Jacinta Cubis is a (fl)awesome facilitator - flawed + awesome.

Jacinta helps you in two ways: she facilitates workshops, meetings, and community conversations for you, and shows you how to facilitate.

You get the results your group needs with thoughtful design and facilitation, backed by expertise Jacinta has developed over 25 years.

Jacinta brings her real self to the room so that the people in it can be themselves too. People feel safe to say what they really think, not what they think they should say. Jacinta’s workshops give them safe scaffolding for free and open conversations, not perfect ones.

Experts, consultants, trainers, learning designers and facilitators work with Jacinta to maximise engagement in their workshops and training. She helps you to be your (fl)awesome self.

(Fl)awesome stands out in a world where it’s hard to tell the difference between fake and real. Jacinta’s approach creates genuine engagement in groups.

Jacinta’s qualifications span community engagement (IAP2) and partnership brokering, corporate social responsibility, international relations and communications.

Jacinta lives in Naarm/Melbourne, on unceded Wurrundjeri Country, and works anywhere - online and on-site. When Jacinta is not facilitating, or helping you learn how, she practices yoga, trains in calisthenics, paints in her art studio, plays tennis and gets around on two wheels. Connect with her on Linked In.

Carol Tu accidentally stumbled into a community engagement career many years ago and brings 30 years of frontline Victorian public sector - and more recently private sector - experience to this Flearn conversation. From pop-ups to drop-ins to deliberative panels, she’s done it all in some shape or form!

Over the years she has collected a truckload of success stories she’s proud of, but she's more interested in sharing & learning from the f&#! ups, as it’s from the not-so-great experiences that we learn how to flex and grow as engagement professionals.

A bit of an engagement ‘nerd’, Carol’s general philosophy is that engagement is always good, but good engagement is not always the result. Issues are often complex, stakeholder interests diverse and decision-makers’ roles unclear – not exactly a recipe for success, but that’s ok - being comfortable with failure gives us greater courage to make the most of those ‘pear-shaped opportunities’ that also present themselves.

Carol also lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. When Carol's not engaging with communities and stakeholders, she’s hanging out with her family, playing with her dogs or catching up on the latest K-pop news or K-drama. Connect with her on Linked In.

Contact the host of Flearn Workshop for Engagement Practitioners by Jacinta Cubis & Carol Tu