Generative Facilitation Certification Program

Shift your Facilitation Practice to the Next Level and Join our Generative Facilitation Certification Program in Berlin! Now offered in English and German!

Registration for next the GFCP cohorts in 2025/26 has opened. We are offering an English and a German learning stream.

NEW: Our Certification Program has now been certified as educational leave (Bildungszeit) in Germany!

Please apply via the link below:

Leverage Your Most Important Facilitation Tool: Your Self!

Become a Certified Generative Facilitator by joining our cutting-edge GFI Certification Program. It is designed for you to become more effective in your work as facilitator, leader, or changemaker to strengthen you in successfully navigating innovation and change in times of disruption – for teams, organizations, and larger social systems across sectors.

Generative Facilitation is the Art and Mastery of facilitating groups to effectively

navigate transformation, innovation and change.
engage in journeys of collective discovery for actualizing their full potential and collective creativity.
transform challenges and find inner resources and trajectories forward even when the time get rough.
strengthen and develop healthy teams, organizations and communities of excellence.
leverage the inner dimension such as the intelligence of the head, heart and hands by nurturing curiosity, compassion and courage.

Shift your Facilitation Practice to the Next Level

Version 2 Our one-year program offers you an inspiring learning environment with a highly experienced international faculty, including:

5 intensive onsite learning modules of 4 days each.
3 online webinars of 3,5 hours.
Personal dialogue interview to kick-off your learning journey.
Peer learning and coaching opportunities.
Personal 1:1 coaching session.
Certification Process in the last module including a live facilitation session and preparation of a facilitation design of the participant.
Extensive learning materials and reader including handouts and tools.
Personal high quality journal, folder and facilitation material.
Access to our GFI Online Learning Platform and international network of professionals with exclusive access to further resources and networking opportunities.
Free Access to our GFI online Transformation Toolbox for a year.
Access to our Transformation Process Model Online Tool during the course
Special discounts as GFCP alumni with our cooperation partners such as neuland et al.

In our Certification Program you will learn to:

Apply some of the best proven facilitation and innovation methodologies in order to help groups and organizations to successfully navigate innovation and change.
Master both the inner and outer game of facilitation by integrating the intelligence of the head, heart, and hands in facilitating deeper changes.
Help groups to transform old thinking, routines, and dysfunctional relationships towards collective creativity, and to unleash their generative potential to innovate and deeply connect around their shared purpose.
Remain open, connected and centered in your inner ground to be able to hold difficult feelings and thoughts along the way.
Embody an open mind, heart, and will by cultivating curiosity, compassion, and courage – in yourself and in others.
Help move from ego-centered systems to healthy, purposeful eco-systems that serve the wellbeing of all.
Sustain and anchor such deeper changes and continued learning.

Module Overview:

Module 1: Foundations in Generative Facilitation – Linking the Inner and Outer Game of Facilitation and Leveraging your Self as Facilitation Tool
Module 2: Facilitate U – Facilitating Self and Others by Integrating Head, Heart and Hands with the Larger Whole
Module 3: Facilitating from the Emerging Future and Prototyping the New – Embracing not Knowing, Passages of Presencing and Exploring the Future by Doing
Module 4: Holding Difficult Feelings and Transforming Relationships – Trajectories of Transformation for Bringing Flow to Stuck Systems
Module 5: Anchoring Change and Sustaining Healthy Learning Systems – Personal Mastery and Certification Process

Dates for the next GFCP in English:

Module 1: 18-21 Mar. 2025 (new start date)
Module 2: 26-29 May 2025
Module 3: 16-19 Sep. 2025
Module 4: 09-12 Dec. 2025
Module 5: 03-06 Mar. 2026
Register now for our Program

Dates for the next GFCP in German:

Module 1: 24-27 Jun. 2025
Module 2: 29 Sep. – 02 Oct. 2025
Module 3: 18-21 Nov. 2025
Module 4: 10-13 Feb. 2026
Module 5: 05-08 May 2026
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Our GFI Approach

Aufbaumodul_CW_sm Our GFI approach is cross-disciplinary and comprehensive and deeply rooted in a systemic understanding of change. It draws on some of the best proven facilitation and innovation methodologies, the latest insights and approaches from research, as well as old wisdom traditions. These include Theory U, Systemic Approaches, Generative Coaching, Holistic Change and Innovation Approaches (i.e. World Café, OpenSpace, Appreciative Inquiry, Design Thinking, Agile), Mindfulness. Impeccable Leadership and Embodiment as well as Heart and Neuro Sciences.

Learn from an inspiring and highly experienced international faculty:

Christine Wank (Founder of GFI and Facilitate U), lead facilitator
Susan Taylor (Generon International)
Holger Scholz (Kommunikationslotsen)
Frits Wilmsen (Impeccable Leadership Institute, FP&P)

Christine Wank

Founder
Holger Scholz

Faculty, Wisdom Council, Partner
Frits Wilmsen

Faculty, Wisdom Council, Partner
Susan Taylor

Faculty, Wisdom Council

Registration and further information

You can register by sending us your application via the following Link:
Register now for our Program

We will send you the confirmation after carefully reviewing your application.

The participation fee for this Certification Program is 5.900 EUR plus 19% VAT.

Costs for venue, lodging, beverages and meals are excluded and will be covered by each participant. In addition to the program fee there will a venue package which range from 230 to 250 EUR plus 19% VAT per module. For more details check out the registration form.

We are happy to support with further information. For details see the registration sheet with terms of reference.

There is a limited number of GFI Fellowships available.

Interested in joining this unique learning journey?

Would you like to have more information or share your questions with us?

Get in touch with our Program Director and Lead Facilitator Christine Wank or schedule a call via:
info@generativefacilitation.com