Tag Archives: Creative Facilitation

Robin’s excited to let you know that the momentum for the completion of the last Draft of the book is building. There’s still a little to do and it doesn’t feel like the best time to launch a book on face to face education and facilitating BUT she really wants to be ready when the time is right. The design concept for the layout is sorted and here’s an image of a trail of the Table of Contents. It uses the kind of style that is used in all Robin’s workshops – Hand drawn, handmade, slips of coloured card, a lot further from perfection than digital printing or computer fonts. It seems many people prefer this style to the slick lines and computer generated graphics. Your feedback is encouraged and would be really helpful. Thank you.Email Robin here for further info or to give feedback.

Have you ever imagined you may like to facilitate group processes, events or other people’s learning? Are you a teacher who wants to be more creative and interactive with your groups or do you have something you are passionate about and want to share but are not sure how? Many you’d just like some more confidence in presenting and leading groups.Robin’s six day Creative Teachers, Facilitators and Groups Leaders training that is an annual offering at Crystal Waters is coming up in May – 8th to 13thLater this year will make be a big milestone for Robin and her Teacher Training work. It will be 30 years since she and Skye led the first ‘Advanced Permaculture Creative Teachers Facilitation Course’. This was the basis for many, many course since which have been offered in several different forms and across diverse industries and fields of work.The Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning training …

Robin’s Dynamic Facilitation course assisted me as a primary and high school teacher to diversify my planning and delivery of educational programs, in a creative and innovative way. Her program encouraged my confidence and capacity to embrace, weave and implement a variety of learning modes and methods to enable the accessibility of content and the inclusivity of diverse learning styles. Hence, Robin’s program if fundamental for offering alternatives which support differentiation strategies. Robin’s inventive and imaginative learning platforms assist in igniting the classroom environment, enhancing the joy, engagement and love of learning in students. I am particularly fond of Robin’s play base learning methods that encourage critical thinking, creative responsiveness, positive communication, and builds student relationships through partner work and group activities. Fortunate to support students in a variety of subjects, it is evident Robin’s learning methodology is highly adaptable and compliments a variety of education methods and subject matters. …

Practise, Practise, Practise is a key learning from a refresher in Kate Raffin’s NVC workshop that was offered recently at Crystal Waters.Robin and team highly recommend NVC to the world for peaceful communications, a compassionate world and shared empathy spaces to nurture our hearts and souls. What is NVC? Here’s a definition from Robin’s soon to be published ‘Dynamic Teaching and Facilitation’ Book. Nonviolent Communication: A life practice and set of principles and skills that enable compassionate communication, empathy, authenticity and connection. It helps people have ‘power with’ rather than ‘power over’ and to express their feelings, needs and deep truth with others, with themselves and in groups and organisations. See Kate’s Website here

It’s time for Robin’s annual Creative Facilitation and Teacher Training course at her home community of Crystal Waters. Last year’s ‘Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning’ training saw three people turn around in transit to the course as the threat of COVID started to lock down the whole country. Robin with Donna, the fantastic cook for the course, had done all the shopping for the catering and the remaining nine people managed to arrive so a group of 12 people went into a bubble for the week, emerging to a world where even going shopping was a challenge. Everyone enjoyed the course very much and got heaps out of it in terms of skills, knowledge and confidence to take home… and they all got home safely. This year we’ll see one of those people who had to turn around in transit, midflight, to return to the north of WA last year, make …

Hello Wonderful Community and Heart Centred Practitioners. Many of you know the core work Robin offers in the world. As well as Permaculture, her key focus and offering is the ‘Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning’ courses, workshops, writings and educational resources. She feels very strongly that to support our world, our communities and positive change in education, the environment, social and political challenges etc we need people who are well skilled and trained in facilitation and group work. Groups form the basis of much positive action and community building. Education creates the backbone of new foundations and for learning a positive, peaceful and powerful way forward for our children, youth and also adults needing more tools, ideas and purpose. If our groups are well facilitated and work easily together, they are more effective at meeting their purpose and everything works out better for everyone, including all the people who benefit from …