The Net-Map Level 1 Certification Training will be held in Washington, DC, on the 4th and 5th of August 2011. Participants will learn to draw Net-Maps to structure their own thought processes, in one-on-one consultations and in group sessions. They will understand the typical structural issues in influence network, which will increase their network mapping facilitation skills.
Level 1 is pen-and-paper based mapping and focuses on how to use Net-Map for an increased understanding and towards a concrete network plan of action. Participants will work on their case studies from their own work experience. This has the benefit that, while learning the method, they will also develop a concrete networking plan of action for an issue relevant to their work. Also, this will make implementing Net-Map in future work related cases easier.
| Thursday 09.00-13.00 |
Social warm up Net-Map: the basics The 5 steps of Net-Map Case studies and past experiences Basic network metaphors/measures Framing case studies |
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| Lunch together | |||
| Thursday 14.00-17.00 | Net-Mapping applied to your case: Getting the question right: “Who influences XY?” Putting the actors on the map Defining the links Connecting the dots Goals of actors |
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| Friday 09.00-13.00 |
Net-Mapping applied to your case: Setting up influence towers (once or twice) Exploring meaning, understanding bottlenecks, identifying coalitions The most special link: Future connections |
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| Friday 14.00-17.00 |
Net-Mapping applied to your case: Prototypical Net-Map structures and what to do about them Reflection: How can you use all this in your work? Evaluation |
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| Within 6 months after training |
Each participant is entitled to a free 1 hour phone/skype consultation with Dr. Schiffer within 6 months of the training, to discuss questions that came up with implementation. | ||
| Places available: | The course will be taught in a small group (max 15 people) with a focus on hands-on learning and peer exchange. | ||
| Trainers: | The training will be conducted by Dr. Eva Schiffer, who invented Net-Map and used it in various fields (from international development to strategic business planning to executive coaching), for many years. She will be assisted by Amit Nag, experienced facilitator and stakeholder engagement specialist. |
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| Materials: | Once registered, participants will be able to purchase the Net-Map toolbox online with a special 20% discount. You can, however, also attend without owning a Net-Map toolbox. | ||
| Location: |
Garden Room
Condominium III
10401 Grosvenor Place
Rockville, MD 20852
USA
(5 mins walk from Grosvenor Metro, RedLine)
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| Price: | $ 250 for the workshop (lunches not included). | ||
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| Cancellation: | Full refund until the 15st of July. 70% refund after. | ||
For further information do not hesitate to contact me: eva-schiffer@web.de
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Dear Eva,
Net-Map sounds interesting to me as a networking organisation in Uganda / East Africa. is there a plan to have it conducted online in the near future?
Kimbowa R
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Hi Kimbowa,
Thanks for the interest in Net-Map. We have done some work with RENEWAL, an Aids and Nutrition research network in Uganda in the past. At the moment there are no online trainings planned. We have done them in the past but because Net-Map is such a visual tool where it is important to see what the persond being trained is doing, they have never been as successful as the face-to-face training. Even with decent internet connection it is difficult to have video that is good enough to see all the details. But as I know that there is always a great demand for training from many different countries I might offer online trainings again in the future.
Cheers
Eva
Dear Eva,
I found your WEB site by accident and I think this can be a very worthwile tool in technical assistance programs. I find it very convincing that it is not a digital tool in the very beginning, so it is much more useful for a workshop with the whole TA team in the office for example.
Nevertheless, a digital version wouldn’t be bad in order to include the results in the famous project reporting for example. The first step using PowerPoint is nice but I think there are more convenient tools such as Visio (WINDOWS) or OmniGraffle (Mac) or ConceptDraw (Mac). I would be glad to discuss this with you.
Are there any plans to given lessons in Germany as well? Berlin, or may even be my hometown Leipzig?
Hope to hearing from you
Regards from Germany
Werner
Hi Werner,
Thanks for your comment. My favorite social network analysis computer program, which I use to get a better understanding of what is going on in terms of actor centralities and to analyze which one of the network links “makes” an actor influential, is Visualyzer TM (mdlogix). Basically any social network analysis program will work, the reason I like Visualyzer is that it is extremely easy to learn and requires far less of a techy mind than for example UCINET, which is the most commonly used one, at least in the US.
As for courses in Germany… I travel home regurlarly and am happy to discuss partnering on organizing a course. I don’t have an open course planned in Germany yet, but the way these course often come about is that someone in the country says: “I’d love to have a Net-Map course here.” Then you see if you can get institutional funding or get together a large enough number of participants who all pay their contribution and invite me to your town to teach. If you are interested in discussing this further, just end me an email directly at eva-schiffer@web.de
Cheers
Eva
An Online course will be great — Im in South Africa… and have a few people who do consulting in various sectors — that will be interested in using a SNA approach to finding insight into communty problems…