Associate Certified Facilitator
Learn practical facilitation tools, manage group dynamics and develop the workshop-design skills to guide groups towards a common goal. Live online in English, 13 January–5 February 2027.
What does it mean to become an Associate Certified Facilitator?
This programme combines practical facilitation tools and group dynamics training with workshop-design learning and certification. Build a clear process that helps groups reach shared understanding, decisions and concrete action.
What is it?
A training and certification program that equips you with the skills to plan and lead productive meetings and workshops.
Who is it for?
For anyone who wants to become more confident and skilled in guiding groups towards a common goal.
Why participate?
Facilitation skills empower you to drive meaningful change, unite teams, and effectively solve complex problems. With these tools, you can make a real difference!
What will I learn?
Learn facilitation tools and how to manage group dynamics in the training. Develop your workshop-design skills through small-group learning during certification.
Who is this certification program for?
The Associate Certified Facilitator Program is for everyone who wants to facilitate productive meetings, workshops and group events. For beginning facilitators the program gives a simple structure and tools how to get started. For advanced facilitators the training is an eye opener that introduces a different, new and effective way for choosing tools and designing workshops.
Part. 1
Breakthrough Decision Making
(ONLINE)
Learn practical facilitation tools and how to manage group dynamics to build shared understanding, commitment and clear decisions.
Three (3) trainer-led online sessions for hands-on learning and expert guidance.
Part. 2
Workshop Design
& Certification
(ONLINE)
A small-group workshop-design learning activity. Develop and refine your designs with feedback from peers and Pepe, following a one-hour preparation session.
Build your facilitation toolkit, understand group dynamics and design workshops with confidence.
Workshop design is an essential facilitator skill: a well-designed process lays the foundation for effective delivery. Our certification develops and assesses this skill through practical design work, small-group learning and feedback.
Program approval and evaluation
Approval – The Facilitator certification program has earned the quality stamp of Education Finland – a national education export program, offering Finnish educational know-how and learning solutions globally.
Evaluation – The Facilitator certification program’s quality has been successfully evaluated by Finnish Education Evaluation Center (www.karvi.fi).
Learn the Core Competences of a Facilitator!
Role of the facilitator
Understanding what a facilitator is and when to facilitate
Workshop stages
Applying clear logical stages as the backbone of the workshop
Divergence and convergence
Choosing the right tools for creating and choosing ideas
Visualising
Visualising ideas to focus the group and help decision making
Psychological safety
Creating an environment for productive collaboration
Creating alignment
Balancing individual, small-group and large-group communication
Presence
Facilitator observes and listens to the group and intervenes actively when needed
Reaching the goal
Communicating, reaching and evaluating workshop targets
Pepe Nummi
Pepe has worked as a facilitator since 1998 and served as the inaugural chairman of the Finnish Association of Facilitators. Pepe is the developer of the Idealogue method and is the author of The Handbook on Facilitation, The Handbook of Virtual Facilitation, and Beyond Brainstorming Idealogue. Over the course of his long career, he has trained over 15,000 people in more than 20 different countries.