The primary purposes of the certificate process are to help you become a better version of yourself and a more effective leader by introducing you to the concepts and practices of compassionate listening, discovery learning and the IDEA method of individual mentor-coaching and small group facilitation.

Those who have completed the certificate have benefited in their interpersonal communications skills, team building and management abilities.

Some of our certificate recipients have gone on to do one-on-one coaching, training others in compassionate listening and doing mentor-coaching in their business or non-profit settings. Most have found that participating in a certificate cohort has helped them grow personally and led to healthier connections with other people.

1. Facilitator Skills Training (FST)

Overview: This training is an introduction to and personal experience in the IDEA method of mentor-coaching in a small group context. The IDEA approach is useful for individual mentor-coaching and small “discovery learning” groups. Both situations can facilitate relationally empowering opportunities for personal insights and transformational growth.

Cost: $250 (includes manual, snacks/lunch, and supervision)

Length: 1 day or two 3 ½ hour segments

Requirements: Completion of Mentoring, Coaching, and Leadership Development Certificate

Target Group: Certificate holders who have the potential and desire to learn how to facilitate small discovery learning groups

2. Practicum

Overview: Supervised small discovery learning small group co-facilitation with current MCLD facilitator. Participants recruit, develop content, and co-facilitate with a supervisor who assesses facilitator competencies.

Cost: Included in FST fees

Length: 3 months

Requirements: Successful completion of FST

Target Group: Certificate holders who have the potential and desire to learn how to facilitate small discovery learning groups

Overview: The MCLD Consulting Certificate is the capstone of the center's training providing the recipient the skills and resources to train others in compassionate listening, compassionate leadership, and building compassionate communities.

Requirements: Successful completion of the certificates in MCLD and small group facilitation

COMPONENTS:

This discovery learning workbook will focus on innovation, change, and interrelated systems and functions within the organization. This pre-work process of reading and responding to Discovery (D) and Application (A) sections in Chapters 1-9 in The Innovation and Change Workbook will provide students with the opportunity to gain information and insights about organizational processes and environments that foster creativity and innovation.The participant will gain an awareness of how the impact of innovation and change in one system has on other systems within the organization. Finally, the participant will gain various skill sets to help generate overall organizational effectiveness in regard to innovation and change.

This 1-day (8:30 am until 4:30 pm) workshop will focus on activating the skills necessary for the assessment of an organization's readiness for change and systematic strategies for initiating/implementing healthy change within an organization. The participant will gain an understanding of how the impact of innovation and change affects individuals and groups of people in an organization. The training will provide participants with the opportunity to develop organizational change processes that foster systematic and healthy change and gain various skill sets to help generate overall organizational effectiveness in regard to healthy change.

3. Practicum
This involves developing a change process (assessment, strategy, initiation/implementation, and evaluation) proposal for training in compassionate listening, compassionate leadership, or building compassionate communities based on the strategy outlined in Chapter 10 of The Innovation and Change Workbook and implementation of  a "pilot" micro group in an organization with a supervisor who acts as a resource while assessing consulting competencies to be completed within six months after completion of the Consulting Workshop.

Grand View Master of Science in Organizational Leadership

The Mentoring, Coaching and Leadership Development Workbook

The Compassionate Trilogy