Featured Courses
ToP Facilitation Methods
ToP Facilitation Methods
ToP Facilitation Methods
ToP Strategic Planning
ToP Facilitation Methods
ToP Facilitation Methods
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ToP Secrets of Implementation
ToP Secrets of Implementation
ToP Secrets of Implementation
Liberating Structures
ToP Secrets of Implementation
ToP Secrets of Implementation
Facilitation Trainings
Empower those in your organization or community with tools and processes to respectfully and inclusively engage stakeholders sparking committed action through shared appreciation and consensus building.
ToP Facilitation Methods
June 2 - 3, 2026
Alexandria, VA
Activate group engagement to confidently move groups from conflict & confusion to consensus & commitment
Learn to facilitate:
- Focused Conversations: Generate meaningful & productive dialog on any topic
- Consensus Workshops: Infuse groups with creative energy to align diverse perspectives everyone owns & supports
- Action Planning: Quickly prepare a project for launch with a shared commitment to timelines, tasks, & success metrics
*Eligible for ICF CCEs!*
ToP Facilitation Methods
June 22 - 23, 2026
Asheville, NC
Activate group engagement to confidently move groups from conflict & confusion to consensus & commitment
Learn to facilitate:
- Focused Conversations: Generate meaningful & productive dialog on any topic
- Consensus Workshops: Infuse groups with creative energy to align diverse perspectives everyone owns & supports
- Action Planning: Quickly prepare a project for launch with a shared commitment to timelines, tasks, & success metrics
*Eligible for ICF CCEs!*
Activating Engagement with Liberating Structures
July 7, 2026
Madison, WI
Learn how traditional structures of participation (e.g,. presentations & town halls) fall short in their attempt to meaningfully engage stakeholders and, instead, how Liberating Structures create the environment for true engagement to emerge dramatically. This improves the participants' experience and the session's outcomes.
You will experience several Liberating Structures and leave with the knowledge and confidence to incorporate them into their practice.
ToP Approaches to Environmental Scanning
July 13, 2026
San Antonio, TX
Explore 10 creative, insightful tools to understand customer, staff, or community perceptions and needs, delve into relevant data, and get groups on the same page.
This course is applicable to:
- Business & Team Leaders
- Local, State, & Federal Leaders
- Program & Change Managers
- Facilitators, Trainers & Consultants
- Community Organizers & Planners
- Anyone who wants to set a foundation and context for strategic thinking and proactive planning!
ToP Facilitation Methods
August 3 - 4, 2026
Kansas City, MO
Activate group engagement to confidently move groups from conflict & confusion to consensus & commitment
Learn to facilitate:
- Focused Conversations: Generate meaningful & productive dialog on any topic
- Consensus Workshops: Infuse groups with creative energy to align diverse perspectives everyone owns & supports
- Action Planning: Quickly prepare a project for launch with a shared commitment to timelines, tasks, & success metrics
*Eligible for ICF CCEs!*
ToP Secrets of Implementation
Aug 13 - 14, 2026
Dallas, TX
How do you keep your team committed and engaged, bring people to the table mid-stream, course-correct when needed, and finish triumphantly all while staying participatory and collaborative?
This course is packed with dozens of tools to help you:
- Understand and anticipate the ups & downs of implementing strategy
- Sustain momentum throughout a project
- Review and reposition actions that are in process
- Bring closure to plans and celebrate the team’s work
ToP Approaches to Environmental Scanning
August 31, 2026
Milwaukee, WI
Explore 10 creative, insightful tools to understand customer, staff, or community perceptions and needs, delve into relevant data, and get groups on the same page.
This course is applicable to:
- Business & Team Leaders
- Local, State, & Federal Leaders
- Program & Change Managers
- Facilitators, Trainers & Consultants
- Community Organizers & Planners
- Anyone who wants to set a foundation and context for strategic thinking and proactive planning!
Activating Engagement with Liberating Structures
September 9, 2026
Madison, WI
Learn how traditional structures of participation (e.g,. presentations & town halls) fall short in their attempt to meaningfully engage stakeholders and, instead, how Liberating Structures create the environment for true engagement to emerge dramatically. This improves the participants' experience and the session's outcomes.
You will experience several Liberating Structures and leave with the knowledge and confidence to incorporate them into their practice.
ToP Facilitation Methods
September 19 - 20, 2026
Asheville,NC
Activate group engagement to confidently move groups from conflict & confusion to consensus & commitment
Learn to facilitate:
- Focused Conversations: Generate meaningful & productive dialog on any topic
- Consensus Workshops: Infuse groups with creative energy to align diverse perspectives everyone owns & supports
- Action Planning: Quickly prepare a project for launch with a shared commitment to timelines, tasks, & success metrics
*Eligible for ICF CCEs!*
ToP Focused Conversation
September 23, 2026
Des Moines, IA
The ToP Focused Conversation is a structured methodology that:
- Engages all voices
- Builds a shared understanding of participants' diverse perspectives
- Helps groups productively discuss complex topics while minimizing conflict and power imbalances
- Mirrors the way our brains think from receiving data to taking action.
In this course you will experience the framework as participant, learner, & practitioner to build your confidence.
*Eligible for ICF CCEs*
ToP Approaches to Environmental Scanning
November 9, 2026
Kansas City, MO
Explore 10 creative, insightful tools to understand customer, staff, or community perceptions and needs, delve into relevant data, and get groups on the same page.
This course is applicable to:
- Business & Team Leaders
- Local, State, & Federal Leaders
- Program & Change Managers
- Facilitators, Trainers & Consultants
- Community Organizers & Planners
- Anyone who wants to set a foundation and context for strategic thinking and proactive planning!
ToP Facilitation Methods
June 10 - 11, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Activate group engagement to confidently move groups from conflict & confusion to consensus & commitment
Learn to facilitate:
- Focused Conversations: Generate meaningful & productive dialog on any topic
- Consensus Workshops: Infuse groups with creative energy to align diverse perspectives everyone owns & supports
- Action Planning: Quickly prepare a project for launch with a shared commitment to timelines, tasks, & success metrics
*Eligible for ICF CCEs!*
ToP Approaches to Environmental Scanning
June 24, 2026
Asheville, NC
Explore 10 creative, insightful tools to understand customer, staff, or community perceptions and needs, delve into relevant data, and get groups on the same page.
This course is applicable to:
- Business & Team Leaders
- Local, State, & Federal Leaders
- Program & Change Managers
- Facilitators, Trainers & Consultants
- Community Organizers & Planners
- Anyone who wants to set a foundation and context for strategic thinking and proactive planning!
ToP Facilitation Methods
July 8 - 9, 2026
Madison, WI
Activate group engagement to confidently move groups from conflict & confusion to consensus & commitment
Learn to facilitate:
- Focused Conversations: Generate meaningful & productive dialog on any topic
- Consensus Workshops: Infuse groups with creative energy to align diverse perspectives everyone owns & supports
- Action Planning: Quickly prepare a project for launch with a shared commitment to timelines, tasks, & success metrics
*Eligible for ICF CCEs!*
ToP Strategic Planning
July 14 - 15, 2026
San Antonio, TX
In this course, you’ll weave together ToP facilitation methods into a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to help groups answer their most important strategic questions.
Learn to help groups:
- Creatively visualize and come to agreement around their ideal future
- Honestly confront their most stubborn blocks to success
- Align around powerful, innovative, shared intentions
- Define measurable goals
- Commit to accountable plans of action
Activating Engagement with Liberating Structures
Aug 5, 2026
Kansas City
Learn how traditional structures of participation (e.g,. presentations & town halls) fall short in their attempt to meaningfully engage stakeholders and, instead, how Liberating Structures create the environment for true engagement to emerge dramatically. This improves the participants' experience and the session's outcomes.
You will experience several Liberating Structures and leave with the knowledge and confidence to incorporate them into their practice.
ToP Facilitation Methods
August 25 - 26, 2026
Twin Cities, MN
Activate group engagement to confidently move groups from conflict & confusion to consensus & commitment
Learn to facilitate:
- Focused Conversations: Generate meaningful & productive dialog on any topic
- Consensus Workshops: Infuse groups with creative energy to align diverse perspectives everyone owns & supports
- Action Planning: Quickly prepare a project for launch with a shared commitment to timelines, tasks, & success metrics
*Eligible for ICF CCEs!*
ToP Strategic Planning
September 1 - 2, 2026
Milwaukee, WI
In this course, you’ll weave together ToP facilitation methods into a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to help groups answer their most important strategic questions.
Learn to help groups:
- Creatively visualize and come to agreement around their ideal future
- Honestly confront their most stubborn blocks to success
- Align around powerful, innovative, shared intentions
- Define measurable goals
- Commit to accountable plans of action
ToP Focused Conversation
Sept 10, 2026
Madison, WI
The ToP Focused Conversation is a structured methodology that:
- Engages all voices
- Builds a shared understanding of participants' diverse perspectives
- Helps groups productively discuss complex topics while minimizing conflict and power imbalances
- Mirrors the way our brains think from receiving data to taking action.
In this course you will experience the framework as participant, learner, & practitioner to build your confidence.
*Eligible for ICF CCEs*
Activating Engagement with Liberating Structures
September 22, 2026
Des Moines, IA
Learn how traditional structures of participation (e.g,. presentations & town halls) fall short in their attempt to meaningfully engage stakeholders and, instead, how Liberating Structures create the environment for true engagement to emerge dramatically. This improves the participants' experience and the session's outcomes.
You will experience several Liberating Structures and leave with the knowledge and confidence to incorporate them into their practice.
ToP Strategic Planning
October 5 - 6, 2026
Las Vegas, NV
In this course, you’ll weave together ToP facilitation methods into a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to help groups answer their most important strategic questions.
Learn to help groups:
- Creatively visualize and come to agreement around their ideal future
- Honestly confront their most stubborn blocks to success
- Align around powerful, innovative, shared intentions
- Define measurable goals
- Commit to accountable plans of action
ToP Strategic Planning
November 10 - 11, 2026
Kansas City, MO
In this course, you’ll weave together ToP facilitation methods into a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to help groups answer their most important strategic questions.
Learn to help groups:
- Creatively visualize and come to agreement around their ideal future
- Honestly confront their most stubborn blocks to success
- Align around powerful, innovative, shared intentions
- Define measurable goals
- Commit to accountable plans of action
Customized Facilitation Training
Contact us to co-design an impactful and engaging training aligned with your organization's goals
Activating Engagement with Liberating Structures
Mar 12 - Madison, WI
Apr 9 - Orlando, FL
Apr 24 - Kansas City
Learn how traditional structures of participation (e.g., presentations & town halls) fall short in their attempt to meaningfully engage stakeholders and how Liberating Structures create the environment for true engagement to emerge dramatically improving the participants' experience and the session's outcomes.
You will experience several Liberating Structures and leave with the knowledge and confidence to incorporate them into your work.
Facilitating the ToP Focused Conversation in a Virtual Environment
This online 4-hour course reviews the philosophies and values of the ToP Methods and basic facilitation skills. Attendees will participate in a virtual ToP Focused Conversation showcasing how virtual tools empower online engagement. Then they will collaboratively design and facilitate Focused Conversations using these virtual tools.
This course is the BEST way to expand skills learned in an in-person TFM to a virtual environment or to simply review and practice the skills from the online TFM.
Developing Facilitative Leaders
This one, two, or three-day course helps aspiring and current leaders understand what it means to adopt a facilitative approach to leadership and how it augments other leadership styles.
Process & Continuous Improvement
This one- or two-day course helps people understand the historical aspects of process and continuous improvement, how to create a variety of process maps to better understand and pinpoint improvement opportunities, how to measure the impacts of improvement efforts, and how the human-centered side of change can influence the effectiveness of improvement efforts.
Empowering People for Change
Change is both a technical and human-centered process. In this course we'll look briefly at the technical aspects of change before diving more deeply into the human side of change using Prosci's ADKAR model as a guide. We'll explore the different aspects of resistance and how, as leaders, we can help those we lead overcome the barriers that give rise to resistance.
If desired, we can add process mapping and continuous improvement, as well as the basics of LEAN and Six Sigma to the experience.
Essentials of Facilitation
Working Productively through Conflict (a.k.a. Interest-Based Negotiation)
Developing a Strong Individual and Team Culture
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