Coach Training: July 2025 – Collaborative Discussion
July 21, 2025 @ 12:00 pm – July 25, 2025 @ 3:00 pm EDT
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Become a Collaborative Discussion Coach
About the July 2025 IF Collaborative Discussion Coach Training
This training is limited to 10 participants to ensure interactive, hands-on engagement. After completing this training, certified collaborative discussion coaches will be better equipped to use activities from the Collaborative Discussion Toolkit in their work and be able to offer their own certificate programs in classrooms, communities, and workplaces. Coaches are able to award certificates & digital badges to participants who successfully complete their certificate program.
Featured facilitators:
- Jes Friedrichs, Carlow University
- Rhonda Fitzgerald, Sustained Dialogue Institute
- Timothy Shaffer, University of Delaware and IF
- Courtney N Wright, University of Tennessee
- Kim Allonce, Kallipolis-Haiti
By the end of the Collaborative Discussion Coach Training, you will have…
- Deeper understanding of key collaborative discussion concepts
- Greater familiarity with the Collaborative Discussion Toolkit and intentional design of toolkit activities
- Experienced a selection of expedited toolkit activities with a debriefing on how to facilitate each activity
- Access to Coach Only Resources, assessment suite, certificate program templates, and more!
- Administrative support to award certificates and digital badges in collaborative discussion
- Access to post-training one-on-one consultations with the program director and support team
- Invitation to future workshops, webinars, and trainings
- Opportunity to be part of a growing community of educators, dialogue practitioners, and civic professionals
When: 12 pm – 3 pm (eastern) on July 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25
Where: Online via Zoom, with small group breakout sessions
Who should register? Anyone interested in becoming a certified IF Collaborative Discussion Coach. Open to educators and staff (higher ed and K12), librarians, community leaders, civic consultants, teaching assistants and graduate students, professional development managers, and others passionate about the power of discussion to build collaborative intelligence.
How much does it cost? $495. We are able to offer a discounted price due to the generous support of the Interactivity Foundation. Our programming should never be cost prohibitive. Please contact us if a scholarship is needed.
When is the deadline? Sunday, June 22, 2025
Questions? Contact [email protected]
Once the training is full, please complete this form to join a waitlist for this training or register for a future training on our events calendar.
Refund policy: If you need to cancel your registration, please contact [email protected] before July 7, 2025. Your registration fee minus 10% processing and administrative fees will be refunded up until June 30, 2025. After June 30th, you will receive a 50% refund up until July 7, 2025. After 4pm eastern on July 7, 2025, we will no longer be able to offer refunds.
