So the capability stays inside your organisation
Everything we do is designed so that eventually you stop needing us for it. Certification is how that happens: your own people, certified to design and hold the room, and to run the programmes we built together.
Two ways in - LEAF facilitator certification for the craft of facilitation itself, and train-the-trainer for carrying a specific programme in-house - delivered by practitioners who run these rooms every week.
Capability rented
- External facilitators for every session
- A programme that runs when we are in the building
- Presenting, and hoping
- Materials that leave with the vendor
- The budget decides the cohorts
Capability owned
- Your own certified facilitators
- A programme your trainers run every cohort
- Facilitating, to a decision
- Design and materials transferred
- You decide the cohorts
What are 60 Bits certifications?
Two certifications that move capability from us to you. Facilitator certification builds and assesses the ability to design and run a group process - through LEAF, the government-certified process facilitation workshop 60 Bits is the only organisation licensed to run. Train-the-trainer certifies your internal trainers to deliver a programme we designed together, with the design and materials transferred and us in the room until they do not need us there.
Tick the ones you recognise
Six things we hear before an organisation decides to own the capability. Capability that lives with a vendor is not really yours.
Nothing is stored or sent. It is just for you.What stays with you when we go
A certification is measured by the rooms your people run afterwards. This is what holds.
- A bench of certified facilitators inside your organisation - HR, L&D and line leaders who can design and hold the room.
- Certified internal trainers running your programmes for every future cohort, at your pace.
- The programme design and materials, transferred, with the right to run them for your own people.
- An ongoing practitioner network, so the skill keeps developing after the certificate is issued.
- Less dependence on external facilitators - including us.
Four movements, in order
Both certifications follow the same logic: learn it the way we do it, practise it under observation, be assessed, then apply it in real rooms with us alongside until you do not need us there.
- 1
Learn
Facilitation process, tools and mindset - or a programme’s design and the intent behind it - taught the way we facilitate, without slide decks.
ProcessDesignMindset - 2
Practise
Live practice with structured observation and feedback. The skill is only built by doing it badly first, safely.
Live practiceObservationFeedback - 3
Certify
Assessment against professional facilitation standards (LEAF), or certification once the cohort experience is genuinely the trainer’s own.
LEAFTrainer certification - 4
Apply
Real sessions and real cohorts in your organisation, with us in the room until you do not need us there, and a practitioner network afterwards.
Real roomsPractitioner network
Two ways in
Facilitator certification
LEAF, the government-certified process facilitation workshop: your in-house team certified to design and hold the room.
See the certificationTrain-the-trainer
Your programmes, carried forward by your own people after we step back.
See the certificationThe Art of Group Process Facilitation
Our free ebook: five learnings from three decades in the room, told as stories.
Get the ebookThe questions we hear first
Which certification do we need?
Facilitator certification if the gap is the craft - sessions that end without decisions. Train-the-trainer if the gap is a specific programme you want to keep running without us. Many organisations do both, in that order.
What is LEAF?
A government-certified process facilitation workshop. 60 Bits is the only organisation licensed to run it, and participants are assessed against professional facilitation standards.
Who runs the certifications?
Shyam Iyer and Kala Diwanji, both Certified Professional Facilitators (CPF) from the International Association of Facilitators, and the authors of The Art of Group Process Facilitation.
How long do they take?
Facilitator certification: the workshop and assessment over a few weeks, then supported practice over a quarter. Train-the-trainer: two to three cohorts delivered together, four to six months.
Do we own the programme afterwards?
For train-the-trainer, yes - you receive the design and materials with the right to run the programme for your own people, agreed in writing up front.
Let’s make the capability yours
Tell us who should be able to run the room, and which programmes you want to keep running after we have gone. In 45 minutes we will tell you what the path looks like.