Our response to the Voice referendum result
Jim Buckell and Steve Ray We need to find a way out of the impasse we are in. Pausing to reflect on what happened and how this came to be is the first step. The resounding No to the referendum has...
View ArticleVirtual heat – Facilitating tricky social media conversations
Many of our group interactions and encounters happen within social media platforms these days. Depending on the forum, there is often a set of rules that members sign up to when they join the group and...
View ArticleOur 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...
View ArticleOur 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...
View ArticleSinging 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...
View ArticleMaking 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...
View ArticleFacilitating 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleNormalising: 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....
View ArticleIsrael 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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