activity run by someone else. This is a method your own people learn and then use in your normal meetings, built around a real shared goal, so the trust it creates is attached to the work.
No. The Comfort Circle starts everyone, facilitators included, at Horse. The structure carries the room, and confidence comes from running it.
Yes. It was built and proven online, and the same moves work in a conference room, a town hall or a client meetup.
Yes. The method isn’t tied to any industry. Anywhere people meet around a goal, whether a team, a client base, a board or a community, the same six moves apply.
Yes. Levels 1 and 2 are self-paced online, so they fit around your schedule. Level 3 is two scheduled days in person.
We’ll announce the two days in Coronado, California by the end of November. Levels 1 and 2 are online, so you can start before then.
You get a full refund or a seat in the next cohort. Your choice. We run the intensive every quarter.
Yes. If the dates we announce don’t work for you, you can have a full refund or move to the next cohort.
Yes. Members pay $3,000 for Facilitate and $600 for Host, for two seats. Your member code is in the Playground. Enter it at checkout.
No. This training teaches you to facilitate with the People Party Method. We don’t offer certification today.
Yes. Choose In-House and we’ll scope it around your team’s size, goals and the meetings you already run.
Enroll
Choose Facilitate to train in person with Stacey, Host to start online today, or In-House to bring it to your team.
Facilitate · $5,000
25 of 25 seats left
Host · $1,000
In-House · From $25,000
Or email stacey@dothethingformula.com
Organizations training facilitators now will be first in line when certification opens.
Don’t wait for the right room. Create it.