AGM 2007

For further information about the courses and venues see http://www.clearhorizon.com.au/training-mentoring/training-program-2012/.

ALARA is planning a Christmas get together at Ortrun's place on Thursday 15 December from 6.00pm. If you are planning to join the festivities please contact Joan Bulcock on 07 3374 1957.

Regards
Joan

Dear All

For our last conversation for the year, Greg Nathan will present a case study on the learning processes used at a recent Summit for field managers in franchise systems, and some of the research he has conducted on what drives the success of small business people operating within franchise systems. Please see the attached flyer for more detail.

The venue will be
the Moreno Collegium at 45 Clarence Road, Coorparoo, near the train line,
times are from 5.30pm to 8.00pm
Drinks and nibbles will be provided for the small investment of $20.00 which can be paid at the door.

Please let us know you are coming.

This is a cordial invitation to attend a conference about

Learning how to learn in higher education: Students do action research to improve their practice as learners

The conference is about an innovative way of enabling new undergraduate students to learn how to learn in higher education. It is based on the INQUIRY INTO LEARNING (IIL) approach which is presented in the new
Routledge publication: Developing Inquiry for Learning. A personal copy of the book will be sent to you before the conference. It describes and explains the approach and demonstrates its application and development.

This year my annual two-day action learning workshop is on the weekend of 22-23 October. As usual, it will be an experiential and involving workshop addressing practical concepts, processes and skills.

The fee is $660, or $550 if paid in full before 5 October. A few $330 bursaries are available for deserving cases.

Why action learning? Evaluations of action learning programs have found them a low cost and high impact alternative to conventional training.

I'm also interested in its suitability for leadership development, and for helping organisations to become less bureaucratic and more resilient. These will be emphases at the workshop, together with attention to the practicalities of setting up an effective action learning program.

On the weekend of 20-21 August I'm offering my annual two-day workshop on
advanced facilitation skills. It's priced at $660 (or $550 if paid in full
by 4 August). For deserving cases we offer a small number of half price
bursaries.

The workshop is intended for people who already have some facilitation
experience. This may be as consultants or facilitators, or as team leaders
or educators with a facilitative leadership style.

I'll be responsive to the needs of actual participants. However, I
anticipate that there will be a mix or theory, discussion, and practice in a
supportive environment.

Dear All

Bob Dick will be presenting our next Conversation/Seminar on 14 July at Moreno Collegium.

Bob will be discussing “Action Learning for Building Resilience”. He will offer some ways of using action learning to deal with unexpected surprises in store for your organisaton.

See attached flyer for more details. I look forward to seeing you there.
Warm regards
Joan

The Centre for the Child and the Family at Liverpool Hope University invites you to a practitioner-led conference on 23rd June 2011, which disseminates the findings of a Collaborative Inquiry focusing on the question: “How can we, individually and collectively, integrate research and practice to improve the wellbeing of children?”

This project, led by Dr Joan Walton and Janice Darkes-Sutcliffe, takes an innovative action research approach to professional development.

The aim of the project is:

To demonstrably improve the wellbeing of children and young people through the facilitation of a collaborative inquiry with practitioners and managers who ask and respond to the questions:

I notice an increasing interest in facilitation. I'm therefore continuing to present a couple of facilitation workshops each year. In 2011 the first of them will be my two day skills-oriented workshop "Foundations of facilitation", in Brisbane on 18-19 June.

If you have colleagues or clients whom you think will benefit, I'd be grateful if you'd bring it to their attention. It's priced at $660 ($600 + GST). For deserving cases we also offer a small number of half price bursaries.

This workshop is intended for novices in facilitation who are required to facilitate small groups (whether or not they think of it in those terms) or who expect their work to develop in that direction.

Australasian Evaluation Society
P O Box 5223
Lyneham ACT 2602

Just a reminder about the forthcoming workshops with Kate McKegg & Nan Wehipeihana in Brisbane and Cairns in June.

The workshop will be useful for internal and external evaluators, experienced policy makers and program developers keen to effectively infuse evaluative thinking, learning and knowledge into collaborative policy and program development, particularly in innovative and complex situations.

Brisbane - Friday 17 June 2011
Cairns - Monday 20 June 2011