Our flagship facilitator training courses are highly respected and run by some of the most experienced facilitator trainers in the world.
If you are a professional working in the field of learning and development, or you use facilitation in your work, this is a powerful way to enhance your skills and add to your credentials whilst helping people make critical changes and decisions.
– Four days of development with a highly experienced facilitator with in-depth, experiential learning for each participant as part of a small group (5-6 people) – all in a natural learning set environment.
– A course with a massive track record for success, covering all the core elements you need to set up and facilitate new action learning sets, with additional time dedicated to the adapt to the individual needs of the participants and organisations in the group.
– Most of our programmes are held virtually leading to cost savings and efficiency – we did this well before Covid restrictions because it works for our participants
– A mixture of theoretical and experiential learning, covering everything you need to become an action learning facilitator, including:
I now have a powerful methodology that can help teams and individuals develop. It will greatly assist with building high performing teams.
– You will be given a comprehensive, physical workbook – not just for the course, but an 120 page reference manual for action learning facilitation for the years ahead including templates that you can adapt to use in your own work.
– Practical tools to get started as a facilitator with PDF resources you can print or share electronically with your new action learning sets – including but not limited to:
– Come away with confidence in the action learning process, ideas about how to apply action learning in your context and a sound basis to further develop your facilitation skills
– The course can be completed virtually or in person at our workspace in Bermondsey Street, London
– Our course has been part of the ILM Recognised programme since 2008 and many participants go on to complete the Advanced Programme in Action Learning Facilitation (ILM Recognised)
Often, cohorts from our facilitator training programmes stay together to complete this advanced programme around 6-9 months later. Find out more here.
– As a more experienced facilitator, you can come back to ALA for a variety of CPD programmes to build your network and develop your practice further.
Participants come from the public, voluntary and private sectors. Some are employed within organisations, others are freelance. Some are full-time facilitators, others work in management and leadership or learning and development roles.
All find useful approaches and techniques to inspire or revive their practice and become competent action learning facilitators. You can join the course with or without experience of taking part in an action learning set.
We’re here if you’d like to have a chat, just contact us. You can also take a look at what some of our past participants have to say about their training.
You’re welcome to join. We’ve been welcoming international participants for years. Please get in touch with any questions you have. We have been running action learning facilitator training virtually for many years and work across different time zones to suit participants.
Please check out our resource centre for more insight into what it’s like to participate in this course. Simply select ‘facilitator training’ in the subject field. Start with articles such as Reflections on an action learning facilitator training set, Sharing questions, not cleverness and Exploring new horizons with action learning. Also, read some of our testimonials.
On our open courses, individuals come together from a variety of contexts – different organisations and sectors as well as independent facilitators – and meet virtually or in person.
We also run tailored courses in-house for organisations. If you wish to train a group of action learning facilitators, this may be the best option for you. We can work with your teams virtually or face-to-face, onsite or at a venue of your choice. Read more about how your organisation can benefit here.
A fantastic way to learn about action learning sets and a solid grounding of the skills needed to be in a set and facilitate sets. The programme is structured perfectly to enhance the learning experience and to be able to take in a huge amount of information.
The course
The fee includes a workbook with materials for you to reproduce or adapt for your own work and on-going support to help you develop your skills as an action learning facilitator. Please email us if you would like more information.
Booking a place
Courses are limited to five virtual participants or six in-person participants but we need a minimum of four to enable the course to run. The fees are £1,450 + VAT for the corporate sector and £995 + VAT for sole trader, public, arts and voluntary sectors. Places are allocated on a first come, first served basis and we will confirm whether the course will go ahead as soon as we are able, in any case no later than two weeks before the start date.
Places are secured by a payment of:
We are happy to accept payment by BACS or cheque. If you wish to pay by credit card we will send you a PayPal invoice for the full fee which is payable at the time of booking. Please indicate on your booking form how you would like to pay. We will hold a provisional place for you whilst your payment is being processed and your booking will be confirmed once we have received cleared payment.
Course times
Virtual courses:
3 sessions of 6 hours, 10am – 4pm with short break for lunch, on consecutive days, and one further follow-up session of 4 hours to take place at a date and time to suit all participants usually around 2-3 months after the programme .
In person courses:
Courses generally run from 9.45am for a 10.00am start until 6.00pm (Day 1), 9.15am for a 9.30am start until 6.00pm (Day 2), 9.15am for a 9.30am start until 5.00pm (Day 3) but these times can be subject to change.
Advanced learning programme
Course participants can further their skills through our Recognised Programme in Action Learning Facilitation (ILM Recognised). We believe your skills can be further advanced with continued opportunity to develop your practice and learning so the process involves producing an assessed reflective learning log and attending an additional development day, usually around six – nine months (ideally no more than a year) after the training. These sessions provide an opportunity for peer support and are a valuable way to reflect on your learning and share experiences with other practitioners. For overseas participants we are also able to offer advanced learning by virtual action learning.
Our advanced learning programme is entirely optional; you do not need to commit to attend at the same time as booking the course.
Cancellations and refunds
Cancellations must be received in writing by email to info@actionlearningassociates.co.uk. Deposit payments are non-refundable. If you cancel after paying the full fee, or within 4 weeks of the course, we can only refund the balance of the fee if we are able to find a replacement. This is because courses are experiential with a limited number of participants so any late cancellation can affect the learning experience for other participants.
There will be no charge if a substitute person from the same company/organisation wishes to replace the original booking.
Cancellations by Action Learning Associates Ltd
ALA reserves the right to alter any of the course content, change the person delivering the course, and, in exceptional circumstances, to cancel a course at any time without liability. In such circumstances, delegates will be offered an alternative date or a full refund.
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