YPO Forum Facilitation

Deeper Conversations. Stronger Forums.

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Jacqueline Widmer is a YPO Certified Forum Facilitator (CFF) who brings a solid clinical foundation and relational expertise to the forum experience. She is known for her exceptional listening skills and for creating a calm, psychologically safe space where members can move beyond surface-level discussion into honest, reflective, and high-impact sharing. Members have commented that she quickly notices group dynamics and gently redirects to name the dynamics that are blocking depth or honesty.
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As a Certified YPO Forum Facilitator (CFF) since 2022, I work with Forums and Chapters throughout the EMEA region to deliver high-impact trainings and facilitate retreats that strengthen connections, challenge the status quo, and help members uncover aspects of themselves that they were previously unaware of.

Forum Trainings

Jacqueline is certified to deliver Forum trainings for members at every stage – from those new to Forum (Forum Fundamental), to those preparing for the Moderator role (Forum Moderator and Leadership Development), all the way to experienced Moderators seeking advanced tools and refined strategies to elevate their Forum experience (Next Level Moderator).

Forum Tune-ups

All Forums encounter challenges that can disrupt momentum and limit the group’s growth and development. Forum Supercharge workshops are designed to address exactly this.

Through a thorough assessment process that includes one-to-one conversations with the Moderator and each Forum member, Jacqueline develops a clear understanding of the group’s current dynamics and identifies the key challenges and opportunities for growth.

Based on these insights, she selects targeted exercises and interventions to address difficulties, restore psychological safety, and re-establish the conditions for deep, honest, and transformative conversations.

Forum Retreats

Forum Retreats offer the opportunity to step away from the demands of everyday life and create space for deeper reflection, meaningful connection, and conversations that extend beyond regular Forum meetings. Jacqueline would be happy to work with you to identify the retreat topic that would bring the greatest value to your Forum.

The Science of Strong Relationships is designed for Forums who want to explore the science behind what makes intimate relationships thrive.

Participants gain insight into their own relational style, learn how small shifts in habits and communication can create meaningful, positive change and discover practical ways to strengthen their connection. Strong relationships are not built by chance — they are built through intention, understanding, and skill.

 

“The retreat helped me recognize patterns I had never questioned before and gave me practical tools to communicate with more empathy, awareness, and intention. It changed the way I relate to my partner — and honestly, to myself as well.”

Keeping Love Alive is a workshop for couples in long-term relationships who want to reconnect, strengthen intimacy, and keep their relationship vibrant through the challenges of everyday life.

Through practical tools and guided exercises, couples will learn how to rekindle curiosity, playfulness and attraction, and bring renewed intention into their partnership.

 

“This workshop helped us reconnect in ways we hadn’t in years. We left feeling closer, more understood, and excited about our relationship again.”

Note: These Retreats can be designed for Forums where one partner attends — but they become even more powerful (and fun!) when experienced together in a Couple Retreat.

The Honest Mirror: A 360° Leadership Retreat. This retreat offers a 360° appraisal experience for Forum members who want to better understand how they are perceived by others. Participants will reflect on how they see themselves, share how they believe they are experienced by others, and receive open, constructive feedback from their Forum peers.

This process builds greater self-awareness, strengthens leadership effectiveness, and supports more authentic and impactful relationships within the Forum.


“I expected it to be challenging, and it was—but in the best possible way. The feedback I received was both validating and stretching, it helped me uncover some important blind spots and gave me clear direction for how to grow.”

Explore your Internal Saboteurs is an interactive workshop based on the Positive Intelligence framework developed by Shirzad Chamine. Even highly successful leaders can be limited by hidden mental patterns that fuel stress, conflict, perfectionism, or over-control.

In this session, Forum members identify their core “Saboteurs” — the automatic inner patterns that quietly undermine performance, relationships, and leadership effectiveness. Through guided reflection and practical tools, participants develop greater self-awareness and learn to respond to challenges with more clarity and resilience.

YPO & YNG FORUM
Immerse yourself in the midset of Forum.
Understand the value of Forum for your professional and your personal life.
Share experiences and learn from others in an authentic, supportive, and open-minded manner.
Lead and serve your Forum.
Identify areas for Forum improvement and growth.
Boost Forum growth and value for all participants.
Clarify your Forum vision, mission and value.
Immerse yourself in topics that resonate deeply with you.

Testimonials

PARTNERPOWER Gets Results

She makes you feel safe and then breaks down barriers that block you from opening up, and brings you closer to your forum mates. Gentle but strong, the absolutely perfect combination for a CFF.

~ YPO Forum Supercharge, Cyprus, 2025

It was very raw and personal and helped us to address issues that were simmering below the surface. I loved the way she engaged us with nothing but deep conversations and honest sharing. No videos, no slides, no gimmicks. Like nothing I have experienced before.

~ YPO Forum Supercharge, Dubai, 2025

One of the best things about Jacqueline is that she is able to read the room and completely disregard her agenda to address the challenges/opportunities that arose from our discussion and really helped us to forge a stronger forum.

~ YPO Forum Retreat, Switzerland, 2025

Jacqueline is a first rate moderator who brings a sense of intimacy and vulnerability into the forum from the very beginning. Her tone is genuine and she sets the bar high in terms of the standards of what is shared. She does all of that while not taking her eye of the mark in terms of making the group bond and leave the session with a deeper sense of insight about themselves and each other. I would highly recommend Jacqueline to any group who is struggling to go beyond surface emotion and unlock a deeper level of connectedness.

~ YPO Europe One Forum, 2025

By the time we finished our Forum retreat, her impact was more than obvious. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that our Forum grew deeper during and after the session, and we now have tools at our disposal to continue growing in a meaningful way.

~ YNG Forum Retreat, Greece, 2023

Jacqueline is a very knowledgeable Forum Facilitator. Having been trained in other similar subjects in my past experiences, I can confirm that Jacqueline was one of the best facilitators I have had. She is very approachable, open to receiving all kinds of questions, and made me feel very comfortable sharing my vulnerabilities amongst complete strangers.

~ Forum Training, May 2024

Jacqueline brought a fresh approach to the Forum retreat we had. First of all, she invested a lot of time in getting to know each and everyone of us, and then tailored the session to our needs. The day we spent with her was really good because I had a lot of take home value (insights and things I learned) and we really connected as a group.

~ YPO Forum Retreat, Malta, 2025

Jacqueline is an amazing professional with a lot of empathy and knowledge about how to help a group and an individual to go deeper in their sharing and all this with a lot of tact. She is a great human being too!

~ YPO Regional Forum Retreat, 2024

Jacqueline navigated difficult waters with us with grace and tact, gently waiting for us to get to the right conclusion on our own.

~ YPO Forum Retreat, Italy, 2024

Jacqueline has an extended knowledge in psychology, yet she is very likeable and humble. She mastered our forum retreat work in an impressive way. She was constantly aware of all forum members’ reactions, calm but efficient and allowed pauses and breaths when needed. This is the deepest work our forum has done so far and we have grown a lot and are equipped with the necessary tools for making future forums a success.

~ YPO Forum Retreat, Italy, 2024

She is very knowledgeable, engaged, clear, focused and showed me exciting ways of moderating the forum. Two thumbs up!

~ YPO Moderator Training, April 2024

Jacqueline is a first rate moderator who brings a sense of intimacy and vulnerability into the forum from the very beginning. Her tone is genuine and she sets the bar high in terms of the standards of what is shared. She does all that while not taking her eye off the mark in terms of making the group bond and leave the session with a deeper sense of insight about themselves and each other. I would recommend Jacqueline to any group who is struggling to go beyond the surface emotion and unlock a deeper level of connectedness.

~ YPO Forum Launch, Germany, 2024

Throughout the session, her ability to engage and captivate our attention was remarkable! The delivery of the information was clear and filled with enthusiasm, making the topics easily understandable.

~ Virtual Forum Training, June 2023

Jacqueline is full of empathy and has helped us to open up and have a meaningful session. She is very well organized and provided us with extra material that will help us understand and commit to this process. She was the essential key to unlock our emotions!

~ YPO Forum Launch, Greece, 2023

She made me feel extremely comfortable, heard and supported during the retreat. She had planned the perfect exercises to truly go deeper into ourselves and that helped to create the brave space for us to talk, connect, express ourselves and direct the forum. Truly loved the experience!

~ YNG Forum Retreat, Greece, 2023

Jacqueline prepared some excellent exercises for our forum to engage in. She started the meeting with getting everyone comfortable talking and then continued to take us deeper and deeper. It was a pleasure to have her work with us and I would recommend her to any forum looking to reinvigorate their sharing or their group dynamics.

~ YNG Forum Retreat, Greece, 2023

Jacqueline is an amazing facilitator. She managed to grasp everyone’s attention during the full 4-hour session while maintaining ground rules and making the overall session a safe environment to open up, fun to engage, and eagerness to share more.

~ Virtual Forum Training, October 2022
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