Professional Facilitator Program - PFP

In the Professional Facilitator Program you will learn how to:

• Create collaborative client relationships, customizing applications and managing events.
• Plan appropriate group processes with time, space and methods.
• Create and sustain a participatory environment ensuring inclusiveness and creativity, with good communication and managing conflict.
• Guide groups to useful outcomes and consensus with clear methods and processes.
• Build and maintain professional knowledge with a solid base and a range of method.
• Model a positive professional attitude, act with integrity and model neutrality.

Facilitators benefit from:

• Transferable skills, adding value in all work environments and professions.
• Lateral connections, creating links within and across units, departments and divisions.
• Vertical relationships, engendering respect at front line, management and director levels.
• Healthy workplaces, generating a positive atmosphere in every project.
• A learning lifestyle, understanding perspectives from within the whole organization.

Use of ICA’s ToP™ methods contributes to your portfolio, preparing you become a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF).

The Professional Facilitator Program covers all of the competencies required by the International Association of Facilitators for CPF certification and most required by ICA for CTF certification. Each of these certifications have a different competence based assessment, but the portfolio developed for either one will partially complete the other.

https://www.iaf-world.org/site/events/cpf. The International Association of Facilitators has other programs and services you should consider.

 

Group Facilitation Methods - Powerful methods to facilitate and build consensus

Meetings That Work - Practical tools to design and lead effective meetings.

Art & Science of Participation - Deepen understanding design and practice. 

Take courses in any order, but Group Facilitation Methods must be taken before Art & Science of Participation.

Gary Rush, CPF. and Lindsay Sumner, CPF

"The Professional Facilitator Program is a comprehensive, well thought out program to develop effective facilitators. The materials are well laid out, comprehensive, and clear. Experiential learning is very evident and trainee engagement is effective. This is a program that even experienced facilitators would benefit from. We have no hesitation in recommending this program for IAF Comprehensive Endorsement."