Intensive Trainings
Building competence in collective leadership and stakeholder collaboration

CLI’s Intensive Trainings provide you with the same skills and methodologies like our open courses in an adapted online format.

You can choose between four different course types that each lead to a specific course certificate and three of them together to the certification Collective Leadership Specialist.

Please check the sections below for available course dates and register for CLI’s intensive trainings:

Certificate: The Art of Leading Collectively

This e-course certification module will help you to implement more outcome-oriented and constructive co-creation on a day-to-day basis for yourself, your team, your organisation, and your change initiative with diverse stakeholders. It equips dedicated change makers in the public and private sector, as well as civil society organisations, with a tool for better co-creation. The dimensions of collective leadership can be learned and enhanced – individually and collectively.

Are you starting a complex cooperation project, or are you in the midst of one you want to improve? Do you need to shift the mind-set of stakeholders toward collaboration, or to find new ways to overcome challenges? Do you need to arrive at tangible outcomes in a short time frame?

The tool presented in The Art of Leading Collectively – the Collective Leadership Compass – helps you to keep your collaboration journey on track and to find the necessary course corrections.

YOUR KEY TAKE-AWAYS

  • Know how to prepare for your collaboration journey
  • Assess where you are, define what is present and what is missing
  • Map the path, adjust strategies, and know what to shift, to strengthen, or to focus on
  • Convince colleagues and partners that leading collectively will ease the management of complex change
  • Take the content of the book ‘The Art of Leading Collectively’ into the practice of outcome-oriented and constructive co-creation
93%
of the participants assess the relevance of the e-course for their daily work as high or very high. *
97%
of the participants assess the level of professional expertise of CLI facilitators excellent or good. *
97%
would recommend this online training to colleagues or professional partners. *
The Art of Leading Collectively

- 4 days of training
- core methodology: CLI Collective Leadership Compass
- tuition fee: € 2,000 in-person, € 1,500 online
Registration status: OPEN

24 June — 27 June 2025
Collective Leadership Institute gGmbH, Kurfürstenstraße, Potsdam, Germany
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Certificate: The Art of Stakeholder Collaboration

Stakeholder Collaboration has been recognised as critical to finding solutions to the complex challenges of sustainable development. The Art of Stakeholder Collaboration e-course certification module will build your strategic abilities and implementation skills in stakeholder engagement, dialogue, and collaboration processes for high-impact solutions.

YOUR KEY TAKE-AWAYS

  • Learn how to successfully implement stakeholder collaboration through the application of the Dialogic Change Model
  • Understand the business case for co-creative stakeholder engagement
  • Learn how collective intelligence, commitment, and ownership can emerge
  • Produce a stakeholder network map to prioritise engagement activities
  • Develop new engagement strategies to minimise unproductive conflict and a methodology to create sustainable partnerships
95%
of the participants assess the relevance of the e-course for their daily work as high or very high. *
94%
of the participants assess the level of professional expertise of CLI facilitators excellent or good. *
98%
would recommend this online training to colleagues or professional partners. *
The Art of Stakeholder Collaboration

- 4 days of training
- core methodology: CLI Dialogic Change Model
- tuition fee: € 2,000 in-person, € 1,500 online
Registration status: OPEN

11 November — 14 November 2025
Collective Leadership Institute gGmbH, Kurfürstenstraße, Potsdam, Germany
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Certificate: The Art of Process Facilitation

For experienced trainers and facilitators or for people who participated in other modules of CLI’s online courses already and who wish to improve their dialogic facilitations skills, The Art of Process Facilitation (formerly: The Art of Dialogue) e-course certification module offers plenty of opportunities. Learn about new tools for dialogic facilitation and develop your own personal leadership and communication styles for Stakeholder Collaboration. Self-observation, peer-reviews, and our professional feedback will guide you through the journey of improving your communication. Come with your (cross-sector) team and enhance the quality of your team communication.

YOUR KEY TAKE-AWAYS

  • Enhance your current levels of competence for dialogue and communication
  • Develop your ability to anchor dialogic practices in your stakeholder engagement at all levels
  • Empower yourself to develop your presence and stay more present, relaxed, and focused in demanding situations
95%
of the participants assess the relevance of the e-course for their daily work as high or very high. *
100%
of the participants assess the level of professional expertise of CLI facilitators excellent or good. *
95%
would recommend this online training to colleagues or professional partners. *
The Art of Process Facilitation

- 4 days of training
- core methodologies: CLI Dialogic Change Model and Collective Leadership Compass
- tuition fee: € 2,000 in-person, € 1,500 online
Registration status: OPEN

1 July — 4 July 2025
Collective Leadership Institute gGmbH, Kurfürstenstraße, Potsdam, Germany
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The 2025 Art of Process Facilitation course date will be announced in October 2024.

Certificate: The Art of Transformative Change

Do you need to build large cross-institutional or international networks to drive transformative change?

Do you need to diagnose complex systems of actors and identify entry points for change?

Do you need to design a “Theory of Change” that captures multi-level interventions?

If so, The Art of Transformative Change will help you to design and implement strategies for impactful networks of change-makers and future-oriented organizations. It equips dedicated change stewards in public, private, and civil society organisations with tools for driving systems change in networks. Understanding the collaboration catalysts and transformation enablers will help you stewarding collaborative networks for systems impact.

YOUR KEY TAKE-AWAYS

  • Diagnose your system of actors and identify entry points for transformation
  • Use the Collective Leadership Compass to develop a transformative “Theory of Change”
  • Define key action steps to set up a thriving network of actors
  • Develop your network journey for strategizing transformative change around the six transformation enablers for sustainability
  • Use the collaboration catalysts to track your progress and adjust your strategies

The Art of Transformative Change is an exclusive training module of the Collective Leadership Academy. It will not be delivered through projects and is especially relevant for network coordinators and stewards of transformative change initiatives.

100%
of the participants assess the relevance of the e-course for their daily work as high or very high. *
100%
of the participants assess the level of professional expertise of CLI facilitators excellent or good. *
100%
would recommend this online training to colleagues or professional partners. *
The Art of Transformative Change

- 4 days of online-training
- core methodologies: CLI Collective Leadership Compass and Dialogic Change Model
- tuition fee: € 2,000 in-person, € 1,500 online
Registration status: CLOSED

16 December — 19 December 2024
Collective Leadership Institute gGmbH, Kurfürstenstraße, Potsdam, Germany
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Snapshots of CLI's intensive online trainings
Modular certification and credit system

Here is an overview on the different modules and certificates that are available:

Module no. Module name Certificate
LC1 Explore Aliveness and the Collective Leadership Compass, Recognize your Strengths for Leading Collectively
LC2 Your Leadership Journey, Activate your Strengths for Leading Collectively +15 credits
LC3 Build Momentum for Collective Leadership, Apply the Compass to improve Collaboration
LC4 Building Blocks for Collaborative Success, Driving the Future Together + 20 credits

Certificate: The Art of Leading Collectively

SC1 Concept and Form of Stakeholder Dialogues
SC2 Exploring and Engaging for Stakeholder Dialogues +15 credits
SC3 Building and Formalizing Stakeholder Dialogues
SC4 Implementing and Evaluating Stakeholder Dialogues, Sustaining and Expanding Impact + 20 credits

Certificate: The Art of Stakeholder Collaboration

PF1 The Principles of Dialogic Facilitation
PF2 The Power of Listening and Inquiry +10 credits
PF3

The Power of Process and Structure to Prepare Meetings and Workshops

PF4

Practicing Facilitation for Consensus Building

+ 20 credits

Certificate: The Art of Process Facilitation

TC1 Understanding Transformation Networks
TC2 Assessing the Potential for Transformation Networks +10 credits
TC3 Process Architectures for building Transformation Networks
TC4 Theories of Change for Transformation Networks + 20 credits

Certificate: The Art of Transformative Change

CLS Certification Programme for Collective Leadership Specialists if you received 100 credits by completing LC-, SC-modules, and either PF- or TC-modules:

Certificate: Collective Leadership Specialist

 

We continue to modularize CLI’s online learning offers in future. This will offer you the opportunity to collect credits for the above mentioned certificates if you participate short courses or work with CLI’s online tools. We will update our credit system for this regularly.

Collective Leadership Specialist Certification
Overview of all modules and credits

Download our one pager for a full overview of all modules and credits needed to become a Collective Leadership Specialist

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CLI offers other formats of online learning that supplement our trainings or can also be used as resources for individual learning. However, to dive deep into the topics of stakeholder collaboration and collective leadership, we recommend participating in our intensive trainings.

 

*  All figures are based on the anonymous participants’ course assessment for our online courses in the past five years.

 

These are the CO2 flight emissions since 2020 that online intensive trainings saved compared to in-person open courses (last update January 2024). For the current and detailed savings, please refer to the CO2 calculation list.

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