The cross-communal facilitation training

Why choose a degree in facilitation?

Facilitation is a key skill that contributes positively to a wide range of work tasks. Overall, facilitation training can improve your communication skills, streamline meetings and work processes, strengthen team dynamics and help with conflict and problem solving.

The facilitator programme teaches you how to lead change, processes and meetings in your organization through facilitation. The program equips you to become a professional and skilled facilitator who is able to create a safe and open atmosphere where groups of people can express their ideas, listen to each other and work together to achieve common goals. You'll bring your own home organization into play by working on learning and implementation between modules. At the same time, you get support on how to put new knowledge from the course into practice in everyday life.

Close connection between theory and your everyday life

The program is based on a link between theory and practice.

Throughout the course, you will actively work with specific cases from your own practice. This ensures a greater benefit and that both you and your organization experience a noticeable effect in your daily tasks.

After graduation, you will receive a certificate of completion.

The purpose of the training:

To provide the participant with the basic knowledge and tools to facilitate effectively to eliminate inefficient processes and workshops with disengaged and passive participants.
To equip the participant to become a professional and skilled facilitator who creates results, learning and development through involvement.

Participant outcomes:

The participant is given methods to manage the most important types of processes, including decision-making, idea generation, planning future actions and learning capture.
The participant is introduced to and practices tools that ensure focus and progress through engagement and involvement of the process participants.
The participant trains how to approach a facilitation task in a strategic and structured way and how to best combine methods to create effective processes.
The participant receives qualified sparring on cases from their own practice.

The benefits to the organization:

The organization achieves better processes and process outcomes and fewer inefficient meetings and decision-making processes.
The organization's employee is able to strengthen group dynamics in processes.
The organization's employee is able to facilitate and promote learning, development and creativity.

Target group for the course

The facilitation training is aimed at people who regularly facilitate meetings, workshops, work with citizen involvement, development, implementation or change management. Possible participants can e.g. be employed as a project manager, development consultant, special consultant, senior consultant, HR consultant, manager, middle manager, team leader, urban planner, social worker, caseworker, communications officer, etc.

It is important that the participant can take one or more cases from their own everyday life with e.g. concrete meetings or workshops. concrete meetings or workshops that can act as training grounds during the training.

Duration and form

The facilitation training consists of three teaching days and two self-facilitated everyday implementation meetings of two hours each, where participants get feedback on facilitation challenges and at the same time practice the facilitation profession with a specific task.

The training consists of a combination of short presentations of theory and the latest knowledge about facilitation and process management, coupled with the participants' own experiences and work from practice. We believe that facilitation is a craft that must be learned. Therefore, the training focuses on training the tools and supporting the participants in how to transfer the knowledge to their own organization and everyday life.

Between each module, learning sprints are conducted where participants work actively to solve sample actions. Sample actions are concrete solutions to the challenges that the participant must succeed in solving in their daily lives. These are followed up with an optional buddy activity such as sparring or similar.

Estimate approximately 1 hour of preparation per day - primarily on learning videos.

Program for the facilitation training

MODULE 1

The facilitator role - what, why and how?

Introduction to the most important models
- How do you clarify direction, framework, room for maneuver and relationships in a task where you have a facilitating role? a task where you have a facilitating role?
- Confidence-building small exercises and progress in processes, the gamemaster role and IDOARRT, as help for good preparation and scripting.

MODULE 2

Mastering professional conversations
- Tools to become a confident and curious conversation partner.
- Involving questions.
Meeting and workshop design

MODULE 3

Process tools
- The most important process tools, including prioritization and decision-making tools.
Understand, prevent and manage resistance
Psychological safety
- How do you build trust and psychological safety as a facilitator so that participants can talk constructively about what is difficult but important to bring to the table?

Sign up for the facilitation training

Approximately 1-2 classes of the facilitation training are conducted annually.

Upcoming training

You can now register for the upcoming class in the fall of 2024, which starts on August 19, 2024. The registration deadline is May 19, 2024 at 8:00 am. Registration must be done by appointment with your own manager.

Training dates:

Module 1: August 19, 2024
Module 2: September 17, 2024
Module 3: October 21, 2024

All training days are held from 8:30-15:30 and are
including catering. The training is held at Videnscenter C4, Krakasvej 17,
Hillerød.

Ongoing programs (closed for registration)

Dates of our ongoing programs for spring 2024

Module 1: January 9, 2024
Module 2: February 1, 2024
Module 3: March 5, 2024

All training days are held from 8:30-15:30 and include meals. The training is held at Videnscenter C4, Krakasvej 17, Hillerød.

Registration procedure

We fill up the teams according to a distribution key that ensures an equal number of seats for all six municipalities. Registration for each municipality is on a first-come, first-served basis. No later than three weeks before the start of the course, you will receive a final confirmation of whether you have been admitted to the class. Therefore, registration does not guarantee a place on the course, but registration is binding.

Your workplace is therefore liable for the full participation fee, but has the option to provide another participant if you are unable to attend.

A registration is only valid if all fields in the registration form are filled in.

Price for the training

The facilitation training costs DKK 5,590.

Please fill out all fields below when registering

Do you have questions about the program?

If you have any questions about the program, you are more than welcome to contact our education manager Mette Tange Vestergård.

Fill out the form below and she will contact you as soon as possible.

Mette Tange Vestergård
Senior Consultant

Cand.scient.pol.

E-mail: mtv@lead.eu
Tel: 51 72 43 58