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Welcome

Welcome to the Australia and New Zealand regional website of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF). Find professional facilitation resources, facilitation events and training, attain your Certified professional Accreditation (CPF), read the latest newsletter and contact facilitators in the Australia and New Zealand region.

The mission of the IAF is to promote, support and advance the art and practice of professional facilitation through methods exchange, professional growth, practical research, collegial networking and support services. This is accomplished through peer-to-peer networking, professional development and annual conferences which are critical means for fulfilling the mission and reflecting our core values. more >>>

IAF Conferences

IAF Asia
28 - 31 August 2009
Taipei, Taiwan

 
IAF Europe
18 - 20 Sep 2009
Oxford, England


IAF LA/Car
24 - 26 Sep 2009
Bridgetown,
Barbados


IAF Africa
28 -29 October
Capetown,
South Africa


IAF AUS/NZ
25 - 27 Nov 2009
Nelson,
New Zealand


IAF North America
Conference Week
18 -25 April 2010
Chicago, IL, USA


News and Events

IAF ANZ Regional Newsletter

Click here for the Issue 16, the May 2009 Issue of the IAF Regional Newsletter put together by Stephen Thorpe.

New Issue of the IAF Journal NOW AVAILABLE


Issue #9

Issue #9 of the IAF’s Group Facilitation: A Research and Applications Journal is hot off the press! 

Download your IAF member’s only copy of the IAF Journal Issue #9 now. 


A Special Invitation to Members in Australia and New Zealand

We invite you to take part in the third IAF Certification Process to be held in Nelson, New Zealand on 21-22 November 2009. Register today to start your CPF journey: Contact to register. [Note registrations for this MUST be made/completed by close of business Friday Sept 25th] more>>>

IAF-AFN 2009 Conference

The AFN Conference for 2009 is taking place on 25-27 November in Nelson, New Zealand, with IAF CPF Certification on 23-24 November, along with pre-conference workshops. The theme is 'Te Pitau Whakarei – creating a bow wave for facilitation'. Awesome, cutting edge experiences await you in Nelson from 25th to 27th November 2009. Come on board and bring your leading edge to create a bow-wave for facilitation in Australasia. Click here for the conference website. Enquiries email .

The IAF Facilitator Forum

The IAF Forum is up and running again. After a shaky start with several challenges with several different email servers it is now running in digest mode. There are 3 options for viewing posted messages online, daily digest, and weekly digest. To setup your forum to receive the daily digest. Log into www.iaf-forum.org and go to My Profile. Select Edit Options from the list on the left-hand side of the screen. Scroll down the centre of the page to the section titled Messaging & Notification. In that section, make sure your Default Thread Subscription Mode is set to Daily Email Notification.


Click here to go to the IAF forum

IAF Journal Now available in hard copy

Issue #7 of the Group Facilitation: A Research and Applications Journal is now available in hard copy from Virtual Bookworm and Amazon.com for US$14.95 (+ Postage).


Become a Certified Professional Facilitator with IAF

Join the IAF now

Click here to join the International Association of Facilitators

Get Accredited

Become a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF). Click here for more details.


Contribute to the regional newsletter

If you have an article, book review, something of interest to facilitators in your region or an upcoming training programme that you would like to include in the newsletter please contact Stephen Thorpe .


Register for the Australasian Facilitators Network 2009 preconference workshops today
International Association of Facilitators - Australia and New Zealand