Building Capacity in Independent Facilitation – An OIFN Shared Learning Series

Course 3: Conscious Listening and Speaking

We are called to find a way to listen with our entire being to what matters the most to the people we serve and our family members who live with a disability.  Our aim is to meaningfully come to know those we serve so that we can support them set the pace and direction of change.

Today conversation is skewed by a barrage of questions with little space left to have something new emerge spontaneously in our speaking and listening.

This in-depth webinar offers participants an expanded imagination of what it takes to be truly present in a conversation and hold space.

Part One: Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 9:00am – 3:30pm

Part Two: Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 10:00am – 12:00pm

Optional Mentoring Conversation – times will be scheduled in consultation with participants

COST

$65 for the course

+ $50 for the mentoring conversation

or register for the whole series for $390.00

Courses will be held virtually using Zoom Video Conferencing.

Links to the Zoom meeting will be sent by e-mail, once registration is confirmed.

ABOUT THE SERIES
OIFN is offering this shared learning series for people living with developmental disabilities, family members and/or loved ones, and aspiring and experienced independent facilitators.

Please see the series flyer to learn more.

Building Capacity in Independent Facilitation – An OIFN Shared Learning Series

Course 3: Conscious Listening and Speaking

We are called to find a way to listen with our entire being to what matters the most to the people we serve and our family members who live with a disability.  Our aim is to meaningfully come to know those we serve so that we can support them set the pace and direction of change.

Today conversation is skewed by a barrage of questions with little space left to have something new emerge spontaneously in our speaking and listening.

This in-depth webinar offers participants an expanded imagination of what it takes to be truly present in a conversation and hold space.

Part One: Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 9:00am – 3:30pm

Part Two: Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 10:00am – 12:00pm

Optional Mentoring Conversation – times will be scheduled in consultation with participants

COST

$65 for the course

+ $50 for the mentoring conversation

or register for the whole series for $390.00

Courses will be held virtually using Zoom Video Conferencing.

Links to the Zoom meeting will be sent by e-mail, once registration is confirmed.

ABOUT THE SERIES
OIFN is offering this shared learning series for people living with developmental disabilities, family members and/or loved ones, and aspiring and experienced independent facilitators.

Please see the series flyer to learn more.

Building Capacity in Independent Facilitation – An OIFN Shared Learning Series

Course 4: Deepening Mindful Practice

Independent facilitators are called upon on a day to day basis to bear witness to other people’s vulnerability and wounding life experiences. Many of the life circumstances that people experience are complex and defy simple answers. Facilitators come to understand while doing this work that relationships are the only real safeguard and begin to understand the necessity of building shared purpose between people. This webinar helps Facilitators understand their role in walking alongside people as they transform their lives. To genuinely build this capacity for taking a “liberation mindset” requires facilitators to develop several practices that will help renew their commitment to and deepen their capacity for mindful presence.

Capacities include:

• To contemplate the role of attention and intention in your practice and in your life.
• To become more mindful in every moment.
• To cultivate a questioning stance.
• To develop a better understanding of and appreciation for power dynamics.
• To cultivate situational awareness.
• To intentionally develop a “community of practice” for ourselves.
• To build the capacity to observe what is there without projecting.
• To honour and hold people’s lived experience and stories.

Part One: Monday, May 17, 2021, 9:00am – 3:30pm

Part Two: Monday, May 31, 2021, 10:00am – 3:30pm

Required Mentoring Conversation – times will be scheduled in consultation with participants

COST

$100 for the course and required mentoring session

or register for the whole series for $390.00

Courses will be held virtually using Zoom Video Conferencing.

Links to the Zoom meeting will be sent by e-mail, once registration is confirmed.

ABOUT THE SERIES
OIFN is offering this shared learning series for people living with developmental disabilities, family members and/or loved ones, and aspiring and experienced independent facilitators.

Please see the series flyer to learn more.

Building Capacity in Independent Facilitation – An OIFN Shared Learning Series

Course 4: Deepening Mindful Practice

Independent facilitators are called upon on a day to day basis to bear witness to other people’s vulnerability and wounding life experiences. Many of the life circumstances that people experience are complex and defy simple answers. Facilitators come to understand while doing this work that relationships are the only real safeguard and begin to understand the necessity of building shared purpose between people. This webinar helps Facilitators understand their role in walking alongside people as they transform their lives. To genuinely build this capacity for taking a “liberation mindset” requires facilitators to develop several practices that will help renew their commitment to and deepen their capacity for mindful presence.

Capacities include:

• To contemplate the role of attention and intention in your practice and in your life.
• To become more mindful in every moment.
• To cultivate a questioning stance.
• To develop a better understanding of and appreciation for power dynamics.
• To cultivate situational awareness.
• To intentionally develop a “community of practice” for ourselves.
• To build the capacity to observe what is there without projecting.
• To honour and hold people’s lived experience and stories.

Part One: Monday, May 17, 2021, 9:00am – 3:30pm

Part Two: Monday, May 31, 2021, 10:00am – 3:30pm

Required Mentoring Conversation – times will be scheduled in consultation with participants

COST

$100 for the course and required mentoring session

or register for the whole series for $390.00

Courses will be held virtually using Zoom Video Conferencing.

Links to the Zoom meeting will be sent by e-mail, once registration is confirmed.

ABOUT THE SERIES
OIFN is offering this shared learning series for people living with developmental disabilities, family members and/or loved ones, and aspiring and experienced independent facilitators.

Please see the series flyer to learn more.

Building Capacity in Independent Facilitation – An OIFN Shared Learning Series

Course 5: Fostering Conversations about What Matters

This webinar acknowledges the unique role that independent facilitators play in inviting people into conversations about change.

Participants will reflect on their own journey in terms of creating change in their own lives and supporting others as they take up changes big and small.

Themes

• Ways to support people to identify those stories they have about themselves that they feel are stuck and that they want to change.
• How the science of neurobiology and neuroscience can help us understand how people get stuck.
• Emotional literacy and helping people manage their fears, doubts and feelings.
• Learning how to offer clarifying conversations that help people gain insight into sources of conflict and figure out where their visions converge and/or diverge.
• Getting better at mindful attention and triggers and how to stay in a conversation when emotions run high.
• Creating and ensuring safety when helping to hold a difficult conversation.

Part One: Wednesday, June 17, 2021, 9:00am – 3:30pm

Part Two: Wednesday, June 24, 2021, 10:00am – 12:00pm

Optional Mentoring Conversation – times will be scheduled in consultation with participants

COST

$65 for the course

+ $50 for the mentoring conversation

or register for the whole series for $390.00

Courses will be held virtually using Zoom Video Conferencing.

Links to the Zoom meeting will be sent by e-mail, once registration is confirmed.

ABOUT THE SERIES
OIFN is offering this shared learning series for people living with developmental disabilities, family members and/or loved ones, and aspiring and experienced independent facilitators.

Please see the series flyer to learn more.

Building Capacity in Independent Facilitation – An OIFN Shared Learning Series

Course 5: Fostering Conversations about What Matters

This webinar acknowledges the unique role that independent facilitators play in inviting people into conversations about change.

Participants will reflect on their own journey in terms of creating change in their own lives and supporting others as they take up changes big and small.

Themes

• Ways to support people to identify those stories they have about themselves that they feel are stuck and that they want to change.
• How the science of neurobiology and neuroscience can help us understand how people get stuck.
• Emotional literacy and helping people manage their fears, doubts and feelings.
• Learning how to offer clarifying conversations that help people gain insight into sources of conflict and figure out where their visions converge and/or diverge.
• Getting better at mindful attention and triggers and how to stay in a conversation when emotions run high.
• Creating and ensuring safety when helping to hold a difficult conversation.

Part One: Wednesday, June 17, 2021, 9:00am – 3:30pm

Part Two: Wednesday, June 24, 2021, 10:00am – 12:00pm

Optional Mentoring Conversation – times will be scheduled in consultation with participants

COST

$65 for the course

+ $50 for the mentoring conversation

or register for the whole series for $390.00

Courses will be held virtually using Zoom Video Conferencing.

Links to the Zoom meeting will be sent by e-mail, once registration is confirmed.

ABOUT THE SERIES
OIFN is offering this shared learning series for people living with developmental disabilities, family members and/or loved ones, and aspiring and experienced independent facilitators.

Please see the series flyer to learn more.