Facilitation Stories
77 episodes - English - Latest episode: 22 days ago -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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FS25 Our Conference Has Gone Online and We're Being More Pirate!
October 03, 2020 10:10In 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. On Twitter, we are @fac_stories and @HeleneJewell https://curatorsofchange.com/ You can register now: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-conference-2020-the-power-and-practice-of-facilitation-registration-97307526431 There are concessions available for IAF members, and those Susannah Raffe Susannah is a ...
FS24 The Future of Facilitation Survey with Paolo Martinez
September 15, 2020 07:00 - 40 minutes - 34.4 MBIn 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 Space every Saturday afternoon using Qiqochat. This “COVID free” meetup ran for 2 months usuall...
FS23 Facilitating Meetings for Introverts
August 17, 2020 07:00 - 34 minutes - 29.7 MBIn 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 ways that he works with people in businesses to help introverts. Helene asks Jon about stati...
FS22 Voices from the Meetups
July 20, 2020 06:00 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBToday'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. [email protected] This episode contains some reflections and even some tips from: Bímp...
FS21 How the Faciliation Profession is Changing with Trevor Durnford
July 06, 2020 06:00 - 26 minutes - 23 MBIn 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 and John. Join here: https://www.meetup.com/IAF-facilitators-and-friends/events/271496819/ ...
FS20 Various Voices: Climate Hub, Creating Space to Reflect, Working with Interpreters and Async Facilitation
June 22, 2020 06:30 - 30 minutes - 26.2 MBIn 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 episode is Susannah Raffe who tells us about the first IAF England and Wales Hub (the Climate...
FS19 From Facilitating through Theatre to the Online Space
June 08, 2020 07:00 - 36 minutes - 30.9 MBHelene 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 where Toby Wiltshire (from the Trestle mask company) was talking about using theatre in corpo...
FS18 Working in Different Languages
May 25, 2020 06:00 - 54 minutes - 45.7 MBSharing 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 Peak District. The podcast starts with some examples of working with people who speak differ...
FS17 How Facilitators are Adapting to the Virtual Environment
May 11, 2020 06:00 - 43 minutes - 36.8 MBIn 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 in the experiential element in virtual facilitation and “deep participation”. Also facilitati...
FS16 Training Internal Facilitators with Pinar Akkaya
April 27, 2020 06:00 - 34 minutes - 29.9 MBIn 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 being closely monitored in relation to Covid-19. Pinar first talks about her facilitat...
FS15 Being Mentored as a Facilitator
April 13, 2020 06:00 - 29 minutes - 25.3 MBIn 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-friends/events/268954892/ You can find the links to all the IAF England Wales Meetup Groups here: ...
FS14 What Does it Mean to be Nimble in Facilitation? With Rebecca Sutherns
March 30, 2020 06:00 - 33 minutes - 28.5 MBIn 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 group behind this podcast) check out https://www.iaf-world.org/site/chapters/england-wales Get...
FS13 Voices from our Virtual Meetup
March 22, 2020 18:00 - 11 minutes - 11.1 MBThese are challenging times for facilitators - in this bonus episode, we hear insights from Jonathan Bannister, Paolo Martinez, Koren Stark, Claudia, and Grant Cockerell. If you need the links to the meetup pages, head over to https://www.iaf-world.org/site/chapters/england-wales - remember that these meetups are great ways of learning informally from each other, through conversation. And if you're looking for more structured learning events, there are quite a few out there now, for ...
FS12 IAF Voices and Facilitating Hybrid Meetups
March 16, 2020 06:00 - 36 minutes - 31.1 MBIn 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 IAF Slack. https://join.slack.com/t/iaffacilitatorfriends/shared_invite/enQtODY4NDM0NDM4ODY4...
FS11 Getting started, Self-care and Fulfillment in Facilitation with Camilla Gordon
March 02, 2020 06:00 - 29 minutes - 22 MBCamilla Gordon is a freelance facilitator trainer and consultant specialising in working with marginalised groups and communities. She talks to Helene about how she got into facilitation, how she “fell into it” and the links between theatre and facilitation. She talks about the type of facilitation she does and how she takes a create and playful approach to her work. She works a lot with young people that have voices that are not being heard enough and how she us able to use her facilita...
FS10 Thoughts and Reflections from Meetups and What's Coming Up
February 15, 2020 20:48 - 35 minutes - 26.4 MBStep into this episode brought to you by IAF England and Wales, with co-hosts Helene Jewell and Pilar Orti, plus three other voices, in both text and audio. Helene and Pilar celebrate the podcast's tenth episode, and how it's bringing "facilitators and friends" together in the asynchronous audio space, beyond the meetups, and linking the meetups. All meetups are listed here: https://www.iaf-world.org/site/chapters/england-wales Alison Knight sent us some thoughts about the last meetu...
FS09 First Year as Freelance Facilitator with Hilary Topp
February 03, 2020 06:00 - 27 minutes - 23.6 MBIn this episode, Helene talks to Hilary Topp about one of her favourite facilitation methods, why (and how) she got into facilitation and her involvement with Citizens Assemblies. Hilary Topp is a facilitator and coach and host of the IAF meet ups in Midlands and the East of England and IAF England and Wales board member. She tells us how she first got into facilitation and that although she hasn’t yet done a whole year as a freelancer how much she is enjoying it. She uses a variety of ...
FS08 Voices and Stories from our Facilitation Meetups
January 20, 2020 06:30 - 36 minutes - 18.9 MBIf you haven't yet done so, please take a few minutes now to complete our survey - to help to make IAF England & Wales and our facilitation meetups more valuable to you and to others in the coming year: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/T9MSZZJ In this episode, we hear from our IAF England & Wales Meetup organisers, and attendees! Plus, an impromptu conversation with a new-ish IAF England & Wales member. You can find links to all of our meetups here: We hear from a multitude of voices: ...
FS07 The Importance of Values in Facilitation
January 06, 2020 06:00 - 36 minutes - 27.1 MBMartin Gilbraith is a facilitato, trainer and consultant, and Chair of the IAF England and Wales board. He started hosting IAF meet ups about 5 years ago and has been facilitating since 1986. He is an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), an ICA Certified ToP Facilitator (CTF) and experienced lead trainer and licensed provider of ‘ICA’s ‘ToP’ facilitation training and a Certified Scrum Master (CSM). Martin talks about the importance of values – both personal and IAF values whic...
FS7 The Importance of Values in Facilitation
January 06, 2020 06:00 - 36 minutes - 27.1 MBMartin Gilbraith is a facilitato, trainer and consultant, and Chair of the IAF England and Wales board. He started hosting IAF meet ups about 5 years ago and has been facilitating since 1986. He is an IAF Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), an ICA Certified ToP Facilitator (CTF) and experienced lead trainer and licensed provider of ‘ICA’s ‘ToP’ facilitation training and a Certified Scrum Master (CSM). Martin talks about the importance of values – both personal and IAF values whic...
FS06 Learning from Your Network and the Unexpected with Gary Austin and friends
December 16, 2019 06:00 - 29 minutes - 22 MBIn this episode, Pilar talks to Gary Austin about what learning opportunities he's found during his 30 years as a facilitator. But before that, we have a roundup of what's happening at the different Meetups from: Susannah Raffe, @SusannahRaffe https://www.meetup.com/IAF-South-West-England-facilitators-and-friends/events/266488389/ Peter Nelson https://www.meetup.com/IAF-North-of-England-facilitators-and-friends/events/266488388/ Hilary Topp, @HTFacilitation https://www.mee...
FS05 Discovering the Joys of Facilitation with Megan Evans
December 02, 2019 06:30 - 29 minutes - 25.5 MBMegan Evans is a consultant, facilitator and trainer and host of the IAF meet ups in Wales. Megan describes how she first got into facilitation quite a few years ago, experiencing it as a participant and then being “roped in”. She was inspired by being asked what she and other people thought, and not just being told. Fascinated by the skills and style and started to get more and more involved in doing it herself. She worked for Participation Cymru – the aim of which was to spread parti...
FS4 Lee Button and His Journey as a Certified Professional Facilitator
November 18, 2019 07:00 - 23 minutes - 20.9 MBLee Button is a freelance facilitator and Senior Partner at WeAreBPG. Lee tells us how he first came across facilitation, when he was part of a session run by someone who was leading a group process, enabling those present to create the content, and how that led to Lee taking his first steps in developing himself as a facilitator. Having some "stamp of approval" was important for Lee, so he describes how he went about his training, starting with The Patterson Centre in Chicago. On h...
FS3 What We Learned at the IAF Mega Meetup in Birmingham
November 04, 2019 07:00 - 40 minutes - 20.6 MBHelene Jewell and Pilar Orti discuss The IAF conference (18th/19th October 2019 in Birmingham) 2 days and an evening which included: Human map, Client Panel Interviewing, Parallel Sessions, Open Space (inspired), Dine Around We hear from James at Session Lab @notjamessmart talking about the sessions he attended. Some of Helene’s and Pilar’s highlights: The panel interview – 3 clients from 3 different organisations, interviewed by Gary Austin with additional questions from the audi...
FS3 The Mega Meetup (Our Conference in Birmingham)
November 04, 2019 07:00 - 40 minutes - 20.6 MBHelene Jewell and Pilar Orti discuss The IAF conference (18th/19th October 2019 in Birmingham) 2 days and an evening which included: Human map, Client Panel Interviewing, Parallel Sessions, Open Space (inspired), Dine Around We hear from James at Session Lab @notjamessmart talking about the sessions he attended. Some of Helene’s and Pilar’s highlights: The panel interview – 3 clients from 3 different organisations, interviewed by Gary Austin with additional questions from the audienc...
FS02 Facilitation and Sustainability with Penny Walker
October 21, 2019 08:02 - 31 minutes - 23.8 MBGet in touch! We’re @IAFEnglandWales or @Fac_stories on Twitter. Helene Jewell talks to Penny Walker Facilitator, Coach, Consultant and trainer in change for sustainable development. She's the author of two books and has contributed to a whole variety of other publications. Connect with Penny on Twitter @penny_walker_sd or through her website https://www.penny-walker.co.uk/ Penny tells Helene about how she started working as a facilitator, through her work with Friends of the Earth, the...
FS1 Introducing Facilitation Stories and IAF England Wales Meetups
October 07, 2019 15:23 - 26 minutes - 23.1 MBGet in touch! We’re @IAFEnglandWales on Twitter. In this first episode, we introduce the show and the IAF’s England and Wales Chapter. We also let you know you how you can get involved, because one of the aims of the show is also to help the community come together beyond the MeetUps, and for those of you who can't attend the Meetups, to find out what's going on in them! We talk about what do we mean by facilitation? It’s a lot of different things to different people but is essential...