What We Impact

Facilitation creating measurable and positive change across communities, institutions and organisations.

Our work in action

Facilitation Impact

Education partnership

Piramal Foundation

The IAF India Chapter and Kaivalya Education Foundation have come together with an objective to develop an internal pool of Master Facilitators by co-creating and developing competency-based curriculum for the continuous development of Master Facilitators at the State and District institutes of Education and Training. Sessions conducted so far include:

Unlocking Journey of Virtual Facilitation by Ajit Kamath
Circle of Concern & Circle of Influence by Ravi Baviskar and Pravin Panchal
Growth Mindset Leading to SWOT by Kavith Talreja and Zubair Shaik

Working with our communities

Hub-Level Community Outreach

IAF India hubs share facilitation through partnerships, learning and outreach in their communities.

Bengaluru

IAF Curiosity Connect agreement inked with Christ Deemed-to-be University
- First round of student mentoring completed by Vanitha Choudhari, Bipin Wadhwa and Hardy Alexander
- New Mindsets = New Results by Vanitha Choudhari
Army Public School ASC Centre, through Rotary Indiranagar
- I am Remarkable by Vanitha Choudhari

Chennai

Tamilnadu Police Department
- Stress Management by Shubha Rajan, Karthikeyan, Roop Anand and Sara Katchwala
- Communication, Motivation by Banu Koushik and Geetha Chakravarthy
Open Session for Community Volunteers
- The Significant Me, by Sara Katchwala

Pune

Project “Mission Udaan” for Kirloskar Brothers Ltd Funded School at Kirloskarwadi for young students by Monali Ringe, Shalaka Gundi, Amit Nagpal, Rasiya Modak and Pawankumar Saini
- Maza Shodh (Discovering Me)
- My Lighthouse, My Compass
- Managing Self

Recognising results

Facilitation Impact Awards

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.

Platinum Award 2020

Optimize COVID-19 Relief Initiatives in Bangalore

Mr. Sanjay Dugar
CPF, C2C Organizational Development

Platinum Award 2020

Optimize COVID-19 Relief Initiatives in Bangalore

Ms. Aparna Ponnappa
Proprietor, Redd Network

Gold Award 2017

I Win, We Win, Life Wins

Ms. Vinisha Jayswal
Group Head Learning & Development, N.M Virani Wockhardt Hospital, Rajkot

Gold Award 2017

Frontline Associate Intervention

Ms. Vinisha Jayswal
Group Head Learning & Development, Wockhardt Hospital, Mumbai

Silver Award 2016

Service Assurance

Ms. Vinisha Jayswal
Group Head Learning & Development, Wockhardt Hospitals Ltd.

A global celebration

Facilitation Week · May 12th to 18th 2025

A participatory experience that inspires synergy and celebrates the act of group facilitation.

Facilitation Week is an event that takes place each year during the third week of October. Its purpose is to showcase the power of facilitation to both new and existing audiences and to create a sense of community among facilitators and their groups worldwide.

Since its launch in 2013, the week has become a spark that ignites activities around the world to highlight the benefits of facilitation, the gifts of facilitators and the comradeship of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF).

FacWeek 2020-Overview