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