Facilitation Stories

In today's episode, Helene Jewell talks to Lindsay Sumner and Simon Wilson about the IAF's Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) assessment process and how it has moved online. Lindsay Sumner (CPF M) is the  IAF Director of Certification Operations. She shares with Helene her own certification process, which was a testing one! The process continues to test facilitators skills and processes. There is writing, interviewing and observation involved.  CPF is an in-depth peer review of their facilitation knowledge, experience, skills and practice. It's a multi-staged process which takes about three months. The IAF's philosophy is "test to pass", that is, that everyone is given a fair opportunity to show their skills.  Stage 1 involves reviewing the documentation. If there is not enough evidence yet, they won't be invited to Stage 2.  What about becoming a CPF Master? Once you are a CPF, you can re-certify by writing about your practice over the last four years, to show that you are still facilitating, and l