Program Details & Registration Information

1. Facilitator Skills Training (FST)

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 3.5 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

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

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

Cost: $250 PLUS $25 to purchase The Innovation and Change Workbook

COMPONENTS:

1. Certificate Preparation: The Innovation and Change Workbook
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.

2. MCLD Consulting Certificate
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 University Establishes The Center for Mentoring, Coaching and Leadership Development:

In February of 2021, The Center for Mentoring, Coaching, and Leadership Development was officially established as part of Grand View University with Dr. Paul Leavenworth serving as the volunteer Director, Mark Hicks as the volunteer Director of Operations, and Alex Krumm as the part-time staff Director of Campus Outreach and Online Training.

The purpose of The Center is to help people become compassionate listeners by training them in active listening, discovery learning, and the IDEA methodology in mentor-coaching and small group facilitation. A compassionate listener “cares enough about another person to hear the story in their story” in order to help them “become better versions of themselves and better leaders in their spheres of influence.”

The Center accomplishes this by providing high quality training at a reasonable cost so that a broad variety of people can have access. They currently offer two prerequisite training events:

• The Mentor-Coaching Seminar: in-person and online via Udemy
• The Mentor-Coaching Skills Training : in-person and online via Blackboard

And one primary and two secondary certificate processes:

• Primary: The Mentoring, Coaching, and Leadership Development Certificate: in-person and online via Blackboard
• Secondary: The Small Group Facilitation Certificate and MCLD Consulting: in-person

To date, The Center has successfully trained over 100 individuals through the Mentoring, Coaching, and Leadership Development Certificate cohort process at GVU and other off-campus training cohorts. The Center is offering the Mentoring, Coaching, and Leadership Development Certificate Process each spring and fall at GVU and at additional off-campus sites. In addition, The Center is offering the MC Seminar online for free via Udemy and has developed online blended training in MC Skills and the Mentoring, Coaching, and Leadership Development Certificate via Blackboard and Zoom.

Grand View Master of Science in Organizational Leadership

The Mentoring, Coaching and Leadership Development Workbook

The Compassionate Trilogy