The facilitation session holds at its heart the well-being of all who have been made vulnerable by the effects of conflict, tension and stress. We explore ways to raise our heads above the clouds by providing opportunities to rewrite our past encounters and overcome challenges. Through a facilitated process of “Journal Feedback to Feed-Forward”, we are invited to go deeper in our reflections; and often times new insights may come up. This process brings about a transformation of awareness.

We nurture resilience and aspiration, capabilities, skills and talents. Through a facilitated “Inner Wisdom Dialogue”, we connect with our inner wisdom and the knowing we have in each of us. We invoke the wisdom figure(s) to assist us in the reconnect. The outcome is a quality of wholeness and rainbow of hope. Experiences can be our new resource and stepping stones. The facilitated process raises determination and zeal, and invokes renewed commitment to take charge and be empowered.

Facilitators are frequently the silent anchors, holding space, managing complexity, and creating possibilities for others. But when was the last time you held space for yourself?

This 2 – hour immersive session enables you to pause, reflect, and reconnect with your personal reservoir of hope and gratitude. It is designed for both experienced and new facilitators, and it combines storytelling, appreciative inquiry, interactive group processes, and creative reflection.

You’ll examine moments of personal and collective hope, the transformational power of gratitude in facilitation, and how appreciation can change the vibe in the room—from burnout to belonging, transaction to transformation.
Through a series of structured divergence and convergence activities, you will co-create insights, and leave with a practical Gratitude Action Plan—tools you can carry into any facilitation space.

Come to be recharged, to give and receive appreciation, and to return to your work with renewed clarity and compassion.
Hope doesn’t just happen. It’s facilitated. And gratitude is the bridge.
Join us on this journey—from holding space to healing space.

In a world where complexity and uncertainty are the new normal, leadership requires more than just strategic thinking — it demands deep sensing, presence, and connection. Join us for a 2-hour immersive session where we will explore Listening on All Layers: practices that awaken the intelligence of the body and cultivate deep, systemic leadership presence.

While the brain contains around 86 billion neurons, the gut holds about 500 million neurons, and the heart has its own network of over 40,000 neurons. Science now affirms what ancient practices have long known — true leadership intelligence is distributed throughout the entire body.

In this session, you will embark on a personal journey of self-inquiry, tapping into the innate wisdom that exists beyond the mind. Through practices such as somatic partnering, simple forms of systemic constellation, body-based coaching, and right-brained listening techniques, we will prime your body to sense the field more deeply — fostering compassionate, resilient, and coherent teams.

Each participant will leave with a new, embodied sense of their sensing ability, greater ease in navigating complexity, and simple practices to integrate into daily life and in the workplace. These modalities will help sustain clarity, compassion, and resilience in the face of ongoing change.

Come discover how listening through the whole self unlocks transformational leadership capacities. 

Let’s reimagine leadership — from the inside out.

In a world facing overlapping crises—climate change, inequality, resource scarcity, and conflict—facilitators are often looked to as beacons of clarity and connection. Yet we, too, carry questions, struggles, and fatigue. This session offers a space to pause and reconnect with what sustains us in this work: purpose, presence, and shared humanity.

Rather than teaching tools or techniques, this session invites deep reflection through storytelling, embodiment, and dialogue. Together, we’ll explore the personal and professional tensions we hold—offering hope to others while navigating uncertainty ourselves.

Guided by long-time facilitator companions Amy and Nami, the session is inspired by their heartfelt dialogues with fellow practitioner Jimmie White, who brings a unique lens to this work through his exploration of the physics of facilitation. His insights have helped shape this gathering into a space where presence matters more than performance, and where energy, gravity, and flow become metaphors for how we hold ourselves and each other.

We’ll ask:
Who am I as a facilitator in this moment?
What struggles am I holding—and what still gives me hope?
How do I show up, not as an expert, but as a human being?

Through the “Russian Doll” process and “Walking Your Story” reflection, you’ll rediscover connection, reframe your narrative, and experience the quiet power of being in community.

In this time of poly-crisis, let us practice facilitation not just as a skill, but as a way of healing and holding space for a more compassionate, connected, and flourishing future—together.

This session is a gentle, creative space to explore emotions using colors, guided imagery, and shared art. Together, we’ll take a journey through emotions – Sadness, Overcoming, Acceptance, and Renewal—what we call the S.O.A.R. journey.

We’ll begin by choosing strokes that match how we feel and connecting with others through those strokes. Then, through guided imagery and a special group art activity, we’ll express our feelings on paper and pass them on. Each person will add their emotions to someone else’s canvas—layer by layer, stroke by stroke—creating a beautiful story of shared feelings.

In the end, everyone gets their original artwork back to complete it in their own way. It’s a powerful moment, claiming your journey, with support from others along the way.

This session is about more than just drawing or painting. It’s about connecting, understanding, and feeling lighter together. You don’t need to be an artist, just bring your open heart.

Come join us to slow down, reflect, and leave with a sense of hope, strength, and meaningful connection.

In times of change and uncertainty, resilience is essential — but not just any resilience. The Appreciative Resilience model invites us to move beyond surviving into thriving, by consciously embracing strengths, meaning, and connection even in adversity. Rooted in Appreciative Inquiry, this model developed by Dr. Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell highlights three dynamic practices: Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness.

Rather than bypassing struggle, Appreciative Resilience acknowledges the emotional landscape of challenge and offers practical tools to stay grounded, uplifted, and purposeful. It teaches us to tap into the power of appreciative storytelling, reframe difficult experiences, and foster courageous conversations — all while staying true to our values.

Join us in this reflective and interactive session to explore how you can develop deeper personal and collective resilience. Whether you’re leading a team, navigating transitions, or seeking renewal, this approach will offer you fresh perspectives and actionable insights to build sustainable well-being and leadership capacity.

Come discover how to hold space for both struggle and strength — and emerge more connected, compassionate, and resilient

We are in a time of change – one challenge facing facilitators is how to help our selves and our clients explore that change from a realistic hopeful perspective.

• During this session I wil share my work based on three elements that affect every facilitative situation
• Mindset or image using the Cynefin framework
• Using the ICA Wave Process as a method
• Applying Appreciative Inquiry as an approach
• Using a dialgoue process for disernment

Depending on the group size and diversity we will choose one or more “crises” and explore how to assess our understanding of the environment. This assessment of the operating context allows for designing focused facilitation process. Diverse methods becime an option which can help the person or group shape a respectful yet deep collective discernment and needed actions.

Our process will be to understand or create a shared context, develop a conversation, practice together, and reflect/ debrief/ add options for future practice.

When Organizations and teams go through challenging and turbulent times, the Facilitator becomes critical for enabling them to be effective. The Facilitator may play multiple roles in helping groups manage and navigate through high stress and volatile situations. We will explore how a facilitator needs to carry themselves into such situations. We will explore the nuances of areas such as “sense making,” “reflecting”, “creating safe spaces”, and “spaces for constructive conflict” in the session

VUCA: VOLATILE, UNCERTAIN, COMPLEX, AMBIGUOUS – four powerful words that resonate even more critically now than when the acronym was first introduced nearly 40 years ago. Our world seems to be hurtling towards being even more VUCA. From a personal perspective it’s so easy to: become overwhelmed and descend into anxiety; project fears onto others; become an ostrich and pretend it isn’t happening; freeze to inaction or unleash chaos around us.

If this happens for individuals, what is the impact on the groups we facilitate as they collectively navigate their way through this? What can we do to help groups steer their way through this mess? How to maintain hope and be resilient?

In this session we’ll explore how our VUCA world is impacting what we do as facilitators. Then we’ll introduce a 4-step FRAMEWORK FOR RESILIENCE to use with group/s (organisational, community) and for ourselves as facilitators. Rhonda has used this method powerfully numerous times to help groups navigate their VUCA environments and emerge from workshops with practical solutions and plans. The approach awakens hope and optimism.

Rhonda and Audrey look forward to working with you as we collectively explore your own and your clients’ VUCA worlds and demonstrate an effective approach to mitigate the impact of VUCA by building resilience.
Along the way we’ll also give many facilitation tips based on what emerges in the room.

In a time when urgency, fragmentation, and overwhelm dominate many group spaces, this session offers an invitation to pause – to listen between the lines, and to explore silence as a source of wisdom, clarity, and connection.

Honouring both the inner landscape of the facilitator and the collective possibilities that arise from presence, this experiential journey is designed for those who sense that hope is not something we deliver – it’s something we hold. Together, we will engage with silence not as absence, but as an active presence: a space where inner alignment, resilience, and shared insight can take root.

Participants will experience a carefully held arc that weaves embodied practice, journaling, quiet facilitation, and reflective dialogue. This is not a technical toolkit session – it is a space to feel, notice, and integrate. You will leave with greater clarity on how silence can expand your facilitation stance, how presence can become a strategic choice, and how your well-being shapes what becomes possible in the spaces you hold.

Come with your questions, come as you are – and discover what emerges when we listen to what is not said, and hold space for hope through grounding and presence.

Since 2020, disruption has become the norm—not a blip but a relentless force. KPIs mutate overnight from pandemic-induced lockdowns to hybrid work shifts, collapsing supply chains, to AI-driven transformations. The ground beneath us keeps shifting. You’re rebuilding the wings of an airplane mid-flight while the destination vanishes and reappears like a mirage.

Agility alone is insufficient in this landscape. Agility assumes a fixed endpoint with flexible pathways. Today, the endpoint is a moving target, and innovations from yesterday become obsolete.

In such volatility, psychological safety isn’t a luxury—it’s the oxygen that sustains survival.

When teams feel safe, uncertainty transforms from a threat into a catalyst. This safety isn’t about eliminating risk but creating an environment where vulnerability is the norm and mistakes become learning opportunities. Innovation thrives because people feel secure enough to experiment boldly at the edge of chaos.

• Today, we’ll explore how leaders can build this essential safety net:
• Normalize uncertainty: Acknowledge what you don’t know. Your vulnerability creates permission for authentic collaboration.
• Reframe failure: When experiments fail, ask, “What did we learn?” to convert setbacks into stepping stones toward clarity.
• Anchor in purpose: When processes and plans crumble, a shared “why” keeps teams cohesive and resilient.

You’ll leave with practical guidelines for fostering psychological safety that converts disruption into opportunity and the confidence to guide your organization forward, not just to survive the disruptions but to harness its energy and thrive within it.

Join Dr. Shan Moorthi and Ho Sze Chieng in this highly experiential session where facilitation meets purpose-driven leadership. In a world grappling with complexity and change, the S.E.R.V.E framework offers facilitators and leaders a simple yet powerful roadmap to move groups from confusion to clarity, from challenge to possibility. Grounded in Eastern wisdom and contemporary facilitation tools, this session bridges heart and strategy to enable group and team transformation. In this hands-on session, participants will:

• Explore and apply the five phases of the S.E.R.V.E framework
• Engage in solution-focused conversations that unlock creativity and hope
• Design facilitation spaces that foster psychological safety, inclusivity, and shared vision

You’ll also learn how to guide diverse voices toward alignment and take away adaptable tools you can use immediately in your facilitation practice.

Whether you’re a seasoned facilitator or new to the field, this session will empower you to design transformative group processes that ignite courage, resilience, and action. Discover how to serve with intention and facilitate with impact.

Perfect for facilitators, team leaders, community builders, and change agents who want to inspire collaboration and co-create meaningful outcomes.

In a world facing climate crisis, conflict, and inequality, facilitators have a vital role in moving people from isolation to collaboration. In this highly interactive session, you’ll experience a unique process that uses a specially designed BOX as a metaphor for shifting from a closed, fixed mindset to an open, connected one. Through reflection, dialogue, and hands-on activities, you’ll journey from “ME”—personal awareness—to “WE”—building deeper connection within your culture and language—and finally to “US”—bridging across cultures to create collective resilience.

To create a more inclusive experience, this session will be facilitated in multiple languages, including Japanese, Hindi, Chinese, and English. By allowing participants to explore and express themselves in their preferred language, we move beyond English-dominant experiences and support deeper, more authentic connection. Join us to discover how facilitation can break through personal and cultural boundaries—and build a more compassionate, hopeful future together.

Join us to explore and integrate the honeybee metaphor—its collaborative lessons, sustainable practices, leadership qualities, and Kamadeva’s inspiring arrows—to design facilitation strategies that cultivate and harvest collective hope.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Emulate the collaborative spirit of honeybees to design and participate in inclusive facilitation processes that leverage diverse perspectives and foster a sense of shared purpose.
• Apply sustainable facilitation practices, drawing inspiration from honeybees’ resourcefulness, to guide groups towards generating actionable and impactful solutions for a desired future.
• Cultivate leadership qualities inspired by the queen bee’s subtle influence, enabling them to guide groups with empathy and adaptability, creating a safe and nurturing environment for collective growth.
• Utilize the metaphorical “”arrows of Kaamdeva”” to ignite passion, build connection, and foster creativity within groups, effectively channelling collective energy towards realizing a hopeful vision.
• Synthesize these learnings to design a facilitation strategy that harvests potential, pollinates ideas, and builds a sustainable path towards a future filled with hope, reflecting the transformative power of collective effort.

 

Are you a facilitator, leader, or change-maker eager to deepen your understanding of compassionate leadership in a global context? Inviting you for an immersive session “”Leading with Heart – Stories for Hope and Change.”” This engaging and practical session is designed to help you explore how stories—from diverse cultural backgrounds—serve as powerful tools to understand, model, and embody compassionate leadership.

What You Will Achieve:
• Appreciate how stories inspire hope and change across cultures
• Gain enhanced emotional awareness and reflection
• Identify and internalize Compassionate Leadership Qualities
• Develop actionable steps for Compassionate Leadership Growth

We welcome everyone who is committed to fostering inclusive and empathetic leadership in multicultural environments. Join us to explore new ways of facilitating, connecting and leading with the heart.

Bridging Worlds, Building Belonging
In an era shaped by polarization, migration, and climate shifts, how do we create spaces where everyone belongs?

Step into a powerful gathering of global facilitators as we explore stories, identities, and human connection across cultures, generations, and beliefs. This immersive session invites you to experience the DAISY framework—a unique approach to co-creating inclusive, compassionate, and hopeful futures.

What to Expect:

• Deep listening to lived experiences from across the globe
• Interactive co-creation of real-world actions
• Meaningful dialogue that transcends borders
• Tools to nurture cultures of belonging wherever you work

Let’s move from separation to connection—together.

Join Dr. Stewart Desson, CEO of Lumina Learning and Ayleen Wisudha, Lumina Partner in Indonesia, in an experiential session designed for facilitators to navigate change and complexity. Lumina Learning’s transformative psychometric model will guide you to unlock paradoxical leadership traits—bold yet empathetic, structured yet adaptable—needed for resilient, human-centered facilitation.

Through reflective activities, small-group dialogues, and interactive activities, you will explore your natural preferences, uncover hidden strengths, and deepen emotional agility. Whether you are facilitating teams through crisis or designing inclusive spaces, this session equips you with practical insights and inner clarity to lead with courage, compassion, and agility.

Discover how diversity in personality can become a resource for collective breakthroughs and co-creation. Walk away not only inspired but also renewed—ready to embody hope in your practice and ignite it in others.

The session will demonstrate how the Lumina Spark personality portrait can be used to provide solutions for individuals, teams and organizations. You will receive your own complimentary Lumina Spark portrait that will deepen your self-understanding and enrich your participation in the workshop as well as other situations in your personal and work life.

Desired Outcome/Learning Outcome/Objectives:

• Understand how the psychology of personality provides an arena to embrace inclusivity and diversity in your facilitation
• Learn to harness paradoxes in personal and team dynamics
• Explore practical applications of Lumina Spark in crisis and change facilitation

What if language isn’t just a medium, but a mirror—and a lever for change?

In this interactive session, we explore the astonishing power of language in shaping thought, culture, conflict, and connection. Drawing from the humour and history of Bill Bryson, the rigour of Chomsky and Pinker, and lived facilitation experiences across continents, this session offers facilitators a fresh lens to reflect on how language frames not just dialogue—but destiny.

Facilitators work with groups in conflict, in change, and in search of clarity. Language is both their brush and their canvas. And yet, too often, we default to scripts and styles that may exclude, marginalise, or distort. We’ll unpack:

•  The tension between universal grammar and culturally shaped expression
• How metaphors impact meaning and group memory
• The role of language in creating belonging—or ‘othering’
• The facilitator’s responsibility in naming, reframing, and inviting
• Case stories where language enabled breakthroughs in conflict, equity, and transformation

This session is for anyone who has ever paused mid-workshop and thought: “There’s something in the way we’re speaking that’s shaping what we believe is possible”. Expect a mix of sharp ideas, shared inquiry, real stories, and (yes) a few laughs. Come curious. Leave with a renewed respect for the words we choose—and the worlds they create.

As facilitators & leaders, we’re often guiding others through change. How do we show up to lead it? This session is designed to help you explore regenerative leadership as a personal practice and a facilitation lens, one that strengthens your ability to support deeper, sustainable change.

In this session, we’ll explore the Inner Development Goals (IDGs) framework – Being, Thinking, Relating, Collaborating, and Acting – capacities essential for navigating complexity with clarity and care. Through facilitated exercises, reflective tools, and peer conversations, you’ll connect the IDGs to your own context – and see how they can inform your work.

Whether you’re working with leaders, communities, or youth – this session helps you align the inner work with the outer impact you’re enabling through your sessions. You’ll walk away with a personal roadmap for regenerative leadership and practical ways to integrate the IDGs into your facilitation practice.

Sustainable change starts with how we show up. As facilitators, we hold the space where change begins.

In a world facing complex challenges, how can facilitators create learning experiences that inspire hope and meaningful action? Join us for an interactive workshop through Challenge Based Learning (CBL), a powerful framework that transforms overwhelming problems into manageable, collaborative solutions.

This hands-on session will equip you with practical facilitation strategies to:

• Guide groups from broad concepts to actionable challenges
• Balance divergent exploration with convergent decision-making
• Create inclusive spaces where diverse perspectives drive innovation
• Transform uncertainty into structured pathways for change

You’ll experience a complete cycle, from identifying Big Ideas to developing real solutions, while learning facilitation techniques you can immediately apply in your own contexts. Whether you work in education, community development, or organisational change, you’ll discover how structured facilitation processes can help people move from feeling overwhelmed to feeling empowered.

Perfect for facilitators, educators, trainers, and change agents who want to make learning relevant, engaging, and hope-filled. No prior CBL experience needed, just bring your curiosity and readiness to collaborate!
Leave with a toolkit of facilitation interventions, a deeper understanding of inclusive learning design, and renewed confidence in facilitating groups through complexity toward positive action.

“I am because we are.” – Ubuntu Proverb

What if our true strength as facilitators lies not in the methods we use, but in the deep human connections we cultivate?

In a world marked by isolation and individualism, the African philosophy of Ubuntu invites us to rediscover the power of shared humanity, compassion, and interdependence.

Join this transformative session on Ubuntu: The Spirit of Collective Hope, where we will explore how this timeless philosophy can reshape the way we hold space for others. Through storytelling, dialogue, and practical facilitation tools, we will unpack what it means to truly see and be seen, to foster belonging, restore trust, and build communities grounded in empathy.

Whether you facilitate teams, communities, classrooms, or conversations, this session will leave you inspired to bring Ubuntu’s essence into your practice – nurturing hope not as an abstract idea, but as a lived, shared experience. Come curious, leave connected.

Be part of a circle that reminds us: together, we can hold hope and each other stronger.

Are you ready to envision the future of facilitation? Join us for a transformative World Café session as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the World Café method—a groundbreaking approach that has fostered meaningful dialogue and collaboration worldwide. Guided by the philosophy of “From Me – To We – To Us”, this session invites you to explore and co-create the possibilities for the next generation of facilitators—those who will lead with compassion, innovation, and purpose.

In this focused 120-minute experience, we will honor the legacy of the World Café while diving into critical conversations about the future of facilitation. Together, we’ll explore three core themes: personal growth, collective intelligence, and global impact. Using the dynamic World Café format, you’ll collaborate with peers from diverse backgrounds, share insights, and envision the skills, tools, and approaches facilitators need to thrive in our rapidly changing world.

This session is your opportunity to reflect, connect, and contribute to shaping the future of our profession. Whether you are a seasoned practitioner or an aspiring facilitator, you’ll leave with fresh perspectives, actionable ideas, and a deeper appreciation of the power of facilitation to drive systemic change.

Be part of this milestone celebration and transformative journey—because the future of facilitation starts with us.

This session was inspired by the book <<Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, And Compete In The Knowledge Economy>> by Professor Amy Edmondson shows that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on how well the small groups within those organizations work. Each teaming opportunity is the place where organization learning happens. In the world where teams are frequently assembled and reassembled, traditional ways of intervention assuming “teams are static over time” no longer works.

“How do we facilitate the teaming process, so the learning and innovation eventually becomes organization edge to compete?”

After almost one year of research and development, the presenters are sharing the result with insights embedded in a card game for facilitators/OD practitioners to enable teaming for organization learning and innovation. The cards contained the wisdom of facilitation that could enable self-directed facilitation in teaming.

Session Agenda

• Introduction and Context
• Warm up exercise: Recognizing boundaries and create boundary objects
• Facilitate Psychological Safety Card Game: Experient self-supported facilitation experience and reflection on Psychological Safety and Failure
• Closing Dialogue: What can we do to enable teaming for organization learning and innovation?

How can teachers, parents, and communities work together to raise a generation of resilient, ethical leaders in today’s complex world? Join this interactive session to co-create innovative, culturally rooted approaches to character education tailored for Gen Z and Alpha (ages 5-17).

Through dynamic activities like World Café discussions and role-playing scenarios, you’ll:

• Discover practical strategies to integrate technology, local wisdom (e.g., Pancasila, gotong royong), and stakeholder collaboration into character development.
• Tackle real-world challenges—from screen time to social empathy—with solutions that bridge generational and cultural divides.
• Leave with a personalized action plan to implement in your school, family, or community.

Whether you’re an educator, parent, or community leader, this session will equip you with tools to foster hope, compassion, and resilience in Indonesia’s next generation. Together, we’ll prove that character education isn’t just about teaching values—it’s about building a connected future, one child at a time.

Takeaway: A toolkit of methods, a network of allies, and a renewed sense of possibility.

This session is based on the concept ‘Aham Brahmasmi’, a Mahavakya from ancient Hindu scriptures, Upanishad, and principle of ‘Aham to Tvam/Aney’ or the philosophy of ‘Self regarding to Others regarding’. The session encourages participants to explore importance of self-reflection & self-realization making them appreciate the fact that, if we have a higher self-understanding, then we can deal with others more compassionately, with a hope of making our relationships healthy. Moving on the path of ‘Aham Brahmasmi’ provides immense hope to handle our relationships much better and promotes healthier balance between our real self, displayed self & ideal self, making our surrounding and world, a better place to live.

The session deals with the ‘Web of relationship damagers’ based on ‘Gottman’s four horseman of the apocalypse theory’ and discovers how could we work on these relationship damagers with the hope to have better and improved relationships, revive damaged relationships and behave in a more balanced manner in future, keeping in mind the principle of ‘Aham to Tvam/Aney’ and practicing the philosophy of ‘Self regarding to Others regarding’. Finally a ‘Circle of Hope’ is created that would provide eternal hope for making this world more compassionate, empathetic, progressive, balanced and a better place to live for all.

Come join our session to explore your unexplored self and begin the journey towards ‘Aham Brahmasmi’.

Process Infinity – Just imagine a Infinity symbol, the left side loop is our past and right side loop is our future and the center confluence point is our breakthrough point – Now.

The process Infinity is a 15 steps process which begins at Now and then start with left loop visiting 5 stages and then to right loop visiting 5 stages and the quest end at Now the center point again. The process evolve through various stages helping harvest past experiences and creating a possibilities to design the future the way we like.

This process may be used for individual deep dive self reflection as well as in group setting. In process one will experience a wonderful method of churning through chaotic past to pick up the pearls of learning which may be used to design the desired shape of the future. Participants will walk away with key insights about Actions they need to take to shape the desired future.

Participants will also get a complete process details with step by step guide to use it in their own context. Very useful for Leadership Facilitator, for getting Leaders to be in the room and reflect together. Very useful for Coaches, as you will observe the magic of simple questions which can get coachee to reflect deeply.

How to cultivate hope for myself and my surroundings, when the reality is filled with climate emergency, biodiversity loss, mass polarization, limits to growth, the rise of artificial intelligence – all signifying that the world currently is facing a unprecedented polycrisis? Is hope a reactive stance, or is it a proactive one? How can I, as an individual and as a facilitator, actively cultivate hope?

The session stems from the concept of generative social field, the recent concept developed by leading scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology – based on the classic Kurt Lewin’s field theory. We will use the Compassionate Systems Framework, developed by Peter Senge and Mette Boell from Massachusetts Institute of Technology Systems Awareness Lab – continuously evolved as an advance concept for facilitating living systems change.

Social field always exist, either generative or degenerative. What many of us are not aware of is that all human beings participate in co-creating the complex social contexts they live in and engage with. In other words, how we show up to a space or group always affects the dynamics in them, in a positive or negative way (Compassionate Systems Framework Compendium, 2025).

In this session, we will explore experientially the notion of generative social field, using the Compassionate Systems Framework. Together we will co-create a space that is safe and supportive, where everyone can feel emotionally safe and connected to one another. Through contemplative practice, reflection, and in-depth sharing, we will attempt to heighten our awareness of the way we habitually show up, as an individual and as a facilitator, and how that contributes to the social field we are in. We will connect the way we show up and generative social field, to the cultivation of compassion and hope. The invitation for one and all is to consciously choose and decide how one is going to show up, so collectively we can cultivate compassion and hope in ourselves and in others, in an attempt to co-create a better, more peaceful, and just world for all.

What if your next facilitation could help people not only solve today’s problems better—but also anticipate tomorrow’s opportunities? In this hands-on teaser session, we’ll explore the value of Futures Thinking for facilitators working in complex, fast-changing environments. You’ll get a taste of powerful tools like the Futures Triangle, Backcasting and the Polak Game. Whether you work with governments, communities, businesses or NGOs, Futures Thinking offers ways to empower groups to navigate uncertainty and shape change with intention. Expect an engaging mix of play, practice, and insight—all designed to spark curiosity and leave you wanting more. No prior experience needed—just bring your open mind and your facilitator’s heart.

Come for the glimpse—leave with a new lens. The future is a hopeful conversation. Let’s start it together. Let’s facilitate hope!

Facilitation for Hope is about guiding open dialogue that sparks connection, resilience, and real, lasting change. In a world facing complex challenges, we need more than quick fixes — we need conversations that help us see fresh possibilities, act together, and nurture regenerative, inclusive cultures.

This session invites us to pause, reflect, and reimagine how we show up — as individuals, teams, and communities — to shape a thriving, just future. Together, we will:

• Discover why transformation is key to sustainability.
• Explore the S.T.E.W.A.R.D Framework through inspiring stories from Asia and beyond.
• Engage in small-group conversations that matter.
• Plant “Seeds of the Future” by sharing ideas and actions.
• Celebrate our insights and leave ready to steward change in our own ways.

Key Takeaways:
– See the difference between short-term solutions and true sustainable impact.
– Reflect on our role as stewards of change.
– Connect and co-create ideas with peers across regions.

Join us. Let’s bring our curiosity, our questions, and our hope — and begin this conversation, here and now.
#FacilitationForHope #Sustainability #IAF #CoCreate #TransformTogether”

This session invites facilitators, change agents, and organisational leaders to explore how systems awareness and systems thinking can enhance their ability to see, sense, and map real-world challenges. Rather than addressing isolated problems or symptoms, participants will learn to uncover deeper patterns, identify interconnected root causes, and develop a systems-level perspective.

Through this session, participants will gain a foundational understanding of systems-based habits, practices, and facilitative moves. These tools will support them in recognising recurring dynamics and underlying mental models, enabling more holistic insights and impactful action in their work with teams and organisations.