High Impact Facilitation

We believe it is through powerful, multi-actor conversations and collaborations that ambitious social and climate justice goals are realized.

Successful meetings (whether virtual or in person) tap into the collective intelligence of a group, reshape how a problem is perceived, influence perspectives on how to affect change, and help find new ways of joining forces. They lead to new levels of strategic alignment and collective action across individuals, organizations, movements and sectors.          

Our High Impact Facilitator Program develops advanced-level competencies in facilitation for collective action and impact. Participants work to realize personal developmental goals and demonstrate newly acquired facilitation capacities.            

NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION: HIGH IMPACT FACILITATION INTENSIVE - VIRTUAL

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You will be able to
  • Understand facilitation patterns and engagement styles
  • Facilitate multi-actor engagement and deliver conflict resolution strategies
  • Master approaches to navigating complexity
  • Improve your capacity to facilitate for large groups and meetings
  • Use tools for sustaining facilitation, creating vibrant conversations, as well as maintaining curiosity and motivation
  • Use tools for designing meeting cadence for optimum results
  • Find support to leap forward on your personal development goals as a facilitator
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NEW! High Impact Facilitation Intensive - Virtual

Whether it is the immediacy of a global pandemic or the devastating impacts of climate change, our way forward increasingly is to meet remotely.

HIFI-virtual is an on-line course that includes practical, creative tools and practices to build your capacity to ensure impactful remote meetings. This course is for experienced facilitators ready to try different approaches and step up their game in the area of virtual facilitation.

Each class will have a maximum 30 people and take place online using the Zoom Video Conferencing Application. Each day of the 3 days course involves 6 hours that are divided into well-paced sessions that include facilitated group meetings, as well as self-directed learning.

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For Individuals - High Impact Facilitator Intensive

The High Impact Facilitator Program is a four-month long engagement process. A live 3-day Intensive is followed by on-line support during which participants actively engage in applied learning and cross learning. During this time two individual online coaching sessions take place. After four months, the program is completed in the form of an online meeting where progress and outcomes are shared.

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For Organizations and Networks

We work with organizations and networks looking to optimize the time they spend in meetings, both internally and with other collaboration partners and actors externally. We offer customized in-house facilitation training to support staff in generating new levels of strategic alignment, engagement and breakthrough outcomes.

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Slowing Down for Greater Impact

HIFI-Virtual Impact Story:

Retha Dungga

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Learn about Spring's High Impact Facilitation Intensive

 The purpose of the program is to develop advanced-level competencies in facilitation for collective action and impact.

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Facilitator Amis Boersma talks about our High Impact Facilitation Program

Have you ever sat in a meeting thinking you were wasting your time; daydreaming about the other things you could be doing; distracted by your phone; knowing you didn’t really have a say in the outcome? Meetings have a bad reputation, and let’s face it, there’s reason for that. Amis Boersma became a facilitator as a result of those very thoughts and feelings.

In the following interview, I speak with Spring Strategies associate Amis Boersma about how to facilitate meetings that are dynamic, meaningful and impactful.

 

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Michelle Medeiros talks about the impact of the Facilitation Intensive

This is a short interview with Michelle Medeiros, a graduate of Spring Strategies' 2018 High Impact Facilitation Intensive that took place in Amsterdam. In the interview, she reflects on her time during the 3-day workshop that launches the 4-month facilitation training program.

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An interview with Silvana Margriet Paath about the impact of the facilitation intensive

Silvana Margriet Paath is the Southeast Asia Advocacy Officer for Sustainable Diets at Hivos Southeast Asia. She is also a graduate of Spring's High Impact Facilitation Intensive.

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Wilson Matekenya talks about the impact of the High Impact Facilitation Intensive

In our series of interviews with past participants of our programs, we discuss the ways their work has evolved following the training and support.

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Fostering Human Connection and Systems Change

HIFI-Virtual Impact Story:

Ella Scheepers

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“It’s an opportunity to take pragmatic steps to transcend habits and explore more effective facilitation.”

“Who knew that to be better a facilitating you first have to understand how to be your best centered self?”

“It’s ignited my passion to transform my engagement in group spaces.”

“This course can change your life, your vision about your ability to grow.”

“A great way to shape yourself and become a better leader.”

“I am not only a more confident facilitator I am also capable of bringing out the best in my co-facilitators.”

“This training helped me move from grassroots activism to conversations with funders, academics, and global advocates.”