• The course must incorporate a minimum of eight hours of facilitation methodology training, excluding meals, breaks, practice sessions and exercises. For courses taught in various formats (e.g., a two-day or three-day format), each format requires a separate set of documentation and an additional charge applies.
  
  
• The course must include a minimum of three practice sessions for each participant. Each qualifying practice session must last a minimum of five minutes and the total facilitation practice time for each participant must be a minimum of 30 minutes. For each qualifying facilitated practice session, the facilitator must lead a session of at least three people.
  
  
• The course must meet or exceed the minimum content requirement by scoring 4.0 or higher for at least 75% of the sub-competencies defined in the Certified Master Facilitator Program.
  
  
• The course must achieve an average score of 4.0 or higher in each of the three instructional design areas.
  
  
• The vendor must ensure that the people who teach the program have sufficient experience in, and knowledge of, facilitation to be able to deliver the course in an effective and efficient manner. The vendor must have an effective process for selecting and training the trainers which also ensures the course is delivered in an effective and efficient manner.
  
  
• The vendor of the course must create and make readily available to course participants a supplement that provides additional information that INIFAC has certified as meeting or exceeding the content requirement for any deficient sub-competency.