Monday, April 30, 2007

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.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

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.

Join FNS's YahooGroup to keep updated on the latest training courses and development programmes that may come on line for the rest of the year.

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.