Mastering Technology of Participation® (MToP) with HueLife

The year-long Mastering ToP (MToP) program is designed for leaders who want to master their engagement and facilitation skills and expand their competencies. You will learn more about ToP method theory, acquire and apply new tools, practice with real clients, and share feedback with peers and certified professionals. 2025 will host the 55th program cohort and 10% off registration is only available through HueLife.

What you'll learn

MToP is an intensive skill-building experience from the Institute of Cultural Affairs that helps you significantly improve facilitative leadership capabilities, deepen your knowledge, and have fun while you learn new tools, processes, and skills. Plus, your cohort will become a new network of support and friends for years to come.

This year-long in-person program includes intensive training sessions for three days each quarter and year-round mentoring and fieldwork.

What you'll gain

• Enhanced ability to engage, facilitate, and design diverse events and change approaches.
• Increased capacity and confidence to help people achieve effective, productive action.
• New tools to initiate and sustain organizational and community change.
• Practice and support from an enduring, powerful community of dedicated facilitators.
• MToP also helps you prepare for professional facilitator certification.

Learning Objectives

I. Learning Intensives: Each quarter, MToP cohorts meet in-person for three days of intensive work

• Intensive 1: Facilitating Depth Reflection - Learn to enhance participatory environments and dive into focused conversation, wave methodology, and image shift methods.
• Intensive 2: Facilitating Consensus Building - Focus on the consensus workshop method and its many variations while exploring how to create a multi-sensory impact.
• Intensive 3: Orchestrating Group Action - Co-facilitate Action Planning sessions with real clients and deepen understanding of Strategic Planning methods.
• Intensive 4: Designing for Transformative Change - Learn how to design exceptional events and produce effective results. Discover how to integrate other methods. Deliver a presentation on your Personal Inquiry Project.

II. Field Experience: Practice and ongoing project learning between intensives.

III. Mentoring: Group mentoring meetings with colleagues and a mentor facilitator.

Program Dates

• Intensive I: January 15 – 17
• Intensive II: April 16 – 18
• Intensive III: July 16 – 18
• Intensive IV: October 15-17

Program Investment

• Corporate and Large Non-Profits (budget more than $5 million): $6,500.00
• Public Government: $5,550.00
• Individual Professionals and Mid-Sized Non-Profits (budget $1-$5 million): $5,050.00
• Students and Small Non-Profits (budget less than $1 million): $4,050.00

10% off registrations received by December 15. This discount is only available through HueLife, a premier ToP® training company.

About HueLife

We are HueLife, and what we are all about is in our name—Human Understanding and Engagement (HUE). We are professional facilitators, consultants, and trainers who strive to inspire creativity and innovation, facilitate learning, and design innovative strategies and experiences to help our clients achieve their goals. We are a collaborative team of leaders who use Human Understanding and Engagement as a core strategy for change, leadership development, and skill transfer. HueLife’s methods ignite participation in groups and establish space for transformation.

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