An exploration of a topic that matters
Tom Schwartz
The workshop is a highly experiential exploration of resilience, creativity and growth to support sustainable change among high diversity communities and organisations – that creatively harnesses shared visibility and synergistic co-creations drawn from the diverse perceptions, understandings and passions present – using the stance of’ Differentiation and Integration’ to deliver real insights and creativity that makes a difference.
An overview of the CPF Process & Competency Framework
Dave Rees
By getting a better understanding of the CPF process people may be encouraged to take the opportunity to demonstrate their Resilience by stretching themselves and discovering the benefits of finding out what they really know about the depth and breadth of facilitation. They will learn how they can take advantage of an opportunity to demonstrate their Creativity in facilitation in front of their peers and get immediate verbal and later written feedback. Finally they will be able to see the Growth in their own personal development as they become a CPF and join the growing number of CPFs globally.
Getting to Know You
Sue Elks
This workshop introduces participants to creative ways to bring people together in a personal way. The skills learnt in this workshop will be particularly useful to set the scene for group activities that involve people having to adapt to change. Participants will expand their knowledge and skills through experiencing new and inventive methods to help people share personal insights, acknowledge each others strengths, and be receptive to change, while having fun. The principal that laughter is a tonic for the soul and promotes harmony is paramount in the aims of this workshop.
Facilitating an Engaged Community
The 7 sins and simple ways to get it right!
Carla Rogers & Nigel Russell
How do we help facilitate an engaged community? In a complex and often stressful environment, are there some simple things to know that will help me get it right? Are the some common pitfalls that can be easily avoided, despite being seemingly repeated time and time again? YES! YES! YES! In this workshop, we will explore ‘7 Simple Ways to facilitate an engaged community’ and ‘get it right’. Enjoy the laughter and hilarity as we explore some rather disastrous situations which provided fertile fodder for the development of Evolve’s Engaged Community Model™. Take away ideas, tips and tools that you can apply to your own work immediately.
Deep Democracy
Martin De Los Rios
Deep Democracy is a methodology developed by Myrna and Greg Lewis in South Africa as a facilitation tool to effectively resolve conflict and generate lasting buy-in and decisions. The workshop aims to provide participants with a practical experience of the Deep Democracy process, tools and skills that comprise the methodology.
The Facilitator as Coach
The Meeting Marketplace
Carla Rogers, Nigel Russell and Becky Hirst
The marketplace™ is large group facilitation approach designed around the pillars of resilience, creativity and growth. Picture yourself immersed in this live marketplace -colour, movement, action, people talking ,humour, noise, and most of all diversity. Meeting marketplace™ is fun, informal, and participatory, enabling the expression and exploration of diversity while yielding valid and rich information you can take away and use immediately.
Facilitating Paradigm Shifts in Thinking
Marie Martin
There are times when change requires a paradigm shift in thinking. Over the years I have used a variety of processes to enabling people to change their thinking and being, not only their doing, from teaching to learning, from teacher centred to student centred learning, from testing to assessment, from tax laws based on one way of thinking to new laws with a different basis. In this workshop we will explore some of these processes, developing creativity, building resilience and leading to growth.
Storytelling – Food for the Soul
Christine Carlton
“If stories come to you, care for them and learn to give them away where they are needed.”
Storytelling, one of our oldest forms of communication is a powerful means of passing on beliefs, values, history and culture from generation to generation. Many cultures past and present revere the Storytellers as they are the ones who pass on the stories that contain the social, emotional, cultural and spiritual wisdom for the community.
In this interactive workshop we will look at the power of Story to educate, entertain, contribute to growth of the individual and community as we develop our creativity and flexibility as storytellers.
Introduction to Facilitation
Glen Ochre & Ed McKinley
AFN will benefit as a network if we can better welcome newcomers into the world of facilitation, and specifically to our Conferences. We offer this session around key frameworks, processes and approaches – and allow time for participants to work on key issues/challenges.
Exploring self organising groups, organisations and networks
Who’s in charge?
Dale Hunter
Self organizing groups, organizations and networks (often without any legal structure) are popping up everywhere. SOGON’s are growing and evolving, creative and resilient – and fit the three themes of this conference. One such organization is the Australasian Facilitators Network (AFN). What are the characteristics of self organizing entities? How can we work and facilitate within and with them?
Celebrating Failure – Learning Resilience within facilitation
Andrew & Sascha Rixon
Celebrate failure
Bite off more than you can chew
Team up and think big
We invite you to participate in a workshop in which we will collectively explore “dropping the ball” in facilitation. We will bite off more than we can chew, team up and think big about how we can learn from facilitation worst practices by developing better practices and even greater resilience. Join us in celebrating failure!
Think About Creative Thinking
Irwin Tobias
Every facilitator needs ideas. Every facilitator has ideas about the jobs they do and the tasks they are involved in. By improving the way both facilitators and their participants think, you can dramatically improve the number and ‘creativity’ of the ideas they have.
Participants will be introduced to the 4 stages of the Creative Thinking Process™
Stage 1 – Think
Stage 2 – Dream
Stage 3 – Play
Stage 4 – Act
As part of this workshop each participant will identify their own thinking preferences and look at how these preferences may impact their ability to successfully complete the Creative Thinking Process™
The 10 commandments for a great consultancy business
Cindy Tonkin
Come along on find out the 10 good ideas for consultants setting up their businesses (and the mistakes you can avoid). Discover the 3 step process by which clients choose their consultants (and often employers their staff), and 9 other secrets that successful consultants want to keep secret.
Setting up and growing your business is by definition growth. Making it works requires both resilience AND creativity. Find yours here!
Using the virtues
Strategies as a framework for collective action and a portal for personal growth
Louise Russell
The Virtues uses five distinct strategies and is a tool which accesses and encourages individuals to do well by doing good. Supporting a new way of looking at ourselves, and thus each other, it cultivates the development of new ways of thought, expression, and being – all of which fit in well with the theme of Creativity. Because it is a means to discover the potential for individual development in any situation it develops one’s Resilience in a coherent and integral way – turning tests, challenges and conflicts into opportunities for Growth.
The Scenario Tool
Mary Maher
Through group dialogue, scenarios can be built, de-constructed, tested and re-constructed.
Scenarios are pictures of the future. They are a useful concept and tool for facing the future of something which is highly uncertain. It is a primary tool for ongoing strategic planning and for adaptive management – by sectors, localities, organizations. This sounds like something we need at the beginning of the 21st Century, where creativity, new types of growth and resilience are some of the critical adaptive skills we need, particularly as facilitators. Scenarios facilitate dialogue within a group about current issues and about working towards a preferred or improved future. They are a useful tool in any exercise where differences of values, viewpoints and information are to be explored and common ground is to be built. Working with scenarios is a means of stimulating discussion and exploring possibilities.
Dialogue for Community Development
Facilitating sustainable community development processes
Pam Burke
Facilitation and beyond: Through group dialogue, demonstrate how the method of dialogue can be used to transform private concerns into community action for sustainable development.
Facilitating Cultural Resilience through the Creative Practices of Yesteryear
Lola Greeno
During this workshop Lola will explore the importance of maintaining creative cultural practices. She will demonstrate how to make a shell bracelet, talk about how shells are a significant part of her cultural heritage and show some of the earlier tools used to create shell necklaces. She reminds people that, while collecting, it is vital to consider the environment for future generations.
The 5 W’s of Basic Facilitation
Linda Mather
You ‘ve agreed to facilitate a session, be it on planning or teambuilding or something else. What are your next steps? How do you prepare and plan? The 5 W’s of who, what, where, when and why provides a template that gives you an easy way to create an approach that covers the basic elements. It also provides a flexibility while covering the basics and setting a foundation for building your skills.
Facilitating Across Cultures
Tom Verghasse
25% of the Australian population were born overseas and 40% have at least one parent born overseas. As such, there is a high probability that cultural diversity is very ‘present’ in your groups.
How do you feel about that?
How does it impact group interaction and participation?
How does it affect your choice of tools and methods of facilitation?
This session will discuss how to be a more effective and culturally inclusive facilitator.
Decision making: what values do you bring to facilitating decision making?
Kimbra White and Desley Renton
As facilitators we are often helping groups to make decisions. What frameworks and values do you apply to support robust decision making?
Kimbra and Desley will present the core frameworks that are used by IAP2 professionals when they engage the community around decisions that affect their lives. Desley will illustrate with a case study from Melbourne City Council and Kimbra will facilitate a discussion comparing the IAP2 framework with those used by other participants in the workshop.
The workshop will also touch on the impact on communities of good and bad engagement in terms of the levels of trust and resilience that can be built within communities and what to do when outrage stops decisions being made.
Whatever It Takes: Fostering Resilience in Young People
Sue James
The workshop will cover key concepts and research about resilience, with a specific focus on youth. It will include practical, creative ways to facilitate programs with young people that will strengthen their resilience as well as support learning and growth.
It will touch on the power of stories and humour to facilitate change and how to ask powerful, generative questions. It will also draw on the principles and practices of Appreciative Inquiry & Appreciative Intelligence® .
Highly interactive, the session will provide participants with the opportunity for deep reflection, drawing on their own wisdom and experience to help foster resilience – both in young people and in themselves.
A development framework for making the transition: technical trainer, to facilitative trainer, to process facilitator
Fiona O’Shaunessy
This workshop explores how a development framework can be used to support the growth and development of in-house trainers and facilitators. The framework includes a set of knowledge and skills that are set as standards at three levels. The participants will explore how these standards are used to support career progression within a complex matrix organisation that is growing rapidly in emerging markets and how attitude plays a central role in the development process.
The spirit of facilitation
Chris Harkess & Peter Lawless
The Spirit of Facilitation is a collaborative enquiry into how ways of being influence each facilitator’s practice and potential. It provides opportunity for insight into the cultivation of Self awareness in your development as a facilitator. Drawing from the life practices of each participant we help each to gain insight of how to establish or deepen the spiritual elements needed for a sustained and life giving facilitation practice.
Passionate facilitation; new tools and techniques for using the power of passion to generate resilience, creativity and growth
Peter Wallman & Jill Knell
This transformational workshop will take you on a spirited and interactive journey of discovery towards a more a profound understanding about the nature of passion, its many faces and how passion connects us to our capacity for resilience, creativity and change.
On the journey you will experience the process of integrating different intelligences which will experience the process of reaching the essential source of your passions, a place of deep knowing and embodiment, a place of presence and being fully alive.
Experiencing passion in an embodied way will give you the opportunity to connect with your potential to contribute your whole self and express your uniqueness in the world as an authentic facilitator. From this space, you will be in an opportunistic position to bring forth practical initiatives for a better world.
You will gain an understanding of how different motivation is to passion and how passion can be the ultimate renewable energy source fuelling us from within.
Taketina Rhythm Process
Christina Guidici
TaKeTiNa is a unique transformational music learning process, which uses polyrhythms and cross rhythms in the feet, hands, and voice. Although highly musical, the process is deeply relaxing and meditative, and requires no musical experience. TaKeTiNa can help develop effective “chaos management”, multilayered perception, and profound inner calmness in stressful situations. For more information visit www.taketina.com
Asset Based Community Development (ABCD)
Dee Brooks
Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is a powerful approach to community development that focuses on abilities and potential, rather than problems and deficits, by discovering and mobilising the resources that are already present in a community. Discovering community strengths is a powerful and productive way to address problems and realise collective dreams! By building relationships and creating the space for opportunities to emerge, community members become powerful and are more in control of their own decision making! The key principles will demonstrate how ABCD ensures an inclusive community process and participants will leave the workshop with practical tools to assist communities to help themselves and others discover and mobilise community strengths!
Effective Facilitation for Groups (EFG)
Dee Brooks
Based on the principles of The Art of Hosting and Asset Based Community Development, this workshop encourages people to discover authentic leadership utilising effective methods of facilitation for groups of all sizes! The techniques used are based on the idea that when people take ownership of an issue, they are more likely to forge ahead with it! The strategies used will assist in discovering what people truly care about and demonstrate how passions can become actions! The workshop will highlight how to discover new ways of working with others to create innovative and authentic solutions! Participants will leave this workshop with practical group facilitation techniques and discover how a sense of fun and openness is necessary to encourage people to feel confident and safe enough to step up and have a go!
PRESENCING
Yeshi Eperesi
The session is a practical experience of U theory and Rights of Passage work leading groups into deep communion in the space described by Otto Scharmer as ‘presencing’. Be prepared to move, play and step out into nature.