17 March 2024

April 8th FACILITATING WITH IMAGES: A digital exploration with Cathryn Lloyd and Leonie Cutts

 Facilitating with Images |  SFN Zoom session |  Monday April 8 at 5.30pm (Sydney time)


Zoom Link HERE






About Leonie and Cathryn



Leonie Cutts
 is a co-founding director of CCS Corporation, the developers of the Compatibility Communication System (CCS Cards). She is principal coach, facilitator and creator of products that bring people together for meaningful connection. The CCS is a communication tool that helps create open and honest communication, and has been used by thousands of trainers, coaches and learning experts around the world.


Leonie has designed and delivered customised programs for leadership, team-building, personal development, presentation skills, communication skills and integrating corporate values across a variety of industries.

As a coach (PCC) with a background in education and psychology and over 25 years of building and delivering programs for managers and leaders, Leonie is passionate about drawing out people's strengths to help them grow personally and to contribute to organisational intelligence.


Cathryn Lloyd is a facilitCathryn picator, educator, creativity coach, author and creative practitioner. She is the Founder/Director of Maverick Minds, a creative human development consultancy that designs powerful and flexible learning experiences to people shift their thinking, gain new perspectives, and create positive change. 

Cathryn has extensive experience across creative industries, arts, business, management, and education. With a visual arts and design background Cathryn brings a unique multi-disciplinary learning approach to her work. She draws on a range of experiential, arts-based and action learning methodologies, theories, and processes to create purposeful and engaging learning environments that invite people to explore and innovate in areas such as leadership, wellbeing, culture, and team dynamics.


More information HERE

29 January 2024

Monday February 12 5.30pm (AEDT) zoom session: Unearthing Buried Mindsets - with Bob Dick

 







Zoom Session. 5.30pm (AEDT) on Monday February 12 at

Why do some attempts to improve a situation actually worsen it?  Stressed or embarrassed, we become blind to our poor behaviour.  Older parts of our brain take over our actions.  Daniel Goleman called it the amygdala hijack.  It is relevant to our ability as facilitators to deal with difficulty.  It also assists us to help our participants.  We are less blind to other's behaviour.  The SFN session will therefore at first explore the topic using a case study.  We can then develop it further to learn how to remedy our own blindness.



About Bob Dick



Bob Dick is an independent scholar, an occasional academic, a researcher and practitioner and facilitator, and a coach, mentor and advisor.  He works in the fields of community and organisational change.  In his facilitation work he uses action research and action learning.  These approaches enable him to integrate his practice with available evidence and models.  His aim is to help people, communities and organisations (and himself) to understand and improve their functioning.


Here are some documents posted by Bob after the session 

Go here


3 December 2023

December Wild Card - Face to face at UTS on December 11 at 5.30pm

 

Monday 11 December 2023 l 5:30PM.   
Face to Face: 
UTS Building 10, Lvl 5, CB10.05.580.



For our last session in 2023, come along to reflect on the year and celebrate the SFN community. It's a wild card night! We will invite colleagues to offer and run a short piece highlighting some aspect of facilitation practice. 


More information here

If all goes well we will go for dinner afterwards. 

9 October 2023

SFN October 9: Reinventing collaboration in the post pandemic era

 

Face to face session with Greg Jenkins


at UTS Monday October 9 at 5.30pm

Venue: University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Building 10 (cnr Jones & Thomas St), Level 5, Room 5.580
Take the lift to level 5, cross the atrium footbridge, walk straight ahead to room 580 on your right.

Time: From 5:30pm to 7:30pm | No RSVP - Just turn up | Donation $5



Collaboration means to work jointly with others or together. More recently the term has been broadened and co-opted by software, App and AI developers to enable aids to enable some fantastic tools for all of us to use.

The Covid Pandemic facilitated the age of hybrid work and learning where emphasis has shifted from face-to-face participation to a mix of human to human, human to machine or a mix of humans and machines. The change has happened so quickly that the practices and protocols haven’t caught up with the juggernaut.

In this session we have the opportunity to explore what’s happening in our own game, share what’s working and what’s not, explore how we as facilitators might through collaboration at a point in time be part of the change in a more powerful way. 

About Greg:

Greg is an independent change agent and facilitator with more than 25 years’ experience. He works in Defence, business, government, education and community sectors specializing in collaboration, culture and leadership. 

He has been involved with SFN from the very early days of the network. He is a regular guest facilitator.

His first session in 2003 was on ‘The World CafĂ©’. Greg has contributed 7 previous sessions on his special interest -the topic of collaboration. This is a further evolution of his ideas on collaboration based on his experience in high stakes, high value projects in the post pandemic world.



26 September 2023

Supporting The Voice - addressing the 'undecided'





As we move into the final stage of the referendum, a pattern is emerging - there is a group of undecided voters who are genuinely trying to understand all the sides of the referendum debate. They don't want to vote 'yes' for something they don't understand but don't want to be labelled racist for considering a 'no' vote. It is a very uncomfortable feeling being pulled in different directions and many undecided voters are trying to find a fair path to follow. 

 

Between now and October 14, SFN Committee encourages network members to look for opportunities to listen deeply to undecided voters. There might be some undecided voters in your family, friends or workplace. As facilitators we know the power of one-to-one conversations in helping people find clarity and reflect on their values.    

 

False information is being deliberately and covertly spread in order to obscure the actual claims in the referendum question and negatively influence public opinion. This fear-based messaging is exploiting voters with migrant backgrounds, making them feel uncomfortable and stressed. Some migrated to Australia to live in a country with higher democratic standards and avoid such exploitation. 

 

Disinformation is giving voters a negative experience of a referendum which is significant feature of Australian democracy. We all have a responsibility not to share disinformation or misinformation. We can call it out when others mention they are relying on it or being influenced by it. 


Call to action: consider what role can you take between now and October 14 to help voters be well informed and connected to trustworthy information like voice.org.au, ABC and SBS.





4 September 2023

Technology and the Future of Facilitation - Follow Up from the September 12 session

 

 

Follow up from this session 

The slides are at this link

Here is a link to an edited version of the SchellingPoint slide deck used in last week’s workshop on How AI and digital technologies can help facilitators in the years to come. 

Both Michael Taylor and Marek Lis would welcome continuing the dialogue with anyone interested.

 

Here is Michael’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-taylor-635223

 

Here’s is Marek’s: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alchemyinsights

 


Technology and the future of facilitation |  SFN Special Zoom morning session |  Tuesday September 12th from 8am-10am (AEST)

with Schelling Point