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IAF 2009 Canada Tour Details
Have you Registered?
One workshop, Two leading facilitators, Two books, Four locations—Priceless insights.
Instructors: Dorothy Strachan & Marian Pitters
* Halifax-Dartmouth (October 15-16)
* Edmonton (October 26-27)
* Winnipeg (October 29-30)
* Vancouver (November 5-6)
Organized by the International Association of Facilitators, this is a must-participate professional development event for facilitators in a broad range of situations: consultants, managers, coaches, educators, event planners and others who facilitate groups.
* Are you interested in optimizing group outcomes?
* Do you want dynamic techniques and tools at your fingertips for designing and managing facilitated processes?
* Do you spend a lot of time looking for the right questions to drive group processes?
* Are you looking for an excellent learning opportunity to enhance your facilitation knowledge?
* Would you like to expand your facilitation network?
This hands-on, interactive workshop combines useful knowledge with practical skill development in a collegial learning atmosphere.
Dorothy Strachan and Marian Pitters are two of the most experienced and respected practitioners, authors, and trainers in the world-wide facilitation community. Marian and Dorothy are long-time, successful consultants with their own extensive process consulting/facilitation businesses. Their approaches and ideas are tested and refined in daily practice. What they say is also what they do!
Early-bird pricing (a savings of $100) is in effect until October 1 ($595.00 for IAF members, and $745.00 for non-members).
The low workshop price includes books:
Managing Facilitated Processes: A Guide for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers, Event Planners and Educators, by Dorothy Strachan and Marian Pitters (2009).
And either Making Questions Work: A Guide to What and How to Ask for Facilitators, Consultants, Managers, Coaches and Educators, by Dorothy Strachan (2007), or, at the Halifax workshop, Process Design: Making It Work: A Practical Guide to What to Do When and How for Facilitators, Consultants, Managers and Coaches, by Dorothy Strachan and Paul Tomlinson (2008).
Additional workshop resource materials, continental breakfasts, lunches, and breaks are also included.
For more details on each workshop and to register, go to: www.goldenplanners.ca/IAF/IAF2009. Or contact tour organizers by e-mail.
August 17, 2009
IAF Canada Tour 2009!
Plans for the IAF Canada Tour 2009, with Dorothy Strachan and Marian Pitters, are moving along.
More information will be out soon on the fall 2009 Tour stops in western and eastern Canada. In the meantime, we are looking for volunteers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Northwest Territories, and British Columbia who would like to lead or join local teams to promote the workshops in your areas.
We are also looking for a volunteer willing to provide overall leadership and coordination to the promotion of the Tour. These are absolutely essential roles if we are to make the 2009 Tour a real success!
If you are interested in helping to make this excellent professional development event happen, please contact John Butcher at (613) 725-2280 or by email.
June 19, 2009
2010 Conference Workshop Proposals & Presentations [due June 19]
The conference theme for 2010 is “Collaboration in Action.” We’re looking for folks who can share their skills, their experiences and their insights surrounding how collaboration is facilitated in their communities, in their work, and in their lives. So, if you or someone you know has a great facilitation story please download and submit a proposal for the 2010 IAF-North America Conference in Chicago, Illinois.
June 1, 2009
Call for proposals: MAFN Workshop Series [due Friday, June 5]
If you have ever thought about doing a workshop, please give Wayne Vick, MAFN Executive Director a call (703-913-6513) so he can help you shape the proposal. The deadline for proposal submissions is fast approaching: this Friday June 5. They are seeking 16 interactive workshops presenting the concepts and practices of group facilitators across the broad spectrum of Organization Development in two venues:
1) the onsite DC Facilitators Workshop Series where workshops are designed around a 3 hour time window for a group of 25 to 50 facilitators from novices to experts; and
2) the Online Member Meetings uses www.WebIQ.net and teleconferencing services to present 6 – 2 hour workshops.
For facilitators outside of the region this is a great venue – no travel and we provide design help with your workshop to best utilize the services. If you are interested in delivering a workshop for MAFN, please send a proposal with your full contact information and resume to Wayne@FacilitationCenter.com. For more information about what should be included in the proposal, go to the MAFN website.
June 1, 2009
