Finding the fun in facilitation

This free 90 minute online workshop with Centre for Social Impact associate Miranda Cassidy-O’Connell will draw on Miranda’s experience with making facilitation fun and effective.

Miranda Cassidy-O’Connell is an experienced facilitator, trainer and coach, with a particular interest in collaborative facilitation for systems change.

Miranda has designed this webinar for anyone who facilitates, whether that be for work meetings, community sessions, workshops or any gathering where people and process need holding.  Miranda believes that when people get together with a shared kaupapa, things go better when there is some fun involved. This doesn’t mean a facilitator needs to be a comedian. It means knowing yourself as the facilitator and setting up conditions for people to find their best selves.

This is an opportunity to learn from Miranda’s experience facilitating across diverse fields and tap into what makes facilitation enjoyable. The webinar is an opportunity to join your peers and hear why it helps to find the fun in facilitation, and learn some ideas and practices to add to your facilitation basket

The webinar will include a breakout session for participants to discover their fears and hopes for facilitation.

Presenter

Miranda Cassidy-O’Connell has substantive experience in collaborative practice, policy analysis, strategic planning, multi stakeholder management and the provision of tailored communications training programmes. She is skilled in creating conditions that enable diverse voices to reach common ground. Miranda has particular expertise in Māori rights and interests in environmental issues, including fisheries and coastal management.

A member of the global Future Search Network, Miranda has facilitated several Future Search events in Aotearoa since 2013, including Nelson, Waiheke Island, an online workshop for Government and most recently at the end of September in 2023, co-facilitating a wānanga in Kaitaia for the restoration of the mauri of Te Oneroa-a-Tōhe (Ninety Mile Beach).

Miranda holds a BA (Sociology), a MSc (Hons) in Resource Management and qualifications in neuro linguistic programming and regenerative development. She aims to continually learn ways of enabling and inspiring people to work together to build a sustainable society.