Workshops & Breakout Sessions
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All Things Certification... FOR Candidate or Coach
Are you Certification Curious? Are you a potential Certification Candidate? Are you a Primary Coach (previously Primary Mentor) or interested in being one? This session will provide you with everything you have ever wanted to know about the Certification Journey. Facilitators: Stacey Daraio & Seva Gandhi "But I'm a Facilitator, not a SALESPERSON!"
If you cringe at the terms “sales" and "selling", this is the session for you. Come learn fundamental concepts of sales and how clients are better served when facilitators are proficient and confident at SALES. Facilitator: Noj Zachariah Creating a Unified Voice for the Opioid Crisis
Learn how the ToP Facilitation tools can engage the community needing to address emerging issues. In this session you will see the facilitation journey that helped shaped the legislative agenda around the Opioid Crisis. You also will participate in a strategic juncture activity which was used to involve leaders at the Alliance of Innovation Big Ideas Conference to identify their roles at a national level around this crisis. Facilitator: Angie Asa-Lovstad Creating & Facilitating a Successful Community of Practice
Communities of Practice are designed to encourage learning, knowledge sharing, enhance communication, break down silos, promote transparency, and build competence and confidence. This model empowers clients to share their expertise and learn from each other by creating a safe environment to build trusting relationships. Facilitation methods and workshop design principles are essential elements in creating a high functioning community of practice. Facilitators: BethMarie Ward & Connie Foster Creative Ways to Solicit Stakeholder Feedback
In this session, participants will build their toolkit of feedback methods to assure broader representation of audiences. Using Public Profit’s Creative Ways to Solicit Stakeholder Feedback guide, participants will learn about verbal, kinesthetic, and visual ways to solicit input through hands-on practice. Facilitators: Jessica Manta-Meyer & Hannah Pickar Dabbling in the Data: Hands-On Meaning Making for Teams
In this skill-building session, participants will learn activities that can help teams make meaning out of their data, yielding actionable insights and powerful stories. Session participants will receive a copy of Dabbling in the Data, a facilitators’ guidebook that provides step-by-step instructions for 15 interactive team activities that organizations can use to make meaning of their data. Participants will practice activities and reflect on how they can use the activities in their own work. Facilitators: Corey Newhouse & Cheralynn Corsack Engaging Non-Traditional Partners
This workshop will offer sound techniques that have been proven to work in community engagement and public participation efforts not only in public health but in other sectors as well. It will showcase real-life public health lead collaborative examples, share proven methodologies and processes, and utilize the participants’ lived experience to highlight how to meaningfully engage nontraditional stakeholders as partners in addressing health inequity. Facilitators: Heidi Kolbe & Selma Abinader Exploring Multiple Methods for Breakthrough Thinking
Piloted at IAF Conferences in Stockhom, Banff, and Paris, this highly interactive workshop provides participants with a range of creativity and innovation tools and techniques, problem-solving tools, and a framework in which to apply the tools and techniques. Join us to create an environment where everyone can participate and learn from one another to maximize the learning exchange. The workshop features a variety of experiential methods, joint discovery, small and large group discussion, and the use of multiple innovative tools to solve seemingly impossible issues. Facilitators: Ann Epps & Nadine Lund Finding a Tribe’s “Why” to Build Capacity
The Circles of Involvement is a great tool for building capacity within a collective. When looking for additional people, getting to their “WHY” will help engage their reason for coming to the table. In this session we will explore the Circles of Involvement tool and learn more about Simon Sinek’s “Find Your Why” can deepen the activity. We will explore how to use the ORID to explain Sinek's Golden Circle. Facilitators: Angie Asa-Lovstad & Karie Terhark Harvesting the Wisdom in the Room
Come create the narrative, participate in conversations that pique your interest, and leave with a tool to quickly harvest information. This session is a blend of Open Space Technology and Focused Conversation, where the group will identify the topics, write and participate in discussions, and use a simple tool to harvest everyones wisdom. Facilitators: Stephanie Ahles & BethMarie Ward How Implicit Bias and Unearned Privilege impact facilitation
In this session we will explore how our perceptions and social identities impact our behavior, and in turn, our work. Participants will examine ToP-specific scenarios to identify potential barriers. However these applications are transferable across many methods. Facilitators: Krista S. Rowe & Lindsay Gross How'd I do?... An assesment tool for diversity, equity and inclusion
Interested in actionable ways to practice diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)? This session will introduce a framework designed to inform DEI practice and support the ToP values of profound respect and inclusive participation. We will walk through a step-by-step assessment tool that encourages self-discovery, supports values alignment, and reinforces equitable engagement. This is not a checklist of how to “get it right” but rather recognizes the importance of self-examination, external coaching and collective evaluation in intentionally improving our practice. Come ready to think together about how we can apply this feedback method to our ever-evolving bucket of resources! Facilitators: Krista S. Rowe & Aaron D. Wolowiec Mash Up: Design Thinking and ToP
Learn what Human Centered Design (HCD) is, and how it is being used to design better services for government and non-profits. In this highly interactive session, you will experience HCD for yourself, in a fun and face-paced team activity. And yes, scissors, tape and playdough are involved. Facilitator: Virginia Hamilton Simplifying Change Management: The What, When and How
Join us if you are interested in practical, simple take-aways about the what, when and how of change management, in less time with more clarity (condensing and crystalizing from research, training and practice). This workshop focuses on reinforcing change efforts, making change easier, and on when and how to deploy practical change management supports and facilitation tools for engaging stakeholders in learning and discovery throughout different stages of change. Facilitator: L. Melanie Chase SOCIAL MEDIA 101
You’ve set up profiles on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, but you’re unsure what to say, when to post and how to maximize exposure. During this session, explore how social media can support your business by effectively engaging your advocates, partners and potential clients. Walk away with a game plan based on current best practice you can immediately implement to drive reactions, comments and, ultimately, revenue. Facilitator: Aaron D. Wolowiec Taking the Pain Out of Naming Underlying Contradictions
Do you have a deep respect for the Underlying Contradictions workshop’s capacity to create transformational change while at the same time wondering why it can be so difficult? Come to this workshop and learn about ways to take the pain out of naming underlying contradictions. Also, learn a method to compare the data to determine the best focus for strategies. Facilitator: Heidi Kolbe The Facilitator Has Many Faces: Who Are You?
A key element to modeling a professional and positive attitude involves reflecting on our individual biases and privilege that affect our role as facilitators. Often times we are not aware of the face that we present to our participants or even who we bring into the room. Join us to take a deeper dive to explore how we perceive ourselves, how others perceive us, how we believe we are perceived and how we ideally want to be seen. Facilitators: Librada Estrada, Mike Beebe and Eileen Pippins The Urgency of the Climate Crisis
This workshop is for people who have a deep concern about the climate crisis and want to take action. This is a simple presentation designed for groups that gives people a complete picture of the climate crisis and motivates them to take action. Each participant will receive an electronic version of the entire presentation that they may use with any group. Facilitators: Becky Foreman & Linda Hamilton Transformational Facilitative Leadership
ToP facilitators are often pulled into leadership roles. Leaders are often driven to use ToP methods. ToP Transformational Facilitative Leaders use the transformational power of 80 ToP tools, methods, processes, values, philosophy, and lifestyle to guide organization, community and societal transformation. This session is a thinktank on a partially developed Leadership Program to train them. Not for the faint of heart. Facilitator: Bill Staples Using ToP Methods to Advance the Strategic Prevention Framework
As our healthcare changes to a healthy community approach, we are seeing an increase in community prevention coalitions. These coalitions are often given the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) as a guide to engage the community and implement change. The one thing the SPF lacks is the “how to" - but the ToP tools are the perfect fit into the SPF model. Facilitator: Karie Terhark Using ToP Methods with Liberating Structures
Join us as we briefly introduce you to 30+ facilitation techniques known as Liberating Structures. These simple yet effective, structured facilitation techniques are designed liberate the conversation within any group. Aligned with the ToP pillars of profound respect and inclusivity, you’ll come away with an appreciation and knowledge of these techniques and how they can be used in conjunction with the ToP methods. Come ready to experience a few of these techniques and then brainstorm with your peers how you might apply these alongside the ToP methods in your own practice. Facilitator: Jeremy Kautza Using ToP Methods within an Interest-Based Approach
Join us as we briefly introduce you to the basic philosophies and ideas behind Interest-Based approaches to negotiation, conflict resolution, and decision making, made popular by the best-selling book, “Getting to Yes” by Ury, Fisher, and Patton. You’ll see how one facilitator utilized ToP Methods in an Interest-Based process that was designed to bring healing and forge a collaborative path forward to stakeholders in a university setting. Afterwards, we’ll utilize each other’s creativity and expertise to help design facilitated experiences for scenarios you feel would benefit from this type of approach. Facilitators: Jeremy Kautza & Jill List Virtual "Sticky Wall" for Online Facilitation
Do you love Sticky Walls? Do you wish there was an online equivalent? Imagine all the Consensus Workshops, Strategic Plans, and Action Plans you could do for your colleagues and clients from a distance! In this hands-on session, learn how you can simulate our beloved sticky wall online. Be sure to bring your laptop! Facilitator: Noj Zachariah Welcome to THE TOP NETWORK ANNUAL GATHERING!
New to the ToP Network Annual Gathering? Come meet other new gathering participants, learn about acronyms, a bit about the history of the ToP Network, and get your own questions answered. This interactive session will include an opportunity to meet new friends as well as learn from each other’s questions and experiences. Facilitators: Stephanie Ahles & BethMarie Ward "BUT I'M A FACILITATOR, NOT A NEGOTIATOR!"
If you cringe at the prospect of having to negotiate, this is the session for you. Come learn fundamental concepts of negotiation and how clients are better served when facilitators are proficient and confident at NEGOTIATING. Facilitator: Noj Zachariah |
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