Training from the Back of the Room Practitioner (TBR Practitioner)
Transform your training from passive, sit-and-listen sessions into engaging, high-impact learning experiences. The In-Person TBR Practitioner Course equips you with brain-based, practical techniques that make learning interactive, memorable, and effective. Using the simple 4Cs Map framework, you’ll design dynamic sessions tailored to your own topic and walk away with tools you can apply immediately.
Training from the BACK of the Room - Practitioner
Ignite Your Training & Facilitation Superpowers
A great TBR-inspired trainer:
- Creates psychologically safe learning environments where participants feel engaged and supported.
- Designs and delivers learning experiences using brain-science principles that improve retention.
- Facilitates high-energy, learner-centered activities instead of lecture-heavy teaching.
- Uses the 4Cs Model to create structured, memorable training sessions.
- Adapts training for different audiences, learning styles, and delivery formats.
This is not a lecture-based workshop. You’ll learn through hands-on activities, collaboration, movement, discussion, practice sessions, and real-time facilitation exercises designed to help you immediately apply what you learn.
What You'll Learn
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Apply six brain-science learning principles in every training session.
- Increase learner attention, engagement, and long-term retention.
- Design impactful sessions using the 4Cs Map.
- Use whole-brain learning activities in classroom and workplace settings.
- Facilitate interactive learning experiences instead of presentation-heavy sessions.
- Select from dozens of adaptable TBR activities for any audience or topic.
- Create or redesign your own training program using TBR methods
Agenda
Foundations of Brain-Based Learning
Explore the cognitive neuroscience principles that influence attention, memory, participation, and retention.
Psychological Safety & Engagement
Learn techniques that help learners feel comfortable, energized, and ready to participate.
The 4Cs Model
Discover the brain-based instructional design framework:
1. Connections
2. Concepts
3. Concrete Practice
4. Conclusions
Whole-Brain Activities
Practice movement-based, discussion-based, and collaborative learning techniques that replace passive lectures.
Trainer Tool Bag
Experience dozens of practical TBR techniques that work in classrooms, workshops, coaching sessions, and corporate training.
Facilitation Skills
Learn how to guide interaction, manage energy, encourage participation, and improve learner involvement.
Create & Re-design
Apply TBR principles to redesign an existing training program or create a new learner-centered session.
Final Workshop & Feedback
Facilitate activities, receive peer feedback, and build a practical action plan for applying TBR in your work environment.
Your instructor
Anil Jaising
Anil helps executives and product leaders change how they lead when their organizations outgrow the old playbook. He's a Certified Scrum Trainer, Adjunct Faculty at NYU’s graduate program of Project Management where he teaches Leading Global Organizations, and Co-founder of Concepts & Beyond, where he trains and coaches leaders to build products customers love.
Anil shipped his first award-winning product in 1994 - a messaging system that won Best Open Systems Award. Over three decades, he's led product and leadership transformations at JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citibank.
His leadership coaching work at Concepts & Beyond includes leading a cloud transformation across 250 complex workloads that saved one of the world's largest banks over $100 million by building a network of cloud champions who drove adoption peer-to-peer rather than through mandate. At MarketAxess, he helped restructure a 100-person Product Management division from scratch so that PMs report directly to the CEO enhancing the voice of the customer. At Alkami, he coached an SVP of Technology and 50+ Delivery Managers through a testing transformation that cut production incidents and escaped defects by helping create a vision, use emotional intelligence to listen to challenges and motivate the organization to deliver quality products at a rapid pace. At Wesco he helped the Senior Director grow the digital team and stood up 50+ agile and DevOps teams. Helped train and coach global digital teams of 2000+ people rapidly deliver quality products and dramatically improve customer satisfaction
He's delivered over 1000 public CSM, CSPO, A-CSPO and CAL-1 cohorts to Fortune 500 leaders and guided hundreds of teams through Agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery adoption at scale. Today, through his Product Management Youtube Channel, Satellite Strategy newsletter, and training courses, Anil focuses on practical AI applications for product managers and product leaders who want to cut through the hype and build products that make a lasting impact.
Kriti Jaising
Kriti Jaising is the Founder & CEO of Concepts & Beyond, a facilitative trainer, instructional designer, and co-creator of the Training from the BACK of the Room® – Virtual Edition, developed in collaboration with Sharon Bowman and an international team of TBR trainers.
With over 25 years of experience spanning advertising, digital marketing, consumer research, events, and learning design, Kriti brings a powerful blend of creativity, structure, and learner empathy to every session. She is deeply passionate about making learning meaningful, engaging, and human—no matter the topic or platform.
From recent cohorts
"Amazing training with great techniques and knowledge for real life situations."
"Good real life example. Class room exercise."
Upcoming Classes
October 2026
January 2027
Most of our Trainer come back for the full journey.
Whether you facilitate workshops, lead teams, teach classes, coach professionals, or deliver presentations, the TBR Practitioner workshop gives you the tools to create learning experiences that are interactive, memorable, and impactful.
See the journey →Common questions answered.
Concepts & Beyond support staff is happy to assist you! We understand that things can change, and we strive to be as agile as possible with respect to registrations. Please email us no later than 5 business days before the start of the workshop and we’ll arrange a refund or transfer to a future date. Cancellations received within 5 full business days of the start of the course will receive a credit (no cash value) towards a future workshop. Please request changes by emailing info@conceptsandbeyond.com.
You’ll need a computer with microphone, camera & speakers. Use https://fast.com to test your internet connection. After the download numbers stop, use the “more” option to calculate your upload speed. You’ll need 5 down / 1 up – and more is better. Now, while in class, you’ll be actively using your computer to participate in exercises, so plan to peek at your email only during a break or at lunchtime.
