Sacramento Professional Facilitators
(530) 677-1468

Courses at a glance

Sacramento Professional Facilitators are proud to present a variety of stimulating courses to enrich your skills. We specialize in imparting a unique method of facilitation called the Technology of Participation (ToP®). We combine high quality materials with professional instruction to deliver the best value to you and your organization.

We emphasize skills, application, and reinforcement so that our customers leave a seminar with knowledge and skills that they can put into practice immediately. Our programs are integrated into your organization's business approach so that your employees see how the training relates to their work environment.

See the outline below for a schedule of our course offerings for 2008/2009. For additional details, see our Course Offerings. Unless otherwise indicated, all courses are held at the Sacramento Professional Facilitators office, located at 1129 Firehouse Alley, in Old Sacramento, California. For further information, contact our local Sacramento Professional Facilitators registrar at (530) 677-1468.

"FUN" damentals of Facilitation

Learn the basics of facilitation and get tools and hands-on practice for facilitating meetings that work. You'll be exposed to a variety of skill sets and resources that will support a life long facilitation journey.

• Old Sacramento, CA
• April 16-17, 2008
• October 8-9, 2008

Group Facilitation Methods

Learning You Can Use Immediately
Learn three proven ways to activate group participation. Hands-on practice helps you discover practical uses in your life and work.

• Old Sacramento, CA
• February 20-21, 2008
• May 21-22, 2008
• September 10-11, 2008
• November 19-20, 2008

Participatory Strategic Planning

Participatory Strategic Planning presents a structured planning process which incorporates the group facilitation methods into productive action and concrete accomplishments.

• Old Sacramento, CA
• June 11-12, 2008
• October 22-23, 2008

Top Secrets of Implementation

Do your clients have difficulties sustaining a plan once it has been initiated? Do you sometimes have difficulties helping your clients stay on track, bring new people into a team and bring closure? This course is about keeping plans and projects alive, relevant, doable and achievable. There is a large and powerful component for peer mentoring in this course.

• Old Sacramento, CA
• December 10 - 11, 2008

Circle Of Life Coaching Circles

The Circle of Life is a gentle, yet very powerful Holistic Life and Health Coaching process for personal healing, empowerment and transformation.

• Natomas, CA
• 6-8 weeks starting Wednesday, January 9, 2008

• El Dorado County, CA
• 6-8 weeks starting Monday, January 21, 2008

• Sacramento, CA
• 6-8 weeks starting Tuesday, April 1, 2008

• El Dorado County, CA
• 6-8 weeks starting Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Integrating ToP with Operational and Action Planning

The workshop will also briefly address the complex and challenging process for establishing organizational performance measures as part of the planning process.

• Old Sacramento, CA
• March 20, 2008

Making Data Dance

This course will help you to turn data into information using ToP® facilitation methods to analyze data, and make strategic decisions.

• Old Sacramento, CA
• 2008 dates TBA

Facilitating Conciliation: Beyond Conflict Resolution

Our society is crying for alternatives to the adversarial approach of dealing with disputes. Resolving conflict with a different form of conflict does not always work. Negotiating from bases of power and fixed positions can deepen the divide, and expand the problem. The best and most lasting solutions and resolutions are those created by the people directly involved.

• Old Sacramento, CA
• 2008 dates TBA

Mastering Technology of Participation (MToP) Professional Competency and Credentials

Training dates for this intensive 12-day, year-long training program include:

• Old Sacramento
• December 1-3, 2008
• March 2-4, 2009
• June 8-10, 2009
• September 28-30, 2009

The Power of Image Shift Creative Design for Facilitation

The Power of Image Shift is a course for trainers, designers, facilitators, and others who lead people and group processes.

• Old Sacramento, CA
• 2008 dates TBA

Community Development Intensive

Sacramento Professional Facilitators are looking for a city, community or neighborhood that would like to involve business and residents in creating their strategic plan during this course.

• Old Sacramento, CA
• 2008 dates TBA

Application Design Lab

The Application Design Lab was created for those who have been introduced to the powerful Technology of Participation (ToP)® methods, and would like to refine their use of them "on-the-job".

• Old Sacramento, CA
• 2008 dates TBA

This Moment in Time Retreat

This retreat focuses on where each individual is at this moment in time.

• Tahoe Forest,
• Serene Lakes area,
• near Soda Springs, CA
• 2008 dates TBA