NeverDoneBefore
Festival 2023
world of facilitation.
A Unique Event
We welcome you to join us for the most innovative 24 hours in the world of online facilitation.
Become part of a pioneering community and experience a workshop programme that pushes the boundaries of the art and craft of facilitation.
Each workshop was uniquely designed for this occasion, and will be presented for the first time at the Festival.
Truly NeverDoneBefore!
Our Festival Programme
You can interact with the below agenda via Miro,
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The 2023 Festival Line-up
Explore the full line-up of workshops, and click on their picture to listen to their workshops work podcast episode
Categories
Interactivity Scale
Stay in your Bubble
Creeping forwards
Definitely in the room
On your toes
No place to hide
Facilitator's Mindset
Join us for a moment of connection, reflection and story telling with Patrick & Myriam.
Wild Card
Who is the default dude inside you that holds the space for others? And can you recruit other gang members to also let the space hold you? We'll do some archetype speed dating to find all the different facilitators inside you.
Full-Body Facilitation
Possible content: - Drawing true intense listening. - Tai Chi improvisations - Exploring Silence up close - Listening to the listener - Connecting to the Taoist mindset.
Facilitator's Mindset
As a facilitator, how do you relate to conflict? We'll use the metaphors of Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom and Strategy, and Kali, the Goddess of Time and Change, to explore the creative and transformative aspects of conflict.
Wild Card
This is an invitation to explore weirdness, inspired by Weird Barbie. It is related to authenticity and uncertainty.
Facilitator's Mindset
Let’s open our eyes to the hidden bias and assumptions that we bring to our seeing and being seen! Together we will explore how we perceive our participants and how we think we are perceived. Exploring the gifts of diversity and the layer of identity.
Facilitation for All
This is a session on navigating resistance. Explore what triggers resistance, find ways to make peace with it, align with others, and recalibrate your compass. Dive into the emotional landscape while collaborating effectively.
Full-Body Facilitation
Turn abstract goals into tangible experiences. Physically navigate your path to success and uncover subconscious barriers.
Better Future Facilitation
Define strategies for creating positive change in your own life / community / work environment. Collaboratively Network Possibilities and leverage promises to bootstrap regenerative economies
Facilitator's Mindset
What might happen if we nurtured and explored our hopes for the future? This workshop is a beta test dive into what a community of dreamers and doers might look like. Come to explore your dreams - both for yourself, and for the world collectively. ✨
Facilitation Toolkit
It's a lab-style get together to dive deep into the question: how can we design process that stimulate things to emerge and people to participate fully.
Facilitator's Mindset
Join Sara and Cate's 90-minute workshop inspired by "Everything, Everywhere, All at Once." Bring a chair, dairy or alternative, and googly eyes. Familiarity with the film is a must for this unique exploration.
Purposeful Play
What does meaningful and authentic connection look like? The Cozy Juicy Real board game has been played in 71 countries to create meaningful connections. Now it's back with never before seen questions, challenges and activities for a truly-memorable experience.
Facilitator's Mindset
Self reflection and interactive play exploring the idea of enough and how it feels.
Facilitation Toolkit
The Art and Science of Verbal & Visual Analogies. What’s common to the best teachers, preachers, marketers, writers, politicians, comedians, and storytellers? They don’t use cliches. And, they know the power of a great analogy - verbally and visually
Facilitation for All
We'll explore how to teach content, whatever it may be, in a way that is transformational. The content is what it is, but the way of being that is invited around the experience will cultivate relational capacities and invite meaningful conversation.
Better Future Facilitation
Exploring facilitation in extreme scenarios: Applying our skills to apocalyptic situations, fostering co-creation, participation, and values in crises. Analyzing dystopian scenarios for process improvements and skill enhancement.
Facilitator's Mindset
"The Power of Presence" workshop empowers facilitators with a transformative journey to enhance their presence in any setting. Build your presence step by step, breath by breath for impactful facilitation.
Facilitation Toolkit
This session will playfully explore different techniques for framing a problem to expand thinking, get unstuck, and bring new possibility into the discussion
Active
Facilitation for All
Our meta workshop explores activities/tools for "hospitability" while promoting reflection on equitable contexts. Discover Intentionally Equitable Hospitality by practicing its values during the session.
Facilitator's Mindset
This session is for you if you find pricing and scoping facilitation jobs to be one big mystery that people don’t dare talk about in detail. We’ll dare!
Better Future Facilitation
Johnnie and Jordan are collaborators in Unhurried Design, which is about creating more value in relationships and less waste of limited material resources. We're especially interested in playing with working creatively with darker emotions like anxiety and anger - which the modern world tries to shun but which we think can be powerful ways to connect more deeply, if shared well. Our workshop will explore ways to do this as a group.
Purposeful Play
Bees bring out the best in flowers, and they make the sweetest honey. Bees also sting. What happens when we transfer these qualities to facilitation? Join Indra and Patrick in a playful garden of possibilities, and discover the bee that you are meant to "bee" - or not meant to "bee".
Facilitator's Mindset
Facilitators, join us to A/B test structure extremes: no vs. too much. Explore your relationship with structures, gain awareness, choice, and confidence in group dynamics.
Facilitation Toolkit
What do you do when the facilitation tools you normally rely on are no longer available to you? Join us to explore scenarios for digital, hybrid, and in-person settings. Discover alternatives when traditional tools are stripped away. Facilitated debrief for deeper insights.
Facilitation Toolkit
Provide tools to negotiate kick-ass deals as a facilitator. Get clients to recognise and pay for the value you offer - be an entrepreneur! Design your own toolkit of negotiation techniques to put into practice with your next client.
Facilitator's Mindset
The workshop, "From Self-Worth to Net Worth," guides participants from examining past beliefs about work value to building a prosperous future by managing personal energy. What makes it interesting is its holistic approach, connecting past experiences with current challenges and future aspirations, helping attendees to convert energy leakages into assets.
Full-Body Facilitation
Exploring how to listen to systems, After 20 intense hours of festival going, let go of your FOMO and join Doug and Dov to connect, reconnect, and fill your toolbox with team-dynamic techniques designed and groomed by Doug over the past three decades.
Full-Body Facilitation
Join us for a final gathering to look back at 24 hours of NeverDoneBefore moments and get into our bodies to attend the most Scientific Zoom Party On Earth — Designed By ThePartyScientist.com
Get your Pass
Join us on November 17, 2023 for 24 hours to remember!
Festival: Basic
- Over 30 live Festival workshops
- Guest access to the Festival Beach on Welo
€248 EUR
Festival: VIP
- Everything with Tier 2
- Festival Afterglow Programme
- One Mastermind Session
- One 1-1 Coaching Session
€789 EUR
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