How to build your facilitation skills
Do you work with groups of people? Are you looking for ways to help them to work more effectively together? Helping them to listen and learn from each other? Helping them to make effective agreed decisions? Sounds like you're a facilitator!
No doubt you're often wondering how to build your skills. How to be more effective in working with groups. How to build your networks.
We have a solution for you!
The Australasian Facilitators Network held its annual conference at Notre Dame University in FremantleinWestern Australia. Participants were able to tap in to a rich assortment of people and programs to help build their facilitation skills. Conference presenters have generously provided their materials (free of charge) for you to use. Skip over to the Conference Program page and you'll be able to grab materials as they become available over the next few days.
No doubt you're often wondering how to build your skills. How to be more effective in working with groups. How to build your networks.
We have a solution for you!
The Australasian Facilitators Network held its annual conference at Notre Dame University in FremantleinWestern Australia. Participants were able to tap in to a rich assortment of people and programs to help build their facilitation skills. Conference presenters have generously provided their materials (free of charge) for you to use. Skip over to the Conference Program page and you'll be able to grab materials as they become available over the next few days.
Conference participants celebrating their success
The conference helped people to:
- Develop structured processes to assist groups in planning processes
- Find out about new tools & techniques to improve how teams function
- Understand cross cultural issues associated with facilitating groups
- Hear about the keys to successful facilitation with youth
- Tap into a network of 200 delegates, ranging from people new to facilitation, through to some of Australia's most highly experienced and sought after facilitators
Participant's experiences of the conference
Thanks to Woodside as GOLD SPONSOR of the Australasian Facilitation Conference. Woodside is sponsored four places at the conference for Indigenous facilitators working with communities across WA. This provided these people with a unique opportunity to share their experiences with others and develop new facilitation tools and techniques to use within the communities they support. Woodside also had a number of staff attending the conference to further embed the use of facilitation across the company. Coming soon - video feedback from one of Woodside's sponsored attendees.
Rio Tinto was also a GOLD SPONSOR of the Australasian Facilitation Conference. As part of their support, Rio Tinto will enabled two people currently working in a facilitation role in Aboriginal communities to attend the conference. They be spent their time soaking up a whole world of facilitation to take back and out into practice. Rio Tinto also had several staff attending the conference, highlighting their commitment to continuing to reinvest in our communities. Revisit this site in a few days for a video on the sponsored participants experiences during the conference.
Send your feedback
Please use this website to provide your insights from the conference by making a comment on the Conference blog.
Please use this website to provide your insights from the conference by making a comment on the Conference blog.
Mentoring program
This years conference featured a mentoring program. It was designed for peoiple new to facilitation and needing a sounding board or someone for guidance. In the coming days we'll have some extra mentoring materials available for people looking to develop a mentoring relationship.
