Session Facilitator’s Guide

Session Facilitator’s Guide

Showcase your cracking ideas with the facilitation community

Cracking Facilitation  | Facilitation Gathering 2024  |  Abbotsford Convent
Day 1 – Thursday 12 September (8.30am registration, 9:00am – 4:30pm)

Expressions of interest for session facilitators has now closed.

This guide details what you need to know!

DAY 1 sessions are:

  • Facilitated, interactive and engaging – participants do not expect to see presentations. Be sure to demonstrate how your session will be interactive rather than informative. Simply saying it will be interactive won’t satisfy our appetite, describe it to us.
  • 90 minutes long and attended by approximately 20 participants – note the room allows space to move. Allow 5 minutes for a session host to introduce you and 10 minutes for the host to facilitate feedback at the end of your session. 
  • Not promotional opportunities, but you are welcome to have promotional material on display and/or available for attendees to choose to take away.     


We will support your session by assisting with room setup and some materials (butchers paper, markers, whiteboard etc…). Please let us know what you require. Bring your own technology if needed (laptop, data projector, speakers, music).       

Cracking Facilitation – Day 1 reflects the FODW tradition of emerging and experienced facilitators offering sessions. It’s an opportunity to test, explore or showcase a facilitation idea.

This not-for-profit event is organised by volunteers. There is no payment for facilitating a session. Instead, we offer genuine facilitated feedback from participants in the last 10 minutes of each session.

DAY 2 sessions are:

  • Open Space

Open Space (Technology) is a simple process used by self-organising groups to address complex issues. Participants, motivated by passion and commitment, create and manage their own agenda of parallel sessions around a central theme of strategic importance. Learn more at openspaceworld.org.

Open Space (Technology) was created in the early 1980’s by Harrison Owen who passed away in March 2024.