Judi Adams and Aja Moerler are Mentor Trainers for the Techniques of Participation facilitation methods. Dates for San Diego’s Public Courses are Listed Below. In-house Courses are Customized and Scheduled according to Client’s Needs. Contact Judi Adams Judiha@aol.com about in-house courses; Aja Moerler ajamariem@hotmail.com for register for public courses.

Group Facilitation Methods
February 8-9, 2007
May 10-12, 2007 **
August 9-10, 2007

Learn three proven processes for activating group participation. Gain hands-on experience practicing methods and explore ways to apply them to your specific situation.

The Focused Conversation Method
This process heightens your effectiveness in facilitating virtually every form of group communication.

• Conduct purposeful, productive meetings and discussions
• Quickly capture a group's best thinking and surface new ideas and solutions
• Ask questions that stimulate candid feedback and discussion

The Consensus Workshop Method
Energize problem-solving with a process that builds active participation and teamwork.

• Tap both rational and intuitive thought processes
• Integrate diverse ideas
• Generate practical and creative solutions and develop group consensus

The Action Planning Method
Master this powerful implementation planning process which enables you to help a group rapidly pull together an effective plan, organize needed resources and mobilize individuals' energy into action.

• Visualize a successful result and analyze the current reality
• Create a practical plan
• Maximize group commitment and involvement
• Cost: $545.00 ($495 if you register three weeks prior to the course)

** Three day course; add $80 per person.

Participatory Strategic Planning
October 11 & 12, 2007

Prerequisite: Group Facilitation Methods (GFM)
This course is for folks who are looking for a broad based long Strategic Planning process that will generate a long term vision, identify blocks and barriers, create strategies and produce detailed actions plans, year by year and quarter by quarter. This process is collaborative and uses the consensus building methods learned in the GFM course:

• Enhance your capacity for creative strategy building
• Enable a group to come to a common vision and create a "participant-owned" plan that deals with the realities blocking the group
• Experience and practice the complete strategic planning process of vision, contradictions, strategic directions, and implementation
• Discover how to weave together the basic tools into longer formats and retreat settings

Cost: $545.00 ($495 if you register three weeks prior to the course)

Applications Lab
April 13, 2007
July 13, 2007
October 13, 2007

Prerequisite: Group Facilitation Methods (GFM)
The ToP Application Design Lab was created for those who have been introduced to the ToP methods and would like to refine their use of them "on-the-job". This one day course focuses on creating a design for a participatory event you will facilitate. You will work in small teams with ToP trainers assisting you to design facilitation solutions to real concerns.

• Learn to apply ToP facilitation methods to your actual cases
• Explore the stages of a facilitator's journey and practice the method for your next facilitation
• Increase your confidence and your personal capacities and have an opportunity to share experiences with others
• Uncover new applications of the methods

Cost: $250 per person.