“Innovation Wildcard” | Monday December 14, 2015 | 5.30pm | With end-of-year social

Do you have a new idea to try out with a receptive audience?

Do you have a short process that you want to practice before you do it live with a client?

Have you been considering taking a guest facilitator spot but want to get some experience with the group first?

Do you have a short process that is energizing and fun?

All these and more are what wildcard is for. You can be guest facilitator on the night for between 5 and 20 minutes.

Typically there is time for around 6 short sessions.

Wildcards are for everyone no matter what the experience level. They are unpredictable, engaging and always fun.

Wildcards are a great way to experience a range of ideas and tools from a variety of different experiences.

Wildcard sessions are organized dynamically on the night. Just turn up with your idea.

Everyone else just turn up to learn from the experience and have fun.

Xmas Social:

Please join us for networking, conversation and laughter afterwards at the nearby, very economical Pho Mumum Vietnamese Restaurant, No 16 Broadway, Chippendale (opposite the Big UTS Tower). Average meal cost only$10. See review on Trip Advisor

Venue:  [Our usual venue]

University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Jones Street, Ultimo corner Thomas Street. Room 5.580 Level 5, Building 10, Take the lift to level 5, cross the atrium footbridge, walk straight ahead to room 580.

Time:

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

Blog www.facilitatorsnetwork.blogspot.com

Enquiries | Greg Jenkins; gregjenkins@yahoo.com ; 0418 486 501 | Eoin Higgins  eoin.p.higgins@gmail.com ; 0407 411 684

Listening to words, and imagining meanings with Dr Colin J Harrison | Monday November 09th at 5:30pm

NOTE: change to regular format

For this month's session we will be offering a slightly different format.

In addition to our main session, we will offer a shorter session. This will allow greater flexibility to our members to share within the community.

To ensure we allow enough time for our facilitators we will begin a 5:30pm sharp! 

Our main session will be:

Listening to words, and imagining meanings, with Dr Colin J Harrison

In this session Colin Harrison will attempt to push the boundaries of the practice of facilitation. Using his experience as a communications specialist, he will use a number of novel techniques to explore the dynamics of group communication. He also believes that it is easier to change ideas through leading behaviour than the other way around: the session will therefore be highly interactive, with theoretical framing left until a short debrief at the end. The session will be unusual, interesting and sensorially stimulating meaning that you will all go home mentally exhausted (and sleep well!) 

 About Colin Harrison

Colin Harrison has worked as a university lecturer for nearly 20 years, predominantly in France. His academic background is in Ron Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar and Sydney Lamb’s Neurocognitive Linguistics (not NLP!) which are both frameworks for the analysis and understanding of human linguistic capacity grounded in perceptual psychology (CG) and connectionist neural networks (NCL).

He has benefitted from 20 years of diverse opportunities to apply this understanding to language and communications instruction, mostly at tertiary level in the US and in France. Recently he has returned to his homeland of Australia to establish his own consultancy company, Lucid8 Language Skills, which is focused on human communication and its central role in nearly all aspects of building and maintaining effective collaborative groups.

For more on Colin, see his website www.lucid8.com.au or to learn more about one of his upcoming workshops in Sydney CBD on 24th November go to http://ow.ly/TtfFi.

Our short session will be

"What's your voice telling about you?", with Michael Kelly

Why does your voice sound different on audio recording than when you normally speak?

In this short session Michael Kelly will tell you why you hear yourself differently to other people - and what you need to do, to understand what your voice is telling about you.

He will share two, simple powerful speaking techniques you can immediately use to upgrade your speaking impact

About Michael Kelly

Michael Kelly is the founder and director of Kelly Speech Communication. He is a business pitch consultant, executive personal communication coach and corporate communication consultant.

Michael is a leading body language and speech expert and holds a Master of Science degree in speech pathology. He writes a weekly blog post on all aspects of memorable listening, speaking and presenting.

His clients include iProspect, Commonwealth Bank and The University of Sydney.

To get a preview of Michael’s work here is link to his recent popular blog post analyzing the speaking of PM Malcolm Turnbull.

http://kellyspeech.com.au/m-turnbull-people-will-believe-your-certainty/

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Venue:  [Our usual venue]

University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Jones Street, Ultimo corner Thomas Street. Room 5.580 Level 5, Building 10, Take the lift to level 5, cross the atrium footbridge, walk straight ahead to room 580.

Time:

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

Blog www.facilitatorsnetwork.blogspot.com

Enquiries | Greg Jenkins; gregjenkins@yahoo.com ; 0418 486 501 | Eoin Higgins  eoin.p.higgins@gmail.com ; 0407 411 684

Facilitators Network | Monday October 12, 2015 | 5.30pm Looking for the hidden "good stuff" - an exploration with John Loty

Facilitators Network | Monday October 12, 2015 | 5.30pm Looking for the hidden "good stuff" - an exploration with John Loty How can we as facilitators overcome and help others overcome the anxieties, fears and tribulations that are rarely discussed but not so rare? According to Shirzad Chamine, author of "Positive Intelligence" only 20% of teams and individuals achieve their true potential...largely because of the "saboteurs" within. This session of the Sydney Facilitators will explore these concepts and discover approaches that will facilitate achievement of this elusive potential. This session will explore ways of applying a strengths-based and realistic approach to a solution of the actual problem/s by learning to see things differently ... by engaging in a collaborative and cooperative search for the best in any given situation, organisations, people and the world about us. Participants will also be introduced to the STOP tool, developed by W Timothy Gallwey in "The Inner Game of Work". About John Loty John Loty is an Appreciative Performance Improvement Facilitator and Coach who has been an industrial relations practitioner, a negotiator, barrister, mediator, general manager, corporate counsel, founder and Director of an RTO and enjoys assisting individuals, teams and organisations achieve their true potential. He is Chairman of Logistics Bureau (Australia's leading Supply Chain and Logistics Consultancy) and is a long term member of the Sydney Facilitators Network. John's current focus is on the possibilities and opportunities of employing the principles of Appreciative Inquiry to individual (as well as corporate) growth and development. He is the publisher of a digital magazine (Appreciate Performance Improvement Strategies that work) a free app available on iTunes for iPhone and iPad. His blog (Adapt) can be found at www.johnloty.com ======================================================= Notes from last month’s session: Last month Ian Colley ran an excellent session on the role of dialogue in the process of facilitation. During that session the group generated an output, in the form of many, many post-it notes! Ian has kindly typed up those post-it notes and provided an excellent summary of the evening along with some keen insights into nature of dialogue. It makes for good reading! ======================================================= News & Events 18th AFN Conference | Ballina 5-6 November 2015 Facilitating Wholeness www.afnconference.org.au ======================================================= Call for Guest Facilitators: If you have an idea or know someone who has an idea for a session at a Facilitators Network meeting in 2015 please contact Greg Jenkins 0418 486 501 gregjenkins@yahoo.com or Eoin Higgins 0407 411 684 eoin.p.higgins@gmail.com ======================================================= Venue:  [Our usual venue] University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Jones Street, Ultimo corner Thomas Street. Room 5.580 Level 5, Building 10, Take the lift to level 5, cross the atrium footbridge, walk straight ahead to room 580. Time: From 5:30pm to 7:30pm sharp | No RSVP - Just turn up | Donation $5 Blog www.facilitatorsnetwork.blogspot.com Enquiries | Greg Jenkins; gregjenkins@yahoo.com ; 0418 486 501 | Eoin Higgins  eoin.p.higgins@gmail.com ; 0407 411 684 ======================================================================= To either Join or be removed from this list email to Sydney.facilitators@gmail.com with either ADD or REMOVE in the subject area.

Facilitation: putting a microscope on process with Ian Colley | Monday September 14, 2015 | 5.30pm

Formal theories and methodologies provide a strong scaffold for facilitation, especially in the design stage. My favorites over the past few years have been Solutions Focus, Theory U, Design Thinking, Circle of Trust and a little dash of Marshall Rosenberg’s Non Violent Communication. Each provides guidance in designing meaningful events. Yet no theory guarantees success when the event goes live. People struggle with purpose, the tasks, each other, and the facilitator. I had a recent experience as a participant where the result from a group discussion was worse than each individual might have produced for themselves.

 

This session will put a microscope on table group/small group discussion. What can we, as facilitators, say and do (or not say and not do) to reliably generate useful dialogue? This session will explore this question and, to a lesser extent, the assumptions underneath the question. In particular, we will do some experiments with small/table groups in ‘fish-bowl’ role plays. Come, if you want to be part of the experiment, either as participant or observer. No results are guaranteed. Like life, really

 

About Ian Colley

Ian Colley is a facilitator of change and learning projects.  These mostly deal with ‘tricky’ issues – building common ground between diverse interests, solving problems, leading difficult conversations, creating clarity about uncertain futures (isn’t it all uncertain).

Over 20 years in consulting, Ian has led hundreds of projects in business, government and community settings. He has chaired a number of community liaison committees – for Barangaroo Development Authority, NSW Ports, Orica, Taralga Wind Farm.  Ian also teaches facilitation and leadership at the University of Technology (since 2005).

Ian’s current focus is on the possibilities (and limits) of dialogue.  He is passionate about teaching facilitation – helping other professionals stretch these skills in their everyday practices.

Venue:  [Our usual venue]

University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Jones Street, Ultimo corner Thomas Street. Room 5.580 Level 5, Building 10, Take the lift to level 5, cross the atrium footbridge, walk straight ahead to room 580.

Time:

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

Blog www.facilitatorsnetwork.blogspot.com

Enquiries | Greg Jenkins; gregjenkins@yahoo.com ; 0418 486 501 | Eoin Higgins  eoin.p.higgins@gmail.com ; 0407 411 684

“Innovation Wildcard” | Monday August 10, 2015 | 5.30pm

Do you have a new idea to try out with a receptive audience? Do you have a short process that you want to practice before you do it live with a client? Have you been considering taking a guest facilitator spot but want to get some experience with the group first? Do you have a short process that is energizing and fun? All these and more are what wildcard is for. You can be guest facilitator on the night for between 5 and 20 minutes. Typically there is time for around 6 short sessions. Wildcards are for everyone no matter what the experience level. They are unpredictable, engaging and always fun. Wildcards are a great way to experience a range of ideas and tools from a variety of different experiences. Wildcard sessions are organized dynamically on the night. Just turn up with your idea. Everyone else just turn up to learn from the experience and have fun. Venue:  [Our usual venue] University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Jones Street, Ultimo corner Thomas Street. Room 5.580 Level 5, Building 10, Take the lift to level 5, cross the atrium footbridge, walk straight ahead to room 580. Time: From 5:30pm to 7:30pm sharp | No RSVP - Just turn up | Donation $5 Blog www.facilitatorsnetwork.blogspot.com Enquiries | Greg Jenkins; gregjenkins@yahoo.com ; 0418 486 501 | Eoin Higgins  eoin.p.higgins@gmail.com ; 0407 411 684