This course would be a great fit for you if you are:

Looking for ways to make meetings and gatherings more effective and enjoyable.

Wanting to deepen your understanding of the 9 Aspects of the Art of Convening Wheel.

Finding yourself in a new leadership role that requires you to lead meetings.

Curious about how to apply the 9 Aspects within your particular situation?

Yearning to create spaces of welcome and belonging in order to engage in more authentic conversations.

Live, online group courses combine the flexibility and ease of online learning with the ability to connect with others on a similar path. There is the potential for small and large group discussion and engagement, as well as the potential to share successes, challenges, and questions. Course participants also find that making a commitment to come together with others at a designated time each week holds them more accountable to make the best of their course experience.

This event is a "blended learning" experience. This means that the course involves a combination of some self-directed, pre-recorded material and live, online, group learning sessions where participants come together at the same time to learn new content and engage in an interactive discussion.

Our tiered tuition (sliding scale) empowers individuals to participate who could not otherwise do so, and enables us to offer our life-changing work where it can do the greatest good.

We use an honor system and don’t require you to disclose your income. We also honor that both expenses and income factor into your unique situation, so we ask that you discern the price that is truly right for you - whether that is below or above your suggested tier.

So that our work can also serve those who could not otherwise afford it, please invest an amount that is a “stretch” but not a hardship, factoring in your access to outside support (i.e., family, employer and/or fundraising). Referring to the tier tuition scale, ask yourself:

What investment level would be comfortable for me?

What level would be a “stretch” but not a hardship - truthfully factoring in my access to outside resources?

Am I willing to register at that level?

In addition to attendance at the 6 2-hour live Zoom sessions, you should plan to spend at least 2-3 hours between sessions in order to complete pre- and post-session assignments–which include readings, short videos, session journaling questions and suggested activities.

Also, following Session 1, you will be paired with a Learning Partner as a way to reinforce and help grow each other’s learnings. We will ask that you make a commitment to each other to meet for 30-60 minutes in-between each of the live Zoom sessions.

Since each live session is designed utilizing the Art of Convening wheel, you will directly experience the application of each of the 9 aspects in different sessions. And, although recordings, transcripts and chat will be available for review following each session, these do not include the richness of breakout discussions with your fellow participants.

The opportunity to learn together with others is an important component of this course - for several key reasons. On the one hand, learning within a group helps deepen the learning experience, far more than one can do by oneself. However, group work also helps broaden the learning, as you learn from other people’s situations and questions. Questions will get asked that you didn’t realize would be important, but really are, and help you find a path through your own situation or context that might not have been perceptible to you otherwise.

Therefore, making an effort to attend and participate in each session is a high priority and commitment to yourself and your fellow learners. You will not inconvenience or interrupt the group if you need to arrive late or leave early. Just let your convener leader know in advance.

No. Course registration is per individual. Sharing your login privileges with individuals who have not paid for the course is considered a copyright violation. Individuals who are not appropriately registered for the course are also not eligible for a Certificate of Completion. We track each student's learning journey, so that we may better support your learning goals.

Alternatively, we DO offer a special corporate rate for 3 (or more) individuals who register at the same time. For more information, please email pneal@centerfpl.com.

For course-content-specific questions, you may schedule a free 15-min consult via Zoom or phone with Craig Neal. For more general questions, please email pneal@centerfpl.com.