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Virtual Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (vAIFT)

What might be possible if a community of individuals were fully engaged and using their strengths to collectively achieve shared visions?

What is Appreciative Inquiry

Appreciative Inquiry is a collaborative, strengths-based approach to both personal and organizational development that is proving to be highly effective in thousands of organizations and communities in hundreds of countries around the world. It is a way of bringing about change that shares leadership and learning, fully engaging everyone in the organization.

Virtual AIFT Program Overview

The Virtual Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (vAIFT) © is a two-week online certification program that engages participants to learn about the foundations and principles of Appreciative Inquiry as well as provide the skills necessary to facilitate appreciative inquiry sessions in all human systems (large or small). This course teaches the basics of Appreciative Inquiry (e.g. principles, 5-Ds, supporting theory and research, etc.) but delves deeper by providing experiential exercises that teach participants how to define the topic of inquiry, practice positive framing, work with core teams, design and field test an interview protocol, and more…

This Appreciative Inquiry foundations course includes mini-lectures, and experiential learning (individual, pairs, trios, small group, and large group) as well as auditory and visual materials to enhance the learning experience.

Training is designed for:

Leaders in businesses and corporations, community development, educational organizations, governmental organizations, and nonprofit organizations–in short, anyone who wants to learn how to facilitate Appreciative Inquiry.

Training Schedule and Hours

The virtual Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (vAIFT) is designed to be a blended learning experience. This means portions of the course will be delivered synchronously (in real-time through services like Zoom) and asynchronously (you read and participate in activities and exercises at a time/pace/place that works best for you to be ready for the synchronous session). The combination of synchronous and asynchronous work will equate to 26 training hours (same as our face-to-face AIFT program). Participants will need to complete the program in its entirety to be eligible to earn their AI Facilitator Certification, this includes participating in all synchronous sessions.

Please note: the synchronous portions of the vAIFT are highly experiential and will not be recorded. The vAIFT Trainers will be utilizing breakout rooms to develop community and trust amongst participants, conduct paired interviews, and engage in small group discussions and reflections.

vAIFT Orientation:

To ensure that all participants are off to a strong start, your vAIFT trainers will host a live orientation session via Zoom on Monday, July 31st at 9:00am Pacific Time. Orientation allows you to connect with your trainers, engage with participants, become familiar with LearnDash (our online learning platform), and ask questions about pre-workshop reading and activities prior to your first vAIFT session in Zoom on Monday, Aug. 7th, 2023.

vAIFT Training Dates/Times:

The SYNCHRONOUS portion (‘real time’ learning with your vAIFT trainers). The virtual AIFT program is an intensive, accelerated program spanning over the course of 2-weeks. Below are the hours for live interaction and collaboration with your vAIFT trainers and cohorts:

WEEK 1:	MONDAY Aug. 7, 2023 9:00am-11:00am (PDT)	TUESDAY Aug. 8, 2023 9:00am-11:00am (PDT)	WEDNESDAY Aug. 9, 2023 9:00am-11:00am (PDT)	THURSDAY Aug. 10, 2023 9:00am-11:00am (PDT)
WEEK 2:	MONDAY Aug. 14, 2023 9:00am-11:00am (PDT)	TUESDAY Aug. 15, 2023 9:00am-11:00am (PDT)	WEDNESDAY Aug. 16, 2023 9:00am-11:00am (PDT)	THURSDAY Aug. 17, 2023 9:00am-11:00am (PDT)

*Please note: all times listed above are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT)

The ASYNCHRONOUS portion of your training begins:

Monday, July 31, 2023 with introductory activities and runs throughout the 2 weeks of synchronous learning. You will receive login information to the Center for Appreciative Inquiry’s (CAI) online learning platform closer to the vAIFT start date.

vAIFT Training Segments:

AIFT is divided into 4 ‘segments’. Each segment consists of modules containing exercises, readings, and discussions.

SEGMENT I – EXPERIENCING APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

Learn basic processes and experience AI by participating in a facilitated Appreciative Inquiry led by the Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training Trainers

SEGMENT II – UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY

Actively learn about the concepts, principles, theories and research.

SEGMENT III – PLANNING AND DESIGNING AN APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY SESSION

Plan and practice how you will begin helping your organization, group, or community build upon their strengths.

SEGMENT IV – PRACTICING APPRECIATIVE INQUIRY APPLICATIONS

Practice exercises you can take home to use Appreciative Inquiry in your personal and professional life.
Practice choosing the best language, words for facilitating Appreciative Inquiry within a particular culture.
Begin developing your plan to become a certified Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator by completing a Practicum/Supervised Experience.

We will start our synchronous sessions on time and work diligently to maintain the vAIFT schedule, honoring our commitment to the learning experience. We have found full participation to be the most productive for the participants and the trainers.

Key Learning Outcomes

As a fully engaged participant in the Virtual Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Training (vAIFT^©), you will leave the workshop better able to:

Create/enhance your personal way of being and doing in order to use an appreciative approach; focus on what’s right in your world, so that you can deeply inquire into what’s right and why, and then find ways of intentionally creating more of what’s right in your world.
Facilitate individuals, groups, organizations, and communities to create collective ways of being and doing using an appreciative approach; that will help them focus on what’s right so that they can deeply inquire into what’s right and why, and then find ways of intentionally working with them to both create more of what’s right and envision innovation and new ways of being and doing.

Letter of Completion

To obtain a letter of completion (and to be eligible for consideration for AI Facilitator Certification) each participant must complete 26 training hours. Letters of completion include your name, date of your training, and number of classroom hours earned.

Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Certification

Each of our certification courses require a written practicum (‘narrative’) of your work. The learning management system will be accessible to you to review materials for a full year after the vAIFT. The purpose of your practicum is to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the principles of Appreciative Inquiry, its various applications, what you learned, etc. Participants will submit their practicum for review by our Practicum Review Committee which consists of 2-4 seasoned Ai practitioners. It is standard practice for the panel to engage participants in a conversation (conducted virtually) about their practicum. Typically, they will respond with questions to deepen their and the participant’s mutual understanding of, and learning about, AI. The practicum review is therefore a dialogical and interactive process.

Participants have up to one year from the date of their training to submit their practicum for review. During this time, your trainers make themselves available to you for mentoring and support (at no additional cost) as you work through your first inquiry. Your mentoring/support can be done via telephone, skype, zoom, etc. You and your trainers can arrange a time and platform in which to conduct these sessions. Learn more about our Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Certification requirements here.

Once certified, your Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator Certification lasts for 2 years. AI Certification with the Center for Appreciative Inquiry includes:

Appreciative Inquiry Certification document that will be emailed to you for your records;
Center for Appreciative Inquiry Certification logo that you are welcome to embed on your website or include in your email signature;
Listing on our Appreciative Inquiry Directory. Your Ai Directory listing is an editable profile page that includes your photo and professional biography that highlights your specialties, articles, videos and testimonials. Directory profiles are easy to create and update and will make you locatable by our worldwide audience. All Directory profiles will remain visible on our website for the duration of your certification. Our Appreciative Inquiry certification is good for 2 years; after which you may renew your Ai certification. You can learn more about the benefits of our AI Directory here.

Additional Training Information

Online Learning Platform

Participants will receive login information to the Center for Appreciative Inquiry’s (CAI) online learning platform closer to the training date. We will open the online platform to participants prior to the start of the training. This allows participants time to navigate the software and become acquainted with the various features and tools it offers, introduce themselves to their trainers and other vAIFT participants, and access all pre-workshop reading and materials.

Refund Policy

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Strategic Conversations Bootcamp – Two 2.5-Hour Virtual Sessions

Event Schedule:

SESSION 1	SESSION 2
TUESDAY October 10, 2023	THURSDAY October 12, 2023
9:00am-11:30am EDT 1:00pm-3:30pm UTC	9:00am-11:30am EDT 1:00pm-3:30pm UTC

Please note: ALL virtual sessions will be recorded and saved for participants who are unable to attend a scheduled webinar. Links to the recordings will be provided so that participants can view/listen to the recording at a time that works best for them.

Strategic Conversations Bootcamp Overview:

A lack of strategic thinking and planning in organizations is costly. The greatest expense is the investment of time and resources into activities that do not support company goals or the mission. In addition, employees show up, do their work, and go home. This results in missed opportunities. Without a context for their work, employees are not inspired to think or plan creatively about process improvement, innovation, or cost savings. And anyone who has tried knows, it can be a struggle to get teams to buy-in to strategic goals, much less think and work in alignment with those goals.

Developing your leadership ability for strategic thinking and planning, coupled with the skills to engage in strategic conversations significantly improves your value as a leader. The days of hiring an outside agency to create a strategic plan for your organization are over; so too should be strategic plans developed at the top and handed down for others to implement. Organizations poised for growth and success have leaders who are adopting strategic thinking as an on-going way of doing business and strategic planning that engages employees across the whole organization as well as external stakeholders. They engage everyone in developing agile plans, cycles of experimentation and learning, innovation, and measuring actions against relevant metrics.

COURSE OUTCOMES:
This training will prepare you to engage your teams in strategic conversations that can:

• Increase productivity, engagements, and organizational effectiveness;
• Reduce costs, misalignment, and conflicts;
• Improve customer service levels;
• Innovate in the face of challenges; and
• Make a positive contribution to the bottom line.

Using two very powerful methodologies (SOAR and the Appreciative Inquiry 5-D Cycle), you will have the tools to engage teams from a whole system perspective in conversations to:

• Address short- and long-term challenges, systems, and innovation;
• Explore strengths, dynamic capabilities, and opportunities;
• Develop or re-evaluate organization’s values, vision, and mission statements;
• Set goals, objectives, strategies, and action plans;
• Clarify roles, relationships, and expectations; and
• Track progress through regular cycles of action learning.

This bootcamp will support your capacity and develop capabilities to have strategic conversations at the level of the individual, team, division, and the whole organization or community.

Course Modules:

MODULE 1: VALUING STRATEGIC THINKING

PURPOSE: Appreciate the value of strategic thinking and adopt an appreciative framework for strategic conversations.

OBJECTIVES:

Understand the importance of strategic conversations and the role generative questions and positive framing play.
Adopt an AI framework for strategic thinking.
Recognize the 3 key factors of strategic conversations and the basic principles for leading them.
Practice framing and asking generative questions for simple strategic conversations.

MODULE 2: FOSTERING SOAR CONVERSATIONS

PURPOSE: Learn how to use SOAR to frame strategic conversations.

OBJECTIVES:

Understand the SOAR Framework for strategic thinking.
Experience SOAR as a positive approach for strategic conversations.
Practice positive framing and generative questions using SOAR at various levels in the organization.

MODULE 3: THE AI 5-D CYCLE

PURPOSE: Entertain strategic conversations at scale, e.g., strategic planning or whole system change, using the AI 5-D Cycle.

OBJECTIVES:

Learn how you engage whole systems in strategic conversations.
Use the two AI practices – positive framing and generative questions – to frame a topic and craft an inquiry.
Identify opportunities to facilitate whole system conversations.

MODULE 4: STRATEGIC AREA FOR APPLICATION

PURPOSE: Build capacity for practical application of SOAR and the AI 5-D Cycle.

OBJECTIVES:

Deepen your capacity to foster strategic conversations.
Design and share a prototype for a strategic conversation.
Practice giving and receiving feedforward.

Method of Delivery:

These live events will be delivered and recorded using Zoom. You can participate in these live events using any device: computer, tablet, or mobile. Please participate using the dial-in method you feel most comfortable with. You will receive the meeting login information from your trainers in two separate emails. First email will be sent two weeks prior to the event; the second to be sent the day before the bootcamp.

Affiliate Program Offered in Partnership with:

Conversation Bootcamp – Two 2.5-Hour Virtual Sessions

EVENT SCHEDULE:

SESSION 1	SESSION 2
TUESDAY October 3, 2023	THURSDAY October 5, 2023
9:00am-11:30am EDT 1:00pm-3:30pm UTC	9:00am-11:30am EDT 1:00pm-3:30pm UTC

CONVERSATION BOOTCAMP OVERVIEW:

Conversations are at the heart of everything we do. They are key to effective communications, leadership, high performing teams, and strong relationships. We all know that they influence us, but we rarely stop to think about how much they affect our well-being and others as well as the health of our organizations and communities. Our conversations directly influence our present moment and possible futures. Are you engaging in Conversations Worth Having?

Communication. It remains the top issue for organizations, teams, and relationships. Almost everyone struggles with how to effectively communicate when they are frustrated or facing conflict. The effects of poor communication are costly. They show up in organizations as:

Employee disengagement, malaise, and turnover;
Dysfunctional teams;
Poor performance;
Inability to give and receive critical feedback; and
Negative attitudes, cliques, and gossip: a culture of “me”.

If you’re dealing with any of these outcomes, the Conversations Worth Having Bootcamp will give you the skills and tools to turn them around. This program is grounded in Appreciative Inquiry, one of the most widely used positive change approaches. Two simple Appreciative Inquiry practices can turn your entire culture around, creating a culture of conversations worth having.

Following this workshop, you will have tools to establish communication practices that will support productivity, engagement, high performance teams, regular feedback, positivity, and a culture of “we.”

COURSE OUTCOMES:

You will walk away prepared to:

Keep your cool when you want to explode!
Effectively challenge assumptions and preconceptions, including yours.
Deal with conflict quickly and effectively.
Fuel productive and meaningful engagement.
Communicate successfully with people who hold negative attitudes or defensive positions.
Give and receive critical feedback in ways that promote learning and high performance.
Ask the kind of questions that deepen understanding, strengthen connections, and inspire possibility.
Talk with colleagues in ways that invite them to collaborate on projects and strategic outcomes.
Listen with genuine curiosity.
Frame any conversation, even one around a highly complex problem, to inspire creative and innovative thinking and solutions.

Course Modules:

MODULE 1: THE POWER OF CONVERSATIONS

PURPOSE: Understand the nature of our conversations, how they affect human being and doing, and enhance your ability to choose conversations worth having.

OBJECTIVES:

Understand the neuroscience of conversation.
Experiences the power of conversation.
Practice priming the body-mindset for conversations worth having.

MODULE 2: ASK GENERATIVE QUESTIONS

PURPOSE: Understand the nature of our conversations, the basics of Appreciative Inquiry, and improve your ability to ask generative questions to foster effective communication.

OBJECTIVES:

Experience the nature of our conversations and the effect on you and others.
Recognize a generative question and how it influences possibility.
Use generative questions to shift the dynamics of personal and workplace communication problems.

MODULE 3: CREATE A POSITIVE FRAME

PURPOSE: Intentionally foster effective communication using positive framing and continue to develop your ability to ask generative questions.

OBJECTIVES:

Experience flipping negative conversations to conversations worth having.
Use flipping to frame problems and issues.
Develop generative questions to fuel productive and meaningful engagement around workplace challenges.

MODULE 4: FEEDBACK and FEEDFORWARD

PURPOSE: Develop a growth mindset and understand and apply the two AI practices to give and receive feedback and feedforward.

OBJECTIVES:

Adopt a growth mindset to support openness and interest in regular feedback.
Understand the difference between feedback and feedforward.
Practice giving and receiving feedforward.

Method of Delivery:

Affiliate Program Offered in Partnership with:

Conversations Worth Having (CWH) – Trainer Certification

EVENT SCHEDULE:

DAY 1	DAY 2
THURSDAY September 7, 2023	FRIDAY September 8, 2023
8:00am-2:00pm PDT 11:00am-5:00pm EDT 3:00pm-9:00pm UTC	8:00am-2:00pm PDT 11:00am-5:00pm EDT 3:00pm-9:00pm UTC

Please note: the event times listed above are Eastern Standard Time (EST) and Universal Time Coordinated (UTC)

PROGRAM OVERVIEW:

Communication remains one of the top issues for employees in most organizations. Conversations Worth Having (CWH) certification gives you the ability to positively affect people’s lives by significantly improving communication within organizations. As a CWH trainer, you will have the tools and skills to offer both virtual and on-site Conversation Bootcamp trainings. The certification program is designed to ensure that as a trainer, you will be confident and effective. Trainers must complete the 2-day Conversation Bootcamp on Conversations Worth Having and Strategic Conversations prior to attending the 2-day CWH training for trainers.

This certification is an intensive, experiential learning opportunity that combines the theory, practice, and research of Appreciative Inquiry, positive psychology, and neuroscience to support the kind of communication that fuels productivity and meaningful engagement any time, any where, and in any situation. Certification requires successful completion of the 2-day CWH training for trainers’ program, an online final evaluation process, and acceptance of a professional project.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

Develop practical instructional design skills and confidence plus the critical skills to facilitate learning and ensure retention.
Use the training slides, manuals, and other materials to enhance the learning experience for participants.
Become effective at facilitating and using case studies, activities, exercises, videos, and slides to support participant learning.
Design workshops and/or integrate the bootcamp materials into your current work.
Develop skills at having conversations that help yourself and others thrive and create environments that impact well-being.
Improve your skills at turning conflict and problems into conversations worth having.

TRAINING PACKAGE:

Certified trainers will have everything they need to begin to implement Conversation Bootcamps and teach Conversations Worth Having. Trainers may list their profile on the Conversations Worth Having Training website. They will also have on-line access to the latest training materials. These materials include:

• Manuals for the Conversations Bootcamp and Strategic Conversations Bootcamp
• Training PowerPoint slides and example detailed agendas
• Facilitator/Trainer Skills Workbook and PowerPoint slides
• Case studies, stories, journal articles, video clips, and activities
• Deck of generative question cards (in development)
• Marketing materials
• Participation in CWHConnect called and retreats (a community of practice for trainers)
• Ability to co-brand materials and co-create other produces with the CWH community

In addition, certified trainers will receive their SOAR profile. This profile helps you understand your natural capacity for strategic thinking, planning, and leading.

CERTIFICATION COURSE DESIGNED FOR:

Our goal is to certify practitioners, trainers, and leaders driving positive change within organizations and communities, with teams, and with individuals. This includes:

• Managers and leaders
• Training and development practitioners
• Human resource professionals
• Organization development professionals
• Talent management practitioners
• Coaches
• Internal and external consultants
• Teachers, school counselors, and principals

COURSE PREREQUISITE:

Conversation Bootcamps 1 and 2: Conversations Worth Having and Strategic Conversations

CONVERSATIONS WORTH HAVING TRAINER CERTIFICATION:

Two and one half day training includes one year of on-line access to the latest training materials, Trainer Workbook, listing on our website, and quarterly CWH trainer calls. Additional coaching is available.

METHOD OF DELIVERY:

AFFILIATE PROGRAM OFFERED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:

Strategic Conversations Bootcamp – Two 2.5-Hour Virtual Sessions

Event Schedule:

SESSION 1	SESSION 2
WEDNESDAY May 3, 2023	FRIDAY May 5, 2023
9:00am-11:30am PDT 12:00pm-2:30pm EDT 4:00pm-6:30pm UTC	9:00am-11:30am PDT 12:00pm-2:30pm EDT 4:00pm-6:30pm UTC

Strategic Conversations Bootcamp Overview:

COURSE OUTCOMES:
This training will prepare you to engage your teams in strategic conversations that can:

Using two very powerful methodologies (SOAR and the Appreciative Inquiry 5-D Cycle), you will have the tools to engage teams from a whole system perspective in conversations to:

This bootcamp will support your capacity and develop capabilities to have strategic conversations at the level of the individual, team, division, and the whole organization or community.

Course Modules:

MODULE 1: VALUING STRATEGIC THINKING

PURPOSE: Appreciate the value of strategic thinking and adopt an appreciative framework for strategic conversations.

OBJECTIVES:

Understand the importance of strategic conversations and the role generative questions and positive framing play.
Adopt an AI framework for strategic thinking.
Recognize the 3 key factors of strategic conversations and the basic principles for leading them.
Practice framing and asking generative questions for simple strategic conversations.

MODULE 2: FOSTERING SOAR CONVERSATIONS

PURPOSE: Learn how to use SOAR to frame strategic conversations.

OBJECTIVES:

Understand the SOAR Framework for strategic thinking.
Experience SOAR as a positive approach for strategic conversations.
Practice positive framing and generative questions using SOAR at various levels in the organization.

MODULE 3: THE AI 5-D CYCLE

PURPOSE: Entertain strategic conversations at scale, e.g., strategic planning or whole system change, using the AI 5-D Cycle.

OBJECTIVES:

Learn how you engage whole systems in strategic conversations.
Use the two AI practices – positive framing and generative questions – to frame a topic and craft an inquiry.
Identify opportunities to facilitate whole system conversations.

MODULE 4: STRATEGIC AREA FOR APPLICATION

PURPOSE: Build capacity for practical application of SOAR and the AI 5-D Cycle.

OBJECTIVES:

Deepen your capacity to foster strategic conversations.
Design and share a prototype for a strategic conversation.
Practice giving and receiving feedforward.

Method of Delivery:

Affiliate Program Offered in Partnership with:

Conversation Bootcamp – Two 2.5-Hour Virtual Sessions

EVENT SCHEDULE:

SESSION 1	SESSION 2
WEDNESDAY April 26, 2023	FRIDAY April 28, 2023
9:00am-11:30am PDT 12:00pm-2:30pm EDT 4:00pm-6:30pm UTC	9:00am-11:30am PDT 12:00pm-2:30pm EDT 4:00pm-6:30pm UTC

CONVERSATION BOOTCAMP OVERVIEW:

Employee disengagement, malaise, and turnover;
Dysfunctional teams;
Poor performance;
Inability to give and receive critical feedback; and
Negative attitudes, cliques, and gossip: a culture of “me”.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

You will walk away prepared to:

Keep your cool when you want to explode!
Effectively challenge assumptions and preconceptions, including yours.
Deal with conflict quickly and effectively.
Fuel productive and meaningful engagement.
Communicate successfully with people who hold negative attitudes or defensive positions.
Give and receive critical feedback in ways that promote learning and high performance.
Ask the kind of questions that deepen understanding, strengthen connections, and inspire possibility.
Talk with colleagues in ways that invite them to collaborate on projects and strategic outcomes.
Listen with genuine curiosity.
Frame any conversation, even one around a highly complex problem, to inspire creative and innovative thinking and solutions.

Course Modules:

MODULE 1: THE POWER OF CONVERSATIONS

PURPOSE: Understand the nature of our conversations, how they affect human being and doing, and enhance your ability to choose conversations worth having.

OBJECTIVES:

Understand the neuroscience of conversation.
Experiences the power of conversation.
Practice priming the body-mindset for conversations worth having.

MODULE 2: ASK GENERATIVE QUESTIONS

PURPOSE: Understand the nature of our conversations, the basics of Appreciative Inquiry, and improve your ability to ask generative questions to foster effective communication.

OBJECTIVES:

Experience the nature of our conversations and the effect on you and others.
Recognize a generative question and how it influences possibility.
Use generative questions to shift the dynamics of personal and workplace communication problems.

MODULE 3: CREATE A POSITIVE FRAME

PURPOSE: Intentionally foster effective communication using positive framing and continue to develop your ability to ask generative questions.

OBJECTIVES:

Experience flipping negative conversations to conversations worth having.
Use flipping to frame problems and issues.
Develop generative questions to fuel productive and meaningful engagement around workplace challenges.

MODULE 4: FEEDBACK and FEEDFORWARD

PURPOSE: Develop a growth mindset and understand and apply the two AI practices to give and receive feedback and feedforward.

OBJECTIVES:

Adopt a growth mindset to support openness and interest in regular feedback.
Understand the difference between feedback and feedforward.
Practice giving and receiving feedforward.

Method of Delivery:

Affiliate Program Offered in Partnership with:

Conversations Worth Having (CWH) – Trainer Certification

EVENT SCHEDULE:

DAY 1	DAY 2
THURSDAY March 9, 2023	FRIDAY March 10, 2023
8:30am-2:30pm EST 1:30pm-7:30pm UTC	8:30am-2:30pm EST 1:30pm-7:30pm UTC

Please note: the event times listed above are Eastern Standard Time (EST) and Universal Time Coordinated (UTC)

PROGRAM OVERVIEW:

COURSE OUTCOMES:

Develop practical instructional design skills and confidence plus the critical skills to facilitate learning and ensure retention.
Use the training slides, manuals, and other materials to enhance the learning experience for participants.
Become effective at facilitating and using case studies, activities, exercises, videos, and slides to support participant learning.
Design workshops and/or integrate the bootcamp materials into your current work.
Develop skills at having conversations that help yourself and others thrive and create environments that impact well-being.
Improve your skills at turning conflict and problems into conversations worth having.

TRAINING PACKAGE:

In addition, certified trainers will receive their SOAR profile. This profile helps you understand your natural capacity for strategic thinking, planning, and leading.

CERTIFICATION COURSE DESIGNED FOR:

Our goal is to certify practitioners, trainers, and leaders driving positive change within organizations and communities, with teams, and with individuals. This includes:

COURSE PREREQUISITE:

Conversation Bootcamps 1 and 2: Conversations Worth Having and Strategic Conversations

CONVERSATIONS WORTH HAVING TRAINER CERTIFICATION:

METHOD OF DELIVERY:

AFFILIATE PROGRAM OFFERED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH:

Resilience Reset

Event Dates and Times:

Session 1:	Session 2:	Session 3:
RESILIENCE AS A PRACTICE	UPLIFTING STRENGTHS	ALTERING OUR GAZE
August 31, 2022 8:00am-9:00am PDT 11:00am-12:00pm EDT 3:00pm-4:00pm UTC	September 7, 2022 8:00am-9:00am PDT 11:00am-12:00pm EDT 3:00pm-4:00pm UTC	September 14, 2022 8:00am-9:00am PDT 11:00am-12:00pm EDT 3:00pm-4:00pm UTC

Event Description:

Join Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell every week for Resilience Reset, a highly interactive conversation about resilience in our complex world. Jeanie and Joan will curate topics from their work in resilience and/or uplift topics from the participants that arrive. Resilience Reset is an opportunity to focus on the strengths we bring to creating an appreciative resilience practice.

Being resilient is about practicing in the every-day of our lives and work. It is not a place we get to arrive at nor a place where we can permanently reside. Being resilient does not make us immune to the challenges of work and life. Rather, being resilient lets us venture and evolve using all of our strengths in the most challenging of times.

This series is based upon Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness (2018). Get your copy of the book here.

Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell, co-presidents of Cockell McArthur-Blair Consulting, specialize in designing strategies to surface the wisdom of individuals, groups, and organizations to build positive futures. They are the co-authors of Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness (2018) and Appreciative Inquiry in Higher Education: A Transformative Force (2^nd Edition 2020) and many articles on leadership and AI. They bring to this conversation a lifelong passion for and study of leadership and resilience.

Method of Delivery:

These live conversations will be delivered using Zoom. You can participate in these live events using a computer or tablet. Please participate using the dial-in method you feel most comfortable with. You will receive the Zoom meeting information upon registration listed in your confirmation email.

Appreciative Resilience Facilitator Training (ARFT)

Training Dates and Times:

SESSION 1	SESSION 2	SESSION 3	SESSION 4	SESSION 5	SESSION 6
MON. Sept. 26, 2022 8am-10am PST 11am-1pm EST	TUES. Sept. 27, 2022 8am-10am PST 11am-1pm EST	WED. Sept. 28, 2022 8am-10am PST 11am-1pm EST	MON. Oct. 3, 2022 8am-10am PST 11am-1pm EST	TUES. Oct. 4, 2022 8am-10am PST 11am-1pm EST	WED. Oct. 5, 2022 8am-10am PST 11am-1pm EST

Training Description:

Each of us lives in a complex and unpredictable world and we are called upon again and again to help others be resilient and to be resilient ourselves.

Bring your skill as an Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator to uplifting and sustaining your workplace and beyond with appreciative resilience. Appreciative resilience is a resilience practice built from the tenets of appreciative inquiry and from powerful resilience practices.

This Appreciative Resilience Facilitator Training (ARFT) is designed for appreciative inquiry practitioners who want to deliver the Appreciative Resilience workshop and the ALIVE workshop for clients and colleagues and/or foster appreciative resilience informally with organizations, teams and individuals. It is also excellent facilitation training for those seeking to facilitate in complex situations.

In this facilitator training you will delve into the facilitation practices and considerations for delivering two powerful resilience processes. The first process is the appreciative resilience practice that uses appreciative inquiry to examine how you can foster hope and a hopeful view as a foundation of resilience; utilize your strengths in times of challenge and despair; and undertake the will and power to forgive. The second process is the ALIVE practice which is a powerful tool to use in challenging times. ALIVE stands for Appreciate, Love, Inquire, Venture, and Evolve. This tool uses appreciative generative questions to examine resilience.

Both of these appreciative resilience processes are built from the practices of appreciative inquiry and are based upon the appreciative resilience work and writing of Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell.

People often think of resilience as a response to weathering challenges but in appreciative resilience work the aim is to create a sustaining practice of resilience.

Training Outcomes:

In this Appreciative Resilience Facilitator Training (ARFT) practitioners will advance and deepen their skills in:

• Facilitating complex conversations;
• Facilitating the appreciative resilience workshop;
• Facilitating the ALIVE workshop;
• Applying adult learning principals to facilitation;
• Reflecting on worldview and how it influences the approach to appreciative resilience facilitation;
• Incorporating a focus on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion into resilience conversations;
• Receiving and giving feedback on facilitation.

Training Prerequisites:

Participants must:

• Have a solid understanding of the foundations and application of Appreciative Inquiry.

Course Sessions:

SESSIONS 1 and 2: Be An Appreciative Resilience Facilitator for Complex and Challenging Times

INVITATION: Examine the research and underpinnings of resilience and how it interweaves with appreciative inquiry.

DIALOGUE:
• Examine resilience research
• Review the basics of Appreciative Inquiry
• Identify key aspects of the ALIVE and Appreciative Resilience models
• Explore the uses of Appreciative Inquiry in complex and challenging situations
• Reflect on facilitating in complex and challenging situations

SESSION 3: Facilitate the ALIVE Model

INVITATION: Explore and use the ALIVE model for facilitating in challenging times.

DIALOGUE:
• Bring adult learning principles to facilitation
• Examine the ALIVE model
• Reflect on facilitator considerations
• Facilitate sections of the ALIVE model
• Give and receive feedback

SESSIONS 4 and 5: Facilitate the Appreciative Resilience Model

INVITATION: Explore and use the Appreciative Resilience model with individuals, groups, and organizations.

DIALOGUE:
• Explore the Appreciative Resilience model elements
• Engage with Appreciative Resilience workshop formats
• Facilitate sections of the Appreciative Resilience model
• Give and receive feedback

SESSION 6: Sustain Your Practice and Facilitation of Appreciative Resilience

INVITATION: Integrate elements of Appreciative Resilience into your personal facilitation practices

DIALOGUE:
• Create ideas to integrate Appreciative Resilience into Appreciative Inquiry practices
• Examine worldviews, justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in relation to Appreciative Resilience facilitation practices
• Analyze personal facilitation boundaries and considerations
• Build a personal Appreciative Resilience facilitation plan
• Reflect on sustaining your Appreciative Resilience practice

Certification Information:

In order to qualify for certification each participant will create a portfolio on how they are taking appreciative resilience out into the world. The portfolio can arise from creating and facilitating an event; providing a workshop; facilitating complex conversations; coaching; or other facilitation practice.

The portfolio might contain:
• Outline of what you have designed and facilitated;
• Images, video, agendas, themes, outcomes;
• Personal reflections on the experience of facilitating appreciative resilience.

The portfolio can be an info-graphic, video, written document, and/or other creative form. The portfolio is due 6 months after the program.

Additional Course Information:

COURSE MATERIALS:

Required textbook: This certification course utilizes the textbook, Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness by Jeanie Cockell and Joan McArthur-Blair. Your trainers will assign readings from this book throughout your training. You will need to purchase this textbook prior to the start of this course. This book is available in electronic or paperback versions. Please select the version that is in alignment with your learning style and preference. You can purchase your textbook here.

Jeanie and Joan encourage you to read the textbook before joining the workshop to acquaint yourself with the appreciative resilience models and to re-acquaint yourself with appreciative inquiry.

METHOD OF DELIVERY:
These live conversations will be delivered using Zoom. You can participate in these live events using a computer or tablet. You will receive the Zoom information link and password closer to the start of the event.

Appreciative Inquiry + Visuals: Free Mini-Session (part 1)

EVENT DATE & TIME:

Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Time: 9:00am-10:00am PDT / 12:00pm-1:00pm EDT / 4:00pm-5:00pm UTC

Please note: While live attendance will give you the greatest return on your investment of time, this virtual session will be recorded and saved for registered participants who are unable to attend a scheduled webinar. A link to the recording will be provided so that participants can view/listen to the recording at a time that works best for them.

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

Combining visuals with the facilitated Appreciative Inquiry (AI) process increases participant engagement in meetings through a shared vision of understanding—not to mention, enjoyment! Whether you are an AI Facilitator who wants to add visuals to your toolbox, or an experienced Visual Practitioner who wants to integrate AI into your work, the combination of the two offer a rich, interactive environment for both online or in-person meetings.

Participants do not need to know how to draw, just have an open mind to drawing. We will cover several ways to make meetings visual without drawing live in front of your client. Nor do participants need to be certified AI facilitators or coaches. Regardless of your skill level, your interest and passion will drive your curiosity. Together we will dive deep into the value of visuals in AI facilitated meetings.

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

In this free, 1-hour session, you will discover how visuals and AI can be used to visually facilitate a discovery meeting with a client.

If you would like to learn more, we invite you to participate in Appreciative Inquiry + Visuals: Meeting Design (part 2). In this virtual workshop we will dive deeper to create customized visual templates and exercises for use with any individual, team, organization or community. Additional resources will be shared should you want to expand your AI + Visuals practice.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

This free Define/Discovery mini-session is designed for:

AI Facilitators or meeting organizers who want to add visuals to their toolbox.
Visual Practitioners who want to integrate AI into their work.

METHOD OF DELIVERY:

This live event will be delivered using Zoom and will be using the Zoom annotation tool. While you may participate in this live event using any device: computer or tablet, you will have the most optimal experience if you join via a laptop or desktop computer.

You will receive the Zoom login information upon registration. If you have any questions about this event or have difficulty connecting in Zoom, please contact Heather Martinez at Heather@HeatherMartinez.com.

CONTINUED LEARNING AND PRACTICE:

If you wish to continue learning about creating and incorporating visuals with your Appreciative Inquiry practice, we invite you to register for Appreciative Inquiry + Visuals: Meeting Design (part 2)*. This course is designed to give you a variety of visual tools, templates and exercises that align with each step of the Appreciative Inquiry 5D Framework. Following the framework, you can create custom templates to use as facilitation tools designed to meet your clients’ desired outcomes. Together, we will explore these complimentary approaches with others in the AI and/or visual field to deepen your understanding and bring value to your projects.

You can learn more about Appreciative Inquiry + Visuals: Meeting Design (part 2) by clicking here.

*Please note: to enroll in Part 2 of this program, participants must complete the pre-requisite which entails attending a live session (or watch a recording) of Appreciative Inquiry + Visuals: Free Mini-Session (part 1).

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