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Our Advanced Program for 2024 is bigger and better
We’ve launched our Advanced Facilitation course for 2024 with updates designed to deepen the learning experience. The course has evolved significantly in the past few years, adapting to online...
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Our year of transition
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” — Albert Einstein This year we reinvented ourselves at Groupwork Centre, embracing...
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Singing the praises of Pub Choir
Andrea Jones finds ‘groupness’ with a songsheet in one hand and a chardonnay in the other Over many years I’ve sung in choirs in my local area and I’ve always found community, connection and fun. I...
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Making Magic
What does good collaboration look like? Nancy Nuñez reflects on a maternal health project in Melbourne’s west that could be a model for others There’s nothing quite like being part of a group that’s...
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Facilitating in the social media scrum
Doom scrolling the other day I noticed not for the first time, the high-voltage passion with which people engage in content that has some kind of social change conscience to it. There are strong...
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The course that changes lives
As we prepare for our next intake in the advanced program of group facilitation, we’ve been thinking about what this six-month course offers and why so many of our graduates refer to it as...
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Normalising: How do we handle sensitivities around this microskill?
Who wants to be normal? It was a question I often asked myself in my youth. Normal to me meant straight, mainstream, suburbia. As a queer kid growing up without any role models, I didn’t know too much....
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Israel and Palestine… Superman’s not coming
We have a way, we humans, of breaking things into parts, as a way to understand what’s happening. Take the human body. It’s one amazing structure that has many parts which all function together. While...
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Look! It’s a blind spot
I found a blind spot and had a good look around I was feeling uncomfortable. My gut was telling me something was wrong, but I couldn’t see or hear what it was. I could only feel the presence of an...
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Should I say something?
As facilitators, we spend a lot of time with groups. Still, no matter how well we read the room, it can still be easy to overlook the challenges and feelings that can arise for a participant in any...
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