The Authentic Facilitator

FNS is please to inform that we are organising another course for budding facilitators in Singapore.

The Authentic Facilitator

For Whom

Facilitators, Teachers, Trainers, Supervisors, Managers, HRD/ OD Professionals, Change Agents, Team Leaders, Project Leaders, Community Leaders, Therapists, Marketing consultants, Mediators, Quality Consultants, and anyone who works with groups and wants to be authentic.

When

19-20 September 2007 (Wednesday-Thursday) 8:30am to 5:30pm

Venue

YWCA Fort Canning Lodge 6 Fort Canning Road, Singapore 179494 Website: http://www.ywcafclodge.org.sg

Course Fees
(per participant, including meals and handouts)

Register before 15 July 2007: SGD 350 (IAF Members) Or SGD 450 (Non-Members)

Register from 16 July 2007 onwards: SGD 550 (IAF Members) Or SGD 650 (Non-Members)

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

1) Make more informed choices and decisions while designing & delivering facilitation.

2) See themselves and the world around them in a broader more comprehensive and effective way.

3) More easily appreciate and exercise personal gifts and attributes that they bring as facilitators.

4) Communicate more skillfully.

Methodology

What do I uniquely contribute? What do I excel in? Where will I be most successful? - An opportunity to explore these profoundly important and significant questions which shape our facilitation success; interpersonal relationships; and personal sense of achievement.

This a highly facilitated workshop ideal for those facing major change or who are seeking clarity and focus in the facilitation and/or their careers. Facilitators will draw on TMS, Firo-B, MBTI, Ken Wilber, Eckhart Tolle amongst others when offering feedback. 1-1 coaching will also be available.

Contents for Day 1

Introductory theory, case studies, setting the scene
Facilitation - Where am I now?
What does success mean for me?
A personal audit
Creative activities - Self Awareness
Preferences, Needs and Intuition Content

Contents for Day 2

Coaching – The Dynamic Me
Motivation, Ego, Vocation – Debate and Reflection
Continuous Professional Development Plans
Presentations, Feedback and Conclusion

The Workshop Facilitators

Fiona O'Shaughnessy

Ms. Fiona O'Shaughnessy. Fiona offers over 16 years Learning & Development (L&D) experience and has facilitated over 60,000 participants with the British Council's Professional Development Centre in Singapore. Fiona has written/edited over 50 articles on L&D. She has worked as an Instructional Designer for an e-learning company in Ireland and as a Researcher at Trinity College Dublin. Fiona has lived and worked in Indonesia, Thailand, New Zealand, France and Turkey.

Jane Grafton

Ms. Jane Grafton. Jane is a freelance Executive Coach/OD Consultant and uses Facilitation as her primary way of working. She divides her working year between the UK and Singapore. As a Training Consultant with the British Council in Singapore she spent 4 years facilitating groups of managers. Whilst serving as a Major in the British Army she was awarded the MBE for published work on Leadership Development.

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

Photo Journal for 12 May 2007' 17th FNS Forum

Participants at the 17th FNS Gathering On 12 May 2007

We saw 52 forum members turned up at the gathering today.

These were what they said about the event:

· Really enjoyed it. Thanks Mun Ying! Wish we had more time so that we did not have to rush at the end.

· I enjoyed the session. Learnt a new tool and learnt something new about myself.

· Very good experience. Trainer knew what he was talking about. He put in a lot of hard work.

· Glad to be re-connecting. Great sharing and enthusiasm in the group.

· The topic of corporate metaphor is interesting. It will be useful if people can talk about how metaphors can be used in organization.

Here are the rest of the photographs.

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Republic Polytechnic's Certificate in Organisational Facilitation

Congratulation to all participants who graduated from the 2nd run of the Certificate in Organisational Facilitation (COF) held recently at the Republic Polytechnic.

10th Annual IAF Asia Facilitator Conference 2007

IAF Board Meeting in KL, Malaysia

We are please to announce that the Organising Team of the 10th Annual IAF Asia Facilitator Conference, Malaysia 2007, has invited all facilitators to the event.

Participants of the 10th Annual IAF Asia Facilitator Conference - Malaysia

FNS Team Setting Up the FNS Table in KL

A delegate of facilitators from Singapore participated in this event in KL, Malaysia, in Jul 2007.

Cultural Show on the Last Night of the Conference

The theme was 'The Gems and Jewels of Facilitation'.

Participants discussing and sharing ideas

Click here to find out more about its programme.

Training and Development of Facilitators

Facilitators Network Singapore conducts training courses and development programmes that help facilitators upgrade their competencies and skills, and let them work towards their IAF CPF certification.

Programmes offered by FNS

Foundational Facilitation Workshop (FFW)

Participants of FFW10 (Jan'07)

This workshop introduces the IAF CPF competencies and serves as an entry level workshop for aspiring facilitators.


Specialized Facilitation Workshop (SFW)

Is a series of independent workshops that focuses on specific IAF CPF competencies for facilitators.

Facilitation Skills for Professionals (FSP)

Is a series of independent workshops that introduce facilitative practices for leaders, managers, trainers, instructors, teachers, parents to enhance their professional effectiveness.

Premier Facilitation Workshop (PFW)

Is a series of independent workshops that are conducted by established and published masters in the field of facilitation.

Complementary Development Programs (CDP)

A series of independent workshops to build and maintain a base of professional knowledge in management and organizational systems.

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Photo Journal for 16th FNS Forum on 10 Mar 2007

The photographs taken at the last forum are now available.

You may visit Facilitators Network Singapore's Photo Journals for these.

17th FNS Forum On 12 May 2007

Were there situations where your participants were having problems with issues that were difficult to articulate? Had they pondered but couldn't uncover the root cause and find the means to resolve them? If you have this experience, then the methodology of 'Visual Journelling' maybe what you are looking for to help your participants and enhance your skills as a facilitator. Visual Journelling allows people to create dialogues between their drawings and their emotions through deep reflection.

Once again, we are organising another facilitators network session on 12 May 2007.

Participants @ 10 Mar 2007's Session

During the 17th FNS Forum, Mr Lau Mun Ying, a creative coach and award winning lecturer from the Singapore Polytechnic, will present the techniques of Visual Journelling. The programme for the morning is as followed:

Time

0830 Signing In (Payment of S$10.00 @ the doors)

0900

Checking in & Ice Breaking
Introduction to 'Visual Journelling' (Co-facilitated by Mr Lee Seng Teck)

Warm Up Drawings (Printouts and stationaries are provided
Tea Break
Journelling of Life Challenges

Solution Generation Through Metaphor

1200 Conclusion, Closing Circle & Checking Out

1230 Session Ends

Please log onto http://www.fns.sg/current_programs.htm to register for the session and to obtain the address for the venue.

Bio of Mr Lau Mun Ying

Mun Ying is a creativity coach and award-winning lecturer at the Singapore Polytechnic's School of Design, specialising in topics of Creativity and Design Thinking, Scriptwriting and Drawing/Storyboarding, and Media and Branding Theory.

An inveterate life-long learner with a passion for the arts, creativity and imagination, Mun Ying is currently pursuing certifications in creative arts therapy and coaching. He has studied under renowned psychologist Arnold Mindell Ph.D. (Founder of Process-Oriented Psychology and author of Dreambody and The Dream-maker's Apprentice) and psychotherapist Eric Maisel, Ph.D. (Founding Creativity Coach and author of Coaching the Artist Within and Fearless Creating).

A graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Communications at the University of Oregon, Mun Ying has had a diverse range of work experiences in the creative industries. He has been the Associate Editor for the Northwest Asian Weekly newspaper in Seattle , WA; Research Director for Exhilarated! Edusystems, a transformational coaching company; Games Writer/Developer with Game-Online; Copy-writer and Features-writer, with works published in Asia-Online, Vacation and Be. Magazine, and the Straits Times. He has also serve stints as Script Reader for the Singapore Film Commission and Script Judge for the Singapore National Screenwriting Competition in 2005, as well as being the former Secretariat and Script Coach for the Screenwriters Association (Singapore).

Mun Ying has conducted workshops for the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), Media Development Authority (MDA) and the Screenwriters Association ( Singapore ). He is a member of the Creativity Coaching Association, USA , and is currently engaged in on-going research on incorporating mythic journeys, metaphors, symbolic modelling, games/simulations as creativity coaching tools in academic and corporate training settings.