ADVANCING FACILITATIVE LEADERSHIP

We offer you three ways to increase your effectiveness as a facilitative leader:

• Training
• Coaching and Consulting Assistance
• CSF Development Forums

Training

CSF partners are all trainers qualified in methods developed by the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) called the Technology of Participation (ToP®). ICA facilitation methods have been in use over forty years and continue to help businesses, community groups and government programs create positive change. These tested methods are in use in diverse organizations in 32 nations across the globe, proving their resiliency and cultural flexibility.

These facilitation methods will give you skills to

• engage all participants and maximize their contributions
• naturally lead groups to consensus and decrease conflict
• increase commitment to follow-though

Public Courses
Contact us for more information, course availability and registration: email or call 877-538-8683 (toll free).

ToP® Facilitation Methods (GFM)
If you are just beginning your journey as a facilitative leader or have decades of facilitation experience, this course will deepen your understanding of facilitative leadership and introduce three powerful methods.

Check the Calendar for Dates
Cost: $645 (early bird - $595)

 

New Course! Facilitation Fundamentals: Tips & Tools To Make Meetings Fun, Creative and Effective

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Cost: $295., Location: Oakland

Download the Brochure  Facilitation Fundamentals Flyer.pdf 

New Course! Dancing with Design
More effective designs for meetings and events can emerge with the benefit of a powerful design framework called Kaleidoscope Design.
Dates:  Scheduled on Demand, Cost: $295.  Check the Calendar for Dates

Making Data Dance
Discover tools to make data review come alive and engage team members in effective analysis, problem solving and decision making.

Dates:  Scheduled on Demand, Cost: $295. Check the Calendar for Dates

ToP®  Strategic Planning
Participatory Strategic Planning is a proven, flexible and resilient approach to strategy planning for all types and sizes of organizations. Come learn the secrets of strategy planning that have made this approach world renown.

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Cost: $645.00 (early bird $595.00)

Special value: If four enroll from the same group, you come for the price of three!

Facilitating Project Excellence - Participatory Project Management

Over 75% of projects fail!

This new Center for Strategic Facilitation (CSF) offering integrates proven project management principles and Technology of Participation (ToP®) methods to achieving project success. While over 75% of all projects fail, you can apply participative methods, use collaborative teams, proven tools and SMART measures for effective project results. Bring your project sample and leave with a plan you can start the next day.

The course covers:

• Crafting a Needs & Gap Analysis
• Team Dynamics
• Project Charter, Commitment, Barriers to Success Planning, Measurement and Sustainability
  

Course Goals & Objectives:

• Learn step by step a model of participatory project management
• Learn to design an effective project management plan
• Learn to design & develop
• SMART measures for effective project results
• Experience how participation can make a difference in achieving project results

Fee: $295. for this one day workshop. Please email Marti Roach for the course flyer and registration form and take advantage of the early bird rate. Contact martiroach@sbcglobal.net  Facilitating Project Excellence.pdf

Refresher and Applications Lab

Join with others to review the key practices and tips for effective use of the focused conversation and the consensus workshop.  Bring questions and explore solutions to designing and facilitating using these methods. Limited enrollment.

Scheduled on Demand,Cost: $75.00.

NEW! Graphic Facilitation ToP Style

We will be hosting artist, ToP trainer and graphic facilitator Cheryl Kartes in July for a one-day graphics lab. This course will help you with easy techniques that add imagery and graphics to your facilitation, training, consulting or coaching. Only One Session in 2009---July 24^th. Get it on your calendar today. Cost: $295.00.

Facilitating Change in Whole Systems

Tools To Analyze Trends in Organizations, Communities and Families

Change! It's everywhere! In our families, our organizations, our companies, our communities and in society as a whole. But - - which trends will affect you and which ones will pass you by? If you're just responding to what's happening today, you may be too late! The future belongs to those who keep their eye on today while planning for tomorrow.

Benefits

• Strengthened leadership skills.
• Balance the cultural, economic and political components of your organization.
• A greater ability to recognize and understand trends.

One hour of free coaching within 6 months of the course
Prerequisite:Group Facilitation is highly recommended, but it is not required

Power of Image Shift

This course covers the ICA Theory of Image Shift--how images shape how we practice the art of facilitation, how our facilitation approach and design shapes groups' images; and how to design more powerful interventions (curriculum and lesson planning, facilitation design, and organizational consulting) using the ICA's Kaleidoscope Design™ methods.

In this course you will learn to use the power of image shift to design facilitated events and/or training curriculum which have high impact, capture the group's intent, and sustain motivation for change.

You will also explore how the power of image, as symbol, releases a group’s creativity and will.

 After taking this course you will be able to:

- Discern the connection between image and action

- Apply image shift to your own personal journey as a facilitator and trainer

- Guide the journey of image shift with others

-Select appropriate methods and processes appropriate to the group journey

-Expand your personal capacity to produce and use graphics

-Bring appropriate variety to your work projects, training sessions, and ongoing meetings

-  Efficiently and effectively design sessions using the Kaleidoscope Design^® process

Mastering the Technology of Participation ® -   CSF to offer in 2010!

We are pleased to announce that the CSF Partners are bringing the 4 session MToP to the SF Bay Area starting in the Fall of 2010. Each session is 3 full days. We will accept ONLY 16 participants. All of the CSF Partners will be participants in MToP so will join you as a cohort group of learners. Senior ICA practioners from accross the country will be our faculty.

Since many of you are working with organizational budgetting in the next couple of months. If you are interested in this program we encourage you to seriously consider participating in it. The cost is $4,000. for the 12 days of the program, opportunities to participate in local facilitation with CSF Partners, and monthly coaching sessions offered locally.

 Dates: Coming again in 2010!

Community Development Intensive 

This workshop is taught by ICA Canada staff with onsite practice of methods in a community setting. For over 35 years, ICA has been implementing its "grassroots" process in communities around the worls resulting in long-term, locally motivated change. ICA has discovered that the key to community development lies in people working together to meet changing social and economic needs of the community.

The Community Development Intensive is a five day course which establishes the context of community development as a whole-system change. This course covers the full cycle of community based change
Learn how to:

• Ensure grass roots participation
• Convert plans into visible, doable projects
• Sustain cross-sectoral collaboration
• Generate a sustainable development process

Dates:Scheduled on Demand, Cost $1200. per participant

Group Facilitation Methods (GFM) 

This is the foundational course within the ICA's ToP® series. This course will deepen your understanding of facilitative leadership and offer new skills.

Experience the benefits of this training:

• Facilitate groups that are committed to next steps
• Have more fun and ease in facilitating groups effectively
• Make meetings more productive and efficient
• Improve staff morale and teamwork
• Focus participant energy and interests on common goals

Learn the theory, practice and application of three flexible methods that generate group ownership of clear goals, open lines of communication and motivate people to commit to making changes.

• The Focused Conversation Methodis a highly flexible method that provides a structure for clear communication and group reflection. It quickly captures a groups' best thinking and leads to purposeful, productive insights in meetings. This discussion tool lessens the frustration of not "being heard", increases participant satisfaction and supports greater productivity from meetings.

• The Consensus Workshop Method integrates diverse ideas, generates practical and creative solutions and maximizes teamwork and consensus, all with minimal time and maximum output. This method helps groups address critical questions and reach consensus on ways to move forward. You can use this method with large and small groups with equal success.

The Action Planning Method produces a vision of success, an assessment of current reality and development of a useable plan that maximizes group members' commitment and involvement. In a short period of time, groups can organize for action, enhancing effectiveness and productivity.

Contact us for more information, course availability and registration: email or call 877-538-8683.

New Course - Facilitation Fundamentals

• Are you running meetings and want to know more about how to facilitate?
• Are you spending time in endless discussion, facing frustrated participants, and scheduling the next meeting to go over the same old topic?
• Do you want to brush up on the basics?
  • Develop new ideas for how you can enrish your role in facilitating meetings
  • Increase knowledge about a range of facilitative behaviors you can use
  • Deepen your understanding of the phases of meeting planning and how to plan agendas
  • Gain insight into dealing with the common challenges of running meetings
  • Deepen your understanding of how to do meeting design and ensure high participation
  • Learn a framework to guide you in designing meetings
  • Discover how to apply the concept of Image Shift in meetings, fostering greater capacity for transformative change among participants and groups
  • Learn processes to make data review energizing and interesting
  • Gain skill in getting deeper and more meaningful insights from data
  • Apply your newly gained skills to your own facilitation data design
  • Learn integrated processes that ensure participation and buy- in
  • Acquire a time-tested process to generate an inspiring, practical vision
  • Learn how to identify and deal with underlying obstacles that can block success
  • Apply new tools to develop tailored strategies
  • Go home with tools that bridge the strategic framework with implementation activity.

Who should take this course?

Facilitative leaders who manage projects or project teams; internal or external consultants who help clients develop and manage projects; and facilitators of strategic planning, organizational improvement initiatives, campaigns, programs and retreats. Benefits include:

• Teams generate greater understanding and ownership of project
• Strategic planning strengthened through project implementation
• Expanded capacity from facilitation and computer technology linkage
• Common planning and controlling problems and pitfalls avoided
• Effective sharing of essential project information and progress reporting
• Introduction to critical project management tools and a valuable software resource
• Strengthened leadership skills.
• Balance the cultural, economic and political components of your organization.
• A greater ability to recognize and understand trends.

Check the Calendar for Dates , Cost: $295.

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