Facilitating Creativiy with Phil Cross & Kerry Boys | Monday February 11, 2019 | 5:30PM

Creativity is a vital skill for every individual. In fact it may be the last skill we humans give up to AI and automation. It facilitates problem solving, creates new ideas, improves organisations and changes the world. It’s the difference between leading the way and simply following. As facilitators, our role is to help groups solve problems of one kind or another. As part of this process, we almost always seek the most diverse and unique set of ideas possible. Why? Because diversity, when skillfully facilitated, is an incubator for creativity   This fully interactive session focuses on providing the processes and techniques to enable facilitation of creative problem solving, pulling from schools of thought such as design thinking and human centric design.   We will take a specific challenge and work through solving it creatively it as a group.   Importantly, we bring effectiveness to the forefront. How can we ensure that when driving creativity we are also considering the needs of all stakeholders. About Phil Cross & Kerry Boys Phil is a digital consultant and strategist with over 12 years of experience helping businesses grow, implement change and navigate disruption across Europe and APAC. Combining a background in digital strategy, marketing, facilitation and coaching, and with a passion for human and organisational development, Phil has led consulting and transformation initiatives for some of the worlds most notable brands. Kerry is a passionate strategic problem-solver, utilising these skills to accelerate the growth of individuals and organisations from start-ups to global clients. Her experience spans business & marketing strategy, people development, organisational design and operational efficiency.  Kerry is happiest when bringing people together to solve problems they previously thought were impossible. Venue: University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Building 10 (cnr Jones & Thomas St), Level 5, Room 5.580 Take the lift to level 5, cross the atrium footbridge, walk straight ahead to room 580 on your right. Time: From 5:30pm to 7:30pm | No RSVP - Just turn up | Donation $5 Contact: www.facilitatorsnetwork.blogspot.com Eoin Higgins  eoin.p.higgins@gmail.com : 0407 411 684 March 11th Facilitating the 'Soulful' Organisation with Stephen Hanman April 08th Non-violent Communication with Kate Raffin

Future of Facilitation: Co-design Workshop

The Sydney Facilitators Network are hosting a co-design event held at the Michael Crouch Innovation Centre (MCIC, UNSW) on Saturday 22 October, 10am - 4pm, to explore and respond to the changing nature of facilitation.

We would like to invite you to be part of this co-creation process, along with fellow thought leaders and Australian facilitation professionals, to foster innovation, dialogue and uncover how facilitation might look in 2030.

It will be a fun, energetic and fast-paced session of 42 participants in the MCIC hub for Innovators. Our aim for this one-day workshop is to collaborate and empower our community to make positive and meaningful change in society.

But before we give you all the ins and outs of this fantastic day, we would love to ask you for your input and ideas to help our first SFN co-design event!

“One not only needs their minds to think, dream and speak about change but also their hands to tinker, test, and build to create change!” - MCIC

Please take a few minutes to help us by completing a short survey:

CLICK HERE FOR A VERY SHORT SURVEY! 

'The Art of Design Thinking: what it means and how it works' with Andrèz Coco | Monday June 20, 2016 | 5.30pm

As a facilitator your role is quite often to lead discussions and guide a group of people to a successful outcome. In some of these situations this might be about finding solutions for a specific issue. In these cases, using a Design Thinking process can really help with solving the problem by applying creative thinking from a critical and customer centric view. In a nutshell you could say that Design Thinking is using an activity-based process to co-create different ideas that lead to a customer-centric delivery based on the essence of the customer need.

In this workshop you will be introduced to the entire Design Thinking process: the key stages and some examples of tools you can use. In the second part of this workshop we will be putting an everyday case into practice: we will spend time on the 1st two stages of the process by working in smaller groups.

At the end of this workshop you will have a better understanding of:

-       what Design Thinking is

-       how the process looks like

-       how you can apply it as a facilitator

-       some tools you can use in the 1st to stage of the process

-       some practical insights in the 1st to stages of the process

Some useful videos:

What is service design: https://vimeo.com/88455206

What is design thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uilcaXYnluU


About Andrèz Coco

Andrèz Coco has been working as a Lead service designer and marketing strategy consultant for the past decade in Europe, Africa, South-America and most recently in Australia. Her degrees are in Marketing management & communications with additional courses in Design Thinking. She has worked with corporates, agencies, entrepreneurs as well as NGO’s. At the moment she works at Qantas Loyalty (Innovationlab) as a Lead service designer. She also supports the TEDx Sydney organizing team as their customer experience specialist. She was recently on of the panel guests at one of VIVID ideas vents on the topic of ‘The future of creativity’ amongst neuroscientists, artificial intelligence experts and fellow design thinkers.

Link to linkedin: https://au.linkedin.com/in/andrèz-coco-8207662

Link to webpage: http://www.andrezcoco.com/ 

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Call for Guest Facilitators:

If you have an idea or know someone who has an idea for a session at a Facilitators Network meeting in 2016 please contact Eoin Higgins 0407 411 684 eoin.p.higgins@gmail.com

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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 | Eoin Higgins  eoin.p.higgins@gmail.com ; 0407 411 684

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