Training

ICA Denver offers the world-renowned Technology of Participation (ToP)® training in facilitation methods.

Is your group struggling to have productive meetings? Does it have a plan that people are engaged in and committed to? These methods are designed to meet your needs.

AGENCIES ARE USING ToP!
Colorado: Department of Public Health and Environment
The participatory methods used to facilitate the strategic planning sessions were the Technology of Participation (ToP)® Methods. To see their strategic plan summary ... more  >>>

ToP 2011 Facilitation Training Series

ToP Facilitation Methods - For details & to register >>>

ToP Facilitation Methods are practical tools for fostering highly energized, productive, inclusive, and meaningful group participation. The ToP course is for anyone who leads meetings and/or works with groups and desires better results. Learn and practice two foundational facilitation methods and a powerful application!

ToP Strategic Planning - TBD later in the year.

The ToP Strategic Planning process builds on your learning from the ToP Facilitation Methods course, showing you how to weave those methods into an integrated approach to strategic planning. The resulting plan is realistic, achievable, and easy to monitor.

Facilitating Conciliation:
Beyond Conflict Resolution -
TBD.

Our society is crying for alternatives to the adversarial approach of dealing with disputes. Resolving conflict with a different form of conflict does not work. Negotiating from bases of power and fixed positions deepens the divide and expands the problem. The best and most lasting solutions and resolutions are those created by the people directly involved.

About the lead trainer: Bill Staples from ICA Associates in Toronto: Click here for details about Bill.

Other Advanced Courses -
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ToP Secrets of Implementation

Application Design Lab

The Power of Image Shift

Facilitation Graphics

Mastering the Technology of Participation

Consider becoming a Certified ToP Facilitator (CTF)!  For more information >>>


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Comment from a manager who took the ToP Facilitation Methods course:

"I'm throwing away all my self-help books and just using ORID!" (an acronym for the steps of a Focused Conversation).

Why would ANYONE say that? Well, come to a ToP Facilitation Methods Course and find out for yourself!
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