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On 23 June Zenergy held its Annual General Meeting and Director's Meeting. Liam is leaving to live in Switzerland next week! We will be relying even more on online technology. It's just as well we are good at it! Anyway Liam will be back in October to do some work with Fonterra and who knows when we will be in Europe next. Could be soon! We discussed further developing our online offerings in response to increasing demand.
Stephen Thorpe, Liam Forde,
and Dale Hunter.The Art of Facilitation by Dale Hunter to be published in Korean
The Art of Facilitation (fully revised 2007) by Dale Hunter with Stephen Thorpe et al. is being translated into Korean and will be published by Sigma Press in Seoul before Christmas 2010.
"The Art" was first published in New Zealand in 1994 by Tandem Press (reprinted 1997, 2002, 2004), and also published by Fisher Books USA 1995, and Gower Press UK 1996 (hardback),1998 (paperback).
The book was fully revised (actually rewritten) and updated to bring it into the context of the growing profession of facilitation and republished by Random House NZ in 2007 (Tandem had been bought out by Random), then Wiley/Jossey Bass USA in 2009 and soon Sigma Press (Korea) 2010.Zenergy Party - Zenergy turns 17
On 20 May Zenergy held a Pancake Party to celebrate the 17th anniversary of Zenergy's launch. Discussion topics covered Idil Gaziulusoy and Dan Ducker's doctorates - engineering and sustainability in business and inclusive public processes for contaminated site recovery; permaculture in New Zealand for a "Clean Green Pacific Island", Jo Pearsall; The Hunger Project - Shirley Hardwick and Diana Elliott; and the Zenergy Co-operative Kids project - Graham Oliver.
Happy 17th Birthday Zenergy
Standing: Dale, Matthew, Stephen, Idil, Dan
Sitting: Shirley, Jo, Diana & Patty (front right photoshopped in)
29th Master Class
Zenergy's 29th Facilitation Master Class was held on 11-14 March. The programme had 6 participants who each worked on developing their leading edge facilitation skills to mastery.
Diploma graduates Graham Oliver and Greg Menendez were reviewing the programme. Graham has now completed four Master Classes and continues to extend his leading edge with Zenergy's whole person approach. All Zenergy's graduates are welcome to review any module they have completed and pay only 1/3rd of the full programme investment.
Coaching with Horses - Coaching with Presence, Hawkes Bay
Zenergy's first Coaching with Horses - Coaching with Presence programme was held on 4 February in Pakipaki, Hastings. The programme was led by Elisabeth Gleed along with the wonderful horse Plum at the Cottle Equestrian Centre. The four participants enjoyed the interlink between working in the coaching room and working with Plum in the arena. The next programme will be held in Pukekoe, Auckland on 11 May 2010. Click here for details.
2010 Activitities
Zenergy activities so far this year have included in-house facilitation training for Manukau City Libraries staff led by John Dawson and Tanya Mogg and facilitation of planning for the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) by Dale Hunter. Public workshops have included the Coaching with Horses workshop in the Hawkes Bay led by Elisabeth Gleed. In March there is the 4-day Master Class for experienced facilitators led by Dale Hunter and a 5-day Stage 1: Art of Facilitation programme. A Stage 2: Essence of Facilitation programme will be held in mid April and a Coaching with Horses on the 29th April. The four public workshops in March and April will be held in Auckland, New Zealand.
Corina Roobeck, Diploma of Facilitation
Congratulations to Corina Roobeck on completing the Zenergy Diploma of Facilitation. Corina received her Diploma of Facilitation on Point Chevalier Beach in Auckland, New Zealand. Corina is Zenergy's 56th Diploma graduate.
Dale described Corina as a 'shining star' and acknowledged her international work for The Zone in values-based organisational development. Corina is based in the UK and has also facilitated in Egypt, Romania, Ghana, Australia and New Zealand.
Corina (inset) pictured with Liam Forde,
Stephen Thorpe and Dale Hunter.Christmas Diploma Graduate - Maria Deutch
Congratulations to Maria Deutch on completing the Zenergy Diploma of Facilitation. Maria received her Diploma of Facilitation on Christmas day at a special ceremony in the garden at Zenergy.
Maria's passion is the development of the ‘Ecology of Facilitation’ – an approach that includes wilderness settings and tools as an amplifying ingredient in facilitation and coaching situations. Click here for more details about this dynamic facilitator based in the South Island of New Zealand.
Maria pictured on the left with
Dale Hunter and Stephen Thorpe.
Stephen Thorpe Picks Up His PhD
Congratulations to Stephen Thorpe on completing his doctorate. His thesis is entitled Enhancing the Effectiveness of Online Groups: An Investigation of Storytelling in the Facilitation of Online Groups. The research method was a ground-breaking online Co-operative Inquiry and involved 18 experienced facilitators from around the world over an extended period of 14 months.
Right is Stephen picking up his PhD from book binder Don Ray of Hobson Paper & Binding.New Diploma Graduate
Congratulations to Stephen Bragg on completing the Zenergy Diploma of Facilitation. Stephen is a Pou Kura Taiao at the Department of Conservation. He is currently on secondment to the Wellington head office.
September Workshops in London and Oxford, UK
Dr. Dale Hunter and Stephen Thorpe led a number of workshops in the UK in September. These included a 4-day Master Class in London 9-12 September, and workshops on Working in Blended Realities, Generating a Quantum Shift in Group Consciousness and Enhancing Online Facilitation with Storytelling at the IAF Europe conference in Oxford 18-20 September."The whole trip was one highlight after another" said Dale. "The London Master Class was held in the city centre near St Paul's cathedral and we held one session in the cathedral gardens. The Oxford workshops were held at Keble College, a beautful residential college founded in 1870 and with dining halls just like the ones featured in the Harry Potter books. The participants involved were wonderful and inspiring and appreciated our embodied approach to facilitation and dialogue".
Photos from London Master Class
Steps of St Pauls (above), Oxo Tower restaurant (upper right), Master Class group (lower right).
Photos from IAF Europe conference, Keble College, Oxford, UK (below) Visionary Dialogue London
Zenergy leaders and several contributors to the Presencing Institute Community took part in a 2-day dialogue focusing on in-depth creative and generative dialogue and how these could be more readily available to all. Participants were Ria Baeck, Tom Klein and George Por from the PI Community and Corina Roobeck, Jane Campion, Stephen Thorpe and Dale Hunter, Zenergy, and Alexandra Stubbings (1-day) from the Ashridge Business School. Liam Forde joined in through Skype on the 2nd day. The outcomes included the setting up of an online dialogue to envisage the role of facilitators 50-100 years into the future. This dialogue will begin soon. If you are interested in being a part of this please email us at .
September Workshops in Barbados
Dr. Dale Hunter and Stephen Thorpe led workshops on Multi Stakeholder Engagement (with Remedios Ruiz), Generating a Quantum Shift in Group Consciousness and Enhancing Online Facilitation with Storytelling at the IAF Latin America and the Caribbean conference in Barbados on 23-25 September.
It was wonderful to meet the Caribbean facilitators and work with Remedios Ruiz from the Dominican Republic.
New Graduate Ning
Zenergy has launched a new social networking site for graduates. The purpose is to enable Zenergy graduates to communicate with one another, dialogue on topics of interest and keep up to date with Zenergy news and programmes. Members can make blog postings, create discussion topics, share photos, videos and resources. All Zenergy graduates are encouraged to join, whether you have done one programme or many.
Click the oblong badge on the left to join or email Zenergy - .Zenergy Online Facilitation Skills Programme
Zenergy's Online Facilitation Skills programme ran for ten weeks from 18 May through to 26 July. Participants came from UK, Australia, Phillipines and New Zealand. Activities included Ning, Doodle, Skyping, Dimdim and WebEx Video conferencing and sessions in 3D world of Second Life. Partying and chats around the bar in Second Life proved a popular distraction. The stages of group development showed up including the conflict stage and participant-facilitators had real-time issues to work with and learn from.
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Upcoming Zenergy Programmes 2010
Our next public training programmes in 2010 are:
Coaching for Outstanding Results 27 - 29 April Auckland Coaching with Horses 11 June Auckland Online Facilitation Skills 31 May - 8 August Global Stage 1: The Art of Facilitation 28 June -2 July
Auckland Facilitation Master Class 26 - 29 July Dalesford,Victoria Stage 2: The Essence of Facilitation 30 August - 3 September Auckland To view our programme dates click here.
To enrol now click here.Zenergy Community E-group (ZenCom)
ZenCom is an e-group for Zenergy graduates to communicate with one another and keep up to date with Zenergy news and programmes. There is also a more active ZenCom-Dialogue e-group and a ZenCom-Announce e-group for Zenergy news and announcements only. Any graduates who want to join any of the e-groups can e-mail Zenergy to be included - .
