Complex Facilitation Program

10 WEEK THEORY AND PRACTICE INTENSIVE

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Course Outline

Viv Read is the author of the chapter on complex facilitation entitled ‘Facilitation Can Be Complex (and It Certainly Should Be)’ in the 2020 CYNEFIN® weaving sense-making into the fabric of our world publication by Dave Snowden & Friends. Viv Read and Julie Cunningham are authorised The Cynefin® Co Facilitators.

Please note, participants numbers on this program are deliberately limited to enable maximum engagement and a customised experience.

Complex Facilitation – Theory and Practice Intensive - MAY 2025

$4,400.00 incl GST

Join highly experienced and skilled practitioners to explore the implications and practical application of complex facilitation methodologies.

Description

Please note, participants numbers on this program are deliberately limited to enable maximum engagement and a customised experience.

Upcoming Course Availability

4.00 pm - 6.30 pm

Australian Eastern Standard Time (Brisbane)

4.00 pm - 6.30 pm

Australian Eastern Standard Time (Brisbane)

Participants will be expected to

Attend a 2.5-hour session every two weeks, for five weeks, which will be a mixture of theory and practice
This program uses a combination of Zoom (for breakout rooms) and Conceptboard (for content collection and monitoring) If you are unsure that your current devices or software will be able to engage using this combination, our technical support consultant is available to have a conversation with you once you have registered.
Work together with 2 other (minimum) participants in between to undertake practical applications, supported with coaching by facilitators
Assist their team member(s) to ‘catch up’ if there is an unavoidable absence.

Participants will receive:

5 sessions of 2.5 hours of theory (odd weeks)
5 sessions of peer group practice (even weeks) including coaching by facilitators during each practice session
6 hours of mentoring for individual activities
Resource materials.

Investment:

Program total $4,400 per person (inc GST)

Discounts:

10% apply for 3 or more participants from the same organisation (or practitioner with clients)
15% Not-for-Profit or Student

Please Note:

Some scholarships may be available. Please apply directly here
This course is available for in-house delivery.
Please contact…. Julie Cunningham or Viv Read

Complex facilitation processes and methods are disruptive. Expectations and experiences are challenging for facilitators and participants.

Can you spot the difference…a situation where facilitators shift from being an expert in the process and driving to outcomes to one where the facilitator designs and uses methods and processes that enables meaning to emerge from participants. Complex facilitation mirrors the principles of complexity and therefore facilitation principles include:

Light footprint faciliation versus controlling direction and problem solving
Operating at the whole of system level versus individual participant level
Information is shared and socialised versus report-backs
Enough agreement to take action versus consensus.

Explore the practical application of complex facilitation methodologies and the implications for clients, facilitators and participants.

Using the Cynefin® complexity framework as the foundation, the program is designed to explore the theory as the basis for practice in participant’s own contexts. You will develop an understanding of the characteristics of different facilitation approaches, and specifically related to complex facilitation:

How and where you start matters (bounded applicability)
Role and mandate of the facilitator and the impact on participants
Practice the design and application of core complex facilitation methods
How to design an end-to-end process that encompasses discovering, sensemaking/meaning making and insights to action.

$4,400.00 incl GST

Join highly experienced and skilled practitioners to explore the implications and practical application of complex facilitation methodologies.

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Our FaciliTators

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Viv Read

Viv has extensive experience as a manager and consultant in systems change, stakeholder engagement, culture change and strategy and innovation. Building on

expertise developed in major workplace reform projects for organisations such as Lend Lease, Carlton United Breweries, Department of Employment.

position

Julie Cunningham

Julie works closely with organisations to help lift performance through capability cultivation. She leads the application of a growing body of work assisting

organisations to work with and understand complexity, develop curiosity, explore disruption and identify blind spots through a brain savvy lens. This is aligned with growing emphasis to drive innovation, think differently and build sustainable capability.

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