Become a ProjectConnect Facilitator
If you want to build stronger connection in your workplace, on your campus, or in your community, becoming a certified ProjectConnect group facilitator gives you the tools! ProjectConnect provides a proven model for helping participants build positive relationships quickly … think of it as a fast track to friendship. As a facilitator, you’ll help group participants:
Meet great people. Each group has 5-6 participants who get to know each other better over the course of six 1-hour sessions.
Have great conversations. The provided conversation prompts and activities help you get beyond surface-level chit chat to make real connections.
Make great friends. By providing an intentional space—and using evidence-based strategies proven to build connection—you help people make friends in a fraction of the time.
This review from Hannah sums it up well. (You can see more workplace testimonials here, and college testimonials here).
Check out the Benefits of certification!
- Certification prepares you to facilitate ProjectConnect groups and build connection with people in your organization or community.
- Certification lasts a lifetime and can be used anywhere connection is needed (in your workplace, school, college, senior center, church, etc.). No re-certification needed.
- Facilitators have lifetime access to the ProjectConnect Facilitators' Resource HUB, which includes:
- Instructions to successfully launch groups
- The Facilitator’s Guide with step-by-step session outlines
- Editable templates for advertising ProjectConnect and recruiting participants
- Editable program evaluation forms and optional assessment scales
- For colleges: an editable peer facilitator position description and application form
- Physical Materials (Connection Cards with the conversation prompts used in groups, and Appreciation Stationery, used in the mini connection project in session 4).
- Hosting a training includes 10 decks of Connection Cards and 10 boxes of Appreciation Stationery.
- Attending a training includes 1 deck of Connection Cards and 1 box of Appreciation Stationery per participant.
- Membership in the private ProjectConnect listserv to post questions and share information with other facilitators.
- Invitation to participate in quarterly ProjectConnect facilitators' Zooms with the Founder to ask questions, exchange information, and discuss topics related to successful implementation
- Discounted rate for all future trainings. You may use the group rate to attend a training or take 25% off to host a training.
- License to use the ProjectConnect name and logo to promote the program within your organization.
3 Steps to building connection.
1
Identify Facilitators!
Identify who will facilitate ProjectConnect groups. Facilitators can employees or college/graduate students. Designate a point person (or two) to oversee the program.
2
Get Certified!
Host a training specifically for your organization/group. Or, attend a virtual Facilitator Certification Training (offered every January and August.) Once certified, facilitators can lead groups year after year.
3
Create Connection!
Schedule groups, enroll participants, and launch! Participants get to know each other and develop stronger relationships over the course of 6 sessions. Repeat step 3 indefinitely.
Options for becoming certified
Attend a Facilitator Certification Training
Register individuals to attend a live Zoom certification course with participants from schools, colleges, and organizations around the country.
Check dates of the next training and/or register HERE.
Host a Facilitator Certification Training
Host a training for 4-16 participants to become certified ProjectConnect facilitators. This 5-hour training is scheduled at your convenience, can be offered virtually or in-person, and will help build your team. Schedule a conversation to decide if this is right for you HERE.
The ProjectConnect program can be used to:
Form new connections
You can use ProjectConnect pre-matriculation, during orientation, or as part of the first year experience to help entering students form friendships and accelerate their adjustment to campus. And/or you can offer open-enrollment groups for students who want to broaden their social circles.
Build bridges
ProjectConnect can be used to help develop positive relationships between groups, such as class years, identity groups, or between staff and faculty. This can reduce cliques and silos on campus, and help establish greater empathy, communication, and interrelationships.
Strengthen existing connections
ProjectConnect can be used to strengthen connection within groups, such as residential areas, affinity groups, majors, teams, etc. Students are often looking for opportunities to build stronger ties within their communities or with students who share similar interests.