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NCI Trainings and Certificate Program

The NCI Certificate Program includes the necessary tools and techniques to prepare you for planning and managing a charrette. Charrettes capable of transformative community change require careful planning and execution. The NCI Charrette Planner® and NCI Complete Charrette Manager™ certificate courses give you the framework and the hands-on skills to successfully utilize the powerful Dynamic Planning process.

In-house Training Options
The following certificates are all available as in-house trainings. To download a brochure (PDF) on our in-house NCI Charrette Planner® Certificate trainings for your organization, click here.

Training Requirements for NCI Certificates
  NCI Charrette Planner® NCI Complete Charrette Manager™ NCI
Public Meeting Facilitator™
Introduction to NCI Dynamic Planning
Continuing NCI Dynamic Planning
NCI Charrette Management
NCI Public Meeting Facilitation

NCI Charrette Planner® Certificate
This certificate is geared toward public and private planning staff, development managers and advocacy group staff. This information is invaluable both for those who hire others to conduct charrettes and for those who will be conducting charrettes themselves. By the end of the program you will have practiced the complete process for planning a charrette.

NCI Complete Charrette Manager™ Certificate
Charrettes are dynamic with unique challenges. Charrette managers must be quick on their feet and have a large toolbox of processes and skills.  The NCI Charrette Management training equips professionals with the necessary tools for managing large charrettes.  This 1.5-day training is an in-depth study of the most challenging aspects of the multiple-day charrette.

NCI Public Meeting Facilitator™ Certificate
The comprehensive charrette manager must know how to handle the most volatile public meetings. In just two days you will gain the lessons learned from some of the toughest charrettes and learn how so many potential problems can be defused by knowing how to properly set up and facilitate public meetings. You will finally be able to relax while conducting a large meeting, knowing that you have the most effective tools and preventions in place. Today, the range of abilities of people who are running charrettes varies as much as the definition of the charrette process itself. Adding an NCI certificate to your credentials distinguishes you as someone with the most advanced process tools and puts you ahead of the competition for high profile jobs that require substantial public involvement.

Technical Assistance and Coaching:

NCI provides technical assistance to help plan project processes. We can help you plan your process from the beginning or audit a draft process. An NCI review of your project process will identify fatal flaws as well as opportunities for leverage that can make the difference between project success and failure. Click here to learn more

These courses are accredited with the AIA for continuing education system (CES) units and with the AICP for certification maintenance (CM) credits.

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2008 Calendar of
Public Workshops
   
 


May 19
Portland, OR


July 14
Portland, OR


September 10
Portland, OR

October 6
Chicago, IL

October 13
Portland, OR

 


July 14-16
Portland, OR


August 4-6, Harvard University Graduate School of Design (includes Intro to Dynamic Planning)

October 6-8
Chicago, IL

October 13-15
Portland, OR


 

July 17-18
Portland, OR


October 16-17
Portland, OR

 

May 20-21
Portland, OR


September 11-12
Portland, OR