Australasian Facilitator’s Network (AFN) Conference ‘Tuakana Teina,’ Waikato, New Zealand, November 29 - December 2 2016

The SFN is affiliated with the AFN (Australasian Facilitator’s Network).  The AFN is a self-organising community of practitioners based in Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia and the Pacific, who have been meeting as the AFN since 1998 (and informally, with other identities, since 1992). 

The AFN focus is on working, learning and sharing with each other.

We share a passion for facilitation and participatory practice in pursuit of better communication, understanding, collaboration and harmony in workplaces, communities, and the world at large.

Similar to the SFN, the AFN is an informal unincorporated association of peers, there are no membership fees for AFN.  

Find out more at the AFN Website.

Each year since 1998 the AFN has held an Annual Conference. This is where professional and voluntary facilitators, supporters and students gather to ‘sharpen the saw’, reflect, discuss, debate, learn, share, meet, mix, create and recreate. 

AFN conferences are organised by teams of volunteers who are associates of the AFN.
  

This year the conference will be held at Waikato, New Zealand. The theme of the conference will be 'Tuakana Teina'.  This refers to the concept of older siblings teaching and guiding younger siblings; also to those with more experience in a particular practice passing their knowledge and skills on to those with less. 

Find out more at the AFN Conference website.