Facilitation Stories
Facilitation Stories is a podcast by IAF England Wales, dedicated to the art of enabling groups to achieve common goals. It is made by facilitators for facilitators and anyone interested in using facilitation for change. Each episode shares guest stories, experiences, and facilitation methods. The show also provides updates on IAF England Wales Meetups and activities.
Episodes
🎙️FS84 - Dealing with disruptive behaviours, with Alan Heckman
In today's episode, Umah welcomes facilitator Alan Heckman to share practical ways to handle disruptive behaviours in groups, drawing on his IAF England and Wales conference workshop and his background with ICA training. They talk about: Common challenges, from subtle withdrawal to over-participation to barbed comments Mango's in facilitation! Setting informal norms and tools for helping peopl
FS83 - Facilitation as a super skill with Robert Cserti
In todays episode Sam is joined by Robert Cserti, who traces his path from a single transformative team building workshop nearly 20 years ago to co-founding SessionLab in 2013 as a side project (built during evenings and weekends while he consulted and his co-founder did a PhD) that grew into a company helping facilitators design and deliver better workshops. The conversation centers on facilitati
🎙️FS82 - Facilitating in communities with Jeffrey Marr
In today's episode, Umah is joined by Jeff Marr, founder of The Practical Philosophy Club, to unpack the unique art of community facilitation and what it takes to design unstructured, safe spaces for deep, depolarising conversation. Moving away from top-down corporate agendas, Jeff explores how his grassroots, peer-led facilitation model grew from a casual living room meetup in Mexico into a globa
🎙️ FS81 - Abimbola Olajide - Tactile, hands on practice
In today's episode, Olivia is joined by Abimbola Olajide, serial social entrepreneur and Chief of Play, to explore tactile, hands-on facilitation and what it means to work with the whole person in the room. With a background spanning community convening, grief support, and corporate consultancy, Abimbola shares how she found her way into facilitation and why embodied, kinesthetic approaches are a
🎙️ FS 80 From Facilitation to Hosting: Creating Transformative Spaces with Peter Pula
Todays episode explores the evolving relationship between facilitation and hosting, highlighting how both practices can create transformative spaces for individuals and communities. Peter Pula shares insights from years of cultivating community through participatory dialogue and generative journalism. The conversation delves into the distinctions between facilitation often structured and outcome d
🎙️ FS79_Julia Slay & Ending Sessions Well
In today's episode, Olivia is joined by Julia Slay, founder of Facilitation 101, to explore an often-overlooked part of facilitation: how we end sessions well. With 15+ years' experience across social policy, consultancy and learning design, Julia shares her journey into facilitation and what sparked her growing fascination with powerful endings. They talk about: Why endings matter,and common mi
🎙️ FS 78 – Relaunch Episode: Meet the New Hosts; Umah, Sam, Olivia
In today's episode, the Facilitation Stories podcast returns with a brand-new hosting team — Olivia, Sam, and Umah — who share their stories, inspirations, and hopes for the next chapter of the podcast. They talk about: Why they joined the Facilitation Stories team and what excites them about podcasting as a way to connect facilitators and share learning. How their diverse backgrounds — from
FS 77 Facilitation in the Agile Space with Farah Egby and Çiğdem Saka Jackson
In today's episode Helene speaks to Farah Egby and Cigdem Saka-Jackson about Agile. They talk about: Agile as a set of working practices that prioritises people over processes and tools; Farah and Cigdem's previous work and journeys into Agile facilitation; The roles and functions that the "Scrum Master" and "Kanban" play in Agile; Roles and techniques in Agile facilitation and tips on h
FS 76 Chapter Chat with Andrew Spiteri EME Regional Director
In this episode Helene talks to Andrew Spiteri, Regional Director of the IAF Europe and Middle East Region. Andrew tells Helene about himself as a facilitator, the kind of work he does and his background with IAF. He became regional director at the start of the year and shares a bit about the work he has been involved in so far, his roles and responsibilities as director, and what he would like to
FS 75 Race Ahead for Facilitators with Bianca Jones, Cat Duncan-Rees and Paul Brand
In this episode Helene talks to Bianca Jones - Award Winning Mental Health & Anti-Racism Training Provider, MHFA England Associate and Founder & Managing Director of EDP Training, Paul Brand- Facilitator and Management Consultant, Director at Risk Solutions and IAF England and Wales board member and Cat Duncan-Rees- Facilitator and founder of Curators of Change and also an IAF England and Wales b
FS74 Representation and Lego with Camilla Gordon
In this episode Nikki talks to Camilla Gordon, a process facilitator , about representation in Lego and her new "Figiverse" project. They talk about How Camilla uses Lego Serious Play in facilitation The lack of representation within Lego 'I had people of colour seeing these more representative Lego pieces and had really emotional reactions to it, because people have never seen themselves
December pause
Hello! We're pausing for December and so there won't be an episode this month. We'd like to thank everyone who chatted to us this year and all of our wonderful listeners. We hope your 2024 ends well and we look forward to bringing you another Facilitation Story in January 2025. Helene and Nikki
FS73 Reflections on being Chair of IAF England and Wales with Jane Clift
In this episode Helene talks to Jane Clift about her role as the Chair of IAF England and Wales. They talk about: How Jane got involved with the IAF and the facilitation community "the game changer for me was coming to my first IAF conference,I had never met so many people interested in facilitation" How Jane became the Chair of IAF England and Wales Highlights and challenges since becom
FS 72 Working as an Internal Facilitator with Cath Brooks from the Environment Agency
In this episode Helene talks to Cath about her role as Senior Engagement Advisor and internal facilitator with the Environment Agency (EA) Cath tells Helene a bit about the EA and the type of work they do. She explains how her role as Engagement Advisor includes facilitation and also how she works an an independent internal facilitator for other projects withing the EA. Cath gives some examples of
FS71 Chapter Chat with Jan Lelie IAF Netherlands
This episode is one of our quarterly "Chapter Chats" where Helene and Nikki talk to a member of the leadership team from another IAF Chapter. Today's guest is Jan Lelie, founder of IAF Netherlands. Outside their IAF role Jan is a facilitator with a background in experimental physics. Key topics from the conversation include: How Facilitation and the role of Facilitators has changed over time
FS70 Journaling, Writing and Facilitation with Claire Pearce
In this episode Nikki talks to Claire Pearce about Journaling and Writing. Claire is a writer and facilitator who runs journaling and writing workshops and she also has her own radio show. They talk about: Why Journaling is a powerful too that facilitators could use themselves; "Externalising the internal is probably my favourite expression to describe it" Claire's journey with jou
FS69 Social Presencing Theater with Rosie Cripps
FS69 Social Presencing Theater with Rosie Cripps In this episode Nikki talks to Rosie Cripps, a facilitator and evaluator who helps build social movements and evaluate complex systems, about Social Presencing Theater. They talk about: What Social Presencing Theater is, its origins and some of the tools and techniques that sit under it; The role of the facilitator in creating psychological sa
FS68 Chapter Chat with Sara Tremi Proietti and Andrea Panzavolta from IAF Italy
This episode is one of our quarterly "Chapter Chats" where the team talks to leaders of other IAF Chapters. In this episode Helene and Nikki chat to Sara Tremmi Proietti and Andrea Panzavolta from IAF Italy. They talk about How the chapter began in 2013 and the successive leaders since then; Initiatives to extend the reach of the chapter in Southern Italy: The co-leadership model used for
FS67 - Public Dialogue with Suzannah Lansdell
In this episode Nikki talks to Suzannah Lansdell about Public Dialogue. Suzannah is a freelance facilitator who also advises organisations on how to do public and stakeholder dialogue, particularly in the science and technology sector for Sciencewise. They talk about Public Dialogue as a process bringing together members of the public with specialists and policy makers to discuss complex and
FS 66 Facilitate 2024: Growing Together with Paul Brand
In this episode Helene talks to Paul Brand, Director of Risk Solutions and part of the IAF England and Wales Leadership Team, Board member and conference team member. They talk about The IAF England and Wales facilitators and friends Facilitate 2024 Conference (April 26th & 27th 2024) and what it is all about. Who is on the organising team and what Paul's role has been What is different fro
FS65 Chapter Chat with Bogdan Grigore IAF Romania
In epsode Bogdan tells us about himself as a facilitator and trainer, what it means to be a playful facilitator and his journey into facilitation. He tells Nikki and Helene about how IAF Romania and how it all began, from joining IAF in 2018 to getting intouch with other facilitatrors in Romania. With the start of the pandemic 2 years later and everyone had more time he found out what was needed
FS64 State of Facilitation Survey and Report with Deborah Rim Moiso
In this episode Helene talks to Deborah Deborah Rim Moiso from SessionLab about their recent survey and report. Deborah shares her experience as a freelance facilitator and discusses her mentoring program with IAF and her passion for facilitating multistakeholder projects on nature conservation, climate change, and youth training. She talks about how in 2022, the first global survey of facilitato
FS63 Jamie Colston - Facilitating Systemic Constellations
In this episode Helene talks to Jamie Colston - father, facilitator, poet and systemic constellations practitioner about his work using Systemic Constellations, both Family Constellations and in organisations. He talks about how he got into the work in the first place, the training he has done and the practise he does and some of what he has coming up next. He shares some examples of how he uses
FS62 - Chapter Chat with Tamara Zivadinovic
Today we're introducing a new quarterly feature "Chapter Chat". As many listeners know, the England and Wales chapter is just one of the many IAF volunteer-led chapters globally, all working within 6 regions across 65 countries. While all chapters are united under the IAF vision and operate in accordance to the IAF Code of Ethics they are all run in a slightly different way, and reflect the contex
FS61 Authentic Facilitation with Christine Bell
In this episode Helene talks to Christine Bell about a session they co-facilitated for Facilitation Week. They share some of the group's thoughts on what authentic facilitation is as well as some of their own emerging questions on how to balance being authentic but remaining in control and whether authenticity can be learned or taught. They also reflect on their first experience of planning and fa
FS60 Exploring Philosophical Inquiry with Rosie Carnall
In this episode Nikki talks to Rosie Carnall about Philosophical Inquiry. It's a way of engaging in a conversation explorating into philosophical questions. Rosie has used Philosophical Inquiry in a range of situations, from Art Galleries, to pubs, to workplaces. Nikki and Rosie talk about how to choose stimuli for discussions and learning from a specific example of when Rosie ran the same ses
FS59 - A new Chapter
After over 100 episodes spanning 4 years, Pilar Orti is stepping down from her role as co-host on the Facilitation Stories podcast. In this special episode, Pilar joins regular co-hosts Helene Jewell and Nikki Wilson to reflect on her time on the show and what comes next. How It All Began The idea for Facilitation Stories emerged organically at an in-person meetup hosted by the England and Wal
FS58 Facilitating Dialogue Spaces with Jindy Mann
Welcome to Facilitation Stories, brought to you by the England and Wales chapter of the International Association of Facilitators, also known as IAF. In today's episode Pilar Orti talks about running circles (spaces for dialogue) with Jindi Mann, founder and facilitator of Leader Brother Son and coach and organizational consultant at The Selfish Leader. Jindy recently ran the Men at Work survey
FS57 Open Source Facilitation with Perle Laouenan-Catchpole
In today's episode, Nikki talks to Perle Laouenan-Catchpole, an Amsterdam-based facilitator and experienced designer. Perle shares the origins of Perle's award-winning, open-source workshop that aids individuals in identifying their personal climate action. Perle discusses the importance of open source in facilitation work and the impact it has on personal growth, relationship-building and work pe
FS56 Facilitating a Multi-Faceted Project with 4 Facilitators
In this episode, Pilar talks to fellow podcast team members Helene and Nikki, along with Penny Walker and Shanaka Dias about a global, hybrid process they facilitated together, running over 4 days with multiple languages and timezones. They reflect on planning in advance, adapting in the moment and working well as a team. The full transcript is below. All of the team can be found on LinkedIn: Penn
FS55 From Working for the European Commission to Independent Facilitator with Sue Bird
In this episode of Facilitation Stories Pilar is joined by Sue Bird, who is a European public affairs specialist and facilitator. Sue ran a session on facilitating for government at the recent IAF conference. She talks about how pleased she was to be able to attend the IAF England and Wales conference in Birmingham recently, and how it was great to be able to meet fellow facilitators and underst
FS54 Falling Back in Love with Appreciative Inquiry with Ann Nkune
In today's episode Nikki talks to Ann Nkune about her rediscovery of Appreciative Inquiry. Ann is a facilitator working with charities, social enterprises and the public sector helping people to increase their impact and be sustainable. Her work over the last 10 years has been parent friendly start up and career development programmes for women operate in the environmental and social impact sect
FS53 A Co-facilitation story with Paul Kelly and Caroline Jessop
In this episode Pilar talks to Paul Kelly and Caroline Jessop about co-facilitation. Caroline is a facilitator based just outside Winchester. She describes herself as a creative facilitator and enjoys the things that leave people upbeat and energised. Paul is the founder of Pandek Group which is a Facilitation, Training and Coaching business based in the South West specialising in bridgin
FS52 Learning to let go, Shoop and the IAF conference 2023
In today's episode, Helene talks to Catherine Wilks about her experience of running a session at last year's conference. They talk about The Shoopery, working on instinct and play, adapting the plan as you go along, the power of letting go and the plans for the April 2023 conference. Catherine was introduced to the IAF and the idea that she may actually be a facilitator by Cat Duncan Rees (IAF En
FS51 Exploring play in climate conversations with Lucy Hawthorne
In this episode Nikki talks to Lucy Hawthorne who for the past year has been experimenting with bringing playfulness to conversations about climate. Lucy is a facilitator by trade and an environmental campaigner by background and has been exploring the link between playfulness and climate action for around five years. In the latter stages of her campaigning work, Lucy was at her most successful, i
FS50 Wrapping Up the Year Reflecting on Our Meetups
We wrap up the year talking to three hosts of our Meetups to find out what's been going on in their regions: what common themes have emerged throughout the year and their plans for 2023. Join our Meetups in person, or online (you can join any region when you join online!). https://www.meetup.com/iaf-facilitators-and-friends/ 01.41mins Helene Jewell tells Pilar Orti what's been going on in the S
FS49 Two lenses on photography and facilitation
Today we have a treat for you: Nikki Wilson interviews two guests who use photography as part of their facilitation practice. Gianpietro Pucciariello and Chris Chinnock. Our first guest is Gianpietro Pucciariello, who returns to the show after appearing in episode 15. Gianpietro's working life in the UK is divided into two: he's a start up founder and a sole trader that covers many roles. He supp
4 ways to get started in Facilitation
You know you are great at holding space for a group, getting people together and thinking productively, exploring challenges or organising by getting everyone involved. Listening, challenging, adapting and inspiring are skills you have honed. Maybe you have taken a facilitative approach to leadership, or in your organisation. You'd love to move into facilitation as a career, in or outside of
BONUS Incorporating asynchronous communication into team facilitation
Happy Facilitation Week everyone! We are releasing this bonus episode to celebrate all things facilitation. In this episode, which we've borrowed from the 21st Century Work Life podcast, Pilar talks to Simon Wilson about how he incorporates asynchronous communication into his facilitation processes - and the challenges this brings. You can see the full show notes over at https://www.virtual
FS48 How to have a conversation with clients about whether a workshop should be in person or online - with John Monks
For this episode, Pilar is joined by John Monks to talk about how to have a conversation with a client about whether your event or workshop should be in person or online. John is a facilitator, and partner of Curve. He coaches CEOs, and has digested his practice of many years into the book Closer Apart: How to Design and Facilitate Brilliant Workshops Online, which he's co-written with Lizzie Shup
FS47 Facilitators and the Sustainable Development Goals with Tanya Nash
In this episode Nikki talks to Tanya Nash. Tanya is the Founder of Future Clarity. She is a facilitator, coach, trainer and researcher and works with people in the sustainability field or organisations looking to make sustainability one of their core organising principles. Tanya is also one of the hosts of the IAF Wales and Cardiff meetup. Her and Nikki reflect on a discussion that took plac
FS46 From Event Organiser to Facilitator of Facilitators
In today's episode, Pilar talks to Myriam Hadnes, facilitator and host of the Workshops Work podcast and founder of the Never Done Before festival. Myriam first realised she was a facilitator after she read Priay Parker's "The Art of Gathering". Her perception of facilitation has broadened since then: she now thinks more of having the mindset of a facilitator as she's doing less and less pure fac
FS45 What we've learned from running a hybrid conference
In this episode Nikki talks to Helene about the recent "Re-Facilitation Conference". This was a hybrid conference with around half of the participants meeting in person and half Zooming in. The conference had three streams - one fully in person, one fully virtual and one designed to be hybrid, joined by people in the room and those joining virtually. They start by talking about the evolving team
FS44 Understanding How Neurodiversity Affects Workshop Participants' Experience
In today's episode Pilar talks to facilitator Paul Kelly. He's going to be running two sessions at the IAFEW Re-Facilitation conference on 13th-14th May 2022 in Birmingham and online. His first session will be on "Collaborative Consensus"and the second will be a facilitated discussion around neurodiversity. (A note to readers on the website: we have some gremlins playing around with our text her
FS43 Facilitation in the Agricultural Sector
In this episode of Facilitation Stores, host Helene Jewell is joined by guest Lisa Morgans Lisa is a vet, researcher and facilitator. She is Head of Livestock at Innovation for Agriculture – an independent knowledge exchange charity based in England that works to bridge the science-practice gap and support farmers as they transition to a more sustainable, resilient and productive farming system. L
FS42 Designing the Space for Others to Learn in Conferences
In this episode Pilar welcomes two guests. First she talks to Adrian Ashton. They start talking about Adrian's relationship with facilitation and how over time he's become more involved with the IAF and hosts the North of England meetup. He talks about some of the highlights of running the group. They've experimented a lot with location, themes, topics and guests. Adrian highlights the variety
FS41 Making Workshops Work with Penny Pullan
In this episode Pilar talks to Penny Pullan, Director of "Making Projects Work" and author of "Virtual Leadership: Practical Strategies for Success with Remote or Hybrid Work and Teams", just out in its second edition, and in 2021, "Making Workshops Work: Creative Collaboration for Our Time". Penny explains that Making Workshops Work was originally contracted and due to be published in 2016 but t
A note to say we're still around and haven't podfaded...
Just saying hello, we'll be back with a proper episode soon. Let us know you're listening! We're @fac_stories on Twitter Check out facilitationstories.com
FS40 The Endorsed Facilitator programme and the Challenges of Inclusivity
In this episode, Pilar talks to Anish Hindocha, who has recently taken the IAF Endorsed Facilitator assessment process. They talk about Anish's experience through the process and then move on to talk about the challenges of being truly inclusive. (You can check out an earlier conversation they had, in episode 08 of Facilitation Stories. https://facilitationstories.com/fs08-what-happens-at-our-m
FS39 Growing as a Facilitator through the CPF Certification Process
In this episode, Pilar interviews Helene Jewell CPF about her experience of going through the CPF Certification Process as someone already experienced in facilitation. Helene has been working for 7/8 years as a freelancer, with a background in international development and Speech and Language Therapy where she started doing training and working with groups. Pilar asks Helene what she did to develo
Back to the Room
With many people returning to face-to-face facilitation after months sat staring at a Zoom screen, we thought we'd share some of our top tips. Thanks to Gary, Helene, Suzanne, Camilla, Cat, Lee and Hilary from the IAF England and Wales Leadership Team for these great tips and to Suzanne for pulling it all together. Equipment and stationary Give everyone an unopened, still wrapped pack of their ow
FS38 David Bishop Introduces the New Ireland Chapter
Today's host is Nikki Wilson, talking to guest David Bishop, bilingual trainer and facilitator, based in France. David's adventures in facilitation started about 10 years ago, when he was training managers on presentation and negotiation skills. His own practice took him towards being a meeting host, and a facilitator (though he wasn't aware of that term at the time). He's been with IAF for 3 ye
Sketchnotes Created During The Power of Facilitation Panel Discussion
If you listened to our last episode, the panel discussion by some of the co-authors of The Power of Facilitation, you might be interested in the sketchnotes created by Chitra Chandrashekar, as she listened to others and reflected on what was being said. Big thanks to Chitra, and if you want to check out more of her work, head over to: www.mographies.com Or connect with her on social media: Face
FS37 The Power of Facilitation - a panel discussion
In this episode, Pilar talks to three of the co-authors of the book The Power of Facilitation, which was released this summer of 2021. Our conversation today is a little bit different, as it's an edited recording of the meetup that took place on 7 July 2021, a panel discussion with the authors, with contributions from the other attendees. The three panelists you'll hear from are Martin Gilbraith,
FS36 From Scottish Retreats to Unleashing Potential through Liberating Structures
We have two guests joining our host Nikki Wilson in this episode: Steve Yorkstone, talking about IAF Scotland and Ewen Le Borgne, who talks about process literacy with Liberating Structures. Steve Yorkstone, tells us about how he got involved with the IAF and how he's ended up running the IAF Scotland chapter. Since he's taken the baton, Steve has set up a website for the chapter, where people
How to Make Your Virtual Event a Success
Suzanne Bennett, Board member of the International Association of Facilitators England and Wales chapter kicks off our blog with 5 hacks to make the most out of your virtual event. (Please note, this is a text blog post, with no audio attached to it.) This post has some hacks to help make your virtual session more inclusive. The virtual world doesn't have ramps to the front door or vegan lunches b
FS35 Facilitating Outdoors
In this episode Helene talks to Alex Williams Lead Trainer and Facilitator for nature-based learning at Muddy Feet. All Alex and her team's facilitation is outside, taking groups of all ages out to urban and rural wild spaces encouraging nature connection. Helene asks why Alex chooses to work outdoors. This is largely as the focus of the work is linking people to their environment. It start
FS34 Facilitation Worldwide with Vinay Kumar
In today's episode, Pilar and Helene both join a conversation with Vinay Kumar. Vinay is Chair of IAF Global, based in Bangalore, India. He is a Certified Professional Facilitator, Coach, Organisational Development Consultant, Founder of C2C and host of podcast "Shiny Happy People". They start by discussing how in 2006 Vinay began calling himself a Facilitator and became interested in the IAF. T
FS33 Changes to our Meetup Groups
This is a short, bonus episode to let you know about how we've changed the organisation of our Meetups over at Meetup.com. See below for more details. Join us here: https://www.meetup.com/IAF-facilitators-and-friends/ Next set of meetups: Tuesday, June 8, 2021 Midlands facilitators monthly online coffee meet-up https://www.meetup.com/IAF-facilitators-and-friends/events/jswzjsyccjblb/ Wednesda
FS32 Back to Facilitating Face to Face
In today's episode, host Helene Jewell talks about returning back to face-to-face facilitation after a year spent moving facilitation online due to the pandemic. Helene first talks to Camilla Gordon, freelance facilitator, trainer and consultant, and a winner of an IAF Facilitation Impact Award, about her experiences about face-to-face facilitation in the past year. Camilla talks openly about her
FS31 Clean Language & Metaphor
FS31 Clean Language and Metaphor In today's episode, host Nikki Wilson takes a deep dive into clean language and metaphor, and talks to three guests about their uses of them in their facilitation practice. First Nikki talks to Judy Rees about how she discovered clean language and metaphor and how they feature in her work today. Judy started exploring the use of metaphor as a child, when her father
FS30 The IAF's CPF Certification Process and How It Has Been Adapted Online
In today's episode, Helene Jewell talks to Lindsay Sumner and Simon Wilson about the IAF's Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) assessment process and how it has moved online. Lindsay Sumner (CPF M) is the IAF Director of Certification Operations. She shares with Helene her own certification process, which was a testing one! The process continues to test facilitators skills and processes. Th
FS29 Planning, Working and Leading Adventures Together
This episode features three initiatives from members of the IAF England and Wales Chapter. First, Nikki speaks to Mike Clargo about "Leading by Adventure", a series of weekly adventures of around 15 minutes each, to offer people a different perspective. They talk about where the idea came from, and how Mike was struck with the thought that we need something to support us to engage with change as
FS28 Exploring Metaphorum with Judy Rees
FS28 Exploring Metaphorum with Judy Rees – Show Notes Today's episode starts with an overview of upcoming IAF meetups from Pilar, with a specific invitation to join a Networking and Learning Meetup at 9.30am GMT on 20th January, hosted by Helene Jewell and Sue Windley following up on a session Helene ran in International Facilitation Week on making online events accessible. https://www.meetup.co
FS27 Facilitation for Online Celebrations
Helene Jewell hosts this episode about the skill of online facilitation and the importance of Facilitation to make your celebrations go with (or without) a pop! We also have two voices from our virtual coffee meet-ups: Gordon Mullan and Jane Mitchell share their thoughts about online facilitation following the IAF conference in October. And Helene introduces the new England and Wales IAF Board,
FS26 We Review the IAFEW Annual Conference - Online
In this episode Pilar talks to the rest of the podcast team (Vic Hopkins based on the Cambridge Suffolk border, Nikki Wilson in Danbury in Essex, Helene Jewell in Bristol and Cat based in the North West) as they celebrate and reflect on the IAF England and Wales on line facilitation conference. We also hear from Penny Walker, Chris Massey, Jamie Colston and Fiona McBride – it's a great episode! Th
FS25 Our Conference Has Gone Online and We're Being More Pirate!
In today's episode, Helene Jewell talks to TWO guests! First to Susannah Raffe and then to Cat Duncan-Rees and the episode focuses on the IAFEW Conference 19 - 23 October 2020. These show notes include a transcript, below usual summary. On Twitter, we are @fac_stories and @HeleneJewell https://curatorsofchange.com/ You can register now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-conference-2020-the-p
FS24 The Future of Facilitation Survey with Paolo Martinez
In this episode Pilar is joined from Italy by Paolo Martinez, an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator, Leader of the IAF Italy Chapter and Partner at "Futour" who empower people and organisations to design a just, sustainable and joyful future through the power of facilitation. They start by talking about how the Italian Chapter adapted to the early stages of COVID by organising a virtual Open S
FS23 Facilitating Meetings for Introverts
In this episode Helene talks to Jon Baker about introverts. They start off by discussing Jon's passion for scuba diving! Jon talks about his work with leaders in organisations, who want to get more from their team, and about his survey where he discovered that about 1/3 of people say that they are not fully productive in business and that most of these are introverts. He describes the different wa
FS22 Voices from the Meetups
Today's episode is a short one, but with plenty of voices, from the June Virtual Coffee Meetup. You can find out more about these meetups here: https://www.meetup.com/IAF-facilitators-and-friends/events/tjqzrrybckbcc/ We are going to move to a monthly schedule, we'd love to continue releasing episodes every two weeks, but we can't cope! So, if you want to help us, get in touch. podcast@iaf-e
FS21 How the Faciliation Profession is Changing with Trevor Durnford
In today's episode, Helene talks to Trevor Durnford Co-Founder at Facil Profundo, Certified professional facilitator and until January of this year Chair of the International Association of Facilitators. He is based in Uruguay. But before that, don't forget to check out the online meetup Facilitate the Future we Want on 17 July 2020, organised by two of the voices from last week's episode, Cat an
FS20 Various Voices: Climate Hub, Creating Space to Reflect, Working with Interpreters and Async Facilitation
In this episode we bring you a variety of different voices from different facilitators on a range of different topics. The Evening Learning and Networking meet up on 24th June which is all about "Selling you and your work" https://www.meetup.com/IAF-facilitators-and-friends/events/268955074/ this link will also take you to some of the other meet ups going on too. The first of the voices in this e
FS19 From Facilitating through Theatre to the Online Space
Helene interviews Pilar Orti from Virtual not Distant, creator and co-host of this IAF E&W podcast, Facilitator and trainer specialising in online collaborative processes, podcaster, author and voiceover artist (she is the voice of Xuli on the Go Jetters). Pilar starts by recounting her facilitation journey which started with the theatre company that she ran for 10 years. She went to a conference
FS18 Working in Different Languages
Sharing stories about working with different languages in the room. Helene Jewell, podcast co-host and freelance facilitator based in Bristol, Martin Gilbraith (CPF facilitator and trainer and consultant based in London – who also took part in Episode 7 on facilitation values), Simon Wilson has been running facilitation company for 20 years CPF working internationally and in the UK, based in the
FS17 How Facilitators are Adapting to the Virtual Environment
In this episode Helene Jewell interviews Nicola Morris who together with Penny Walker conducted a survey to find out what facilitators feel they need at the moment, during the times of Covid 19. Participants of the IAF virtual coffee meet up in April 2020 reflect on what they got from the session, what is going on for them at the moment, facilitation with family members, the difficulty of building
FS16 Training Internal Facilitators with Pinar Akkaya
In today's episode, Pilar talks to Pinar Akkaya about how she supports organisations by training their internal facilitators. Pilar met Pinar for the first time at an IAF conference a couple of years ago and has since done some work with her. The next IAF conference is on 16th and 17th October – get in touch if you are interested in offering a session. At present this is still going ahead but is
FS15 Being Mentored as a Facilitator
In today's episode, Helene talks to Celeste Brito and Camilla Gordon about their experiences of being mentees as part of the IAF Global Mentorship Programme. You can find out more about it here: https://www.iaf-world.org/site/global-mentorship-program In the introduction, Pilar mentions the next IAF Learning Online Meetup - you can register here: https://www.meetup.com/IAF-facilitators-and-frien
FS14 What Does it Mean to be Nimble in Facilitation? With Rebecca Sutherns
In this episode, Helene Jewell talks to Rebecca Sutherns, author of Nimble: A Coaching Guide for Responsive Facilitation about how she became a facilitator, and what she's learned through her practice about remaining nimble and responsive during sessions, when things don't go as expected. (Hint: it involves plenty of preparation!) To find out more about the IAF England and Wales chapter (the grou
FS13 Voices from our Virtual Meetup
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In this episode, we hear from three people who attended one of our last virtual meetups, and one of our co-hosts, Pilar Orti, talks to Judy Rees about their recent experiment organising a "hybrid" meetup. Find out when the next virtual meetups are happening: https://www.iaf-world.org/site/chapters/england-wales We also have some listener feedback from Anuschka who wanted to know how to join the IA
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