Find Your Next ToP® Course
ToP courses cover the full range of tools and techniques for effective group facilitation. From creativity and innovation workshops to long-term planning, there is a course that will meet and support your facilitation needs.
Online Facilitation
Skill up your online facilitation with these ToP offerings
ToP Facilitation Methods
Explore the landscape of facilitation and learn three key processes for activating group participation in our acclaimed flagship course.
ToP Strategic Planning
Weave a variety of ToP Facilitation Methods into an integrated approach to strategic planning, resulting in strong consensus around a realistic, achievable, measurable plan.
ToP Secrets of Implementation
You created an inspiring vision and a great plan... now how do you actually get it DONE?!
This course offers a rich toolkit to keep plans and projects alive, relevant, and achievable during implementation.
Approaches to Environmental Scanning
Explore 10 creative, insightful tools to understand customer, staff or community perceptions and needs, delve into relevant data, and get groups on the same page to launch their work.
Mastering the Technology of Participation
Skyrocket your facilitation skills to the mastery level and build a supportive community of practice through this intensive and stimulating year-long learning experience.
Upcoming ToP® Facilitation Courses
To see a comprehensive list of all courses offered check the training schedule tab above
Fri 23 Apr 2021
10:00 AM - 2:30 PM (4 hours 30 minutes)
Become skilled in facilitating the ToP Action Planning Method using an online platform with this hands-on practice lab for TFM graduates! Leave with an online template to use when hosting an Action Plan workshop.
Register More Information3 - 21 May 2021
9 sessions, MTF start 9AM PST
Leading effective teams requires developing a culture that seeks everyone’s contributions, listens carefully, and honors all contributions – the essence of ToP. ToP Facilitation Methods are structured to help groups achieve shared awareness, shared agreement and turn ideas into actionable plans they own. Reading, discussing, designing, feedback, and facilitating one’s designs provides an intensive pathway to learning and applying ToP Facilitation Methods in your world, whether face to face or online.
Register More Information3 - 12 May 2021
5 Sessions, 3.5 hours + a 30 minute break TBD
ToP Strategic Planning teaches how to weave powerful ToP methods into an integrated approach to strategic planning and creation of plans that are realistic, achievable and easy to monitor. This method is especially useful with larger groups of stakeholders and groups holding diverse ideas. Strategic plans using this powerful process can be accomplished in as little as two days.
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10 - 11 May 2021
2 days, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Explore the landscape of facilitation and learn three key processes for activating group participation in our acclaimed flagship course.
Register More Information10 - 14 May 2021
1 week, weekdays 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
ToP Strategic Planning teaches how to weave powerful ToP methods into an integrated approach to strategic planning and creation of plans that are realistic, achievable and easy to monitor. This method is especially useful with larger groups of stakeholders and groups holding diverse ideas. Strategic plans using this powerful process can be accomplished in as little as two days.
Register More Information11 - 20 May 2021
Four 4.5 hr sessions (30 min break), 9:00 AM CDT start
Explore the landscape of facilitation and learn three key processes for activating group participation virtually, in our acclaimed flagship course modified for the virtual world.
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