Get Certified to Facilitate METALOG® Tools

Friday, October 9, 2026 • Portland, Oregon

Join us in Portland, Oregon on Friday, Oct 9 for a full day of hands-on facilitator training and certification.

You'll work directly with eight of our favorite tools and learn the METALOG Method: Staging, Performing, and Applying.

At first the activities feel like games. Then the real challenges show up: miscommunication, competing priorities, time pressure. What a group takes away depends on how you set the activity up and how you run the debrief.

Why attend?

Experience each tool as a participant, then dive deeper from the facilitator's side
Learn the METALOG Method (Staging, Performing, Applying) and use the Learning Project Planner to design a session of your own
Design the parallel world your group steps into, where the name, framing, and goal you choose create the reality they work inside
Observe like a facilitator, and choose from four kinds of intervention when a group is stuck, disengaged, or overwhelmed
Practice our three-part debrief sequence (Collect, Connect, Transfer) and learn how they build on one another to turn experience into insight and action
Share ideas with trainers from other fields and see how the same tool can serve very different groups

Which METALOG tools are covered?

These are among our most popular tools. Between them they cover objectives from communication and teamwork to change management, leadership, and psychological safety.

What people say

"This was a great workshop. I liked that we were able to experience the tools and then debrief from a facilitator standpoint. Anna was fantastic and the tools are so versatile that they can be used for many types of team challenges. The engagement and discussion with other trainers to me was fantastic as well since we were able to share ideas and thoughts on how to approach the use of the tools we used."