The certified Facilitating with Integrative Empathy Program equips you to become a certified facilitator. Consequently, you will be able to facilitate projects, teams and groups with Integrative Empathy skills to guide collaboration, co-creation, peer support and learning.

Your facilitation will guide people to support and work together in teams and across multi-disciplinary divisions or teams. It also equips you to optimise potentially difficult interactions for creativity and innovation.

This one-year program aims to teach you practical foundational skills in facilitation including specific empathy facilitation skills. You’ll gain the theoretical underpinning, principles, tools and techniques of Integrative Empathy. These will guide you to build your own Facilitation practice or to enhance your managerial or facilitation approach with empathy skills.

This program builds on the successful completion of the Building Blocks of Integrative Empathy and Practising Integrative Empathy courses.

By following the Facilitating Integrative Empathy Program you enhance your own Integrative Empathy skills as well as acquire Empathic Intervision Standards of Practice to facilitate empathy in others. 

The successful completion of the course will be when you have completed the course work, have conducted at least six Empathic Intervision group sessions and completed a Development Portfolio recording your learning journey.

Have a helicopter view of empathy in all its complexity.

Practice your own empathic skills as well as have practical knowledge on how to facilitate empathy in others. The skills are specific to the five distinct and interconnected aspects of Integrative Empathy mentioned below.

Apply general facilitation skills: To take part in a meeting without being part of it, maintaining a view of the outcome of a meeting and guiding the process but refraining from directing it.

Apply facilitation skills specific to the phases of a meeting.

The program teaches both general facilitation skills as well as five skills specific to Integrative Empathy:

• With Self-empathy you learn to be comfortable with the expression of emotions while maintaining neutral emotions yourself and facilitate the same in others.
• In Kinesthetic empathy you learn observation skills, work with non-verbal cues and create group cohesion using physicality rather than thought.
• In Reflective empathy you learn to apply the guidelines of empathic listening. This includes how to guide a group to hold a space for everyone to express themselves, be heard and progress towards mutual understanding.
• In Imaginative empathy you learn skills to distil perspectives and acknowledge their value, as well as facilitate the creative flow of diversity. This includes skills to suspend judgment and encourage others free from your own projections, values, norms and opinions.
• In Empathic creativity you learn to guide a group to gather insights. You will also be able to ensure that behavioural change potential is actionable.

The course applies experiential learning. We encourage you, and give you opportunities, to experience, reflect on, understand and practice your skills.