The Resistance Solution ยท Book Study Facilitator Training
Turn One Book Into a District-Wide Shift
Get certified to lead book studies of The Resistance Solution in your school, district, or organization. One 4-hour virtual training. Unlimited book studies. A whole new way your leaders respond to resistance.
I'm Interested!One 4-Hour Session
Live & Virtual
$1,500 Per Participant
Investment
District & PL Leaders
Audience
Becca Silver
Your Trainer, The Author
You've seen it before. A great book gets passed around, and nothing changes.
Someone reads it on a plane. Someone quotes it in a leadership meeting. A few chapters get photocopied. And six weeks later, everyone is leading exactly the way they were before.
Books don't change schools. Conversations do.
A well-facilitated book study is where reading turns into practice: where a principal admits which initiative is stalling, where a coach realizes the "resistant" teacher on their caseload is actually signaling an unmet need, where a leadership team builds a shared language for the hardest part of their job.
But that only happens when the person leading the conversation knows how to lead it.
Resistance isn't a problem to manage. It's information.
The Resistance Solution gives leaders a new diagnosis: what looks like pushback, hesitation, or disengagement isn't random, and it isn't a character flaw. It's information about one of five unmet needs, each with a corresponding Catalyst Mindset™ that gets things moving again.
This training prepares your leaders to bring that framework to life. Not by summarizing chapters, but by facilitating the kinds of conversations that shift how educators understand and respond to resistance, permanently.
Walk away ready to:
- Facilitate book study conversations that actually go somewhere, using a ready-made 4-session scope and sequence built by Becca
- Apply the Catalyst Mindsets™ framework to the real leadership and coaching challenges your people face right now
- Diagnose the root causes of resistance in individuals and teams instead of labeling and managing behavior
- Move groups from judgment to curiosity, even when the conversation gets uncomfortable
- Build a culture where resistance is treated as information, not opposition
- Lead change in a way that's human-centered and still gets results
This training is for you if:
- You lead professional learning and you're tired of PD that evaporates by Friday
- You have an initiative that keeps stalling, and you suspect the problem isn't the initiative
- You want to build internal capacity instead of renting external expertise year after year
- You've read The Resistance Solution and thought, "my whole leadership team needs this"
It's probably not for you if you're looking for a passive webinar. You will practice. You will be coached. You will facilitate in the room.
What the 4 hours feel like
This is not a sit-and-get. The training opens with an immersive experience that puts you inside the very dynamics you'll be facilitating, and it builds from there:
- Immersive opening. Experience the framework from the inside before you ever teach it.
- Case studies and facilitated discussion. Work with real-world resistance scenarios pulled from schools like yours.
- Structured practice rounds. You facilitate, you get live coaching and feedback, you facilitate again, sharper.
- Listening skill development. Sharpen the skills that improve every conversation you lead, not just book studies.
- Action planning. Leave with a concrete plan for your first book study and the confidence of having already practiced.
One facilitator. Unlimited book studies.
This is a train-the-trainer model. Once your facilitator is trained, they can lead The Resistance Solution book studies with your leadership team this fall, your instructional coaches in the spring, and your new administrators next year.
No per-session fees. No waiting on an outside consultant's calendar. Compare that to bringing in external PD every time a new team needs this work, and the investment pays for itself the first time your facilitator runs a study.
| Facilitator training (once) | $1,500 |
| Book study #1 · Leadership team | $0 |
| Book study #2 · Instructional coaches | $0 |
| Book study #3 · New administrators | $0 |
| Every book study after that | $0 |
| Capacity built in-house | Priceless, honestly |
Your $1,500 includes:
Live training with Becca
One 4-hour virtual train-the-trainer session, facilitated in real time by the author.
4-Session Scope & Sequence Map
A complete, ready-to-run book study plan. No guesswork about what to cover when.
Facilitation resources
Implementation tools and materials for every session you'll lead.
Guided practice & feedback
Facilitate during the training and get coached in the moment.
Action planning support
Leave with a plan tailored to your district's context and calendar.
Facilitator community
Ongoing access to a community of trained facilitators committed to lasting change.
Led by the person who wrote the book. Literally.
Becca Silver is the author of The Resistance Solution, creator of the Catalyst Mindsets™ framework, and founder of The Whole Educator. She has spent two decades in education as a teacher, instructional coach, and leadership trainer, working with coaches and leaders across the country to break through resistance and turn belief into real progress.
When you train with Becca, you're not getting a certified reseller of someone else's ideas. You're learning the framework from its source, with the stories, nuance, and coaching that never fit inside a book.
Questions leaders usually ask
Do I need to read the book before the training?
Is this live or self-paced?
Can I use district professional learning funds for this?
How many people from my district should attend?
What if I've never facilitated adult learning before?
Do participants in my future book studies need their own copies of the book?
Your next change initiative will meet resistance. Decide now who's ready for it.
Train a facilitator this summer, and by fall your leaders will share a common language for the hardest part of leading change.
Take the First Step