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Panel Discussion – 5 Tips for New Facilitators

Thursday 14 September, 6-7.30pm AEST / 8-9.30pm NZT Welcome to the 10th international Facilitation Week, 11-17 September 2023 – an annual participatory experience that inspires synergy and celebrates the act of group facilitation. Seven experienced facilitators, including #FacPower contributor Stephen Berkely, sat around a table and shared their 5 tips for a new facilitator. They […]

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At a table with seven facilitators: a conversation exploring facilitation.

Thank you to #FacPower contributor Stephen Berkeley and his co-authors Dolores Cummins, Bob Dick, Geof Hill, Cathryn Lloyd, Graham Miller and Ian Plowman for this new paper drawing on their lived experiences in a form of collaborative practice-led inquiry. As we prepare to launch new translations of the original book The Power of Facilitation during […]

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6. The Power of Partnership Between Facilitation and Communication

We needed to bring our 120 staff together—for a celebration, but also to prepare for the future. The project had been passed around the organization. Finally, we took it on in the Communications Team. Still, many people were sceptical, saying that they we’re not going to go… And yet, we delivered a huge (multi-award-winning) success. […]

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5. The Power of Facilitation for Team Development

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organisational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results. Andrew Carnegie Group facilitation generates conditions similar to the behaviours, social context and practices of high-performance teams. What we mean is that fruitful […]

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Powerfully Resilient Virtual Teams – Lessons from Global IAF Leaders

This post by contributor Barbara McKay is reposted with thanks from North Star Facilitators. Over the last 2.5 years, an international team of 15+ IAF facilitators including graphic/visual practitioners from five continents and 8 time zones have been co-designing a book called The Power of Facilitation. I wanted to share the incredible process that we went […]