Facilitation

Reflections from the IAF Conference in Birmingham, 18th and 19th October 2019

Reflections from the IAF Conference in Birmingham, 18th and 19th October 2019

There were around 100 facilitators in one room in Birmingham earlier this month – from all parts of Great Britain, also Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Canada… What is the collective noun for facilitators?

All that and more in this round up of personal reflections on the IAF England & Wales Conference.

Creating a 'Thinking Environment'

Creating a 'Thinking Environment'

Nancy Kline’s Time to Think was one of the first books I read about coaching, and it has had a profound effect on my work with groups and in one-to-one settings.  Kline believes that “everything we do depends for its quality on the thinking we do first. Our thinking depends on the quality of our attention for each other”. 

Here’s her guidance on how to create a holistic setting which enables people to do their best thinking.