SPRINGTIME SEPTEMBER SFN SPECIAL!
NOTE: FRIDAY 27th
Story and narratives provide facilitators rich opportunities to
enable groups, teams, organisations and communities to work together and
productively navigate complexity. Drawing on their recently published
book "The Story Cookbook: Practical Recipes for Change", Andrew Rixon
and Cathryn Lloyd will explore a number of story-based activities for
facilitators to reflect on what opportunities working with story and
narrative approaches can provide within their own practice.
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 Andrew
Rixon is the founder of Babel Fish Group and with one of the first
PhD’s in complexity science has gained global experience in working with
organisations, within Australia and internationally in the UK, USA,
Europe and Asia-Pacific. Andrew also holds an appointment with Swinburne
Business School in the area of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Andrew
is the founder of The Story Conference and co-editor of the recently published book “The Story Cookbook: Practical Recipes for Change”
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 Cathryn
Lloyd is a facilitator, creativity coach, educator and holds a doctoral
degree in Creative Industries (DCI). She is the Founder and Director of
Maverick Minds, a creative professional development consultancy that
designs powerful and flexible learning experiences to shift thinking,
gain new perspectives and create positive change. She has extensive
experience across the creative industries, arts, business, management,
and education. With an arts and design background, she brings a
multi-disciplinary learning approach to her work, drawing on
experiential, arts-based and action learning methodologies and processes
to create purposeful learning environments.
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Scott
is Senior Project Manager with KJA and also lectures in the UTS
Creative Intelligence course. He is a communications professional with
five years’ marketing, public relations and specialist experience in the
technology, education and consultancy sectors. He is also a game
developer and now coordinates Sydney’s first specialist working space
for other developers. Scott’s passion is for deliberative
decision-making processes and he has worked with New Democracy and other
Citizen panel processes.
Martin
has facilitated groups in creating community, resolving difficulties
and building consensus for projects for nearly 30 years. He has taken
Open Space Technologies, World Cafe, Courage to Lead, Community
Leadership as Martial Art and woven them together with Theory U into an
adaptable creative process. At present he is working on his PhD while
working at a bookshop. He has recently returned to Sydney and is
interested in learning about how we can meet the twenty first century
with all of its challenges and changes. Hi work with spirituality is
currently focused on ancient and new traditions that give us skills to
develop organs of perception for realities beyond three dimensions, or
the spiritual senses as they are known.
Kirsty has been an educator for over 20 years and currently wears a few hats.