How to Keep our Brains fit and healthy - with Jeanne Walker

 

How to keep our Brains Healthy and Fit for Life! |  SFN Zoom session |  Monday June 19 at 5.30pm (AEST)

Session on Zoom

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86250511462

“We used to think our brain didn’t grow or change much after our twenties. We assumed the  main changes were about decline. Now we know that there are lots of practical things we can do keep our brains lively, growing and learning right up to our last breath,” says Jeanne Walker, our SFN facilitator for June 19.   Jeanne should know. In July 2022, she survived four hours of emergency brain surgery to remove a very large brain tumour, which had grown undiagnosed for ten years, despite visits to many doctors. Now 10 months into her recovery, all her years of coaching and facilitating in leadership, happiness and well being, and her enthusiastic reading of brain specialists like Dr Oliver Sachs and Dr Lara Boyd have all come together.   “In fact, I feel my brain tumour has been a friend in disguise. It’s really forced me to focus on what matters: the people I love, living fully and healthily, and helping everybody - including me - to keep our brains as active and fit as possible.”    “We’ll be exploring how attitude, gratitude, relationships  and a range of everyday habits like eating, drinking water & alcohol, overnight fasting, moving, sleeping, meditating, and learning - especially fun things – can all boost our brains. We’ll also look at how you can get assessments for yourself or a loved one. We may even have time to look at how our brains can soar with ease and flow." Jeanne Walker’s career has spanned radio and TV as a journalist and as an executive. She made her name for powerful reporting of mass demonstrations in New Zealand for human rights about racial equality, freedom from nuclear radiation, and laws to recognise homosexual rights. Her first Australian TV job was on the ABC’s Lateline team.  Jeanne went on to lead government behaviour change campaigns involving millions of people and to raise over $30 million for community causes.  Read more at:  https://www.linkedin.com//in/jeannewalkerlinkedin

Tools and Tips for facilitating in complex times - with Myrna Lewis. May 8 at 5.30pm on zoom

Session on Zoom 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81235284600

May 8 at 5.30pm (AEST)

Discover a new lens to look at groups and understand group dynamics. Learn a useful diagnostic giving you insight into the dynamics and behaviours that interfere with groups, The Resistance Line. Experience what to do when there are diverse and charged views.

 

Myrna Lewis is a thought leader and practitioner in transformative leadership. Myrna and her late husband co-founded the Lewis Deep Democracy methodology. She is internationally known and respected for making critical soft skills accessible to individuals, teams, corporates, public sector organisations, and educational institutions, enabling them to work more efficiently and effectively. Myrna has consulted international corporates on change strategies, transformation, mergers and acquisitions. She has advised politicians and governments concerning transformation and large-scale social change in Sweden, Canada and South Africa.

Myrna is the recipient of international awards and the author of Inside the No, published in 2004 and republished in Dutch in 2022. Myrna continues her life’s passion as CEO of Deep Democracy Pty Ltd, working and consulting locally in Australia and abroad.

Speak Up | SFN Zoom session | Monday April 17 at 5.30pm (AEST)

Speak Up:  The neuroscience of psychological safety - with Sandy Killick

Session on Zoom 

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84816614372

'Speak up' cultures have a shared belief that team members won't be punished or humiliated for voicing their ideas, questions, concerns and mistakes. The Royal Commissions into banking and the Robodebt scandal shows what happens if people don't feel safe to speak up or listen to the 'no' in the room. This session explores the neuroscience of psychologically safe workplaces. How can the SCARF and TEAM models from the NeuroLeadership Institute help us create speak up cultures?

Sandy Killick, Director & Lead Educator

Sandy is a leading authority in democracy education, adaptive leadership & systems thinking. As an experienced adult educator and facilitator, Sandy creates spaces where people can have the challenging, necessary discussions about the big ideas affecting all of us.

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(FInd out) Why Money is more Important than Sex

 

"Why money is more important than sex"

Face to face session with Jürgen Schmechel Listen and learn from relationship mentor Jürgen Schmechel who brings his wisdom and experience of nearly 30 years of marriage (to the same woman) to the stage. Jürgen has a unique ability to break down complex matters into easy to understand models. And what can be more complex than love and relationships. A session not to be missed. Monday 13 March 2023 l 5:30PM.    Face to Face: UTS Building 10, Lvl 5, CB10.05.580 Questions we might pursue together:  1.            What Questions should you not ask in a relationship 2.            When does commitment start? 3.            What are the biggest turning points in a relationship? 4.            What is Love/ Work/ Money for you?  5.            Is it OK to have Secrets ? Jürgen Schmechel, was born 1960 in Hamburg, Germany as the second son to his parents. He lived, studied, worked and married in Hamburg – to then be raising two sons himself. In 2004 his family moved to Australia to learn and live in a different culture. Jürgen is a keen observer of human psychology, he is a master in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Ericksonian Hypnosis and a certified Results Coach. Over the past 30 years Jürgen realised that he and his wife are doing things differently in their marriage from others. Some of their behaviour was conscious, some more on the unconscious level. And with more and more relationships all around the world deteriorating, Jürgen decided to bring his wisdom and mentoring to the people. He started his Inspiring Relationships in 2017 and published a controversial book in 2019: “Why Money Is More Important Than Sex”. His mission is to inspire thousands of men and women to stay in loving, respectful relationships. Which has a ripple on effect to their Children and the World. More information here

Deep Ecology with John Seed | SFN session February 13 at 5:30pm

 

Zoom Session Link:   https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85442459488

Deep Ecology is a philosophy of nature which sees that underlying the environmental crisis there is a psychological or spiritual disease stemming from the illusion of separation between humans and the rest of the natural world.

The late Arne Naess, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy from Oslo University, Norway who coined the term "deep ecology" pointed out that our "ecological ideas are not enough to protect the Earth, we need ecological identity, ecological self". It was Naess’s view that in order to heal that illusion of separation while embedded in the anthropocentric culture which reinforces it at every turn, what was needed were “community therapies”. 

Working with Joanna Macy and others, since 1986 John Seed has been developing and facilitating experiential processes that dispel this illusion This workshop teaches participants processes that lead to a deepening of our felt sense of connection with the living Earth and I think that facilitators of other personal growth etc may find some of the processes we’ll explore useful in their own work.

John Seed is founder of the Rainforest Information Centre. Since 1979 he has been involved in the direct actions which have resulted in the protection of the Australian rainforests. He has written and lectured extensively on deep ecology and has been conducting experiential deep ecology workshops around the world for 25 years. In 1995 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) by the Australian Government for services to conservation.

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SFN 30th Anniversary Dinner - November 14 at UTS 5:30pm

 

30th Anniversary

Come for dinner with the SFN community Recollect, share and celebrate our experiences, stories and approaches in facilitation. Inspire our future as facilitators and a networked community of practice.

Monday 14 November at 5:30PM.   (PS Following the next session on October 10 with Rollo Browne) Face to Face: UTS Building 10, Lvl 5, CB10.05.580. In early 1992, Maria and RIchard Maquire hosted a meeting at Zac's cafe in George St, Sydney.  This was the very first meeting of a community of practice which has now continued every month for over 30 years.  We believe it might have also been the first blossoming of such a community of practice in Australia.  The Australian Facilitators Network held its first conference a few years later.  For this night, we will host a potluck dinner and Richard and Maria will talk about what inspired their initiative.  Come along with a plate and share your own introduction to the practice of facilitation.  Bring a story, a photo, or something to post on the History Wall to celebrate our community.  We are building an image bank to present at the event. If you have something to add, please email your image to elyssebeth.leigh@icloud.com at least a week before the event.  More information. HERE

What is your Theory of Change? Rollo Browne

 

Monday 10 October 2022 l 5:30PM.   
Face to Face: UTS Building 10, Lvl 5, CB10.05.580.

This session is for us to explore our working assumptions about how people change.

Facilitation is necessarily about change in one form or another. Embedded in our facilitation design and group leadership are assumptions about how change occurs, what assists it and what gets in the way. There are many change models out there, I use 3 or so different ones depending on the context. My provocation is that there is one at the centre of your practice and this is the one that matters.

Come prepared to discuss 1-2 relevant situations. What kind of change was involved? What model of change were you using when it went well? What was your response when it didn't work the way you had planned? How did your theory of change evolve, if it did? There is no right answer but we can learn from each other. Each person has to come to terms with their underlying theory of change as it evolves. Most of us are still working it out. The main value is that we can refine what we pay attention to. This applies as much to life as it does to work.

About Rollo Browne

Rollo has over twenty five years experience in Exec coaching and Leadership Team development, specialising in individual development and group dynamics. His work is underpinned by the action methods of Dr J.L. Moreno in sociometry, sociodrama, psychodrama and role training.

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