What's involved?

Step 1: Two-Day Workshop/Four x Half-Day Workshop: Facilitating Meetings With Ease – The Fundamentals

• Effective tools for designing any meeting
• Practical decision-making tools and processes
• Useful meeting management templates
• Impactful conflict intervention techniques

Step 2: Two x Half-Day Workshop:Facilitator Design Symposium

• Tips for scoping outcomes with stakeholders prior to critical meetings
• Understand and apply the Critical Design Elements
• Simple yet effective techniques for developing a meeting process guide
• Coaching and feedback on how to take your meeting structure and design from “good to great”
• A deeper dive into Facilitation First’s most used and successful process designs

Step 3: Two X Half-Day Workshop: Facilitating Through Conflict – Managing the Group

• Understanding your conflict style and it’s impact on facilitating
• Critical proactive conflict management techniques
• Deeper dive into intervention strategies
• Recognizing and dealing with resistance

Step 4: Facilitator Prep & Assessment

• Candidates are required to identify a meeting opportunity at their work (or outside of work, e.g. a non-profit) and design and facilitate a virtual consensus building meeting which will be assessed by 3 attendees
• Candidates will schedule an individual coaching call to review design and develop strategies for anticipated challenges
• Candidates must achieve an average rating of 4/5 or higher to achieve Certification and can make up to 2 attempts in the 18 months following the last workshop