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29 April 2026

Next session is May 11, 2026


Resilience in Uncertain Times
with Natalia Yusenis 
 
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Meeting ID: 867 1436 3851
Passcode: 045888
May 11, 5.30pm - 7.15 AEST

Topic information


This 1-hour interactive workshop offers a practical introduction to building a more resilient mindset. Together, we’ll explore how the way we think about challenges, setbacks, and change can influence how we respond — both personally and in the spaces we facilitate.
Participants will be invited to reflect on:
✅ How mindset shapes our response to uncertainty
✅ Ways to reframe challenges with more curiosity and perspective
✅ Simple practices that may support calm, clarity, and confidence
✅ What resilience can look like in everyday moments, not just difficult ones
Rather than offering a one-size-fits-all solution, this session creates space to pause, reflect, and consider small, practical ways to strengthen resilience over time.


Introducing 


Natalia is a Clinical Hypnotherapist, Breathwork Facilitator and Mindset Coach who facilitates workshops on resilience, wellbeing and personal growth. Drawing on her experience in fast-paced agency environments, she understands the pressures of modern work and brings a practical, human-centred approach to supporting people through change and uncertainty. Her sessions create space for reflection, self-awareness and practical mindset tools that can be applied in everyday life and work.








Venue:   
Zoom link joining info

Join Zoom Meeting

Meeting ID: 867 1436 3851
Passcode: 045888

May 11, 5.30pm - 7.15 AEST

10 April 2026

SFN April 13 session - Whole Brain® Thinking for Facilitators


18 February 2026

Monday 9 March - 5:30PM - Systemic Coaching for Facilitators

 

2 February 2026

We are back for 2026 - Monday, 9 February - 5:30pm - ZOOM

Session title 

Revealing the System in the Room

Our host 

Benny Callaghan has been facilitating groups in a range of contexts across Australia and overseas for more than 25 years. He got his start taking groups out bush with Outward Bound, inspiring an approach that values the natural world, metaphor and spaciousness in designing engagements. As Founder and Chief Collaborator at Systems Collaboration Partners, his current work focuses on facilitating collaborations across siloes, sectors, jurisdictions and difference. 



 What to expect

In this session, you’ll be invited into a creative exercise to reflect on a facilitation experience. Through it we’ll explore themes of group identity, relationships, power, boundaries and facilitator identity. This exercise will help us tune into invisible systems within groups and the contexts we work within. We’ll then look at how we turn that reflection into practice and become present to the system while facilitating. 

WHERE?


Venue: ZOOM ROOM - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84731889049
Time:   Monday February 9, 5.30pm - 7pm 
Contact: Lina@macroleaders.com.au or johannaderuyter61@gmail.com
www.facilitatorsnetwork.blogspot.com


27 November 2025

SFN End-of-Year Celebration: Join us on Monday 8 December at Spice Alley from 6:30pm! 🎉

 Dear SFN Community, as we approach the end of the year, we’d love to gather and celebrate the connections, learning, and generosity that make this community so special.

You’re warmly invited to join us at Spice Alley on Monday, 8 December from 6:30pm in Kensington st, Chippendale for a relaxed BYO dinner and a fun, collaborative wild-card activity session.

(Restaurant TBC!)

Each participant is welcome to lead a short 5–15 minute activity at the table: anything playful, reflective, creative, or connection-building. Think of it as a joyful exchange of ideas we can all take into our Christmas and holiday gatherings.

No pressure at all, simply come as you are, bring some dinner, or order some at one of the many takeaway places at Spice Alley and enjoy the evening. If you do feel inspired, bring an activity to share!

We look forward to celebrating with you and closing the year in good company.

Warmly,

The SFN team

Lina, Ian, Johanna, Sandris, Lucy, Elyssebeth



4 November 2025

SFN in the room session – November 10th – Interactifs - Social Intelligence

 



Interactifs is a training and coaching company that specialises in the
development of social intelligence.

The Interactifs Discipline© combines a unique perspective on the components of successful interpersonal relationships, an effective training methodology (a mix of training and coaching), and principles that transcend cultural barriers.

We liberate people from having to make the familiar choice between being clear, direct, and straight-to-the-point, but with the risk of coming over as curt, abrupt, or even brutal, or of being polite, courteous, and respectful, but with the risk of beating around the bush and lacking impact and focus.

Our original approach equips people in organisations of all sizes and at all levels (from the board down) with a simple set of verbal behaviours and reflexes which enable them, in all their interactions, to produce results more often and more efficiently, whilst at the same time building trust and esteem in their professional relationships.  

This short ‘taster’ of the Interactifs Discipline© will cover: a guided brainstorm with the audience on the principles behind effective, trusting, professional relationships, followed by highly interactive, role-play-based activities to provide insight into current behaviours, and discovery of the constants of behaviour that create and build productive, professional relationships.

Why it matters:
Most people are taught to read and write. Few are taught to speak and listen. Listening and speaking are behaviours and reflexes that we learn through life experience and ‘do’ as the moment necessitates or are dictated by our emotions in any situation. A small number of people have the natural talent to produce results from their interactions (however challenging) more often, yet all people can be taught to make it count when they talk.

Lack of effectiveness in professional relationships is a hidden cost that’s rarely measured, yet it’s one of the most easily accessible forms of profit that exists.


Join us November 10, 5.30 - 7.00pm at Bendalta, Level 5/32 York st, Sydney

NOTE: enter via Tessuto Cafe then to the lifts behind to head up to Level 5
If you are late and doors are locked call - 0407904815

Speaker bio — Steve Sheppard

Steve Sheppard is a certified trainer/coach in interpersonal skills, and a qualified marketing researcher. He runs Interactifs ANZ, delivering the Interactifs Discipline© to multiple industries and job types. Before running Interactifs, Steve ran Brand Story, a marketing research and brand strategy consultancy working across multiple sectors, with a focus on the building and construction sectors, government campaigns, and government-supported industries and associations.  He has over 25 years’ experience running and moderating focus groups, and brand and marketing workshops across almost every industry sector, as well as working for leading advertising agencies in London and Sydney.

Steve’s facilitation style is thought-provoking and inspiring, and premised on a key question for all humans: ‘How do you like to be spoken to?’

Steve’s training workshops are highly engaging and involve reverse pedagogy; experience it first, then learn from deconstruction and reconstruction, and no PowerPoint!

You will leave with concrete takeaways that can be used in any interaction.

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” - Coco Chanel.