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2009 Workshop Session Listing

Sessions below are from the 2009 Vancouver Conference. 2011 sessions to be announced in the fall.

A Sessions

Monday & Tuesday
April 20-21
8:30 am-4:30 pm

A1 More than Just a Meeting! Making Meetings Productive and Energizing (A)

A2 ToP™ Group Facilitation Skills (A)

A3 CANCELLED (Integrally-Informed...)

A4 The Effective Facilitator (Accelerated Workshop for Advanced) (A)

A5 You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: The Facilitator’s Path to Authentic Cross-Cultural Practice (A)

B Sessions

Monday, April 20
8:30 am-4:30 pm

B1 CANCELLED (Growing Social...)

B2 Presence-Based Coaching: Accelerating Personal and Professional Development through Your Way of Being (A)

B3 Facilitation From The Inside Out (E)

B4 Using Art, Writing, Fieldwork, Experiments and Rituals in Facilitating and Coaching (E)

B5 Making the “Invisible” Visible: White Awareness and Facilitation (A)

B6 "Being" a Facilitator (A)

B7 Designing and Facilitating Complex Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration (A)

 

C Sessions

Tuesday, April 21
8:30 am-4:30 pm

C1 Creating a Holistic Facilitation Process that Fosters “Inclusivity” (A)

C2 Dealing with Conflict: the Use of ADR Techniques to Help Facilitate Difficult Conversations (E)

C3 Life as a Mirror: Using Collisions to Advance Your Competencies (E/D)

C4 CANCELLED (Faciliate with Intention)
C5 CANCELLED (Snatching Success)

C6 Making Process Designs “Work” (E/D)

C7 Managing 17 Facilitated Processes: What Works Before and During (A)

 

D Sessions

Wednesday, April 22
10:30 am-5 pm
(break for lunch)

D1 Understanding Yourself and Others Through the Enneagram (A)

D2Visual Methods Across Cultures (A)

D3 Zero to Participate - Engagement Strategies that Accelerate Participation & Buy-In (A)

D4 Can you see me? Hear Me? Feel Me? Touch Me? (E)

E Sessions

Wednesday, April 22
10:30 am-12 pm

E1 The Learning Construction Site: Strategies to Facilitate Workplace Adult Learning (B)

E2 Positive Planning: Building Your Plan and Building Support from a Positive Base (E)

E3 Community Conversations (B)

E4 Enhance Your Online Facilitation with Storytelling (A)

E5 Bringing 270 People to Consensus - Diverse Approaches for Diverse Challenges (A)

E6 “I’m a Facilitator…and a Coach”: Should You Add Coaching to Your Repertoire? (E)

E7 Facilitating with Flair in Aboriginal Communities (A)

E8 Transcending Culture for Excellent Workshop Experiences (A)

E9 CANCELLED (Debriefing Skills)

E10 Process Consulting in Health: Diversity Lives Here! (A)

E11 Thinking About Sharing Your Expertise at at IAFNA 2010: Come Walk Through the Process (A)

F Sessions

Wednesday, April 22
1:30 pm-5 pm

F1 Facilitation Tools for Project Managers (A)

F2 Facilitating Across Cultures and Across Generations; Challenges and Opportunities (E)

F3 CANCELLED (Co-Facilitation...)

F4 Creating Team Charter Plans (E)

F5 Isolating Your Client’s Needs: From Sponsor Interview to Detailed Agenda (A)

F6 CANCELLED (Co-Creating...)

F7 Reflective Facilitation through a Global Lens (A)

F8 Exploring Diversity with Head and Heart (A)

F9 FoCuSeD™ Holistic Facilitation Process Design (A)

F10 Creating Consensus Using the Language of Functions (A)

F11 Simple Techniques, Diverse Groups, Successful Outcomes (A)

F12 The Science and Art of Story-Sharing: Why Story Engages and How to Use It (A)

 

G Sessions

Thursday, April 23
8:30 am-12 pm

G1 The Passionate Practice: Envisioning and Creating an Inclusive Facilitation Business (A)

G2 At the Top of Your Intelligence – Find It, Use It and Get Out of Your Own Way! (A)

G3 Honor Your Gifts, Address Your Obstacles (A)

G4 Mindful Coaching: The Artful Investigator (A)

G5 Grumps, Gadflies, and Naysayers: Managing Challenging Participants in Professional Development Workshops (A)

G6 So They Cooked and Ate the Facilitator: How to Transform and Grow from the Experience (E/D)

G7 Understanding Diversity as a Powerful Fuel for Change: A Design Approach to Support Your Successful Engagements! (A)

G8 Contracting as a Collaborative Process: Advanced Models, Skills & Tools (A)

G9 Enabling Voices: Planning and Facilitating Events that include People with Disabilities (E)

G10 Thinking Through Complex Problems: 1 Process Framework and 60 Questions that Really Work (E)

G11 Tools to Build Accountability for Outcomes (A)

G12* Facilitating Complex Group Dynamics (A)

*Late Start Session: 10:30 am-12 pm

H Sessions

Thursday, April 23
1:30 pm-5 pm

H1 The Invisible Participant: Identifying the Impacts of Institutional Power and Developing a Practice of Inclusion Developing a Practice of Inclusion (A)

H2 Standing in the Fire: Facilitating Self When Things Heat Up (E)

H3 Hosting Authentic Conversations Around Questions That Matter (A)

H4 Are They Really Bullies? - How Has the Use of the Term “Bully” Been Useful, and How Has it Created Barriers in Understanding Workplace Conflict? (A)

H5 Making Magical Metaphors Work for You (A)

H6 Enhance Your Meetings Using Conversational Leadership: Getting Those 60 Minutes of Your Life Back (A)

H7 Exploring Multiple Perspectives on Conflict Using Photographs (E)

H8 CANCELLED (Building Trust in Groups)

H9 Decision Making Tools – How and When to Use Them (A)

H10 Clearing Your Lens: Because You Can’t Facilitate Their Stuff if You Can’t See Your Own! (A)

H11 The Neuroscience of Diversity: Facilitating the Power of Difference (A)

H12 Leading Innovation Teams: How Diverse Participants Can Work Together to Create Growth Through Newness (E)

H13 What's Your Conflict-Handling Style? (E)

 

 

 

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Experience Levels:
(A) - All Levels
(B) - Beginner
(E) - Experienced
(D) - Advanced

IAF Core Competencies:

Create collaborative client relationships

Plan appropriate group processes

Create and sustain a participatory environment

Guide group to appropriate and useful outcomes

Build and maintain professional knowledge

Model positive professional attitude

 

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