Facilitation Stories

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...

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/ Wednesday, J...

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 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...

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. The...

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 – 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 20 th 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.com...

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,...

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...

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-powe...

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...

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...

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-engla...

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 and...

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 ep...

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 starte d with the theatre company that she ran for 10 years. She went to a conferen...

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...

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...

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 b...

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-friend...

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 group...

These 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 yo...

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...

Camilla 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 peo...

Step 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....