Center for Council's Mentor Circle is charged with maintaining the protocols surrounding certification of council trainers, reviewing and evaluating those who elect to enter the path to certification and determining whether candidates have satisfied the criteria, demonstrated the core competencies of a council trainer, and should therefore be certified as such.
Ceremony confirming twelve new Certified Council Trainers, 12/14/19.
Certification is essentially a confirmation that the candidate has demonstrated mastery of the core competencies of being a council trainer. The process one undertakes to learn, practice and integrate council into one's life is highly personal and unique to each candidate.
The most fruitful way to develop and deepen one's practice of council ... is to practice council. Sitting in council with peers, colleagues, veteran and new practitioners, and seasoned council trainers can be a generative and inspiring experience. This website provides a resource for finding upcoming council training workshops and exploring ways to engage in council work through the many programs, initiatives and resources described here. Feel free to contact Center for Council staff for additional ideas.
Center for Council is committed to supporting those individuals called to pursue certification as a council trainer and offers a comprehensive package of training, mentoring by veteran council trainers, as well as personalized observation and feedback, internship placement, professional development sessions, and coaching. This path is available to applicants who have completed a Council Training 1 workshop and are motivated to seek certification to offer council training and to facilitate council-based programming professionally. The dynamic curriculum offered through this program presents prospective trainers with an opportunity to engage tools and hands-on experience critical to moving into providing these services in a safe, resourced, and responsible way, as well as an opportunity to immerse in gatherings and professional development opportunities with Center for Council's staff and affiliated council trainers and facilitators.
While grant funds are occasionally made available to defray costs associated with this rigorous process (such as the Trainer Leadership Initiative, funded in 2016-2018 by the Angell Foundation), interested individuals who have previously completed an Introduction to Council (Council Training 1) Workshop can begin the process at any time, assuming costs themselves or through independent fundraising. If this Independent Path to Becoming a Council Trainer is of interest, you can find further detail here.
The most fruitful way to develop and deepen one's practice of council ... is to practice council. Sitting in council with peers, colleagues, veteran and new practitioners, and seasoned council trainers can be a generative and inspiring experience. This website provides a resource for finding upcoming council training workshops and exploring ways to engage in council work through the many programs, initiatives and resources described here. Feel free to contact Center for Council staff for additional ideas.
Center for Council is committed to supporting those individuals called to pursue certification as a council trainer and offers a comprehensive package of training, mentoring by veteran council trainers, as well as personalized observation and feedback, internship placement, professional development sessions, and coaching. This path is available to applicants who have completed a Council Training 1 workshop and are motivated to seek certification to offer council training and to facilitate council-based programming professionally. The dynamic curriculum offered through this program presents prospective trainers with an opportunity to engage tools and hands-on experience critical to moving into providing these services in a safe, resourced, and responsible way, as well as an opportunity to immerse in gatherings and professional development opportunities with Center for Council's staff and affiliated council trainers and facilitators.
While grant funds are occasionally made available to defray costs associated with this rigorous process (such as the Trainer Leadership Initiative, funded in 2016-2018 by the Angell Foundation), interested individuals who have previously completed an Introduction to Council (Council Training 1) Workshop can begin the process at any time, assuming costs themselves or through independent fundraising. If this Independent Path to Becoming a Council Trainer is of interest, you can find further detail here.
Certification as a council trainer requires the following:
* A more extensive and detailed description of "The Path to Becoming a Council Trainer," as well as more in-depth articulation of the qualities, skills and core competencies necessary for certification; READ MORE HERE.
- Completion of Council Training Workshops, Levels 1, 2 & 3 (CT1, CT2 & CT3); more information on these workshop offerings can be found here
- Interview with Center for Council staff and approval of an independent training plan OR acceptance into a training cohort
- Minimum of 50 hours logged council facilitation
- Observation by and feedback from senior trainer(s) on a minimum of 5 facilitated council sessions
- Engagement in the Center for Council community
- Apprenticeship on a Council Training 1 workshop
- Introduction of a council program
- Co-facilitation of a Council Training 1 workshop
- Demonstrating the Core Competencies of a council trainer, as described in the "Path to Becoming a Council Trainer" document*
- Understanding and embodying "The Way of Council"
- Evaluation and approval by Center for Council Mentor Circle
- Official certification
* A more extensive and detailed description of "The Path to Becoming a Council Trainer," as well as more in-depth articulation of the qualities, skills and core competencies necessary for certification; READ MORE HERE.
