The Association of Facilitators (AoF)
is a membership organisation dedicated to supporting facilitators
through high quality training, accreditation and supervision.
We
exist to support everyone working as a facilitator, including
managers, leaders, development professionals and consultants working
with private, public, charity and education bodies — in fact,
anyone, in any industry, who leads groups and teams.
The founders of
the AoF have been working at the sharp end of facilitation and
consulting for many years and launched the AoF in response to two
major needs. First, an increasing demand for high quality
accreditation and training programmes that reflect today’s business
and social structures. Second, the need of individual
facilitators for a professional “home” which gives them both
practical support and opportunities for development.
We aim to provide the
highest quality support, learning and development for new and
experienced facilitators.
We believe that
facilitation skills are essential for healthy leadership, management
and participation in groups, and that these skills can be developed
by anyone, working at any level, with any group. Fundamentally,
we encourage and support individuals to discover and develop their
own style of facilitation for maximum presence and
impact.
We believe that representing
facilitation as a profession in its own right has benefits beyond
those for the individual facilitator or the groups that they work
with and contributes towards a more healthy and connected way of
being.
Our vision is to increase the
skill level of individuals in order to generate healthy and positive
outcomes for the groups that we all live and work among.
