Training of Facilitators

Currently scheduled seminars

The Training of Facilitators Seminars are an opportunity to learn how to facilitate PL learning events. They are intended for experienced designers and facilitators, and are a prerequisite for joining the Facilitator Program.

The ToF seminars create a learning community for examining the dynamics of facilitating PL. Personal Leadership is a simple method, and can appear deceptively easy to facilitate. Just as anyone practicing PL quickly discovers the profound nuances of the principles and practices, however, so too do facilitators quickly discover the depth and complexity of facilitating PL. The ToF seminars will help you navigate those depths and respond with confidence to the complexities of facilitating PL.

The seminars consist of

• One six-day face-to-face training
• Two virtual plenary sessions of two hours, held after the face-to-face session
• Individual work prior to the face-to-face session
• Individual and virtual partner work between the face-to-face and virtual plenary sessions
• Please note: As part of the ToF seminar, you will design, develop, and deliver a PL learning event for clients, colleagues, family members and/or friends. It doesn’t matter for whom, the point is to start experiencing the process of facilitating PL. Time is allowed to do this between the two virtual plenary sessions that follow the face-to-face component.

The seminars focus specifically on the process of facilitating PL, while refining your facilitation practice overall. They also

• Deepen your personal PL practice
• Involve independent design work, small group collaboration, and experimentation with content delivery
• Provide an opportunity for small group coaching with the seminar leaders

You will learn how to

• Adapt PL to your individualized professional situation
• Design activities that are appropriate to your specific clients or industry
• Place the Personal Leadership method within a variety of contexts
• Explain Personal Leadership’s guiding tenets and answer frequently asked questions
• Use personal stories and examples to illustrate the principles and practices of Personal Leadership and the Critical Moment Dialogue
• Assess yourself using the ToF Developmental Benchmarks
• Create a personalized plan for ongoing development as a PL Facilitator

The final design of each seminar will be tailored to the learning agendas, experience level and developmental needs of those who register.

As a pre-requisite for attending a Training of Facilitators seminar, you must have

• Completed a PL Foundations seminar or its equivalent. This includes

> the PL graduate seminar in the Master of Arts in Intercultural Relations (MAIR) program
> the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication (SIIC) Fellows Program
> an EPIC: Essential Practice for Intercultural Competence seminar
> the Personal Leadership: A Year of Living the Practices seminar

OR

• Completed a coach-supported self-study program of the Personal Leadership method through reading and applying Making a World of Difference—Personal Leadership: A Methodology of Two Principles and Six Practices, the book written by the Personal Leadership Founders. Choose a coach from one of PLSeminars' Senior Facilitators or contact us for more information.

If you would like to attend a Training of Facilitators seminar, check the list of upcoming seminars or contact us.