The Facilitator client tango: an experiment. With Jacinta Cubis May 13

 Facilitator Client Tango |  SFN Zoom session |  Monday May 13 at 5.30pm (Sydney time)

Join HERE or go to 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82992546841

Have you ever:

 Felt frustrated after a conversation with a client?

 Sensed you’re ‘at odds’ with a client or a colleague or manager about a workshop’s purpose or plan?

 Had a difference of opinion during a workshop?

You’re not alone. A facilitator’s relationship with their clients (or colleagues, managers and sponsors) can be like dancing tango. Reading or misreading each other, the shifts between leading and following, connection and disconnection, and yes, even stepping on toes.

What you need

Relax – you don’t need any tango shoes or moves. You do need to bring a ‘not-so-great’ story to share - like the ones above - and the curiosity to see how your peers might replay and rework them. Your story can be from the past, one you’re living through or one that you might see coming.
 

What you’ll leave with

You will get to watch your stories unfold as your peers play ‘you’ and your ‘client’. Your fellow facilitators bring their own experience and fresh perspective to your story. You’ll get insights that may help you:

 Shift and progress the conversation you’re having with your client, right now

 Learn from how you might have done it differently in the past

 Imagine how you could do it differently in the future

Don’t forget to bring a ‘not-so-great’ story from working with your clients when designing, delivering and debriefing workshops.

The experiment bit

Jacinta avoids role plays at any cost, so it takes a bit of courage to lean into this one, but she figures that SFN is a compassionate space that welcomes trying new things.

Jacinta has co-facilitated this session twice with Ewen Le Bourge and is doing it solo, with his blessing. Each time, people have left wanting more so she knows it works and thinks it could be done even better. She’s playing with the activity to see how it works with a larger group, in less time. Come and join the experiment.

 

About Jacinta   Jacinta is a creative master facilitator who loves guiding groups to connect, make decisions, generate ideas and solve problems. Specialising in visual thinking, Jacinta creates captivating cartoons that simplify complex issues. With 28 years of experience, Jacinta is the go-to facilitator, trainer and mentor for clients in government, universities and community organisations, as well as consultants and facilitators. Jacinta believes that facilitation is an essential skill for life and work and loves building facilitation capability. She shares compelling content that shows the impact of facilitation and tips to help you be a (fl)awesome facilitator. Because if you’re (fl)awesome, you create real engagement. When Jacinta is not facilitating, or helping you learn how, you can find her on her yoga mat, in her art studio, on the tennis court or the tango dance floor.

April 8th FACILITATING WITH IMAGES: A digital exploration with Cathryn Lloyd and Leonie Cutts

 Facilitating with Images |  SFN Zoom session |  Monday April 8 at 5.30pm (Sydney time)

Download the cards before the session (see below)

Zoom Link HERE

Unlock the power of imagery in facilitation with Dr. Cathryn Lloyd from Maverick Minds and Leonie Cutts from CCS Corporation. Bring to life the voices and collective wisdom of the group. Discover how to foster meaningful connections, creativity, and learning using digital image cards. 

 

In this session, we'll delve into:

 

·      Connecting and engaging participants from the outset

·      Igniting creativity, roasting an idea, and transforming perspectives

·      Gaining fresh insights through collaborative image-based activities

 

Experience the innovative CCS Card Virtual Facilitation Environment (VFE) and Maverick Minds' unique Shift Your Thinking Digital Facilitation cards firsthand. Whether you're a trainer, educator, coach, or facilitator, this session is essential for enhancing your toolkit and creating generative spaces both online and in-person.

About Leonie and Cathryn

Leonie Cutts is a co-founding director of CCS Corporation, the developers of the Compatibility Communication System (CCS Cards). She is principal coach, facilitator and creator of products that bring people together for meaningful connection. The CCS is a communication tool that helps create open and honest communication, and has been used by thousands of trainers, coaches and learning experts around the world.

Leonie has designed and delivered customised programs for leadership, team-building, personal development, presentation skills, communication skills and integrating corporate values across a variety of industries.

As a coach (PCC) with a background in education and psychology and over 25 years of building and delivering programs for managers and leaders, Leonie is passionate about drawing out people's strengths to help them grow personally and to contribute to organisational intelligence.

Cathryn Lloyd is a facilitator, educator, creativity coach, author and creative practitioner. She is the Founder/Director of Maverick Minds, a creative human development consultancy that designs powerful and flexible learning experiences to people shift their thinking, gain new perspectives, and create positive change. 

Cathryn has extensive experience across creative industries, arts, business, management, and education. With a visual arts and design background Cathryn brings a unique multi-disciplinary learning approach to her work. She draws on a range of experiential, arts-based and action learning methodologies, theories, and processes to create purposeful and engaging learning environments that invite people to explore and innovate in areas such as leadership, wellbeing, culture, and team dynamics.

More information HERE

Getting Ready

To join in the session, please take a moment to install the FREE CCS VFE Cards App on either an Apple or Android mobile device.

The app won’t connect to our session yet, you will get a Session ID when we meet. I

In the meantime, if you would like to know more, try clicking on the app’s “Learn” button and look around, or visit the app’s how-to webpage https://ccs.cards/virtual/mobile-apps-help/

Monday 11 March Handling Difficult Facilitation Challenges - applying OBREAU with Don Dunoon

 

Join us on zoom on Monday night 11 March at 5.30pm Sydney time:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83757768602

Monday February 12 5.30pm (AEDT) zoom session: Unearthing Buried Mindsets - with Bob Dick

 

Zoom Session. 5.30pm (AEDT) on Monday February 12 at

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83760847895

Why do some attempts to improve a situation actually worsen it?  Stressed or embarrassed, we become blind to our poor behaviour.  Older parts of our brain take over our actions.  Daniel Goleman called it the amygdala hijack.  It is relevant to our ability as facilitators to deal with difficulty.  It also assists us to help our participants.  We are less blind to other's behaviour.  The SFN session will therefore at first explore the topic using a case study.  We can then develop it further to learn how to remedy our own blindness.

About Bob Dick

Bob Dick is an independent scholar, an occasional academic, a researcher and practitioner and facilitator, and a coach, mentor and advisor.  He works in the fields of community and organisational change.  In his facilitation work he uses action research and action learning.  These approaches enable him to integrate his practice with available evidence and models.  His aim is to help people, communities and organisations (and himself) to understand and improve their functioning.

Here are some documents posted by Bob after the session 

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