What does feminism bring to facilitation, and what does feminist facilitation look like? How can I ensure that my own practice as a professional facilitator is more effectively and explicitly feminist, anti-racist and anti-oppressive? These are the questions that have guided Martin Gilbraith’s exploration of feminist, anti-racist and anti-oppressive facilitation this past couple of years.… Read More »Feminist facilitation

Step into the future of facilitation and learn how to make your workshops smarter with AI! In this 90-minute workshop with Alexandre Eisenchteter you’ll find the ideal balance between human touch and AI capabilities from firsthand experience. Are you ready to boost your workshop with AI? Here's what we’ll cover: LLM 101: Understand the correct mental model—what… Read More »Make your workshops smarter with AI

Servant Leader – leadership that is crucial to being able to form a group into a team to come together to reach their objectives.   A Servant Leader requires applying facilitation skills learned to engage all making them feel that they are part of a greater whole, and decisions made have their involvement.  So how do… Read More »Servant Leadership

We want to invite you to interweave two powerful approaches. Liberating Structures which are easy-to-learn microstructures that enhance relational coordination, trust and quickly foster lively participation.   We want to explore combining some of the Liberating Structures tools with this conscious design framework from the Institute of Cultural Affairs called Focused Conversation or ORID which is a… Read More »Play out the Creativity of Liberating Structures x ORID

How would you get a group of people to create the next supervillain? Using GroupMap, we'll use a range of methodologies to brainstorm, plan and get feedback in order to build consensus. From anonymous brainstorming, voting, using perceptual maps, scoring, and feedback, you'll be able to join in the action or be an active observer.… Read More »Facilitation Tool Workshop

Social Presencing Theater (SPT) is a social arts form that integrates mindfulness, embodiment & systems thinking to enable awareness based leadership & systems change. SPT is co-developed by Arawana Hayashi and practitioners at Presencing Institute and MIT (USA). It has been applied in leadership and systems transformation across business, government, UN and civil society sectors… Read More »An Introduction to Social Presencing Theater

First, IAF Japan and IABC (International Association of Business Communication) Japan address a short presentation about the book and IABC respectively. Then, Martin Gilbraith, one of the authors of the book and leader of the worldwide translation project of it, tells about the overview of the proceeding project and explains about chapter 6 “the power of partnership between facilitation and communication “. Must to join for every facilitators!

The Art of Hosting & Harvesting Conversations That Matter for These Emergent Times An introduction into the Art of Hosting practices for finding our strength to be emergent to meet these emergent times. Experience both a taster and entering into practice together. Website Links - Art of Hosting website: www. http://artofhosting.org/ Toke Paludan Moeller -  https://www.interchange-tomo.com/ Mary… Read More »The Art of Hosting and Harvesting Conversations

Uma equipa de facilitadores, todos membros da Associação Internacional de Facilitadores, foi formada para o traduzir para português e espanhol como forma de promover o poder da facilitação em todo o mundo. The Power of Facilitation é uma compilação de capítulos escritos por diferentes autores, ou equipas de autores, todos eles membros da IAF. Cada… Read More »“The Power of Facilitation” – Portuguese and Spanish versions launch!

As a facilitator, the questions you ask can profoundly influence the direction of a conversation. In this highly-interactive workshop we'll explore the power of Clean Language questions with one of its best known practitioners, Judy Rees. She is co-author (with Wendy Sullivan) of the seminal book on the subject, Clean Language: Revealing Metaphors and Opening… Read More »Simple Questions That Make Waves

Facilitation skills have become strategic in many professions and organizations. How does facilitation work and what distinguishes it from training or mainstream group management? What distinguishes the facilitated approach to meeting management? What are the core competencies of facilitators’ approach? What are the key features of facilitative leadership? This session, organized as part of the… Read More »BUILDING FACILITATION COMPETENCIES

Join LS Practitioners Fernando and Carolina to spark your creativity in this Liberating Structures taster session. In just 90 minutes, delve into the core principles of Liberating Structures as you engage in dynamic exercises that unveil the group potential. Discover how we can foster inclusivity and innovation through hands-on experiences with Liberating Structures. Gain invaluable insights into… Read More »Unlocking Creative Collaboration: A Liberating Structures Taster

Empathy is an essential skill for facilitation, it facilitates building Connection at various levels:- Connection with Self, understanding your participants and preparing for facilitation. It enables to notice how learners connect to you, how they learn with and from each other and fully engage with the materials offered. In this session,  explore how situations of… Read More »Explore the value of Empathy and Compassion in Facilitation through NVC

Join us for the upcoming edition of our monthly LinkedIn Live event, 'Talk to your Meeting Doctors,' co-hosted by Martin Duffy, PhD and Paul Nunesdea, PhD, CPF, on September 17th at 15:00 PM CEST. During 'Facilitation Week,' we'll dive into the critical question many leaders grapple with: 'Can I rely on metrics to know if… Read More »Talk to your Meeting Doctors | Episode #9 Measuring team productivity and success