Just How Good Could You Be? The Shadow Knows

On the 31^st August 2011, John Scherer and Amy Barnes will be the facilitators for a 1-day advance facilitation workshop titled"Just How Good Could You Be? The Shadow Knows..".

Brief Synopsis

In this workshop, John and Amy will help you discover a surprising, even shocking, source of greater competence and confidence: your Shadow. By engaging in a series of simple but profound exercises, involving two of The Five Questions, you will tap into a completely new way of being and facilitating, one that connects you to what has been missing for a long time. By embracing the extraordinary gifts embedded in your Shadow, you will be able to bring more of who you ARE to everything you DO. `Simply a stunning experience.' Terry Rogers, MD, Executive Director, Washington Foundation for Health Care Quality. `Underneath, we are all searching for ourselves. In his Five Questions, John, my spiritual brother, shows how to discover one's own Self in the workplace, using simple, powerful processes.' Sri Shuddhaanandaa Brahmachari, Author, Making Your Mind Your Best Friend and Founder, Lokenath Devine Life Mission, Calcutta, India.

Who Should Attend

· Facilitators and Trainers

About the Workshop Facilitators

John Scherer is a highly-respected international speaker, consultant and change facilitator with some of the world's best known organizations and their leaders, including Boeing, Ford, Nissan, The US Army, The Government of Canada, Siemens, Unilever, DHL and many others. Leaders and change facilitators from 25 countries have graduated from his Executive/Leadership Development Intensives. Recently honoured by the Stephen Covey organization as one of America's Top 100 Thought Leaders in Personal/Leadership Development, he is the author of Work and the Human Spirit and the recent best-seller, Five Questions that Change Everything. A father of four, John runs and does yoga daily, plays the guitar, still does the occasional magic show, loves a good spy novel, and secretly yearns to be an electric blues player. He currently operates from bases in Krakow, Poland, and Seattle, WA.

Amy Barnes, BSC (Honors), MBA (Distinction), spent 15 years in the corporate world, working in HR/Learning and Development/Business Engineering/OD roles for companies like Hilton and Forte Hotels, Rank Hovis McDougall, IPT Group, Lonza Group, ending as VP—Organization Effectiveness (and Management Board Member), responsible for strategy, change and talent. She then went on her own, receiving deep training as a Gestalt Therapist which she brings to her work as an OD Consultant and Executive Coach working with corporate leaders and their teams. Her clients include The Home Office, The Border Agency and the Competition Commission of the British Government; O2 Telefonica, Motorola, Guoman Hotels, Rank PLC, SpinBox, British Airways, and Warren Shapelle, as well not-for-profits like Brent Mind and St. Mungo's. A former ballet dancer and concert pianist, she now paints and integrates the arts into her projects whenever she can. What drives Amy is her belief in the capacity of people to go beyond what they think is possible and her desire to help create organizations where people can realize their potential.

Participants' Testimonials

"Do not take this course if you have any fears about examining who you are or why you work, live and breathe as you do now. Take it as climbers and divers take the heights and depths. Take it in order to know where it is possible to go."

--Virginia Robinson, OD Consultant, Toronto, Canada

"John and Amy's work reflects the kind of wisdom won, or perhaps gifted, by lives lived in courage, openness, and service. Come to the table. Share in the feast. Bring your warrior heart."

--Elizabeth Gorla, Leadership & Personal Development Coach

"I've been the recipient of John's guidance for over a decade. It has helped me merge companies, work through to my true self, and take my personal life to new heights. Their process is as transformative as it sounds." -–Ingvar Petursson, CIO, Nintendo

Event Details

Workshop: Just How Good Could You Be? The Shadow Knows…

Date: 31 August 2011 (Wed)
Time: 8.30am-5.30pm
Venue: Orchid Country Club

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For enquiry, please email us at admin@fns.sg

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Facilitating Transformation

Are you keen to discover about how to facilitate transformations?

 

Brief Synopsis

The workshop will be an interactive and reflective exploration of the 12 Strategies of Facilitating Transformation. The strategies are: Be Intentional, Be Present with Presence, Go for 100%, Tune in and Engage, Design for Transformation, Design the Learning Environment, Mind your Language, Breakthrough with Teams, Be a Transformer, Be Global and Local, Seek and Celebrate Feedback, and Bring your Whole Self to Work.

 

Who Should Attend 

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.

 

About the Workshop Facilitator

Douglas O'Loughlin is an Organisation Development (OD) Consultant, Lecturer, and Coach with more than 20 years of experience, and has worked in more than 20 countries. He has run Joy of Learning Consultants in Singapore since 1993, and is an adjunct facilitator and coach with the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) and Harthill Consulting.  He is also doing research for a PhD in Organisation Development, and lectures in the Masters programme in OD at Assumption University in Bangkok. He has also lectured in Facilitation, OB, and OD at the Singapore Institute of Management for 10 years. He has spoken at numerous conferences, and is actively involved in learning communities around the world.   He is a co-founder of the SIM ODG and the Asia OD Network, as well as part of the Future Search Network, World Café Community, and the OD Institute.

 

Participants' Testimonials

1. "Doug is a great facilitator – we have always learned a lot from him, and he never fails to energise us with activities, processes, stories, etc.  The 12 strategies in this book provide a valuable roadmap for those who have the desire to expand their effectiveness and facilitators." – Chong Siak Ching, CEO, Ascendas

 

2. "In our hands is a valuable resource containing the experiences, insights and wisdom of an extraordinary facilitator.  Trainers, facilitators, and even participants will benefit from the 12 strategies that Douglas has generously put together for all of us." – Michael Boey, First VP, Learning and OD, UOB Group

 

3. Having watched Doug during many presentations, his understanding of human affairs and organisation dynamics are topped only by his magical pedagogy and insights which he has built into the seemingly innocuous chapter titles of this book. This book will be your constant travelling companion for the work you do." – Horst Abraham, Adjunct Faculty, University of Michigan-Executive Education

  

Event Details

Workshop: "Facilitating Transformation – 12 Strategies for Creating Extraordinary

                  Breakthroughs with Groups".   

Date: 13 & 14 Oct 11 (Thu & Fri)
Time: 8.30am-5.30pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

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 For enquiry, please email us @ admin@fns.sg

 

Thank you for your support

 

Serious Learning, Through Fun Activities

On the 27^th September 2011, Paul Stuart will be the facilitator for a 1-day workshop titled "Serious Learning, Through Fun Activities".

Brief Synopsis

Many facilitators are already well aware of the benefits of techniques such as accelerated learning, multi-sensory learning, adult learning, self-discovery etc but may want to find out more about how to apply them in their sessions. This workshop will provide an introduction to how these principles have been developed and fine-tuned over a period of more than 30 years by the recognized master in his field – Thiagi.

Who Should Attend

· Facilitators, Trainers, Coaches, Lecturers, Consultants who already know of Dr Thiagi and his " seriously fun activities " and would like to experience and learn how to use them first hand.

· Anyone in the above roles who doesn't know about Thiagi and should find out what they are missing !

· Anyone else who would like to make their projects, meetings, workshops etc more interactive, engaging and effective.

About the Workshop Facilitator

Paul Stuart has recently achieved the status of a certified Thiagi facilitator, of which there are currently fewer than 10 worldwide; having completed 4 days of training, designed a game based on a Thiagi strategy and had one of his own activities approved by the Thiagi group.

Paul regularly conducts a wide range of training and consultancy projects covering topics such as Strategic Planning, Leadership, Assertiveness, Influencing, Negotiations, Creative Problem Solving, Communication, Leading Change, Conflict Management, Project Management, Maximizing Performance etc across the Asia Pacific region.

Participants' Testimonials

· "A useful take-away in every session."

· "An amazing interaction and sharing between the instructor and team members!"

· "I consider this to be the most useful course I have ever attended."

· "I was highly sceptical coming into the course, but I now recognise that these skills can be learned and applied directly to my

everyday work"

· "It was a well structured, effective, cohesive, and fun-filled program – allow us to appraise you with an "A" grade as facilitator and

trainer."

· Paul Stuart's presentation and methodology was enthusiastically embraced byour Management Team. He delivered the topics

comprehensively, interestingly and with much fervour."

· "Congratulations on the fantastic evaluations for the 2 courses you ran recently – veryseldom do facilitators achieve such scores and

yet you do so consistently. Well done!"

Event Details

Workshop: Serious Learning, Through Fun Activities

Date: 27 September 11 (Tue)
Time: 8.30am-5.30pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

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For enquiry, please email us at admin@fns.sg

Dynamic Facilitation Workshop

Are you keen to discover an advance level of facilitation skills?

Brief Synopsis

Dynamic Facilitation provides a transformational experience. Participants learn new skills, build new capabilities and often make fundamental life choices. The practice sessions and group demonstrations create the opportunity to address and solve real problems. Many previous participants have chosen to move forward as a group to practice the new discipline and to continue working on the issues they've worked on together in the workshop.

At the end of the workshop, participants will learn how to help people to:

¡ö achieve breakthroughs on difficult, emotional or ¡°impossible¡± issues

¡ö arrive at unanimous results and decisions

¡ö empower people to new levels of capability

¡ö build trust, respect, and the spirit of community in a group

¡ö grow in personal creativity and capability

What People 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

¡°This is the next level of facilitation...The workshop teaches you to use your whole brain.¡±

Barry Lubart, IBM

¡°A mind-expanding experience of an alternative approach to group discussion and problem-solving.¡±

Carol Chetkovich, Harvard¡¯s Kennedy School of Government

About the Workshop Facilitator

Jim Rough is a consultant, author, speaker and social innovator with Dynamic Facilitation Associates. 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."

Event Details

Workshop: Dynamic Facilitation Workshop

Date: 28, 29 & 30 Nov 11 (Mon- Wed)
Time: 8.30am-5.30pm
Venue: YWCA Fort Canning Lodge

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For enquiry, please email us at admin@fns.sg