ILP Institute for Learning Practitioners

Facilitation Passport Programs

Your passport to facilitation excellence.

The Facilitation Passport suite of programs is ILP’s answer to providing learning practitioners with highly practical facilitation training and recognition for their professional development. It meets the important need for learning practitioners to acquire advanced facilitation know-how that is essential to world-class facilitation and not delivered by basic qualifications.

Most introductory programs are too theoretical, time intensive and trainer-centred. They fail to provide the level of practicality and engagement that are fundamental to be achieving facilitator proficiency and excellence.

The Facilitation Passport Suite

The suite consists of nine programs focused on specific facilitation processes and methods to use within a learning environment.

• Facilitating with Influence
• Facilitating with Pictures
• Facilitating Disruptive Learners
• Facilitating with Stories
• Facilitating with Presence
• Facilitating with Emotional Intelligence
• Facilitating Experiential Learning
• Facilitating Skills Practice
• Facilitating with Visual Aids

Each program addresses two aspects of facilitation: (i) learning process design, and (ii) delivery of facilitation.

Program Structure

All of the programs in the suite comprise four phases:

In each program, the half-day workshop lays the foundation for application and further learning. The learning that takes place during the Transfer and Application Story phases is an important contributor to program effectiveness. Participants are provided with support in the form of transfer strategies, which help them to maximise the benefits of their learning.

The Passport

Participants are provided with a Facilitation Passport which is used as a record of programs completed and recognition of levels achieved. After successful completion of each program, participants receive a self-adhesive, passport-size certificate which is placed in their Facilitation Passport. There are three levels of accomplishment: Silver, Gold and Platinum. These are automatically achieved after successful completion of three, six and nine programs respectively.

In addition, each participant is awarded a formal certificate when they have achieved Platinum level. The programs can be completed in any order, however all application stories must be completed before the Facilitation Passport Certificate will be awarded. The Facilitation Passport suite can be implemented in-company either as an accelerated program [e.g. two or more workshops at a time] or as a longer development program [e.g. one workshop per month].

The Facilitation Passport is Unique

The Facilitation Passport is a unique approach to providing learning practitioners with essential skills for facilitating at a world-class level. Some of the highlights of the Facilitation Passport are:

• All the programs are highly practical and engaging. Participants leave with facilitation know-how that can be immediately applied.
• Participants gain facilitation techniques that are internationally transferrable.
• The programs are built on solid research of effective facilitation, learning and transfer.
• The modular structure of the suite of programs allows flexibility and is essential for realistic on-the-job application.
• The Passport is a convenient, tangible and attractive record of professional development.
• All the workshops are conducted by highly skilled facilitators who are Fellows of the ILP.
• Participants who achieve Silver, Gold and Platinum levels will be recognised on the ILP website, in the newsletter and at ILP events.
• Every program completed will contribute to professional development points and Certified Learning Practitioner (CLP) status.
• Organisations that support the development of their facilitators in completing the Facilitation Passport will be recognised on the ILP website and at the national Conference & Expo.

Facilitation Passport Guarantee

Our guarantee is simple:

1. Attend a Facilitation Passport workshop.
2. Use our transfer of learning guidelines.
3. Complete an application story.
4. If you don’t see a real benefit, we’ll give your money back.

We are confident that our integration of world-class content, instructional design and facilitation will provide valuable facilitation know-how that can be immediately applied to produce meaningful benefits.

Who Will Benefit?

The Facilitation Passport programs are appropriate for:

• Learning Practitioners – Any learning practitioner who is involved in the design or delivery of training initiatives.
• Subject Matter Experts – Most of the programs are beneficial to subject matter experts who are involved in training (e.g. specialists in the areas of quality, safety, professional services, project management, change management, health, etc).
• Managers – Many managers have found the techniques valuable for facilitating meetings and team training sessions.

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