FACILITATION PASSPORT
Your passport to facilitation excellence
 The Facilitation Passport is AIPF’s answer to providing learning facilitators with highly practical training and recognition for their professional development.
It meets the important need for facilitators to acquire advanced facilitation know-how that is not being provided by basic qualifications and which is essential to world class facilitation.
To date, most theory and time intensive introductory programs have been unable to provide the level of practicality and application that are fundamental to be achieving facilitator proficiency and excellence.
The Facilitation Passport Suite
The suite consists of nine programs focussed on specific facilitation processes and methods to use within a learning environment.
- Facilitating with Pictures
- Facilitating with Presence
- Facilitating with Emotional Intelligence
- Facilitating Disruptive Learners
- Facilitating Experiential Learning
- Facilitating Skills Practice
- Facilitating with Visual Aids
- Facilitating with Stories
- Facilitating for Feedforward
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:
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Preparation
Brief orientation activity
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Workshop
Practical half-day interactive session
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Transfer
Application and reflection
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Application Story
Results captured and shared
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In each program the 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 will be provided with support in the form of self-managed transfer strategies, which will 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 the level 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 recognition badge on completion of each level, plus 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 [eg two to four workshops at a time] or as a longer development program [eg one workshop every second month].
The Facilitation Passport is Unique
The Facilitation Passport is a unique approach to providing learning facilitators with essential practical 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 AIPF.
- Participants who achieve Silver, Gold and Platinum levels will be recognised on the AIPF website, in the newsletter and at AIPF events.
- Every program completed will contribute to professional development points and Certified Learning & Development Practitioner (CLDP) status.
- Organisations that support the development of their facilitators in completing the Facilitation Passport will be acknowledged by having their organisation promoted on the AIPF website and at the national Expo.
Who Will Benefit?
The Facilitation Passport programs are appropriate for:
- Learning Professionals -Any learning professional 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 group sessions.
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