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A ToP Certification group worked since 2003 to develop certification competencies and an
assessment process which is currently being used by several ICAs and ToP networks. Cheryl Kartes, April
19, 2009
Marilyn Oyler has hosted some meetings at past IAF conferences for dialogue regarding the Certification of facilitators
using ICA/ToP methodology. This year, I've been asked to convene a meeting so that we might continue the dialogue and
build consensus on what the Certification is called and perhaps a logo we would all use. At the Toronto IAF 2000, there was
an agreement to use the same Facilitator Competencies globally as we certify facilitators in each country. We agreed that
the course work and process to become certified did not have to be the same. ICA Canada/Associates developed a certification
process that has been adapted for use in the United States, and perhaps elsewhere. A driver for THIS meeting is the desire
of some in our USA Certification track to have "international" clearly in the name of the certification, since it
is not yet widely known in ot her circles that ToP already is international.
Ann Epps: April 19, 2009
This
has long been subject of vital interest to me. We just certified 5 Singaporean facilitators as CTF's using the same
competencies as US and Canada.
Larry Philbrook: April 19, 2009
In Taiwan we have been operating the Facilitation
Certification Program since 2001 and have graduated over 30 people. The certificate says that the individual has
graduated from the ICA Taiwan ToP Certification program and documents their participation. We have used the ToP Competencies
as the basis for our work. The program consists of 12.5 days of training, Monthly Team Practice sessions in which each
individual presents at least once during their journey, 6-8 personal mentoring sessions, 2-3 monitored sessions with feedback.
We are in the process of redesigning this program partly in light of the fact that IAF and the CTF now exist.
We have not decided whether we will launch the CTF in Taiwan. We use the ToP or ICA logo on all applicable materials both
for the FCP and in any other programs we do. ICA Taiwan has done extensive ToP training across China and Hong Kong as
well as some facilitator training both in-house and public events in Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Nepal, Bangladesh, Egypt,
and Turkey.
Martin Galbraith: April 19, 2009
ICA:UK is not certifying facilitators yet but I have had
it in mind for some time so I would be glad to have the chance talk about it. Having just taken the IAF certifcation
myself last year what I am keen to understand is how does/should ICA's ToP facilitator certification relate to IAF's
(generic) facilitator certification, given that (as far as I am aware) many of the competences are the same.
Ray
and Elaine Richmond: April 19, 2009
Since I know you are probably already in Vancouver, I’ll make a quick response
from the ToP Faculty in OZ (Australia, that is)
1. We conducted our 1st ToP Certification event in May 2008
with 6 people gaining certification.
2. After some very productive discussion we decided to use the post nominals
CToPF for Certified ToP Facilitator. We did this because CTF didn’t say anything that signified ToP and we wanted
the post nominals to be as much a part of the overall image/profile/PR/marketing effort as they could be.
3. We
have essentially used the guidelines and facilitator competencies as Canada and USA. We have added one item to the ToP
Competencies because of the emphasis we put on underlying dynamics in our training. We have also 'reorganised and renumbered'
the competencies chart to reflect the centrality of the ToP competancies. (an old ICA trick in making charts). [Use
of ToP Methods is the middle column of a three column chart.]
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