Online Meet-Ups

Facilitated by Kate Smith, KS Consulting

Kate is an experienced facilitator specialising in all things Strategy. In this meet-up, Kate will explore the difference between good strategy and bad strategy; why strategic planning is a misnomer; and offer some useful tools and frameworks for exploring strategy with your team or clients.

As always, this is a full participation session, so come prepared to share ideas, ask questions and get involved.

Facilitated by Kerri Price – Founder, The Facilitators Network

Have you ever been in a workshop where someone says something so crappy, you wonder whether they know they said it out-loud? You know the ones I mean, right? The ones that are disrespectful, hurtful, harmful and heading for conflict.

In this meet-up we’ll explore a simple framework to help you address these comments in a way that both calls them out and gives space for curiosity. How do you hold space in a way that encourages empathy and understanding for everyone involved?

This session is a vulnerable conversation and may trigger strong emotions. If you are choosing to participate, please come with an open-mind and a willingness to consider new perspectives.

Facilitated by Darryn Gray, Darryn Gray Consulting

Are you wanting new ideas for how to make your virtual workshops a more interactive? Been looking for a new tool to add to your virtual facilitation kete?

Darryn has been trailing and using a new presentation tool called Butter Scenes.  It’s a tool that that combines presentation, interaction, and whiteboarding tools—all in an easy-to-use slide builder. Easy for participants, powerful for you as a facilitator, and it works seamlessly with Zoom, Teams, Google Meet and of course within the Butter Video conferencing tool.

This session will be a behind the scenes tour of how it works, how easy it is to use and how quick it is to set up activities. If you want to check our Butter Scenes beforehand you can take a peek at https://www.butter.us/scenes.

Facilitated by Leeann Bassett, Face Up Now Social Media

Linked In is a great tool for making yourself known, building relationships and establishing yourself as an expert in your field. Leeann has run meet-ups for us before, but this time she is doing things a little differently. This meet-up will be run as a Q&A session, so you can bring the specific questions you want answered. This meet-up will be particularly useful for independent facilitators, but everyone is welcome.

Facilitated by Shaheen Hajira

As facilitators we want to make sure the spaces we create are inclusive and welcoming for all. However, that sometimes feels either too hard or that there are conflicting needs within the group.
In this session, we will explore how inclusive design practices can help us create spaces and environments that ensure all of our diverse participants feel included.

Key areas we will focus on:

• Creating accessible and engaging spaces for all
• Fostering inclusive communication and participation
• Supporting emotional safety

This is a highly interactive session where we focus on social learning and gain from the wisdom of the crowd.

Facilitated by Hannah Hardy-Jones

AI is here to stay and while it’s unlikely to replace the role of a facilitator any time soon, it can definitely add value to meetings, workshops and community conversations. In this session, Hannah will give an overview of what AI actually is, what you need to consider when using AI, and how you might use it in your facilitation practice. She will also introduce you to Contended AI, a New Zealand born platform that transcribes conversations to create meaningful insights.

Facilitated by Kerri Price

This meet-up is a chance to get to know other network members, while at the same time exploring a range of introduction and connection activities you can use in your own workshop sessions. For those who have been in the network for a while, we will be exploring some new activities that have not been introduced in a network meet-up before.

Facilitated by Donna Barlow-Rolleston
If you want to include more te reo Maori in your conversations or workshops, but lack the confidence to give it a go, this meet-up is for you. Donna Barlow-Rolleston will be stepping us through some introductory te reo phrases, and supporting us to get the pronunciation just right. It doesn’t matter where you are on the te reo journey, you’ll get some simple tips for feeling more confident along the way.