The Australasian Facilitators Network (AFN) is a self-organising community of practitioners based in Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia and the Pacific, who have been meeting since 1998.
Our focus is on working, learning and sharing with each other.
We share a passion for facilitation and participatory practice in pursuit of better communication, understanding, collaboration and harmony in workplaces, communities, and the world at large.
As an informal unincorporated association of peers, we pay no membership fees for AFN.
As a self-organising community, we choose for ourselves when to connect, communicate, collaborate and contribute with each other through the network.
We take responsibility for developing initiatives and organising AFN activities which contribute to our core purpose, developing and spreading new knowledge and capabilities, and fostering innovation.
In return, AFN provides us with a wide range of benefits, including:
- opportunities to connect with others in a community of interest
- a safe forum to explore and test our ideas or validate proposed approaches
- access to diverse experience and expertise to expand our horizons, gain knowledge and seek help in addressing challenges in our work and practice
- support to be more conscious of, and feel more confident in, our own personal knowledge and practice
- a greater sense of professional commitment; and
- enhancement of the standing and reputation of facilitation as a profession or calling.
AFN is also able to have input into ethical, educational and development issues at a global level through affiliation with the International Association of Facilitators (IAF).