33rd Singapore Facilitators' Forum

Date: 09 Jan 09, Saturday
Time: 8:30am – 1:00pm
Place: CPF Building (Tentative)

For directions, please checkout the map of the venue: http://gothere.sg/directions#:CPF%20building%28robinson%20road%29

Rates - Normal registration 1 week before forum date or earlier
Full-time tertiary students S$5.00
Others : S$10

Rates - After Registration Deadline
Full-time tertiary students : S$15
Others : S$15

If you are unable to register on-line (for genuine cases of technical challenges encountered at website), please email our Forum Administrator - Ms. Emily Ng at emilyng_fns@yahoo.com.sg for assistance.

Fee is payable at the door. Once registered, the forum fee would be payable regardless of actual attendance due to our venue booking & catering commitment. Cancellation or withdrawal is not permitted. We welcome replacement.

Agenda

8:30 am - Arrivals & Registration
9:00 am - Session 1 - The Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) Journey
10:30 am - Tea Break & Networking
11:00 am – Session 2 - Basic Facilitation Tool – Random Association Solutioning
12:30 pm - Special Announcements
12:40 pm - Closing Circle
1:00pm - End of Session

About the Session 1

Facilitation is gaining rapid recognition as a world-wide profession that plays a key role in engaging stakeholders in jointly shaping the world we live in. Whether for businesses, governments, and communities, facilitation is the invisible hand that helps connect the people in an organisation to its vision and brings about sustainable actions and results. How then does one assess the competencies of the facilitator required for the job? The certification of professional facilitators by International Association of Facilitation (IAF) is based on a set of core competencies required for skillful facilitation. Join us on a discovery journey this Saturday morning to find out how you too can become certified professional facilitator by learning from the experiences of those who have made it!

Participants Will Learn

• Overview of 6 key competencies of a IAF-CPF
• The Facilitation Certification Process

About the Session 2

How many times did you have a breakthrough when you were showering or when you are taking a visual break while doing up your project? Random Association Solutioning is a method that rides on the principle of Random Association to have a breakthrough. Come Join us to experience a tool that's simple to use and works!

Participants Will Learn

• Random Association Solutioning Process

The Facilitator

Lim Hock Ming is an in-house facilitator for his organization who conducts values internalization, retreats, visioning workshops. He has actively participated in community related focus group discussions and is currently the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Singapore Country Representative and FNS Forum Manager.

Register at http://www.fns.sg

If you have enquiries, please email our Forum Administrator - Ms. Emily Ng at emilyng_fns@yahoo.com.sg

What Got You Here Won't Get You There - Ideas for Change, Sustainable Change Management and Leadership for Change

This highly interactive workshop provides you a combo of four interesting techniques and tools that could be useful in facilitation and training:

What Got You Here Won't Get You There

This module focuses on how the insights from theb ook "What Got You Here Won't Get You There" could be applied in different organisations through various levels. This is adapted from a facilitated workshop delivered by Stacey Shirra at the 2009 IAF Asia Conference in Taipei.

Ideas for Change

This segment talks about how people solve complex issues using participatory discussion and brainstorming. At the end of the session, participants will be able to develop "Ideas for change" sessions for their own professional situations.

Sustainable Change Management

Aligning visions and communicating goals of critical decision makers, middle management and workers within the organisation to make Change possible and sustainable.

Leadership for Change

This module will cover the critical skills useful to leaders in facilitating organistional changes to achieve effective execution, smooth transition, stakeholders'acceptance and sustainable results. Participants will receive an original copy of the article on 'The Enduring Skills of Change Leaders" by Rosebeth Moss Kanter.

This workshop is suitable for Trainers, Lecturers, Teachers, Facilitators, OD/OE/OL Practitioners and Professionals in the field of training and facilitation.

Check out the details!

Date: 14 & 15 Apr 2010 (Wed and Thu)
Time: 830am-530pm
Venue: CPF Building

Register on line @ http://www.fns.sg

2010 Facilitation Workshops

Tools & Techniques for Facilitative Training Workshop
Date: 14Jan10(Thu)
Time: 8.30am-5.30pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Foundational Facilitation Workshop
Date: 13Jan10(Wed) – 15Jan10(Fri)
Time: 8.30am-5.30pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Foundational Facilitation Workshop
Date: 24Feb10(Wed) – 26Feb10(Fri)
Time: 8.30am-5.30pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Check out the workshop details and sign up @ www.fns.sg

Facilitating Transformation Workshop

Are you keen to master useful facilitation techniques related to transformations?

This is a workshop for…

• Facilitators, Trainers, Coaches, Lecturers who work with groups and want to expand their capacity to co-create breakthroughs with the people they work with
• Professionals who wish to develop themselves as a transformational leader
• Those who would like to practice and experience the strategies in the Facilitating Transformation book.

Check out the details!

Workshop: Facilitating Transformation – 12 Strategies For Creating Extraordinary Breakthroughs with Groups
Date: 5 Mar 2010 (Fri)
Time: 830am-530pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Register on line @ http://www.fns.sg

Tools & Techniques for Facilitative Training Workshop

Are you keen to master useful Tools & Techniques for Facilitative Training?

This is a Workshop for professionals like trainers and facilitators who wish to professionally develop themselves. This is also for facilitators who wish to enhance their facilitation skills for training

Benefits for Individual

· Reduce facilitation phobia
· Build productive and cohesive teams
· Begin and end team activities effectively
· Conduct team activities flexibly
· Debrief participants after significant experiences
· Turn disruptive participants into supportive allies

Benefits for the Organisation

· Create a learning organization
· Develop effective facilitators
· Improve employee involvement and participation
· Empower self-directed work teams
· Improve communication at all levels

Let's register!

Workshop: Tools & Techniques for Facilitative Training
Date: 14 Jan 2010 (Thu)
Time: 830am-530pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Register on line @ http://www.fns.sg

Facilitation is Not About Copying Others

It’s About Understanding the Science and Designing the Right Process

One major misgiving I have about facilitation in Singapore is that many of our facilitators are using processes of facilitation without actually gaining an understanding of the science that goes behind it. Without this grounding, many of our facilitators are copying processes instead of designing them. When we adapt processes without the help of the underpinning knowledge, our workshops will regularly need massive intervention by the facilitators to turn it around. This makes the workshops difficult to run and replicate. I have seen the worst of the lot; facilitated sessions that had become a farce that produced no real results and outcomes because the facilitators were too busy adjusting the processes that had failed to work instead of listening to the conversation and facilitating the interaction.

It is my hope that in sharing the following science of learning and motivation, it helps to improve the knowledge and confidence of facilitators in Singapore so that they could move away from copying processes to designing what is right for their target audience.

Gagne's Conditions of Learning and Nine Events of Instruction

In his book ‘Conditions of Learning’, which was first published in 1965, Robert Gagne had identified nine mental conditions for learning.

These conditions were derived from the Information Processing Model, which discusses about how information from the outside world interacts with the sensory registers of the human brain to build the different types of memory. From these mental conditions for learning, Gagne created a corresponding nine-step process called the ‘Events of Instruction’ to instrument the flow of information to encourage effective learning.

Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction provides the Facilitator the science for identifying a series of opportunities to design and develop the most appropriate set of actions and interventions to enable, encourage and sustain learning.

Keller's ARCS Model for Motivation

Motivation is rarely recognized as an important element in adult learning. It is always assumed that participants are excited to learn because of the information that is presented to them is useful to them. This is far from the truth. The responsibility to create the motivation to learn should be bore by the facilitator. Without this desire, retention is unlikely to happen amongst the participants and learning is just about strategizing to ‘survive’ the facilitated event and being seen to be participating.

Facilitators must strive to create a deeper level of motivation in the participants to help them gain insights at the facilitated session and transfer these back to the workplace as new behaviors.

The John Keller’s ARCS model was created as a problem solving methodology that helps facilitators identify, design and introduce motivational tactics at the most appropriate moments of a facilitated session to stimulate and sustain the participant’s motivation to learn. There are two parts in this model. The first is a set of categories representing the components of motivation. ‘ARCS’ is the acronym for four such components of ‘Attention’, ‘Relevance’, ‘Confidence’, and ‘Satisfaction’. These categories are the result of a synthesis of the research on human motivation. The second part of the model is a systematic design process that profiles the motivational characteristics of participants in a given learning environment and then design enhancements for the session that are appropriate in keeping the participants involved.

Maping Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction to Keller's ARCS Model for Motivation

Keller’s ARCS Model for Motivation is not intended to stand apart as a separate system for learning. It has been incorporated into Gagne's Events of Instruction to form a more comprehensive framework for designing facilitated sessions. The table on the left shows this mapping.

It is important to recall at this juncture that Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction discusses about how information gets into the different memories in the brain while Keller’s ARCS Model for Motivation talks about how individuals could be motivated to learn.

Therefore, when participants are motivated to learn, their sensory registers are more active and sensitive to the incoming information, and there is a greater tendency to keep this information stored in the long term memory.

Using these two sciences of learning, the design of a facilitated session could be more educated and scientific rather than intuitive and based on rules of thumb. The table in this link is a presentation of the various opportunities for action and application of Gagne and Keller’s model in facilitation. Feel free to download this for your personal use.

It is my hope that this article will help my fellow facilitators become aware that there is a science behind facilitation. Once you gotten it, sky is the limit.

Good luck.

This article was written by Anthony Mok on 27 Oct 2009

Copyright 2009 Anthony Mok. All Rights Reserved.

32nd Facilitators Forum

Date: 21 Nov 09, Saturday
Time: 8:30 am – 1:00 pm
Place: Focus Conference Room, #15-08, Sim Lim TOWERS, 10 Jalan Besar, Singapore 208787 (This is NOT Sim Lim Square!)

For the exact location, please checkout the map of the venue. For directions to the venue via public transport, please check this link. And if you are driving, you can plan your route by using this.

Rates
(Normal registration ends 1 week before forum date)
Full-time tertiary students S$5.00
Others : S$10

Rates
(After Registration Deadline)
Full-time tertiary students : S$15
Others : S$15

Fee is payable at the door. Once registered, the forum fee would be payable regardless of actual attendance due to our venue booking & catering commitment. Cancellation or withdrawal is not permitted. We welcome replacement.

Agenda

8:30 am - Arrivals & Registration
9:00 am – Session 1: Propless Games
10:30 am – Tea Time!
11:00 am – Session 2: Wellness through Prevention
12:30 pm - Special Announcements
12:40 pm - Closing Circle
1:00pm - End of Session

About Session 1:

As a follow-up to last year's successful Propless Games Forum, game specialist Allan Lee is following up with a series of Prop-Less Games to share with Facilitators and Practitioners. Based on his new book Prop-Less Games, Allan Lee will presenting a number of ice-breakers, energisers, problem-solving and communication games for you to use in all occasions.

These games utilise minimum and simple props and are easy to find and prepare. If you need activities to frontload the audience about mindset and perception, or need some ideas to fill those minutes while waiting for the last participants to arrive, then come down to the forum for a hands-on and fun-filled session that will spice up and add zest to your training sessions.

Participants will:

• Learn new games that utilise only minimum and simple props.
• Experience the actual games.

Session 1 Facilitator:

Mr Allan Lee is has been involved in the training and development related profession for the past 17 years. His other industry experiences include human resource management, organisational development, finance, marketing and business development. As a trainer, he has conducted and facilitated hundreds of courses and programmes. He is also currently an Associate Academic with the Republic Polytechnic for the Diploma in Outdoor and Adventure Learning. Allan Lee is the author of Propless Games® and Prop-Less GamesTM resource books for Facilitators and Trainers. He has also developed a strategy board game called Gold Rush® for large group participation. His passion lies in designing games to make learning experiential and enjoyable.

About Session 2:

Wellness and Health are important things to have in our daily life. We all know we want to be healthy. However, how many of us know how to get here? Come and find out more about the "Prevention through Wellness" mode and how to apply itl!!!

Participants will:

• Learn about "Prevention through Wellness" Model
• Apply "Prevention through Wellness" Model

Session 2 Facilitator:

Mr Bryan Chew is Certified in Digital Pulsewave Technology and has 11 years of experience in Nutritional Therapy. His training and speaking engagements at government and private organizations include National Stroke Association, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Ministry of Health in Indonesia and Kuala Lumpur , Parklane Medical Centre, Singapore and even at HospiMedica Asia 2006

Dear Facilitators in Singapore,

Flipside is running a 1-day forum for Enterprise Architects on 12th November.

This is a new form of conferencing that is more interactive and learner-centric. More details on this event could be found at http://www.flip-side.biz/EAprog.htm.

Flipside is on a lookout for a facilitator who could run some interactive sessions for them.

If you think you are suitable for this assignment, please contact Rowena at rmorais@flip-side.biz for more assistance.

Upcoming Workshops on Facilitation

There are four upcoming facilitation workshops that may help you in your professional and personal development learning journey. These are good opportunities for you to pick up useful and applicable facilitation skills and techniques.

Foundational Facilitation Workshop
Date : 21 Oct 09 (Wed) to 23 Oct 09 (Fri)
Time: 8.30am - 5.30pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Appreciative Inquiry – Applications At Work
Date : 29 Oct 09 (Thu) & 30 Oct 09 (Fri)
Time: 8.30am - 5.30pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Foundational Facilitation Workshop
Date : 11 Nov 09 (Wed) to 13 Nov 09 (Fri)
Time: 8.30am - 5.30pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There! An Orientation To Facilitating Meetings That Matter
Date: 4 Nov 09 (Wed)
Time: 8.30am - 5.30pm
Venue: Orchid Country Club

Register on line @ http://www.fns.sg/

31st Singapore Facilitators Forum

Date: 12 Sept 09, Saturday
Time: 8:30am – 1:00pm
Place: Focus Conference Room, #15-08, Sim Lim TOWERS, 10 Jalan Besar, Singapore 208787 (This is NOT Sim Lim Square!)

For the exact location, please checkout the map of the venue:http://sg.pagenation.com/sin/Sim%20Lim% 20Tower_103.8545_1.3037.map

For directions to the venue via public transport, please check : http://www.sbstransit.com.sg/journeyplan/overview.aspx

And if you are driving, you can plan your route by using :http://www.gothere.sg

Rates

Normal registration ends 1 week before forum date

Full-time tertiary students S$5.00
Others : S$10

After Registration Deadline

Full-time tertiary students : S$15
Others : S$15

Fee is payable at the door.

Once registered, the forum fee would be payable regardless of actual attendance due to our venue booking & catering commitment.

Cancellation or withdrawal is not permitted.

We welcome replacement.

Agenda

8:30 am - Arrivals & Registration
9:00 am – Group Coaching Basics
10:00 am – Tea Time!
10:30 am – Facilitating Group Coaching
12:30 pm - Special Announcements
12:40 pm - Closing Circle
1:00pm - End of Session

About the Session

Join us for this SPECIAL session and gain a first-hand experience of some group coaching steps / exercises that can help facilitate complex challenge situations..

Together with Denise, (former First Vice President International Coaching Federation (ICF) Singapore), we will explore the steps involved to facilitate group coaching and how it can be applied to various challenge scenarios.

Participants Will Practice using certain group/team coaching tools.Discuss application of these tools for various challenge situations.

The Facilitator

Denise is an accredited Executive Coach and Facilitator working with organizations, teams and individuals across Asia and beyond to facilitate leadership, team and organizational development plus inspired, positive change. Denise's works spans the areas of Culture Change, Authentic Leadership, Leading for High Performance & Sustainability plus partnering with organizations to evolve new levels of organizational purpose, vibrant energy, leadership, team working / collaboration, performance/ results and contribution.

Over the past eight years, Denise has formally coached, mentored and trained Asia based executives, coaches, teams and groups from diverse industry sectors including pharmaceutical, banking, finance, IT, manufacturing, advertising, entertainment, oil, shipping, education and government. Prior to leading her own business Denise was Director, Strategic Marketing, Research and Trends for Coca Cola China Limited and before that Senior Planning Manager for Disney BVHE Asia Pacific. Clients partnering with Denise benefit from her cross-cultural attunement and extensive business management, strategic planning, coaching and leadership experience. Denise is a British citizen and has settled in Singapore after living in the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong and Japan. She has also worked in Korea, Taiwan and throughout South East Asia. Married with two gorgeous boys, Denise works hard, on a daily basis, to live true to her values and purpose.

Register at http://www.fns.sg

If you are unable to register on-line (for genuine cases of technical challenges encountered at website) or you got any enquires, please email our ForumAdministrator - Ms. Emily Ng at emilyng_fns@yahoo.com.sg for assistance.

Golden Opportunity to Hone Your Facilitation Skills!

Good opportunities for you to pick up useful and applicable facilitation skills and techniques.

Seize it and act on it if you care for your personal development learning journey.

Flavors of Facilitation - Storytelling, Rapid Learning and Power Debriefing
Workshop Date: 14 Aug 09 (Fri)
Time: 830 am - 530 pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Appreciative Inquiry – Applications At Work
Date : 29 Oct 09 (Thu) & 30 Oct 09 (Fri)
Time: 830 am - 530 pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There! An Orientation To Facilitating Meetings That Matter
Date: 4 Nov 09 (Wed)
Time: 830 am - 530 pm
Venue: Orchid Country Club

Register on line @ http://www.fns.sg

Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!

An Orientation to Facilitating Meetings that Matter

This is an opportunity to experience an advanced meeting management workshop based on Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff's new book, "Don't Just Do Something, Stand There! Ten Principles to Leading Meetings that Matter" that links systems change with personal growth.

Dr. Sandra Janoff teaches a simple theory, philosophy, and methods equally applicable to society, organizations, groups and ourselves. All the way from USA, she will show you how you can work on structure, which is controllable, rather than behavior, attitudes and motivation, which are not.

You can achieve more while "intervening" less by helping people :

• See themselves as part of a bigger picture
• Commit to the meeting's goal
• Say what they know (even in risky situations)
• Listen to ideas they don't share
  Make choices in their own and a group's interest
• Act responsibly when action is appropriate

You can achieve these outcomes when you experience yourself as part of a group –a "whole system" – that can fragment or develop from one moment to the next. Meeting leaders have a special role in maintaining a system's task.

Are you curious about this workshop? Let's do just that to register!

Workshop: Date: 4 Nov 09 (Wed)

Time: 830am-530pm

Venue: Orchid Country Club

Fee: S$790 (IAF Member) & S$890 (Non-IAF Member)

(register by 3 Oct 09)

Register on line @ http://www.fns.sg

Singapore Facilitators Conference 2009

Rhythm of Facilitation
5 & 6 November 2009
Orchid Country Club

14 concurrent workshops to choose from on day 2.

Large Group session on day 1: Common Ground and Action in Organizations and Communities by Dr Sandra Janoff - creator of Future Search.

Fees

Early Bird fee (before 15 Aug'09) @ SGD490
Normal fee (16 Aug'09 - 30 Sep'09) @ SGD590
Late fee (1 Oct'09 - 31 Oct'09) @ SGD690
Very Late fee (1 Nov'09 - 4 Nov'09) @ SGD790

Download Brochure and Register on-line now at: http://www.fns.sg

Book Launch during SFC2009

Each conference participant will receive Facilitating Transformation fresh off the press autographed by the author Douglas O'Loughlin.

Here is a preview of the book:

How can you increase the chances of people and groups experiencing breakthroughs? Yes, shifts happen and you can consistently facilitate transformation. We can change the world one session at a time.

The 12 strategies in this book have emerged from more than 20 years of facilitating around the world, and they provide a map for how to more consistently co-create transformation.

This book is filled with practical tips, examples, models, and philosophies that provide an international buffet of food for thought for the work you do with groups. If you facilitate, teach, conduct workshops, coach or lead people, this book has ideas that can support you expanding your capacity to be a catalyst for transformation.

There are many BIG and small subtleties that make the difference between an average session and a transformational one. Explore this book and find some of the transformational leverage points that can support you to support others.

Up and Coming Programmes for Facilitators

Fun with Graphics Facilitation Workshop
Date: 24 Jul 09 (Fri)
Time: 830 am-530 pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Flavors of Facilitation - Storytelling, Rapid Learning and Power Debriefing
Workshop Date: 14 Aug 09 (Fri)
Time: 830 am-530 pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Unity in Diversity – Evolutionary Cross Cultural Facilitation
Date: 4 Sep 09 (Fri)
Time: 830 am-530 pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Appreciative Inquiry – Applications At Work
Date : 29 Oct 09 (Thu) & 30 Oct 09 (Fri)
Time: 830 am-530 pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Register on line @ http://www.fns.sg

Unity in Diversity – Evolutionary Cross Cultural Facilitation

Are you interested to discover more about cross cultural acting and facilitating?

Are you curious to experience your own or different culture in a cross cultural setting?

Are you keen to experience a glance of self transformation and evolution?

Why not? Register for this workshop if you are keen to learn more about unity in diversity and its evolutionary cross cultural facilitation from Annette Moench from Germany now.

Event: Unity in Diversity – Evolutionary Cross Cultural Facilitation Workshop

Date: 4 Sep 09 (Fri)
Time: 830am-530pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge
Fee: S$450 (IAF Member) & S$550 (Non-IAF Member) (register by 31 Jul 09)
Register on line @ http://www.fns.sg

30th FNS Facilitators' Forum - The Facilitative Parenting Experience

Date: 11 July 09, Saturday

Time: 8:30am – 1:00pm

Place: Focus Conference Room, #15-08, Sim Lim TOWERS, 10 Jalan Besar, Singapore 208787 (This is NOT Sim Lim Square!)

For the exact location, please checkout the http://www.sbstransit.com.sg/journeyplan/overview.aspx And if you are driving, you can plan your route by using :http://www.gothere.sg

Rates (Normal registration ends 1 week before forum date)

Full-time tertiary students S$5.00
Others : S$10

Rates (After Registration Deadline)

Full-time tertiary students : S$15
Others : S$15

Fee is payable at the door.

Once registered, the forum fee would be payable regardless of actual attendance due to our venue booking & catering commitment.Cancellation or withdrawal is not permitted. We welcome replacement.

Agenda

8:30 am - Arrivals & Registration
9:00 am – Picnic Talk
10:00 am – Picnic Time!!!
10:30 am – TENTS Talk
12:30 pm - Special Announcements
12:40 pm - Closing Circle
1:00pm - End of Session

About the Session

All of us HAVE been a child before. It's time to rekindle those moments through our imagination & creativity. Once again, we'll explore the world of facilitation through the 'eyes' of the child namely 'PLAY'. Join us for this SPECIAL venture INTO THE 'facilitative parenting' journey.

Together with Tony & Melody, we'll re-discover the 'inner child' within us through fun-filled and hands-on activities in our PLAY T.E.N2.T experiential learning.

Participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own picnic mats and wear pinic wear to attend the session.

The Facilitator Team

Melody Kiang –Pow has been working closely with parents, teachers and children for over 25 years in a wide spectrum of educational projects i.e. kindergartens, childcare centres, schools – Primary & Secondary. Melody finds tremendous joy in volunteerism works.

Being an Early Childhood Educator with a Dip in Teaching & Leadership, Melody has a strong passion to reach out to all people from all age groups and different walks of life and inspire them to realise their dreams and fulfil their destiny.

Register at http://www.fns.sg

If you are unable to register on-line (for genuine cases of technical challenges encountered at website) or you got any enquires, please email our Forum Administrator - Ms. Emily Ng at emilyng_fns@ yahoo.com. sg for assistance.

The 12th IAF Asia Conference 2009 is ready for registration at http://www.facilitatorsforum.org.tw/

The IAF CPF Schedule is as follows:

26-27 Aug'09 - CPF Assessment.
28 Aug'09 - Pre-conference workshops.
29-30 Aug'09 - IAF Asia Conference.
31 Aug'09 - Post-conference workshops.

Here is a list of resources on the certification.

An exciting portfolio of workshops has been lined up.

For international visitors coming to this conference; you will receive a free ticket to visit Taipei 101 Observatory sponsored by Taipei Information and Tourism Department (while stocks last)!

Facilitative Trainers For a Series of Hlf-day Wrkshops Needed

Dear FFW Alumni,

We are looking for a number of facilitative trainers for a series of half-day workshops to be conducted in 2009-2010.

You must have completed the FFW programme and have at least of 5 years of working experience in any role, in any industry from the private/commercial sector.

Please indicate your interest with Mr Prabu Naidu at prabu@pacific.net.sg.

Facilitation Workshops (Jun 09-Aug 09)

Dynamic Facilitation Workshop
Date: 24 Jun 09 (Wed) to 26 Jun 09 (Fri)
Time: 8.30am-5.30pm
Venue: Orchid Country Club, Singapore

Fee: S$1,790 (IAF Member & Non-IAF Member) (register by 6 Jun 09)

Power of Questions Workshop
Date: 7 Jul 09 (Tue)
Time: 830am-530pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge
Fee: S$240 (IAF Member) & S$340 (Non-IAF Member)(register by 6 Jun 09)

Fun with Graphics Facilitation Workshop
Date: 24 Jul 09 (Fri)
Time: 830am-530pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge
Fee: S$250 (IAF Member) & S$350 (Non-IAF Member) (register by 24 Jun 09)

Flavors of Facilitation - Storytelling, Rapid Learning and Power Debriefing Workshop
Date: 14 Aug 09 (Fri)
Time: 830am-530pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge
Fee: S$240 (IAF Member) & S$340 (Non-IAF members)(register by 13 Jun 09)

Register on line @ http://www.fns.sg

New Workshops for Facilitators

Many more facilitation workshops opening up for you.

Would you be interested to learn and master in these various facilitation types and skills?

Watch out for these facilitation workshops and sign up for them if you are interested!

WORKSHOP DETAILS

(1) Dynamic Facilitation Workshop

Date: 24 Jun 09 (Wed) to 26 Jun 09 (Fri)
Time: 8.30am-5.30pm
Venue: Orchid Country Club, Singapore
Fee: S$1,790 (IAF Member & Non-IAF Member) (register by 31 May 09)

(2) Power of Questions Workshop

Date: 7 Jul 09 (Tue)
Time: 830am-530pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge
Fee: S$240 (IAF Member) & S$340 (Non-IAF Member) (register by 6 Jun 09)

(3) Fun with Graphics Facilitation Workshop

Date: 24 Jul 09 (Fri)
Time: 830am-530pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge
Fee: S$250 (IAF Member) & S$350 (Non-IAF Member) (register by 24 Jun 09)

(4) Flavors of Facilitation - Storytelling, Rapid Learning and Power Debriefing Workshop

Date: 14 Aug 09 (Fri)
Time: 830am-530pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge
Fee: S$240 (IAF Member) & S$340 (Non-IAF members) (register by 13 Jun 09)

Register on line @ http://www.fns.sg

Local NGO Needs Facilitators

Dear Facilitators,

Here is an opportunity for you to practice your skills and contribute.

A local NGO needs two Malay speaking group process facilitators, aged 18 - 29 (single) and 25 - 45 (preferably married) respectively, to facilitate a session on "Health between Parents and Youths on Sex-related Issues".

Please respond directly to Anwar Hashim at daonlyanwar@gmail.com.

Good luck.

Fun with Graphics Facilitation Workshop

Are you tired of using powerpoint presentations?

When was the last time you sat down to draw?

Register for this workshp if you are keen to learn and master graphics facilitation!

Event: Fun with Graphics Facilitation Workshop
Date: 24 Jul 09 (Fri)
Time: 830am - 530pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Fee: S$250 (IAF Member) & S$350 (Non-IAF Member)
(register by 24 Jun 09)

Register on line @ http://www.fns.sg

Publication on Facilitation

Group Facilitation: A Research and Applications Journal is a multi-disciplinary publication focused on the art and science of group facilitation published by the International Association of Facilitators (http://www.iaf-world.org). The aim of the journal is to advance our knowledge of group facilitation and its implications for individuals, groups, organizations, and communities.

Group Facilitation features articles from diverse perspectives, including organizational learning and development, group and system dynamics, collaborative technology, negotiation, mediation, leadership, decision-making, conflict resolution, cross-cultural contexts, and education. Possible topics include, but are not limited to, facilitator roles within the group, interventions for conflict management, descriptions of specific facilitation methods, approaches to facilitating specific tasks such as idea generation or priority setting, using computer technology to support facilitation, increasing participation in organizations, exploring the underlying values, beliefs and models of facilitation, and applying facilitation skills and concepts to various settings.

The journal, while practitioner focused, is academically robust. A variety of methods are appropriate, such as case studies, ethnographic studies, and survey or laboratory research. Book reviews are featured regularly. The primary consideration for publication is the ability of the article to inform the practitioner and stimulate the researcher.

In publication since 1999, we invite you to look over our previous issues:
http://iaf-world.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3498

Information for authors:
http://www.albany.edu/cpr/gf/gfj/

29th Singapore Facilitators' Forum - Appreciative Inquiry Perspectives

Date: 16 May 09, Saturday

Time: 8:30am – 1:00pm

Place: Focus Conference Room, #15-08, Sim Lim TOWERS, 10 Jalan Besar, Singapore 208787 (This is NOT Sim Lim Square!)
For directions, please checkout the map of the venue: http://sg.pagenation.com/sin/Sim%20Lim%20Tower_103.8545_1.3037.map

Rates
(Normal registration ends 1 week before forum date)
Full-time tertiary students S$5.00
Others : S$10

Rates
(After Registration Deadline)
Full-time tertiary students : S$15
Others : S$15

Fee is payable at the door.

Once registered, the forum fee would be payable regardless of actual attendance due to our venue booking & catering commitment.

Cancellation or withdrawal is not permitted. We welcome replacement.

Agenda

8:30 am - Arrivals & Registration
9:00 am - Appreciative Inquiry Perspective Part I
10:30 am - Tea Break & Networking
11:00 am - Appreciative Inquiry Perspective Part II
12:30 pm - Special Announcements
12:40 pm - Closing Circle
1:00pm - End of Session

About the Session

Appreciative Inquiry is based on using a positive frame to view the past, present and look forward to the future. Originally conceived by Cooperrider and Srivasta, the approach uses one-to-one interviews as the basis of intervening and assisting groups in their change process. In this modification, the principles of AI are used to assist in a review of life and/ or work - using a team approach. It has been found that discussing issues in teams or table groups brings a different dynamism to the process.

Participants will be invited to experience the process and provide feedback on how this approach may be useful to them in their work with groups and organizations.

Participants Will Learn

The used of Appreciative Inquiry in a review process – looking at success, challenges and hopes for the future

The Facilitator

Patricia Rita Nunis has close to 30 years of experience in community work, and training and education. With a background in Sociology and Organisational Development. Patricia has over 10 years in community / rehabilitation services with the MRCS-UNHCR and Pusat Kebajikan Good Shepherd, a non-governmental agency working with girls and women.

Her corporate experience has been in banking and private healthcare where she led the Training & Development function for over 8 years. In the past 8 years, Patricia has built up a training and consultancy practice that focuses on developing positive life perspectives, work ethic and leadership capabilities in individuals and teams. Patricia believes developing individuals who are empowered to authentically practice their beliefs, principles and values will lead to strong organisations and communities.

Patricia is also a Certified NLP Practitioner and Life Coach and a Certified Professional Facilitator (International Association of Facilitators).

Register at http://www.fns.sg

If you are unable to register on-line (for genuine cases of technical challenges encountered at website) or you got any enquires, please email our Forum Administrator - Ms. Emily Ng at emilyng_fns@yahoo.com.sg for assistance.

Forecast of Network Gathering

Here is a preview of the forthcoming forums:

16/05/09 29th FNS Forum : Appreciative Inquiry Perspective Facilitator : Pat Nunis, CPF

11/07/09 30th FNS Forum : Facilitative Parenting Facilitator : Melody

12/09/09 31st FNS Forum : Complements to Facilitation :Group Coaching Skills Facilitator : Denise Wright

21/11/09 32nd FNS Forum : DISC and Facilitation Facilitator : Che Yanez

Look Forward to see you all there soon!!!

University of London MSc and Post Graduate Diploma Organisational Psychology Course

Do you need to build and maintain a base of professional knowledge in management and organizational systems?

Do you need a good grounding on organisational behaviour so that you can perform your role as a facilitator or consultant better?

Are you interested in social and psychological processes operating in organizations, and how these processes relate to organizational systems and structures?

Then consider the University of London MSc and Post Graduate Diploma Organisational Psychology course by distance learning.

Available in Singapore on a self study basis and guided by extensive high quality and purpose-written study materials by professors from the university, it is a least cost way to secure a prestigious qualification from the university at your own flexible timing right from the comforts of your home.

Many professionals need to update knowledge by focusing on particular subjects. As a result, some modules are also available on a stand-alone basis and on successful completion of each module you will receive a University of London certificate.

This is a modular self-study programme directly from the University of London but FNS will facilitate:

Connection with previous graduates of the course
Sharing & discussions before submitting assignments
Sharing additional research materials
Making meaning to practical situations encountered at work
Meeting with OB/OD/HRD practitioners
Building up a local pool of well qualified Organisational Behavioural practitioners in Singapore

Email: admin@fns.sg for details of the course.

Open Space Technology and World Cafe Workshop

When: 24 April 2009 Friday 8:30am to 6:00pm

Workshop Content:

Open Space Technology (OST)

What is Open Space Technology
FourPrinciples & One Law of OST
Roles in OST / When to use OST / When NOT to use OST
Theme Selection / Sending invitations
Opening the Space / Agenda Creation / Opening the Market Place
Capturing the Information / The News Gallery
Converging the Ideas / Action Planning
Success stories from OST / The Asian Experience
ClosingCircle & Feedback

The World Café (TWC)

What is The World Cafe
The World Cafe Journey
Questions underlying the World Cafe
Seven Principles of The World Cafe
When to use TWC / When not to use TWC
Success stories from TWC / The Asian Experience
ClosingCircle & Feedback

Register on line at: http://www.fns.sg

Forecast of Events

Here is a forecast of training and development activities, managed by Facilitators Network Singapore, in 2009:

14 Aug 2009

Flavors of Facilitation - Storytelling, Rapid Learning and Power Debriefing Workshop

Time: 830am-530pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge
Fee: S$240 (IAF Member) & S$340 (Non-IAF members) (register by 13Jun09)

7 Jul 2009

Power of Questions Workshop

Time: 830am-530pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge
Fee: S$240 (IAF Member) & S$340 (Non-IAF Member) (register by 6Jun09)

24-26 June 2009

Dynamic Facilitation Skills have been helping individuals and organizations address big issues. Using these skills, one person can assurea group of people to think together creatively and collaboratively and achieve win/win results...1st time in Singapore by Jim Rough...Creator of Dynamic Facilitation.

Jim Rough is a consultant, author, speaker and social innovator. He originated Dynamic Facilitation Skills and has been presenting public and private seminars on Dynamic Facilitation since 1990. Jim also originated the Wisdom Council, a new approach to transforming large systems of people. For over twenty years he has been a faculty member of the Creative Problem Solving Institute in Buffalo, N.Y. He is the author of the book, "Society's Breakthrough!: Releasing the Essential Wisdom and Virtue of All the People."

24 April 2009

Open Space Technology (OST) and The World Cafe (TWC) Workshop

Attend this completely hands-on workshop and understandthe Principles, Tools and Process for OST & TWC; discover how you can plan and facilitate using OST & TWC in a variety of situations or applications.

27-29 Apr'09
20-22 May'09

Foundational Facilitation Workshops (FFW)

This flagship workshop, under compressed time and dynamic simulated situation, is extremely hands-on. Participants will have to complete self-assessment questionnaires as pre-work and come prepared for immediate application and practice during the workshop. Throughout the three days participants will receive extensive feedback from peers and coaching from Certified Professional Facilitators on their performance as a facilitator.

14 March 2009

28th Singapore Facilitators' Forum - Journey to the Centre of Professional Facilitation

The certification of professional facilitators by the International Association of Facilitation (IAF) is based on a set of core competencies required for skilful facilitation. Join us on a discovery journey to find outhow you too can become a certified professional facilitator by learning from the experiences of those who have made it!

For details and to register on-line, please visit: http://www.fns.sg/

28th Singapore Facilitators' Forum

Journey to the Centre of Professional Facilitation

Date: 14 Mar 09, Saturday

Time: 8:30am – 1:00pm

Place: Focus Conference Room, #15-08, Sim Lim TOWERS, 10 Jalan Besar,
Singapore 208787 (This is NOT Sim Lim Square!)

For directions, please checkout the map of the venue:
http://sg.pagenation.com/sin/Sim%20Lim%20Tower_103.8545_1.3037.map

Rates

Normal registration 1 week before forum date or earlier

Full-time tertiary students S$5.00
Others : S$10

Rates After Registration Deadline

Full-time tertiary students : S$15
Others : S$15

If you are unable to register on-line (for genuine cases of technical
challenges encountered at website), please email our Forum
Administrator - Ms. Emily Ng at emilyng_fns@yahoo.com.sg for
assistance.

Fee is payable at the door. Once registered, the forum fee would be
payable regardless of actual attendance due to our venue booking &
catering commitment. Cancellation or withdrawal is not permitted. We
welcome replacement.

Agenda

8:30 am - Arrivals & Registration
9:00 am - Part 1 – The Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF)
Journey / CPF Competencies Learning
10:30 am - Tea Break & Networking
11:00 am - Part 2 – CPF Competencies Learning Continued
12:30 pm - Special Announcements
12:40 pm - Closing Circle
1:00pm - End of Session

About the Session

Facilitation is gaining rapid recognition as a world-wide profession
that plays a key role in engaging stakeholders in jointly shaping the
world we live in. Whether for businesses, governments, and
communities, facilitation is the invisible hand that helps connect
the people in an organisation to its vision and brings about
sustainable actions and results.

How then does one assess the competencies of the facilitator required
for the job? The certification of professional facilitators by
International Association of Facilitation (IAF) is based on a set of
core competencies required for skillful facilitation. Join us on a
discovery journey this Saturday morning to find out how you too can
become certified professional facilitator by learning from the
experiences of those who have made it!

Participants Will Learn

* 6 key competencies of a IAF-CPF
* The Facilitation Certification Process

The Facilitators

7 CPFs and the 1st Singapore's CPF assessor will be sharing with you
their wisdom and they include:

Ng Choon Seng, CPF and CPF assessor.
Jeff Pan, CPF
Jivarani, CPF
Lee Seng Teck, CPF
Chris Holmes, CPF
Lim Hock Ming, CPF
Lim Hongli, CPF

Register at http://www.fns.sg

If you have enquiries, please email our Forum Administrator - Ms.
Emily Ng at emilyng_fns@yahoo.com.sg

Power of Questions Workshop

Keen to enhance your power of questioning?

Why not experience the Power of Questions Workshop?

This workshop is for you if you want to:

• Understand the nature and power of questions
• Know why we do not ask enough questions
• Know what is hindering us from asking questions
• Know what makes a good question
• Know how to ask a good question

Methodology

The workshop employs many adult learning techniques and experiential exercises designed to move individuals to a deeper understanding and application of learning.

Workshop Content

• The nature of Questions
• Forces that hinder us from asking questions
• Discovering Learner and Judger Questions
• Characteristics of a good question
• Creating the questioning mindset
• Questioning Assumptions
• Solving problems through questions

Workshop Details

Date: 6 Apr 09 (Mon)
Time: 830am - 530pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

Investment

Register by 6 Mar 2009

IAF Members - SGD 240nett
Non-IAF Members - SGD 340nett

Register from 6 Mar 2009 onwards

IAF Members & Non-IAF Members - SGD 440nett

Early birds ends on 6 Mar 09!

For more details and to register on-line, go to http://www.fns.sg

Dynamic Facilitation Workshop

Date: 24 Jun 09 (Wed) to 26 Jun 09 (Fri)

Time: 8.30am-5.30pm

Venue: Orchid Country Club, Singapore

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Facilitators, Teachers, Trainers, Supervisors, Managers, HRD & OD Professionals, Coaches, Consultants, Instructors, Mediators, Therapists, Community Leaders, Change Agents, Practitioners, Scholars, Activists, or Entrepreneurs looking to use the most advanced approaches for thinking together creatively and collaboratively and achieve win/win results.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?

Participants will learn how to help people to:· achieve breakthroughs on difficult, emotional or "impossible" issues· arrive at unanimous results and decisions· empower people to new levels of capability· build trust, respect, and the spirit of community in a group· grow in personal creativity and capabilityDynamic Facilitation provides a transformational experience!

WHAT PEOPLE IN THE KNOW ARE SAYING

"I found a way to facilitate for monumental change. It took me to a place I never knew existed and made me wonder why I had not already been there." Glenn Floyd, Champion International"

A mind-expanding experience of an alternative approach to group discussion and problem-solving." Carol Chetkovich, Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

WHO IS THE WORKSHOP FACILITATOR?

Jim Rough is a consultant, author, speaker and social innovator. He originated Dynamic Facilitation Skills and has been presenting public and private seminars on Dynamic Facilitation since 1990. Jim also originated the Wisdom Council, a new approach to transforming large systems of people. For over twenty years he has been a faculty member of the Creative Problem Solving Institute in Buffalo, N.Y. He is the author of the book, "Society's Breakthrough!: Releasing the Essential Wisdom and Virtue of All the People."

WORKSHOP INVESTMENT

Early Bird Registration (by 31Jan09)

IAF Members S$1,290**

Non IAF Members S$1,590

After Early Bird Deadline (after 31 Jan 09 and by 15 May 09) S$1,790

*Overseas registrants paying by bank draft or TT, please add S$30 for bank charges in Singapore

** IAF membership is US$85/year for developing countries and US$175 for developed countries. Register for membership @ http://www.iaf-world.org/

REGISTRATION PROCESS

Online @ http://www.fns.sg/

Forecast of Events

Please join any of these learning events in Singapore to keep abreast of the developments in Facilitation, Organisational Transformation, & Personal Growth:

1. Forums: bi-monthly...visit www.fns.sg
2. Foundational Facilitation Workshop (FFW): monthly... visit www.fns.sg
3. The World Café & Open Space Technology: watch this space for details later
4. The Four Rooms Of Change: watch this space for details later
5. Dynamic Facilitation Workshop: 24-26 Jun'09
6. Flipchart Graphics: 24 Jul'09
7. Flavours Of Facilitation - Debriefing, Storytelling, & Rapid Learning: 29 May'09
8. Facilitative Project Management: watch this space for details later
9. Facilitating Using Your Strengths: watch this space for details later
10. Power Of Questions: 6 Apr'09
11. The Art Of Facilitating Meetings: 7 Apr'09
12. Facilitative Parenting (Ages 1-12): watch this space for details later
13. Facilitative Parenting (Ages 13-18): watch this space for details later
14. Singapore Facilitators Conference (SFC): 5 & 6 Nov'09

...and many more...watch this space for details later this year...

Organised by: Facilitators Network Singapore