Critical Friends Group®
Virtual Coaches’ Training:

A 26-hour training conducted within Zoom,
culminating in Virtual CFG® Coaches’ Certification

 

October 12-15, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. EDT*
+ 19-22, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. EDT*

*Check your equivalent time zone here.

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🤔 What if you had practical tools in hand to transform the way you and your colleagues or students communicate and problem-solve? 

✨ What if you could build more trust, reflection, and authentic collaboration in your groups?

💫 What if your team or classroom meetings actually left people feeling energized, connected, and inspired? 

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Our Critical Friends Group New Coaches Open training has the tools and methods you need! Become a CFG COACH and change the way people experience meetings, collaboration, and professional learning.

 

JOIN US for this upcoming New CFG Coaches’ Virtual Training, a dynamic, highly interactive experience designed for professionals who are ready to build stronger teams and lead groups and classrooms through action-oriented conversations with greater confidence, clarity, and purpose! 

 

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This training is highly interactive, providing opportunities to learn by doing, reflect with colleagues, and apply new skills to real-world challenges.

During this immersive online training, participants will:

    • Experience and practice NSRF’s powerful protocols and unique facilitation strategies in real time.

    • Learn how to lead engaging conversations that promote reflection, trust, creativity, and productive problem-solving.

    • Strengthen skills in collaborative leadership, communication, feedback, and group facilitation.

    • Bring real challenges, questions, and dilemmas to the training and receive support from colleagues using structured processes.

    • Discover and practice structured protocols for:

      • Refining projects, plans, lessons, and initiatives,

      • Generating creative ideas and actionable next steps,

      • Analyzing data to uncover insights and inform decisions,

      • Examining student work to better understanding and improve support for learners.

Finish this training with CFG Coach Certification and a collection of practical tools and immediately applicable strategies that can transform your meetings, strengthen team culture, enhance professional learning, improve coaching conversations, and increase engagement and connections in classrooms and organizations.

Walk away ready to facilitate conversations that matter, creating results that last.

 

Whether you are a teacher, coach, administrator, consultant, or team leader, new CFG Coaches gain renewed inspiration, a supportive professional network, and the confidence to create more thoughtful, connected, and human-centered spaces wherever they work! 

Certified CFG Coaches know how to:

      • create meaningful dialogue and navigate difficult conversations,

      • create trust and belonging in groups where people feel hesitant to speak up, and

      • create settings that guide teams toward deeper reflection, authentic connections, better collaboration, and action plans.

Skills gained through CFG work extend far beyond facilitation and into leadership, coaching, communication, relationship-building, and the everyday work of helping people feel seen, heard, and valued.

 

Your $999 training investment includes:

      • 26+ live online training hours across 8 engaging sessions and access to a virtual course alongside with further guidance, insights, and bonus material;

      • lifetime CFG Coach Certification;

      • a one-year NSRF Coaches’ Membership;

      • access to the online Coaches’ Protocol Library, searchable and filled with exclusive resources;

      • the full Handbook for Virtual CFG Coaches (packed with usable activities, protocols, insights and a Guide to Tech Hosting);

      • ongoing support from your NSRF facilitators and the NSRF Office Team.

 

Seating is limited so act quickly!

To preserve the highly collaborative nature of the experience, a maximum of 20 people will benefit from this training opportunity! If interested, register today to hold your seat! This training requires a minimum of ten participants, so stay tuned for confirmation along with preparatory materials 7-14 days before the training begins. 

Discounts available!

Because CFG work is best implemented and sustained through community, we encourage participants to attend with a colleague or professional partner whenever possible. Bring a friend or colleague and receive a $75 discount each! (Discount is limited to 2 participants. One organizational discount per training.) Reach out to NSRF@NSRFharmony.org for your custom discount code.

Questions? Let us answer them! Please email us at nsrf@nsrfharmony.org or call 812-330-2702.

 

Refund policy: NSRF works hard to keep our prices low and to make each class an especially high-value training opportunity. Because of this, refunds are only available with cancellations at least two weeks before this event. If you register but are unable to attend, please try to find a colleague who can take your seat and contact NSRF@NSRFharmony.org to transfer your registration. If we should cancel this training due to lack of participation or other circumstances, you will be notified immediately via email and fully refunded. By submitting your registration you are agreeing to these terms.

Paying with a Purchase Order or check? Please email NSRF@NSRFharmony.org to make arrangements. Please note: this training requires payment in full BEFORE the training begins.

 

Are you READY to lead more meaningful conversations, strengthen professional relationships, and bring NEW ENERGY to the groups you serve?

Become our newest Critical Friend and a certified CFG Coach!