On Site Experience

A one-of-a-kind, immersive, engaging, hands-on, trainer preparation experience specially and specifically-curated for your organization!

Leadership Trainer's Certification Program is a one-of-a-kind train-the-trainer experience for those serious about consistently facilitating high-impact, high-engagement, and high-enjoyment trainings. Our proven Master Trainer preparation experience is guided by five objectives:

(1) Prepare you to consistently facilitate high-impact, high-engagement, and high-enjoyment trainings rooted in dynamic, culturally relevant, and learning-oriented facilitation techniques—specifically experiential activities and reflective dialogue.
(2) Engage you in purposeful self-reflection and identity exploration.
(3) Cultivate a community of exceptional trainers and facilitators.
(4) Practical opportunities to advance your leadership practice.
(5) Begin the process of you becoming a Certified Master Trainer.

Prepare you to consistently facilitate high-impact, high-engagement, and high-enjoyment trainings rooted in dynamic, culturally relevant, and learning-oriented facilitation techniques—specifically experiential activities and reflective dialogue.
Engage you in purposeful self-reflection and identity exploration. Cultivate a community of exceptional trainers and facilitators. Practical opportunities to advance your leadership practice.
Begin the process of you becoming a Certified Master Trainer.

Core Curriculum:

Training and Facilitation Skills

  • Learn our proven method and framework - the 'Training Story" to design and facilitate consistently high-impact, high-engagement, and high-enjoyment trainings.
  • Enhance your training skills through hands-on practice - and feedback from Master Trainers

Identity Exploration

  • Explore your values, authentic trainer presence, and abilities to meet dynamic and diverse participants where they are at.
  • Learn how to intentionally create spaces of belonging so that all participants are empowered to learn and then apply that learning to their practice... where it matters most.

Leadership Development

  • Expand your own leadership skills and capacity to be more effective in your work, organization, and communities.
  • In addition to these curated leadership development themes, we utilize these sessions to model the 'Training Story' framework so you get to participate in, observe, reflect upon, and practice this high-impact method.

Community Engagement

  • Engage in a nurturing and nourishing environment with like-minded aspiring Master Trainers who are serious about transforming the leadership landscape through trainer preparation.
  • Participate in a group mentoring experience where you receive support and (healthy) challenge to enhance your training practice.

On Site Benefits

By effectively completing Leadership Trainer's Certification Program, your team members will become knowledgeable, skilled, and dynamic Certified Master Trainers who can facilitate diverse training experiences in which their participants can access the training message and material, internalize their learning, and then apply that learning to their own practice. The On Site  experience is a valuable and impactful trainer preparation experience for five core reasons:

(1) It is cost effective. Hosting the Leadership Trainer Certification Program experience on site enables substantially more members of your organizational community to participate - compared to sending your colleagues to an off-site retreat and incurring individual fees, transportation expenses, and other incidental costs.

(2) It creates synergistic connections. By bringing the Leadership Trainer Certification Program to you - on site - we will craft an engaging team-building opportunity that results in meaningful connections for members of your organizational community.

(3) It meets your organization's specific needs. In addition to our empowering  facilitation and meaningful identity curricula, we will curate deep dive sessions to emphasize the learning and development needs of your team members.

(4) It enables training cross-pollination. By delivering an On Site Leadership Trainer Certification Program, we will be preparing a large swath of your colleagues to design amazing trainings and then deliver impactful training experiences. Rather than relying solely on members of one particular department to facilitate trainings, colleagues from across the organization will be able to serve as dynamic and skilled facilitators. This can (a) enhance learning by widening the voices of training facilitators, (b) deepen connectivity to the institution and personnel by introducing colleagues to diverse team members from beyond their sphere of influence, and (c) lessen the training load of those who have heavy training responsibilities.

(5) It is confidence-raising for organizational leaders. Hosting an On Site Leadership Trainer Certification Program will ensure that at every training touch-point facilitated by your team members, their participants will be immersed in an engaging and dynamic experience in which they can access the training message and material, internalize their learning, and apply that learning to their practice. This will prove to have immediate impact as well as long-lasting implications for learning and leadership development.

Retreat Schedule

Community
Engagement

Training
Skills

Leadership
Development

Identity
Exploration

DAY 1:

9:00am - 9:30am

9:30am - 10:00am

10:00pm - 12:00pm

12:00pm - 1:00pm

1:00pm - 2:00pm

2:00pm - 3:00pm

2:00pm - 3:30pm

3:30pm - 4:30pm

4:30pm - 5:00pm

Welcome and Introductions

Building Community

What is Effective Facilitation?

Lunch

Deep Dive: Emotional Intelligence

IE: Positionality (Who Am I?)

Facilitation Observations

Training Story: Rising Action

Daily Evening Check-In

* This schedule is a template and is subject to change.

DAY 2:

9:00am - 9:30am

9:30am - 11:30am

11:30am - 12:30pm

12:30pm - 1:15pm

1:15pm - 2:15pm

2:15pm - 2:45pm

2:45pm - 4:30pm

4:30pm - 5:00pm

Daily Morning Check-In

Training Story: Apex (Activity)

Deep Dive: Resilient Mindsets

Community Lunch

IE: Values Exploration

Facilitation Observations

Training Story: Falling Action

Daily Evening Check-In

DAY 3:

9:00am - 9:30am

9:30am - 10:30am

10:30am - 11:30am

11:30am - 12:30pm

12:30pm - 1:15pm

1:15pm - 2:15pm

2:15pm - 2:45pm

2:45pm - 4:30pm

4:30pm - 5:00pm

Daily Morning Check-In

Training Story: Exposition

Training Story: Resolution

Deep Dive: Power & Oppression

Lunch

IE: Intersections of Identity

Facilitation Observations

Facilitation Laboratory

Daily Evening Check-In

DAY 4:

9:00am - 9:30am

8:30am - 9:30am

9:30am - 11:00am

11:00am - 11:30am

11:30am - 12:30pm

Daily Morning Check-In

Training Story: Resolution

IE: Critical Approaches to Training

Becoming Master Trainers

Closing Insights & Reflections

Program Elements

Curated Curriculum

This is the most comprehensive trainer preparation experience on the market! We intentionally curate this high-impact one-of-a-kind train-the-trainer curriculum to meet your facilitation goals, training upskilling desires, identity exploration needs, and leadership development objectives for each and every Certification Program.

Master Trainers

Our Master Trainers are expert facilitators! More, each Master Trainer is specially-selected to support your learning and skills development. We are seasoned professionals and leadership scholars who have decades of experience training and teaching people to design and facilitate high-impact and high-engagement training experiences.

Engaged Learning

The Certification Program is a hands-on learning experience! We learn by doing. We have intentionally crafted this experience to provide you with ample opportunities to actually facilitate experiential learning activities and host reflective dialogue. More, you receive celebrations and (healthy) critique to strengthen your skills.

Connected Community

Like all great professional development experiences, this program is an opportunity to cultivate meaningful and nourishing relationships! By participating in the Certification Program, you will expand your network to include exceptional trainers who are passionate about facilitating amazing and impactful training experiences consistently.

Scholarships & Grants

Our 'friendly financial model' makes it easy for you to say, "yes!" Prior to the Certification Program, we offer scholarships! (Over 95% of our participants receive Scholarship support!) Following the Certification Program, those who become Certified Master Trainers are eligible for grants to support their training experiences and facilitation opportunities.

Online Resources & Hub

In addition to your hands-on learning, you will have access to an incredible Community Hub that includes an online library of resources. You'll have access to videos (almost 4 hours of content), downloadable worksheets, and more. Our Community Hub becomes a training and facilitation headquarters for you to access all of the resources and benefits of the Certification Program.

Year-Round Engagement

The Certification Program experience is just the beginning! We offer year-round opportunities to continue your training development, facilitator upskilling, and community engagement. This includes live experiences through Jam Sessions and our Community of Practice, digital engagement through social media, and gatherings at conferences and events.

Leadership-Training Coaching

Certification Program participants receive two training-coaching sessions to best prepare you to become a Certified Master Trainer. These sessions are designed to ensure you will shine while delivering an exceptional Certification Exam and any other training experiences you facilitate.

Program Manual

You will receive the award-winning Preparing Leadership Educators book - written by Leadership Trainer's Executive Director. This incredible resource serves as our go-to training manual. The book includes our 'Training Story' methodology, instructions on how to facilitate 45+ activities, overviews of leadership theories and practices, and more!

What Our Participants Say

On Site Experience Inclusions

It's More Than Just the Retreat!

  • Curated training curriculum led by expert facilitators.

  • Networking and relationship-building with a community of passionate leadership trainers.

  • Hands-on learning opportunities to experiment with dynamic facilitation techniques.

  • Hard-copy training resources including the Preparing Leadership Educators book.

  • A year-long subscription to our virtual resources including videos and downloadable worksheets.

  • Two training-coaching sessions per participant to prepare them to become Certified Master Trainers.

  • Unlimited Leadership Trainer Jam Sessions with our community of Certified Master Trainers

  • Reduced pricing for other Leadership Trainer programming and resources.

  • Grants to support the leadership training initiatives of Certified Master Trainers!

Questions?

Schedule a time to speak with Jonathan Below!

Prefer to contact a Leadership Trainer directly? Call Jonathan at 609.915.4115 or email him at [email protected]

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