Our Past "Facilitation Insights" Sessions: 

 

 

 

The Facilitator Has Left the Building: What now?

Thanks to Annekatrin Madlung & Paul Kelly from the IAF England and Wales chapter for this inspiring session.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Descubre el secreto de Danone para potenciar la colaboración, la creatividad y el crecimiento interno.

Facilitadores: Aitor Guisasola, Tatiana Rocha & Maialen Oregi

 

 

 

 

 

In this session we explored "Drama Therapy Inspired Facilitation" and how role-play and objects activate curiosity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- How do we help groups to see and understand the different narratives at play?

- How can we support groups in constructing, naming, transforming the stories that serve the true purpose of the group and cater to the potential of the situation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We explored the topic "Facilitating in a Hostile Environment". We seeked answers to how we can change our attitudes towards dealing with conflict with Maire McGrath & Siobhàn Kearney.

Guest Speaker: Kimberly Bain

 

 

 

 

 

Mapping the flow of wellbeing in organisations, the opportunities for facilitation to influence the flow of wellbeing, the responsibilities of facilitators for wellbeing - both directly and indirectly and how we might better effect those responsibilities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

How do you spark deeper insights with your groups -- online or face-to-face? The Breakthrough Arc is an 8-step framework for designing group experiences that create the conditions for groups to go deeper, challenge limiting beliefs, and spark insights. The framework draws from neuroscience, psychology, and group dynamics, to create psychological safety, trust, and connection. It has been road-tested with more than 1300 online professionals.

Gwyn shared with us the framework and the research that supports it, with real-life examples, and actionable advice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The first session of 2023 was hosted by the IAF Italy chapter. Thank you Nicola and Federico for this great session.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve Yorkstone and Svein Are work together to develop a model to support facilitation. Working as peer mentors, they share their experiences on facilitation every week through a YouTube vlog. In our June session we heard their story, understood their model, and heard what they’ve learnt through the process. Thanks Steve & Svein Are!

 

 

 

 

 

In our May session, Rengin Akkemik from IAF Turkey shared with us about the 5 Languages of Appreciation for Facilitators. Thank you Rengin!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the April 2022 edition of the Insights, members of IAF Ireland presented us their u.lab 2x journey to date and invited stakeholder participants from Ireland (and beyond) to join this  trip. The session was hosted by IAF Ireland chapter lead, David Bishop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Living life creatively can bring happiness, joy and excitement to our lives. It can take us out of ourselves and orient us towards the social world in positive ways, especially if we can allow ourselves to become more open and curious. We thank Martina Carroll for this session on her life as a facilitator.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the 3rd of February, 2022, we had John Varney, who expanded on his book, “Leadership as meaning-Making – Take the Hero’s Journey to Transformation”. Based on his experience over 40 years, when he founded and ran the Centre for Management Creativity and its residential centre at High Trenhouse, he asked, “Is the developmental dimension of facilitation critical to the future of humanity?” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Looking back & moving forward!

In 2021's final session in the Facilitation Insights, we were joined by our outgoing EME Regional Director Celeste Brito and her successor Tamara Zivadinovic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In our November session, we were joined by Amanda Kennedy to talk about the virtual CPF process.

We discussed together what made Amanda decide to do the CPF? How she found the process and what her impressions were! Thanks Amanda!

 

 

 

 

 

 

In our October session, we were joined by Adam Kahane, about his just-published book "Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together”.

This was a “Book Club” conversation, not a presentation! :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In this session with Gwen Stirling Wilkie we took stock of what's happening for us as facilitators, stepped back and shared recent experiences of what this thing called 'hybrid' actually means.

Thanks Gwen!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We discovered in our August session with Anastasia Popova our D.O.P.E. profiles in order to achieve success.

* The D.O.P.E. test can be accessed here!

 

 

 

 

 

 

In this session of the EME Facilitation Insights we have shared with the contributors to the new book "The Power of Facilitation" something of their experience. Thanks Barbara, Michael, Martin, Malin & Trevor!  #FacPower 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In this "Facilitated Writing" session with Richard Dyter, we discovered ways that make it easier for people to get things written – including pre-work for meetings! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                        

 

 

In this special edition of the Facilitation Insights; we focused on     the "World Café" method and explored it further together with   Barbara Pedersen (CPF).               

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 In this session with Sam Bradd, we explored further how to   successfully market our facilitation services. During the   session, we discussed how marketing can be a way to share our   facilitation perspective and true voice!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 In our April Facilitation Insights session we explored further the   topic of "Helping Scientists Begin Participatory Group Process"   together with Alicia Lanier! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 This hands-on conversation from skill to application with Miriam   O Donoghue and Megan Evans took place in March! We   explored together the steps involved in creating a Mind Map   based on the approach developed by the late Tony Buzan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Our February session was about the "Indabas", a traditional       meeting process, that have been powering UN climate   negotiations since 2011. Salwa Dallalah, who led the UN Climate   Secretariat's organising team for the Paris and many global   climate conferences, spoke with Martin Farrell. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our first guests of the IAF EME Facilitation Insights session were Mika Aaltonen and Paolo Martinez. Together with them we have discussed and explored their study on "The Future of Facilitation". The session took place on the 7th of January at 18:00 CET. The recorded video can be viewed here.