IAF India is a vibrant community of facilitators from various backgrounds, united by a common passion for facilitation. With a strong presence in six hubs across the country, IAF India has been actively promoting facilitation across the country through various initiatives and events.
IAF India was formed in 2009 by a group of only 5 people which now stands at 300 plus members from more than 10 cities of India.
Since then, IAF India has grown and evolved into a dynamic community, connecting facilitators from diverse walks of life. This association has been instrumental in bringing facilitation practices and methodologies to corporates and is parallely expanding its reach to social and other sectors as well.
Through its various initiatives, IAF India aims to empower facilitators, enhance their skills, and promote the use of facilitation processes and spread the power of facilitation. This vibrant community continues to make significant strides in the field of facilitation in India.
When you become a member of the International Association of Facilitators, you are not buying a service, but rather joining a global community.
(Martin G., IAF member, Manchester, UK)
Welcome to IAF India.
As we step into this next phase, IAF India is evolving with a clear intent—to strengthen facilitation as a capability that helps people engage with complexity, navigate differences, and move conversations toward constructive action. In a world marked by increasing conflicts and challenges, the ability to design and hold such inclusive spaces is both relevant and necessary.
Our focus is on shaping IAF India as a platform where facilitators can deepen their practice, broaden their perspectives, and meaningfully contribute to the systems they work in. You can look forward to learning spaces that are reflective and applied, community conversations that matter, and initiatives that help us reflect to real-world challenges more pragmatically.
IAF India draws its strength from its diversity—across regions, cultures, and sectors. This allows us to create offerings that are grounded, contextual, and inclusive, while staying aligned with global standards of professional excellence. Our work will continue to be guided by the IAF Core Competencies and Code of Ethics, ensuring integrity, quality, and credibility in all that we do.
Going ahead, our emphasis will be on deeper engagement with members, stronger collaboration across the community, and sustained efforts that amplify the impact of facilitation beyond events and programs. Whether through learning, volunteering, or co-creation, there will be multiple ways to engage and lead.
If facilitation is part of how you enable change—within organisations, communities, or society at large—this is a space to belong, contribute, and grow. I invite you to walk this journey with us and help shape what facilitation can enable in India.
Bharti MaruChair, IAF India
Facilitation creating measurable results across every walk of society.
One of the areas where facilitation has created an impact towards results and relationships, is the CORPORATE world. We have focused across the corporate spectrum in the past, and continue to do so. Some of the work we have done in the past year include
Read More →As we move forward in alignment with our global credo of promoting the power of facilitation everywhere, we have partnered with various COMMUNITIES to help them achieve their results and amplify their productivity using facilitation processes and techniques. Some of our areas that we are proud about include
Read More →We aim to bring facilitation to all walks of society. In our endeavours, we partner with various INSTITUTIONS like Education, Rotary, etc. to bring about a change. Some of our work include
Read More →The Facilitation Impact Awards (FIA) honours organisations that have used facilitation to achieve a measurable and positive impact as well as the facilitator(s) who worked with them. We are proud to share India’s Top Facilitation Talent who won these global awards this past year.
Read More →IAF brings facilitators together across seven regions, with a strong and growing community throughout India.
The proof of the pudding is always given by the one who ate it! Some members speak of the value they receive by being IAF members.
I joined IAF in 2016 and during the last 5 years, I have gained tremendously (joy and value) on aspects such as group processes and facilitating as a way of human interaction. The tribe is full of energy & engagement and is ever ready to support each other.
It has been an evolution journey undertaken by me being a part of IAF India. A whole process of deep diving into self and coming out as a reformed person was facilitated with the help of learning received from all the members. The genuine and open-hearted sharing is exceptional in comparison to being a member of any other learning organization.
Since joining IAF, had improved our Learning systems introducing Group Process Facilitation (GPF) in technical leaning. In a workshop, we used few processes to learn technical subjects for the sales team. GPF helped to learn collaboratively, improved knowledge and soft skills. Had gained and created tremendous value. In the progress, had gained many GIVING friends in IAF. Thank you very much.
I joined IAF in 2015. I have gained tremendously and grown richer in my understanding of Facilitation, Processes, understanding of the way to design and deliver successful interventions. The community is open, supportive and rich in both the interaction as well as learning it enables through different platforms for its members.
A glimpse into what has been happening across our hubs and community.
IAF India is a vibrant chapter with a lot of activity happening across hubs. Take a peek into our newsletters to know more about what has been happening through the months in our newsletter.
