Certified Facilitator Training | Des Moines

What You’ll Experience

Join a transformative two-day training that blends The Leadership Challenge® Self Empowered™ with The Way Onward’s recovery-informed enhancements, designed specifically for mental health and recovery professionals.

Begin by completing the LPI® Self Empowered™ assessment, an evidence-based self-assessment grounded in more than 40 years of research on The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership®, to gain insight into your leadership behaviors and strengths.

Day 1: Self-Awareness & Personal Leadership

Focus on leading yourself through recovery and change:

• Interpret your LPI® report through a recovery-informed leadership lens
• Connect leadership and recovery to core values
• Reframe recovery as vision-building, not just healing
• Turn challenges into growth and resilience
• Build trust, autonomy, and partnership
• Recognize and celebrate recovery capital and progress

Day 2: Integration, Practice & Certification

Bring learning into action:

• Create a practical, values-driven action plan
• Participate in teach-backs and facilitated practice sessions
• Receive coaching, feedback, and peer support
• Celebrate your achievement as a Certified Facilitator for The Leadership Challenge® Self Empowered™ and The Way Onward

Why This Training Is Different

• Recovery-informed & trauma-sensitive design, written by a leadership expert with lived experience
• Practical facilitation tools tailored to enhance engagement within mental health and recovery settings
• Integrated mindfulness activities with easy-to-follow instruction guides
• Peer-driven learning community and ongoing connection
• Dual certification you can integrate into personal growth, professional practice, and community trainings

Who Should Attend

Behavioral health professionals including mental health counselors, certified alcohol / drug counselors, therapists, recovery residence leaders, peer support specialists, recovery coaches, social workers, behavioral health technicians, and others supporting personal transformation and recovery.

What’s Included

• Two interactive days led by a Certified Master Facilitator with lived experience
• The Leadership Challenge® Self Empowered™ Facilitation Set
• LPI® Self Empowered™ Assessment
• The Way Onward Facilitator Guidebook & Participant Companion
• The Way Onward Compass Cards, VISTA Cards, and Practice Pebbles
• Bonus features and resources available only to The Way Onward Facilitators!