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NeverDoneBefore

Festival

The most innovative 24 hours in the
world of facilitation

A Unique Event

We welcome you to join us for the most innovative 24 hours in the world of facilitation.

Become part of a pioneering community and experience
a workshop programme that pushes the boundaries of our craft.

Each workshop was uniquely designed for this occasion,
and will be presented for the first time at the Festival.

Truly NeverDoneBefore!

In interaction
with the group

Nurturing for
soul and mind

Doing, embodiment,
and creativity

Focus on the exchange of ideas and thoughs

In the Treehouse
on Welo

Our Festival Programme

You can interact with the below agenda, or view our full size agenda directly in Miro via the below button

Festival Line-Up

Explore the full line-up of 30+ workshops. Click on the speaker's picture to
listen to their workshops work podcast episode

Categories

In interaction
with the group

Nurturing for body,
soul and mind

Doing, embodiment,
creativity

Focus on the exchange of ideas and thoughs

In the treehouse on Welo

Interactivity Scale

Stay in your Bubble

Creeping forwards

Definitely in the room

On your toes

No place to hide

Facilitator's Mindset

Midnight CET
Grand Festival Opening
Grand Festival Opening
Myriam Hadnes & Patrick Cowden

Join us for a moment of connection, reflection and story telling with Patrick & Myriam.

Wild Card

1 AM, CET
Letting the Space Hold You
Letting the Space Hold You
Mirjam Leunissen & Yaniv Rose

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

1 AM, CET
Dov and Doug’s emerging space
Dov and Doug’s emerging space
Doug Breitbart & Dov Tsal

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

3 AM, CET
Clash of the Goddesses
Clash of the Goddesses
Rachel Gooen & Etrit Shkreli

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

5 AM, CET
Authenticity: An Experiment in Weirdness
Authenticity: An Experiment in Weirdness
Rhys Cranney & Etrit Shkreli

This is an invitation to explore weirdness, inspired by Weird Barbie. It is related to authenticity and uncertainty.

Facilitator's Mindset

8 AM, CET
Eye Wide Shut: Flipping the Lens of Bias
Eye Wide Shut: Flipping the Lens of Bias
Vy Nguyen & Michelle Howard

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

8 AM, CET
Past, Present and the Future: Sailing with Resistance
Past, Present and the Future: Sailing with Resistance
Etrit Shkreli & Nadia von Holzen

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

8 AM, CET
The Goal Walk – An Embodied Self-Discover Experience
The Goal Walk – An Embodied Self-Discover Experience
Jan Keck & Alejandro García Machuca

Turn abstract goals into tangible experiences. Physically navigate your path to success and uncover subconscious barriers.

Better Future Facilitation

8 AM, CET
Shape a Reality of Possibilities
Shape a Reality of Possibilities
Jeremy Nathaniel Akers & Silvia de la Torre

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

10 AM, CET
Day Dream
Day Dream
Jed and Sophia Lazar

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

10 AM, CET
Process Lab: How Can We Design to Let Things Emerge?
Process Lab: How Can We Design to Let Things Emerge?
Florentine Versteeg & Cate Czerwinski

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

11:30 AM, CET
Jump Through the Faclitationverse: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Jump Through the Faclitationverse: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
Cate Czerwinski & Sara Huang

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

11.30 PM, CET
Deeper Connections, Disguised as a Board Game
Deeper Connections, Disguised as a Board Game
Jed and Sophia Lazar

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

1.30 PM, CET
Exploring Enough
Exploring Enough
Emily Touchet & Allicia Viona

Self reflection and interactive play exploring the idea of enough and how it feels.

Facilitation Toolkit

1:30 PM, CET
Cliches & Memes
Cliches & Memes
Tina Lyngdoh & Lux Narayan

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

1.30 PM CET
Transformational Teaching Online
Transformational Teaching Online
Lorenz & Natasha Sell

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

1.30 PM, CET
Facilitating dystopia – can we design processes during an apocalypse?
Facilitating dystopia – can we design processes during an apocalypse?
Florentine Versteeg & Thomas Lahnthaler

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

3.30 PM, CET
The Power Of Presence
The Power Of Presence
Julio Maria Muhorro & Deasy Helena

"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

3:30 PM, CET
Tesseract Framing: Refracting Problems into Possibilities
Tesseract Framing: Refracting Problems into Possibilities
Ewen Le Borgne & Elise Keith

This session will playfully explore different techniques for framing a problem to expand thinking, get unstuck, and bring new possibility into the discussion

Active

3.30 PM, CET
Navigating the Known/Unknown
Navigating the Known/Unknown
Anisa Nabila & Wanda Muhammad

Facilitation for All

3.30 PM, CET
Leveraging Intentionally Equitable Hospitality in Communities
Leveraging Intentionally Equitable Hospitality in Communities
Maha Bali & Yasser Tamer Atef

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

5.30 PM, CET
Prices are All Made Up
Prices are All Made Up
Rebecca Sutherns & Sarah Nicole Martin

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

5.30 PM, CET
Designing with Darkness
Designing with Darkness
Johnnie Moore & Jordan Soliday

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

5.30 PM, CET
To Bee or Not to Bee: Doing Facilitation as Bees
To Bee or Not to Bee: Doing Facilitation as Bees
Indra Kusuma & Patrick Tiongson

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

7.30 PM, CET
Testing the Bookends of Structure
Testing the Bookends of Structure
Kirsten Clacey & Akshay Kapur

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

7: 30 PM
Forbidden Toolbox: We’re taking away your favourites!
Forbidden Toolbox: We’re taking away your favourites!
Rebecca Sutherns & Douglas Ferguson

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

07:30 PM
Negotiate as Well as you Facilitate
Negotiate as Well as you Facilitate
Lisette van de Sandt & Tanja Murphy-Ilibasic

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

9:30 PM, CET
From Self-Worth to Net Worth
From Self-Worth to Net Worth
Myriam Hadnes & Martin Garbers

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

9.30 PM, CET
Doug and Dov’s Being in Systems
Doug and Dov’s Being in Systems
Doug Breitbart & Dov Tsal

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

11 PM, CET
Closing and Party
Closing and Party
Myriam Hadnes and Jacques the Party Scientist

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

With the Festival Pass, you access the NDB community for up to 2 months (value of 180 EUR):
Enjoy the lead-up to the Festival as well as the Afterglow workshop programme.

Festival Pass

November 18, 2022

24 hours of unique and thought provoking workshops from around the globe.

€475

PPA-Festival Pass

Purchasing-Power Adjusted

Full Festival access for those who live and work in poorer parts of this world!

Up to 60% discount

The Festival Space

Most workshop will take place on Zoom!
And between workshops, you can explore the liminal space in our the community garden on Welo. As we know it from the physical space, the most interesting encounters happen in-between:

At the coffee machine, In a treehouse, a sandbox or on a floating LEGO boat!

Dr Myriam Hadnes

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