Facilitating for Participation

Are you a facilitator, trainer, community organiser, or someone who regularly brings groups together, looking to improve your facilitation skills?

Are you often pulled into running workshops and would like to make them more interactive?

Or maybe you work with a diverse range of participants and want to help everyone engage, contribute and shape what happens?

Come along to this half-day masterclass with Inclusion Specialist Shaheen and Participation Specialist Dimitrios, timed to coincide with Inclusion at Work Week (16–20 November).

Along with experiencing engaging, inclusive and participatory facilitation in practice, you will walk away with strategies to:

- widen participation through thoughtful design and facilitation, recognising different needs and barriers to taking part
- create inclusive, psychologically safe spaces that encourage connection and belonging
- make participation more meaningful, engaging and enjoyable, both for participants and for you as a facilitator
- navigate common group dynamics, including dominant voices, quieter participants and differences in power

Bringing together inclusion expertise and creative, experiential facilitation, we’ll explore practical approaches you can apply in workplace meetings, training sessions and community workshops.

Join us on 16th November at 1pm.

Dimitrios Papalexis is the founder of Soulgen, a consultant, creative facilitator, community development practitioner and certified psychodrama practitioner. He brings years of experience in wellbeing, critical incident support, organisational change, social cohesion and community collaboration, working with councils, communities and organisations across sectors and industries. Named NSW Youth Worker of the Year in 2019, he uses strengths-based, participatory and experiential approaches to help diverse groups build connections, share decisions and turn ideas into collective action.

Shaheen is an inclusive learning consultant, facilitator, and founder of Ta’leem Consulting, where she helps organisations run workshops that are effective, equitable, and genuinely accessible. With over 13 years’ experience across higher education, consulting, technology, and the social impact sector, she is recognised as a thoughtful, practical voice in Facilitation, with a focus on amplifying the underserved voices.