Hello friends. The theme for this year’s One Day Wonder is Walking Together: Facilitating Connections in Challenging Times – exploring how we can work with groups in ways that build trust, enable participation, navigate difference and strengthen our capacity to move forward together.

Six experienced facilitators will lead a diverse range of experiential workshops. Click here for information on these offers.

There’s a lot of value packed into the day: new approaches and practical tools to take into your work, opportunities to stretch your facilitation practice, and the chance to learn alongside people working across communities, organisations and different sectors.

There’s also great potential for community building. Bringing facilitators together who care about participation, collaboration and how we work well with others creates its own kind of value – new relationships, shared learning and connections that can continue well beyond the day itself.

The price:

$200. Click on the tickets link to buy your ticket NOW! 

Ticket price includes tea/coffee on arrival, lunch and a complementary drink and nibbles at the after event social catch up at the Deck. 

Our venue:

This year we’ll gather at Deakin University’s waterfront campus in Djilang (Geelong), on Wadawurrung Country, Geringhap Street. For information on our venue visit our information page

Our Program: 

9.00am Arrival and Registration (tea, coffee and nibbles available)

9.30am Welcome to Country  

10.15am Opening and Yarning Circle led by Carol Vale from Murawin – something special, inter-cultural and community building 

11.45am Session Pitch – Lead facilitators are introduced and you choose which of the afternoon’s six experiential learning opportunities you will attend

12.15pm to 1.15pm LUNCH

1.15pm (sharp)

Session 1: Choose from one of three parallel sessions exploring the skills and capacities we need to ‘walk together’

• • It’s Not Rocket Science but it is Neuroscience – Anne van Leardam
  • Healthy Relationships Magic – Simone Maus
  • Trust-Up!  Building trust and internal team communication – Aidy Halimanjaya and colleagues

2.30pm – Transition, move to Session 2 rooms

2.45pm (sharp)

Session 2: Choose one of the three second round of parallel sessions:

• • Tilling the Soil: consciously crafting the conditions for collaboration and collective thinking – Lucy Mayes
  • Running a Peoples Assembly – Jim Buckell and colleagues
  • Facilitating connecting through decolonising ways – Pru Gell and colleagues

4.00pm – Transition as we move to our wrap up session

4.10pm – Reflections, Planning for the year ahead and

4.30pm – Close

5.00pm – Join us from 5pm for the social event at the nearby Deck conveniently located across the road (price included in ticket!)

Hope to see you there!