Certified Agile Facilitator (CAF)

The CF program supports the growth of participants and helps with challenges from real working environments. While participants advance their facilitation skills, participants also support their teams and organizations to advance.

What are the benefits of a Certified Facilitator® certification? Integrate your existing knowledge and skills to unleash your facilitation potentials. Distinguish yourself in the global marketplace. Stand out in your industry as an advanced member of the globally recognized Scrum Alliance community. Support your teams and organizations advanced value to your employer (or potential employer) as a highly trained Agile professional. Deep dive of an in-demand skill that goes beyond technique alone and explores the mindset of a facilitator. Live, immersive facilitation practice. Membership with the Scrum Alliance.

Product people (product manager, product owner) to facilitate workshops with stakeholders. Project manager. People manager. ScrumMaster and Agile Coaches wanting to advance their facilitation skills. Individuals who want to develop themselves on the path of Agile Coach. Anybody who wants to learn about group facilitation.

The Certified Facilitator does not require prior learning. Though anybody who doesn’t understand Agile and Scrum, some preparation work has to be done to work with facilitation in an Agile context.

Facilitation Fundamentals. Facilitation Essentials: Emotional Intelligence and Facilitation, Facilitating through conflicts, Fostering and Repairing Psychological Safety. Facilitation Stages: Assessing Group’s Context and Needs, Designing Facilitation Plan, Forwarding the Action. Orientation of A Facilitator: Facilitating from front, side, back and inside. Meta skills. Deep democracy. Co-facilitation: Designing co-facilitation plan, Co-facilitation in action. Facilitation Practice and Advancement.

Commitments: Preparation prior to the workshop requires approximately 60 minutes on average. 2-day workshop with full engagements and practices in workshops. Homework and practices – approximately 4 hours on average (not including the time spent during facilitation sessions. 1/2 day follow-up session.