ICA Associates Canada

Membership Status: Associate member

About us

Get highly transferable skills that fully engage your staff and stakeholders, and the confidence you need to make a difference in your workplace or community. Our programs are available to you in many cities across Canada as public courses and also as inhouse courses in your location. We train over 1000 people each year in the Technology of Participation, facilitative leadership and transformation and publish books that are available in several languages. Our Professional Facilitator Program is endorsed by the International Association of Facilitators to prepare you for facilitator certification.

Our Mission

ICA Associates Inc. is on the leading edge of transformation in communities, organizations and governments in Canada. For two decades our philosophy of full participation had made significant solid and sustainable impact in every field of endeavour. ICA Associates Inc. is a social enterprise corporation partially owned by ICA Canada and is licensed by ICA Canada to teach and spread the Technology of Participation.

Our Values

Comprehensive thinking, discliplined lucidity, total affirmation, responsible action and a vocation of service. All the intellectual property we develop is given back to the registered charity, ICA Canada, in order to ensure its dissemination into the world, including books, manuals, videos and research.

Activity	Description
Professional Facilitator Program	Three courses: Group Facilitation Methods, Meetings That Work, Art and Science of Participation. This program has been endorsed by the IAF as preparing one for the assessment for Certified Professional Facilitator.
Facilitative Leadership Program	Five courses: Group Facilitation Methods, Facilitated Planning, Advanced Tools, Organizational Transformation, Human Development. This includes many higher level methods like Imaginal Education, Social Process, etc.
Advanced Facilitator Program	Seven courses: Group Facilitation Methods, Meetings That Work, Art and Science of Participation, Facilitated Planning, Advanced Tools, Organizational Transformation, Human Development. This prepares one for anything they might handle including CPF, CTF,
ToP Facilitation Essentials Program	Three courses: Group Facilitation Methods, Meetings That Work, Facilitating Client Collaboration. This program has been endorsed by the IAF as preparing one for the assessment for Certified Professional Facilitator.
Consulting	We facilitate participatory strategic planning, conferences, public consultation, organizational development, curriculum design, teams and workgroups and process design for communities and organizations.