Facilitation Intensive is a certificate-granting six-month training program for skilled professionals seeking to understand and apply CLI’s facilitation techniques throughout the Jewish community. As open communication and group problem solving increasingly become a key component of healthy communal life, the need for skilled facilitators continues to grow. Facilitation Intensive produces a cohort of generalist facilitators who are masters at crafting and implementing face-to-face gatherings.
Program components include:
- Fundamentals of Facilitation
- Innovative Modalities
- Designing Crafted Gatherings
- Integrating Jewish Content
- Evaluating Impact
- The Facilitator and the Marketplace
Since CLI’s inception in 2006, over 1,200 individuals have participated in its crafted gatherings on four continents. CLI’s unique and proven approach to facilitation has gained an international reputation across both Jewish and non-Jewish worlds. This training program offers participants opportunities to design and implement programs at CLI gatherings, exposing them to the leading edge of Jewish innovators and their evolving communities.
Program Structure
- Five-day intensive training (December 6-10, 2009) and a two-day wrap-up training (June 14-16, 2010)
- A four-month apprenticeship, including design and implementation of facilitation modules at CLI gatherings
- Ongoing individual coaching, feedback and support
- Cost $1,800
What is a Facilitator?
- A Common Definition: Someone who works with group processes to ensure meetings are run well and achieve a high degree of consensus. (Wikipedia)
- An Uncommon Definition: Someone who works the human magic in the room to evolve a set of attitudes and behaviors.
CLI embraces both definitions. Facilitation is the act of guiding a group through process, in real time, and inspiring and directing productive change in persons, teams, and systems. We believe well-crafted facilitation creates infinite possibilities.
The program is be co-facilitated by Yonatan Gordis of the Center for Leadership Initiatives and Rae Ringel of the Ringel Group.
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