The Include-Performance Framework®
Train the Facilitator (TtF)
Join the waiting list for the next open programme, planned for October 2026.
We will share updates and insights with the waiting list over the coming weeks and months.
A limited number of practitioners will be invited to join the October 2026 cohort.
We will provide live sessions to meet the needs of a participants across the globe, and ensure the groups
remain intimate.
Who is this for?
The Include-Performance Framework® is for professionals and organisations committed to advancing performance and inclusive practices across diverse contexts. It’s designed for:
Professional services and consultancy firms delivering leadership and inclusion
strategies at scale.
Independent practitioners working with or within organisations.
Public sector bodies and NGOs
with international reach.
Strengthen practice, enhance performance, and create systemic
impact across your organisation.
The Include-Performance Framework® Train the Facilitator (TtF) programme equips facilitators, coaches, people and
culture professionals, DEI practitioners, trainers, and people professionals to confidently facilitate better outcomes
through application of the framework in real-world practice.
Participants deepen their capability to work effectively with individuals, teams, and complex organisational
systems, enhancing impact, performance, and sustainable change.
The Include-Performance Framework® is research-informed and developed by the ELIS Advantage team, specialists in inclusive leadership and organisational development. It continues to evolve with new data, insights, and emerging challenges.
Online self-led learning
Materials are available on the LMS in between live work.
Practical tools and resources
Worksheets, frameworks, whitepapers, and articles to tailor and strengthen your practice.
Community of Practice
Join a global network for peer learning, case studies, supervision, and collaboration.
Facilitator licence and resources for one year
A listing in the directory of facilitators
A facilitator manual and resource library access
Ongoing research updates and new tools
Train the Facilitator (TtF)
People professionals, including HR, People & Culture, Learning & Development, Wellbeing teams, managers, facilitators, and team leads.
Multinational corporations operate across diverse legal and sociocultural contexts.
What are the benefits to you and your organisation?
The Include-Performance Framework® Train the Facilitator (TtF) programme delivers tangible organisational value by building internal capability to embed inclusion and performance into everyday practice, decision-making, and systems.
Stronger, more consistent practice across the organisation. By developing licensed internal facilitators, organisations gain a shared, evidence-informed approach to performance and inclusion. This reduces fragmentation across teams and functions and supports greater alignment in how development, change, and people challenges are addressed.
Increased organisational performance, grounded in real needs. The framework integrates data-informed, strengths-focused, and psychological approaches, enabling facilitators to work with what is real and relevant in the organisation. This supports better problem-solving, clearer priorities, and more effective action, particularly in complex or high-pressure environments.
Sustainable capability rather than one-off interventions. Instead of relying on external providers for every initiative, organisations build internal facilitation, coaching, and systems capability. This creates long-term value, strengthens organisational learning, and supports ongoing performance improvement over time.
Improved ability to navigate complexity, power, and culture. Participants develop confidence and skill in working with power dynamics, cultural differences, and systemic challenges. For organisations, this means fewer stalled initiatives, more productive dialogue, and greater capacity to work through tension and uncertainty constructively.
Embedded inclusion that supports performance. Inclusion is not treated as an add-on. The programme embeds anti-oppressive, trauma-informed, and inclusive practices directly into how work gets done, supporting psychological safety, trust, and engagement, all of which are linked to sustained performance.
Scalable impact across regions and contexts. The glo-localised model enables organisations to maintain global alignment while empowering regional teams to adapt to local legal, cultural, and operational contexts. This is particularly valuable for multinational, public sector, and complex organisations.
Clear evidence of impact. Each participant completes an applied project within their organisation, ensuring learning translates into visible outcomes, measurable change, and real-world relevance. This supports accountability and return on investment.
Enhanced credibility and reputation. Organisations benefit from having licensed Include-Performance® Facilitators internally, signalling a serious, research-informed commitment to inclusive leadership and high performance. This can strengthen employer brand, stakeholder confidence, and professional standing.
Ongoing quality assurance and professional standards. Through licensing, supervision, and continuous development, organisations can be confident that facilitators are working to consistent ethical and professional standards, supported by reflective practice and peer learning.
Access to evolving research and tools. The framework continues to evolve. Organisations gain ongoing access to updated research, tools, and insights, helping them stay responsive to emerging challenges and future-focused in their approach to people and performance.
By completing the programme, you will:
Have a shared approach within your organisation to implementing and supporting development and change.
Gain international recognition as a licensed Include-Performance® Facilitator.
Be part of a global community of practice, sharing collective insight across sectors and regions.
Enhance your credibility with certification, a licence, and a digital badge.
Integrate evidence-based approaches, psychological insight, and group dynamics into your facilitation.
Build confidence in navigating complexity, power, and culture.
Demonstrate real-world impact through an applied project.
Access exclusive tools and research to keep your work at the cutting edge.
Receive ongoing reflective supervision for quality assurance and professional growth.
What’s next for the Include-Performance Framework®?
Several organisations have booked Include-Performance Framework® facilitator training for their internal teams. To find out more about booking this for your team, contact Hello@elis-advantage.eu.
In June 2026, the first list of licensed Include-Performance Framework® facilitators directory will be launched.
In September 2026, we will hold an online seminar where facilitators can present ideas, insights and case studies.
This is about creating real, scalable change performance powered by inclusion.
What People Are Saying
“This programme gave me something I had been looking for for a long time: a framework that honours both the relational and evidence-based aspects of facilitation. It deepened my understanding of power, positionality, and the role of self-awareness in practice. More than anything, it helped me trust process, trust myself, and understand that effective facilitation is less about being right and more about being present, responsive, and grounded. Sile and the team at ELIS Advantage provide a challenging, inclusive and highly worthwhile learning experience that has improved so many aspects of my practice.”
“I am grateful to have followed my impulse to sign up for the course. It was very well hosted, structured and done by Sile and ELIS advantage. In our online sessions and throughout my working through the in-depth materials I deepend my knowledge of already known theories and methods, while also learning about formerly unknown approaches. The course showed me how important it is to develop an intuitive sense for your facilitation style, yet to be a student of life and learn the theory to back up your intuitive approaches.”
Psychologists and coaching psychologists are integrating individual, team, and systemic perspectives to enable
performance and inclusion.
Higher education institutions and professional development organisations.
Organisations navigating
complexity.
What timezone are live sessions occuring in?
On each date three sessions will occur to cover all timezones. Pick and choose what dates and times best suits you. In total you need to attend at least 3 live sessions to be certified.
October 2026 Live cohort dates: November 10th, 16th, 30th.
Session A @ 08:00 IST covers
New Zealand & Pacific: 19:00
Eastern Australia: 17:00
East Asia: 15:00 - 16:00
Southeast Asia: 14:00
Session B @ 13:00 IST covers
South Asia: 17:30
Central Asia & SWANA: 15:00 - 16:00
Countries in Africa & Europe: 13:00 - 15:00
Session C: 17:00 IST covers
South America: 13:00
North America East Coast: 12:00
North America West Coast: 09:00
Peer-to-peer and lead facilitator mentoring
Structured support to deepen your learning
and development.
What organisational challenges can the Include-Performance Framework® help address?
The Include-Performance Framework® supports organisations to work effectively at the intersection of people, performance, and complexity. It helps address challenges that persist when solutions focus only on skills, structures, or policies, without attending to systems, power, culture, and lived experience.
Fragmented approaches to inclusion, performance, and change. Many organisations experience siloed initiatives in which leadership development, DEI, wellbeing, and performance operate separately. The framework enables a shared, integrated approach, supporting greater coherence, alignment, and clarity across functions and teams.
Low impact from well-intended inclusion or culture initiatives. Organisations often invest in inclusion work that raises awareness but does not translate into sustained behavioural or systemic change. The Include-Performance Framework® helps facilitators move from intention to practice, embedding inclusion into decision-making, ways of working, and performance systems.
Difficulty navigating complexity and uncertainty. Rapid change, competing priorities, and evolving external pressures can lead to decision paralysis or reactive responses. The framework strengthens the ability to work with complexity rather than simplify it away, supporting more thoughtful, adaptive, and data-informed responses.
Power dynamics that undermine trust and performance. Unexamined power, hierarchy, and informal influence can lead to silence, disengagement, conflict, or inequity. The framework equips facilitators to surface and constructively work with power dynamics, supporting psychological safety, accountability, and healthier working relationships.
Cultural tensions across teams, regions, or professional groups. In multinational or diverse organisations, differences in culture, context, and lived experience can create misunderstanding or friction. The glo-localised model supports local relevance alongside global alignment, enabling teams to collaborate more effectively across boundaries.
Change fatigue and resistance. Repeated initiatives without visible impact can lead to cynicism, disengagement, or passive resistance. By focusing on what is real, possible, and strengths-based, the framework helps rebuild trust in change processes and confidence in progress.
Limited internal capability to facilitate difficult conversations. Many organisations lack the internal confidence to facilitate conversations about performance, inclusion, wellbeing, and accountability, particularly when emotions or risk are involved. The programme builds facilitator capability and reflective practice, supporting braver, more productive dialogue.
Over-reliance on external consultants. When knowledge and capability sit outside the organisation, learning can be lost once projects end. The Train the Facilitator model supports internal capability-building, enabling organisations to retain learning, adapt approaches, and sustain impact.
Inconsistent standards of practice. Without shared frameworks or supervision, the quality of facilitation and coaching can vary. Licensing, supervision, and ethical standards help create greater consistency, quality assurance, and professional accountability across internal practitioners.
Difficulty evidencing impact. Organisations are often asked to demonstrate the value of inclusion and development work, yet struggle to connect initiatives to performance outcomes. The framework’s data-informed and applied project approach supports clearer evidence of impact and return on investment.
What outcomes can you expect?
By the end of the programme, you will:
Confidently apply the Include-Performance Framework® in your own organisation.
Embed inclusive, data-informed approaches in real organisational contexts.
Gain visibility and credibility as part of the first global community of licensed facilitators.
Strengthen your ability to navigate complexity, power dynamics, and cultural differences with confidence and agility.
Demonstrate impact through a project that applies learning directly to your workplace or client environment.
This is not just about learning a framework; it’s about transforming how you work with people and support real-world changes and impact in your organisation.
What’s included in the Include-Performance Framework® Facilitator Training?
Six facilitated development sessions
Interactive online or in-person sessions where learning is applied through practice.
A Digital Badge
For email, social media, and professional profiles upon meeting all TtF criteria
Certification of completion
upon meeting all TtF criteria (attending 3 live sessions, 3 peer-to-peer meetings, watching all sessions, submitting project information, demonstrating alignment with ethical practice)
An individual project
Apply the framework directly within your organisation.
Include-Performance® Facilitator Licence
The licence gives you recognised status as a licensed Include-Performance® Facilitator, adding credibility and visibility to your practice.
Provides ongoing updates, resources, and research insights to ensure your work remains relevant and effective.
Grants access to a yearly international seminar, where you can:
Learn from global peers and experts
Showcase your own work and insights
Strengthen your reputation on the broader facilitator network
The annual renewal of the licence is linked to supervision and continuing practice, ensuring you are supported in delivering to the highest standards. (Renewal currently costs €250 for two years and includes: the ongoing right to use the Include-Performance Facilitator® title and badge; updated information, resources, and facilitator manual; continuous access to the online training platform and resource library; invitations to the yearly international seminar, with opportunities to learn, connect, and showcase your work; access to the international community of practice, including peer learning and shared case studies; and confirmation of quality assurance through supervision, demonstrating your commitment to excellence and inclusion.)
Supervision
Ongoing supervision by Include-Performance® Supervisor is required to maintain your licence: a core element of the Include-Performance Framework® approach and a marker of professional quality. 2 individual supervision sessions per year (€150 per session), or the option of 90-minute group supervision (€75). This provides reflective space and professional support to strengthen your practice and sustain impact. Ensures quality assurance and accountability, maintaining high standards across the facilitator network. Connects you to an international community of practice, giving you access to peer networks, group discussions, and shared case studies, and building collective wisdom and mutual support across regions, sectors, and contexts.
Best Practice Requirements
You are required to remain legally and ethically compliant in your primary area of practice and within your geographical location at all times.
Appropriate professional insurance must be in place where required for your practice.
Evidence of current insurance and other documentation may be requested as part of your annual licence renewal to ensure standards are upheld across the facilitator network.
Maintain best-practice standards as per the Include-Performance Framework® standards set out in the development process.
These obligations are in place to protect you, the organisations you work with, and the integrity of the Include-Performance Framework® community.
What makes IPF TtF different?
Most facilitation training focuses on methods. This one transforms practice. The Include-Performance Framework® strengthens professional practice wherever people and progress intersect, from coaching and leadership to organisational and community development.
Emphasises the ‘how’ and ‘what’ of Include-Performance Framework® facilitator practice to build clarity and confidence in complex environments.
Recognises the self as a tool of change, developing self-awareness, authenticity, and reflective practice.
Draws on psychological insight and group dynamics to work effectively with individuals, teams, and systems.
Grounded in anti-oppressive, trauma-informed, and inclusive approaches, creating safer, more equitable spaces.
Works from a strengths-focused perspective, building on what’s real and possible to support sustainable progress.
Applies a glo-localised model, empowering regional teams to adapt to context while contributing to global alignment.
Uses data-informed solutions to enhance performance and solve problems while embedding inclusive practices.
Leverages emergent approaches to respond to shifting workplace challenges with agility, innovation, and effectiveness.
Unlike generic facilitation training, this programme embeds inclusion, data, and systemic practice at its core, making it directly relevant to the complexities of modern organisations.
Several organisations have booked Include-Performance Framework® facilitator training for their internal teams. To find out more about booking this for your team, contact Hello@elis-advantage.eu.
In June 2026, the first list of licensed Include-Performance Framework® facilitators directory will be launched.
In September 2026, we will hold an online seminar where facilitators can present ideas, insights and case studies.
This is about creating real, scalable change performance powered by inclusion.
About ELIS Advantage
ELIS Advantage stands for Effective Leadership | Inclusive Solutions. We work globally with organisations to enable effective, inclusive leadership and high-performance cultures driven by data, grounded in compassion, and informed by research.
Our purpose is simple: to support all people in performing and thriving at work, in their lives and communities.
“I came into this programme desiring to be more confident in my ability to facilitate groups and work with groups. By the end of it I was challenged and stretched in ways I just did not expect. I am less restricted within myself as a person and as a facilitator as a result of this programme, I'm more at peace that I will forever be a work in progress and I've learned skills that make me less rigid around "who I work with". I am clearer on my personal style of facilitation and finally have a better sense of when my style is working, when it isn't and being more attuned to what the work/group needs as opposed to what might be more comfortable for me.“
“I genuinely found this programme very challenging but equally as rewarding. It is a programme that I feel you could do every year and you'd always be learning and growing - it's very unique and impactful.”
“Really different, a meaningful learning experience for those wanting to help create more inclusive work spaces.”
