Conference C

Conference C will be held in the morning of September 4. We have 7 workshops for deep learning on different IAF core competencies. To help participants to choose the workshops, we design three icons to give participants a quick understanding of the theme of the workshop. These three icons are as follows:

C1：When things get really complex–formulas and stories for deciding whether to take the job and getting through it, if you do…
Presenter: Barbara MacKay, CPF
IAF Core Competencies: A, B, F
Number of participants: 6-30

We have all had client requests that either initially seem easy and turn into something dramatically different or even from the beginning reach the heights of complexity. You wonder if you should take the job. And then if you do, you wonder how you will get through it.
In this session, I will share my own “formulas” and “good, bad and ugly stories’ of how..more 

C2(advance)：Holacracy–Discover a Better Way of Working, and how to facilitate through this Peer-to-peer revolution
Presenter: Keke Quei
IAF Core Competencies: A, B, C, D, E, F
Number of participants: 20-200

There is an essential role the facilitators play in this new “social technology” for governing and operating the organizations of the future – ones that authentically distribute authority, and embed flexibility and self-organization into the rules and processes through which the organization structures itself and goes about the businesses – built by the members who...more 

C3：Truth About Life–Collaboration in Facilitation
Presenter: Lawrence Philbrook, CPF
IAF Core Competencies: A, C, E, F
Number of participants: 6+

Co-Facilitation with other facilitators and with clients or internal facilitators is an expanding part of our work as facilitators. People want to participate and not just get instructions so more and more interactivity is becoming a given. Yet many of the facilitators I train and co-work with tell me it is hard to work authentically as partners with other facilitators...more 

C4：Facilitation Meets Feng Shui: An East-West Dialogue and Demonstration
Presenter: Lynda Baker, CPF
IAF Core Competencies: A, B, C, D, E, F
Number of participants: 20-60

Have you ever found yourself facilitating a meeting that seems to be going nowhere? Participation may be sluggish, conversations appear to be at a stalemate and progress is nowhere in sight?
Lynda Baker has explored the ancient art of Feng Shui and how the art of freeing...more 

C5：Transformative Facilitation: Welcoming Conflict in the Service of Connection and Collaboration
Presenter: Jim & Jori Manske
IAF Core Competencies: A, B, C, D, E, F
Number of participants: unlimited

Many facilitation courses do an excellent job of teaching participants the practical nuts and bolts of facilitation practice, e.g. how to set an agenda, how to utilize processes to understand problems, how to move toward resolution with brainstorming, etc...more 

C6：Transformation vs Attachment – are values and attachments dangerous in working with ambiguity and shifting to emergent paradigms?
Presenter: Tom Schwarz, CPF
IAF Core Competencies: A, B, C, D, E, F
Number of participants: 10-30

We want to soar in our capacities to shift and flex to emergent, to work with ambiguity and chaos – and yet are anchored by attachments (ours and others) – this session carries a ‘dangerous ideas’ warning – your mind will change!
Explore your attachment to ideas, stereotypes and approaches –with a highly experiential...more 

C7：“The Art of Transformational Facilitation”
Presenter: Vinay Kumar, CPF; Farah Shahed, CPF
IAF Core Competencies: B, C
Number of participants: 12+

Just as we live in an environment where the elements of nature coexist, a facilitator plays the role of enabling a similar environment and using an adaptive and fluid approach that enables them to co-create a transformative climate with their diverse groups. This workshop focuses on the role a...more