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Facilitation Stories

IAF England Wales

Facilitation: the art of enabling a group of people to achieve a common goal. IAF England Wales brings you a show by facilitators, for facilitators and anyone interested in using facilitation for change. We"ll share guest stories, experiences and methods. Plus, we"ll bring you up to date on what"s happening at our Meetups.

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28:30

FS58 Facilitating Dialogue Spaces with Jindy Mann

Facilitation Stories ·

2023/08/08

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 as part of his work with Leader Brother Son, where he works with groups of men. The work has the

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16:18

FS57 Open Source Facilitation with Perle...

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2023/07/11

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 perception. She firmly believes in the need for collaborative and shared resources in addressing pressing

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53:02

FS56 Facilitating a Multi-Faceted Project with 4...

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2023/06/13

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: Penny Walker: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennywalker/ Shanaka Dias

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27:49

FS55 From Working for the European Commission to...

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2023/05/23

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 understand how they're running their business, how they do facilitation. She talks about how she does both

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27:34

FS54 Falling Back in Love with Appreciative Inquiry...

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2023/04/11

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 sector. Ann describes a Linked In post that she recently wrote about Appreciative Inquiry (AI) where she

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25:35

FS53 A Co-facilitation story with Paul Kelly and...

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2023/03/14

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 bridging the disconnect within organisations. He uses Lego Serious Play as one of his facilitation tools.

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22:45

FS52 Learning to let go, Shoop and the IAF conference...

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2023/02/28

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 England and Wales Treasurer). She set up the Shoopery with Pip and Alfie. Having met at a Mental Health

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31:57

FS51 Exploring play in climate conversations with...

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2023/01/17

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, including involvement in the ban on fracking in the UK, but was also at her most jaded. She was becoming

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21:57

FS50 Wrapping Up the Year Reflecting on Our Meetups

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2022/12/13

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 South West facilitators meetups. 12.38mins Megan Evans, co-host of the Wales/Cardiff meetup with Tanya

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44:10

FS49 Two lenses on photography and facilitation

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2022/11/08

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 supports mission-drive individuals and communities to building social environmental impact communities and

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4 ways to get started in Facilitation

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2022/10/17

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 your current work, but where can you start? Volunteer Its likely that you have taken a facilitation

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41:58

BONUS Incorporating asynchronous communication into...

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2022/10/17

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.virtualnotdistant.com/podcasts/asynchronous-collaboration-facilitation To get in touch with the team behind

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35:20

FS48 How to have a conversation with clients about...

Facilitation Stories ·

2022/10/11

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 Shupak. https://www.closerapartbook.com/ John’s always been passionate about helping people connect with

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27:36

FS47 Facilitators and the Sustainable Development...

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2022/09/13

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 place at one of these meetups, focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 17 SDGs form part

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39:02

FS46 From Event Organiser to Facilitator of Facilitators

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2022/08/09

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 facilitation, and more training and nurturing of facilitators. Maybe it’s more a question of identity and

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26:15

FS45 What we've learned from running a hybrid conference

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2022/07/19

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 including a core group of Hilary Topp, Camilla Gordon, Cat Duncan-Rees, Adrian Ashton, Paul Kelly and

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25:09

FS44 Understanding How Neurodiversity Affects...

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2022/05/10

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 here. Apologies while we sort it out, and oh the irony given the topic of this episode...) Paul first talks

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32:40

FS43 Facilitation in the Agricultural Sector

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2022/04/12

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. Lisa has a PhD in participatory action research and before that worked as a veterinary surgeon in a mixed

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42:32

FS42 Designing the Space for Others to Learn in...

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2022/03/15

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 of people that join the meetups but that it’s always a safe and relaxed space to reflect together.

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31:12

FS41 Making Workshops Work with Penny Pullan

Facilitation Stories ·

2022/02/15

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 then the pandemic hit and she focused on writing the book to help people, not necessarily certified

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