Our Courses
We have all benefited immensely from this training and we want to be able to share the experience as widely as possible - Barry Winchester, Community Development Worker, Salford City Council
Learn our structured approach to facilitating meetings and events through our series of one and two-day courses. Follow the links in the table for a full description of each course, with feedback from previous course participants.
All of our courses are available in-house, ie: privately at your place, in additional to those on our public schedule.
Note: participants in our courses benefit from a special 50% discount in membership of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) - for details, see course fees
| Title | Level | Days | OVERVIEW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to Group Facilitation (IGF) | foundation | 1 | Exploring the role and skills of the facilitator |
| Group Work Skills (GWS) | foundation | 1 | Developing skills for working with young people in groups |
| Group Facilitation Methods (GFM) | foundation | 2 | Introducing the foundations of the ToP approach - the pre-requisite for all intermediate and most advanced courses |
| Action Planning (AP) | foundation | 1 | Participatory planning for short-term projects and events |
| Group Facilitation Methods Refresher (GFMR) | intermediate | 1 | Refresh and advance your understanding and practice of the basic ToP methods |
| Participatory Strategic Planning (PSP) | intermediate | 2 | Bring people together to create strategies for action |
| Designing Participatory Events (DPE) | intermediate | 2 | Ensuring events are productive and successful |
| The Power of Image (PoI) | advanced | 2 | Creative facilitation for transforming 'mental models' |
| Participation Paradigm (PP) | advanced | 2 | Explore the values & assumptions of ToP facilitation |
| Organisational Transformation (OT) | advanced | 2 | Fameworks and tools for facilitating ‘whole systems’ change |
Check out our course schedule for course dates & locations.
For details of our sliding scale of fees, and discounts, scholarships & grants - see course fees
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