2024 Annual Meeting

Welcome!

#IAFMeetup

Jan 13th 2025

Agenda

1. Welcome
2. IAF Global and IAF E&W
3. 2024 Board report, Q&A
4. Break-out conversations – questions, feedback & input
5. Looking ahead to 2025 & close

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Agenda

• Welcome
• IAF Global and IAF E&W
• 2024 Board report, Q&A
• Break-out conversations – questions, feedback & input
• Looking ahead to 2025 & close

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IAF Worldwide

IAF Worldwide

The International Association of Facilitators (IAF) is a participatory organisation with members in 65 countries which was established 30 years ago in 1994.

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IAF sets internationally accepted industry standards, provide accreditation, supports a community of practice, advocate and educates on the power of facilitation and embrace the diversity of facilitators.

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The IAF’s purpose can be summarised as �"enabling powerful change"�and

“promoting the power of facilitation”

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IAF Worldwide

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IAF Europe Middle East Region (EME)

• The England & Wales (E&W) chapter is part of the EME Region made up of over 600 members and 26 chapters

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• E&W is the largest chapter in the EME

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• Ireland and Scotland have their own chapters.

• New chapters continue to be established within the EME region e.g. Iran, Syria in recent years

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• The EME chapter leads meet on a monthly basis to share information and collaborate led by our new regional director Andrew Spiteri.

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• EME runs a bi-annual conference - in 2023 this was held in Berlin

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IAF England & Wales

IAF Facilitators & Friends

#IAFMeetup

Connecting facilitators, promoting facilitation and advancing professional standards through:

• nationally oriented online monthly online meet-ups;
• local in person volunteer led meet-ups in different regions
• in person annual conference - next one April 2025
• monthly podcast: FacilitationStories
• social media presence on Linked In and Facebook

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Everyone welcome

“A great way to build your facilitation skills whilst networking with like minded people”

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Agenda

• Welcome
• IAF Global and IAF E&W
• 2024 Board report, Q&A
• Break-out conversations – questions, feedback & input
• Looking ahead to 2025 & close

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Board Report

• Who’s on the Board
• Board and Leadership Activities
• Meetups 2024
• Conference 2024
• Podcast: Facilitation Stories
• Social Media
• Finances

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IAF E&W �Board

2025

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Jane Clift - outgoing Chair, �EME Liaison

Cat Duncan-Rees - Treasurer & Conf liaison

Paul Brand - Incoming Chair, EME liaison

Penny Pullan EDI lead

Sian Madden

Members & Friends

Engagement

IAF E&W Leadership Team (LT)

Currently 8 as two long standing members have stepped down

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We are looking to grow our leadership team in Q1 2025. No need to be an IAF member - if you’ve got an interest in facilitation and can donate some of your valuable time please get in touch by emailing chair@iaf-englandwales.org

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Current LT: Jane Clift (outgoing Chair/EME), Paul Brand (incoming Chair/EME), Helene Jewell (podcast & Bristol meetups), Lee Button (general), Paul Kelly (Conference & Meetups), Cat Duncan-Rees (Treasurer and Conference), Angel Takoree (general), Sian Madden (membership and friends engagement), Penny Pullan (EDI)

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Leadership Away days 2024

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• Move to two leadership retreats a year - January and September - give space for planning over conference
• Essential for leadership team to meet in person as well as online.
• Provides space for connection and reflection as well as planning & strategising
• January 2024 leadership session decision to address anti-racism formally through investing in anti-racism training for leadership team (Sept/Oct 2024) and developing RA4F offer �(reflected in 2025 activities)

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IAF E&W Membership (Mid’23)

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As of Dec ‘24

96 Members (+20)

20 CPFs

Facilitation Impact Awards

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• The Facilitation Impact Awards honour organisations that have used facilitation to achieve a measurable positive impact using facilitation.

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• Two members of IAF England and Wales chapter received Facilitation Impact Awards in 2024:

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• Platinum Award to Camilla Gordon, CPF and her client Thirty Percy on the Changemaker Trust Fund

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• Silver Award to Helene Jewell, CPF and her client Codema, Dublin’s Energy Agency on the Zero Together project.

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• Congratulations to our chapter members and their clients on these great achievements.

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IAF E&W Meetups

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E&W Meetups in 2024

• This years’ ‘experiment’ = monthly on-line meetups, 09:30 to 11:00 on first Tuesday of month - usually hosted by members of leadership team:
• Mix of open space and set themes, some of which have led to IAF Global asking hosts to repeat elsewhere
• Majority of people part of wider facilitators community (not paid-up IAF members)

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• Regular in person meet-ups taking place in London, Sheffield and Bristol:
• Some of which starting to partner with other bodies, like Environment Agency, for mutual benefit to wider facilitators’ community

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• International Facilitation Week - the move to the last week �of September in 2024 was difficult to support - too close to the UK summer break.

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#Facilitate2024

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Another successful conference in April 2024

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Facilitate2024: Celebrating and sharing the diversity of facilitation

🎫~129 [~80 2023] Tickets sold - max on one day 110 [~70]

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✅ 7 [6] Community funded tickets allocated

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💰 £385 raised in donations and raffle tickets

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There were 28 [24] sessions in 4 [3] tracks over 2 days exploring every part of this work.

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#Facilitate2024: Conference Tracks

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• Learning: Facilitation tools, techniques and skills
• Practical learning about different facilitations skills and methods.
• Growing: Personal Development and Reflection
• Opportunities to reflect on, and enhance your personal practice.
• Working: Professional / Business Development
• Insight about running a business, or working in-house.
• Including: Diversity, inclusivity and lived experience
• Ideas, methods and approaches to help make your practice more inclusive

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#Facilitate2024 Organisers + Helpers

Camilla Gordon, Paul Brand, Dan O’Driscoll, Cat Duncan-Rees, Paul Kelly, Caroline Jessop, Megan Evans, Amelia Wakeford, Lucy Hawthorn, Catherine Wilks

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and special mentions to people to helped with setup the night before, display and signage putter-uppers, dine-around hosts �and

everyone who mucked in when hosts needed tables putting up, taking down, chairs moving, AV cable wiggling and 100 other small contributions that made it happen and kept costs low

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Podcast - Facilitation Stories

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#IAFpodcast

https://facilitationstories.libsyn.com/

73 episodes (2023: 62) and 18,314 (2023: 15,328) downloads since October 2019

Podcast team: Nikki, Helene

Podcast - Facilitation Stories

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Podcast - Facilitation Stories

NEWS

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Pilar left the podcast team in July to focus on her many other projects but continues to offer words of wisdom and support.

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Started a new quarterly feature - Chapter Chats: each quarter we speak to Facilitators from different IAF chapters across the Europe and Middle East Region.

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#IAFpodcast

https://facilitationstories.libsyn.com/

Social Media Update 2024

• Social Media primarily focussed on LinkedIn, Eventbrite and Facebook due to LT capacity
• Eventbrite’s limitations created some capacity issues - now resolved
• No official posting on Twitter/X from chapter -
• now experimenting with BlueSky
• Used Slack as a community collaboration space to support conference
• EME continues to use Basecamp

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Social Media Numbers 2024

#IAFmeetup

Twitter / X - 5,271 #facilitation #IAFEW #IAFMeetup (not actively used)

LinkedIn local chapter – 1000

Linked in Company Page - 300

LinkedIn Global - 14,000

Facebook Group - 366

Eventbrite - 322 followers

BlueSky (Experimental): 187

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Finance

IAF England and Wales – Accounts 2024 (close of accounts 31^st Dec 24)

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Agenda

• Welcome
• IAF Global and IAF E&W
• 2024 Board report, Q&A
• Break-out conversations – questions, feedback & input
• Looking ahead to 2025 & close

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IAF England & Wales 2024

Prompts for your break-out conversations:

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• What have you enjoyed most in 2024 about being part of IAF England & Wales?

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• What do you appreciate that other networks, groups or teams do, that we could also be doing?

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• What would you like to see us doing in 2025?

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Agenda

• Welcome
• IAF Global and IAF E&W
• 2024 Board report, Q&A
• Break-out conversations – questions, feedback & input
• Looking ahead to 2025 & close

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E&W Board elections

• Electing two new board members to join our board and LT
• Vacant roles are Vice-Chair/Secretary and Comms /Marketing
• No prior board experience required.
• You must be an IAF members to join the board
• Board terms are 1 to 2 years and can be extended
• Four x 1 hour online board meetings per year
• Plus two in person leadership meetings �per year

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Elections Timeline

• Nominations from 26th Jan to 8th Feb
• Form will be send to our members supported by Linked In & FaceBook posts
• Members are asked to nominate themselves

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• Elections run from 10th Feb to 23rd Feb

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• Results announced towards end of February 2025

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• New members join board from 1st March 2025

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Race Ahead for Facilitators RA4F

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• RA4F special ‘thread’ alongside our Meetups, Conf, + Podcast
• Convening a variety of spaces and opportunities to grow and develop our ability to embed anti-racist behaviour and thinking in our personal lives and our work as facilitators.
• January Launch to community and on socials
• February Podcast with Bianca Jones
• March-April Online courses RA4F - tailored to facilitators�WITH online community of all course attendees
• Pre-Conf 1 day RA4F course
• Conf 1 or more sessions introducing to new people
• Post-Conf More online RA4F courses
• Beyond…. More to come

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Come to the conference!

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#Facilitate2025 Conference

• Two day or 1 day tickets available see eventbrite
• RA4F / Anti-racism woven into the conference
• response to feedback from our 2022 conference
• Come and learn, connect to others and be inspired
• Submit an idea to host a workshop by 15th Jan
• 45% of tickets sold already so don’t delay - get your ticket today!
• Pre-conference training offer for Thursday 24th April same venue - multiple options >>>

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#Facilitate2025 �Pre-Conference Training Offers

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Handover of Chair Role

I am handing over as chair to Paul Brand a long standing member of our LT, Board and conference team.

Thank you for attending today

Want to get involved in your chapter then �contact chair@iaf-englandwales.org

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Your leadership team needs you….

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