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From Co-Design to Systems Change: How ToP Methods Helped CTN Achieve Platinum-Level Impact
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From Co-Design to Systems Change: How ToP Methods Helped CTN Achieve Platinum-Level Impact

In January 2025, I registered for ICA’s Advanced Facilitator Program (AFP) with the aim of becoming an ICA Certified ToP™ Facilitator (CTF). I ...

The Organizational Journey Map: How to Turn “Mental Differences” Across Eight Dimensions into a Shared Rhythm for Moving Forward
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The Organizational Journey Map: How to Turn “Mental Differences” Across Eight Dimensions into a Shared Rhythm for Moving Forward

ToP Tool Breakthrough Series 06 — Part I When we discuss organizational transformation, transformation is no longer an option. It h ...

Group Facilitation Methods: Beyond

Group Facilitation Methods: Beyond "Seat-of-the-Pants" to Skilled Practice

At ICAA, our experts have spent over 50 years watching what happens when people truly listen to each other. When someone asks you a thoughtful questio ...

Consensus Workshop Method: Facilitation Tool | ICAA

Consensus Workshop Method: Facilitation Tool | ICAA

Every facilitator needs to know how to build a consensus within a group. This method has forty years of practice, in person and online in groups from ...

The Art of Focused Conversation: Transform Your Meetings with the Four-Level ORID Method

The Art of Focused Conversation: Transform Your Meetings with the Four-Level ORID Method

How many hours have you spent in meetings that went nowhere? If you're like most professionals, the answer is "too many to count." Research shows tha ...

Focused Conversation Method

Focused Conversation Method

This is the single most valuable method for any facilitator. It allows any group to have a safe conversation that actually gets somewhere. It is a too ...

Human Genetic Material Benefit Sharing

Human Genetic Material Benefit Sharing

Pharmaceutical firms get financial benefit from the use of human genetic material while disease and founder populations who provide the genetic materi ...

Consultation on Public Consultations

Consultation on Public Consultations

The City of Edmonton wanted to determine how best to do public consultation. At first: Public consultation was often held on major city initiatives bu ...

Webequie First Nation Ring of Fire

Webequie First Nation Ring of Fire

Webequie First Nation is in the mineral-rich Ring of Fire in northern Ontario.  At first: Governments and mining companies usually want quick negotia ...

Participatory Strategic Planning

Participatory Strategic Planning

ICA’s participatory strategic planning is well-known around the world in companies, governments, non-profit groups, and communities. For many facili ...