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This episode is one of our quarterly “Chapter Chats” where the team talks to leaders of other IAF Chapters.  In this episode Helene and Nikki chat to Sara Tremmi Proietti and Andrea Panzavolta from IAF Italy.  They talk about How the chapter began in 2013 and the successive leaders since then; Initiatives to extend the reach of the chapter in Southern Italy: The co-leadership model used for the past two leadership terms;   “Our jobs are a little bit different. So it's very interesting because we see things from very different perspectives. And this is also always very, very rich, and something that I really, really recommend” (Sara on co-leading with Giacamo)   The Chapter's Annual Conference- its volunteer-led model and support provided to people who'd like to run a session; Working collaboratively with other Associations in Italy; Twinning with other IAF chapters including Romania and Syria; Plans and aspirations for the future of the Chapter;  “we would like the chapter to be a point of reference at the national level for organisations who are seeking facilitator facilitation services or just want to learn something more about it” A full transcript is below.  Links  Today's guests:  Sara Tremmi Proietti: saratremmiproetti@gmail.com  IAF Italy website: https://iaf-italy.org/  IAF Italy email: italy@iaf-world.org   Today's subject  LinkedIn Article about Co Leadership by Andrea and Deborah: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stepping-leadership-iaf-story-deborah-rim-moiso-fmdwf/   To find out more about Facilitation Stories and the IAF and the England and Wales Chapter  Facilitation Stories website: https://facilitationstories.libsyn.com/  And to email us: podcast@iaf-englandwales.org  IAF England and Wales: https://www.iaf-world.org/site/chapters/england-wales The Facilitation Stories Team  Helene Jewell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenejewell/  Nikki Wilson:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolawilson2/   Transcript   H.J Hello and welcome to Facilitation Stories, the community podcast brought to you by the England and Wales chapter of the International Association of Facilitators, also known as IAF. I'm Helene Jewell (HJ) and   N.W I'm Nikki Wilson (NW)   H.J And this episode is one of our quarterly Chapter Chats, where we talk to people leading other chapters in the IAF global community. We ask them about how they see the status of facilitation, where they are, and the history, priorities, current projects and aspirations of the chapter. Today, we're joined by Andrea Panzavolta (AP) and Sara Tremmi Proietti (SP), co chairs of IAF Italy, welcome.   S.P Thank you, Helene.   A.P Thank you so much for the invitation and also for your perfect pronunciation.   H.J Thank you so welcome to you both. And to start off with, we would like to know a little bit more about both of you and about the kind of work you do. So if you could tell us a bit about yourselves, that would be great.   S.P Thank you Helene. Okay, so my name is Sara, and I live in Rome, which is in centre of Italy. I have been working in public administration for over 10 years now, and for the past three years, I've been drawn to the world of facilitation, first attending a course and then starting to work also in in this field, public administration, I focused initially on economic programming, but then I turned more on teams like innovation and process optimization. So that's how I met facilitation, because during an office reorganisation attempt, we met a lot of conflicts and resistances and difficulties with our team. And so I understood that I needed to, you know, to discover and to learn something more about people, about relation, about group working. So that's how I met it and how I am.   A.P So may I introduce myself, and first of all, thank you for the invitation and for this amazing initiative, because I also listened to the past podcast and were very, very, very well done. I'm not the actual chapter leader. I was the past chapter leader with Deborah Rim Moiso. So thank you also, Sarah, who invited me to join you. And I'm an urban planner and the facilitator, of course, our 20 years that I practise as a facilitator. I'm a founder of the formative collective, that is a project that focuses on the team of non violent communication. And of course, we use the participatory techniques, methods. And I was awarded with the Platinum Award 2020 by the International Association of Facilitator. So I'm very proud about this, in a project that I follow it by region Emilia-Romagna, that is my region in the north of Italy, and the team was about the Community of Practice on participatory policy making. So that's all for me.   H.J Thank you. Really interesting to hear how you both got into facilitation and congratulations on your award too, Andrea.   A.P Thanks so much. It's a past award.   N.W Great. So today we're going to be talking about IAF Italy, which we know had its 10 year anniversary last year. So what can you tell us about how it started and how the chapters developed over that 10 year period?   A.P Yeah, thank you for the question Nikki .The Italian chapter born in 2013 on the initiative by Giancarlo Manzone and Gerardo de Luzengerger that I imagine you know very well. And from 2019 to 2021 was coordinated by Paola Martinez. That is another IAF member, very active. And since May 2021, has been coordinated by me and Deborah Rim Moiso. And now the coordinators are Sara Tremmi Proietti and Giacomo Petitti. And the chapter started to create collaboration between facilitators, and mainly to explain what the facilitator do. At that time nobody in Italy know the term, the word facilitator. And I was scared to present me as a facilitator, because nobody, nobody could understand what I did. So this is our first mission in that time.   H.J Thank you. Really interesting. Sorry, Sara, did you have something to add?     S.P Yeah, I would like to, just to add that the professional facilitator now it's spreading a little bit more in Italy, but still, we have a lot of resistance among organisations. And there is a great concentration of facilitators in the north of the country. So we are our initiative now is also to bring facilitation to the southern regions of the country. And we are quite pleased about an initiative that came from our members, which is a small initiative, because they just decided to have a WhatsApp chat called like facilitators from the South. And the nice thing is that this initiative came from a Canadian girl, who is a member who lives now in the south of Italy, and but, and she's a member of IAF Italy, and she formed this WhatsApp chat, and we are quite proud of this, even if this is a small step, but it does mean something for us.   H.J Wow, that's so interesting. And also that kind of organic movement of yeah, people starting up their own, yeah? Well, WhatsApp chat   S.P Exactly, exactly, yeah.   H.J  And I think what's interesting actually for us is, the more we do these Chapter Chats, we hear a bit of a consistent theme, actually, in this people don't really know what facilitation is. That certainly, when we spoke to Bogdan from IAF Romania, that was one of the things he was talking about as well. So it's definitely and in the UK. So it's definitely not, uh, not something, uh, specific to where we are, which is interesting. Okay, so, um, thinking then, uh, well building a bit on what you were saying, Sara about, you know, you've got some new initiatives. Can you tell us a bit more about the chapter as it is today?   S.P Yeah, sure. So the chapter today has about 30 to 35 members, as I was saying before, with the predominance in the north of Italy. So it's like 20 to 22, members in the north, and four of them are certified facilitators. So now we still have two co-leader, a co-leadership. It's me and Giacomo Petitti. We have been holding this role for a year now, so it's midterm kind of. And what we do is we basically carried on the work, the job that was began by Andrea and Deborah, because we hold monthly meetings. So it's pretty regularly. It's like the third Monday of each month we meet. And we also provided IAF Italy with a Zoom account so that we can, we could, uh, ensure you know this regularity. And this is a place, this is a moment of the month where people can meet and discuss and also participate in building and nourishing the community and to identify together goals and activities. So we wanted to be a participated chapter, no. So since we are kind of scattered among, you know, along the country, across the country, we cannot hold, like in person events so frequently. So we have our national event, which is held in Milan every year. So we keep it, you know, online, mainly. And then we we have, like, some activities, like, you know, things that we participate in, in events with other association for the promotion of the participation, or for the promotion of facilitation as well. Like, we went to an event last September in Bologna. So we travel a little bit, me and Giacomo sometimes. And then to, you know, to keep up with members, we have this WhatsApp chat, and then we have a sort of newsletter. We can call it like monthly, where we give, we keep them updated to with the international events and initiatives that are going on into the IAF Ward and yeah and that, that's pretty much it. And then we have, you know, like a specific also, activities that we were following, but maybe Andrea will tell you more later about it.   N.W And you touched on the kind of Co-leadership model that you follow. What do you, have you found works well in making that work when you're co leading?   A.P Yes, before the 2021 the chapter had always been led by an individual, but when Gerardo asked me to became the chapter leader, I was very scared. And in that period I had less time to dedicate to the association. So I asked to Deborah Rim Moiso to help me, and she joined, and she was very happy to join this experience. And we together were inspired by experiments in Co-leadership adopted by the global ecovillage network and and we not, we're not sure, but they may have too been inspired by the Kurdish democratic and federalism practices. So this was our approach, and it's very simple. Our co-leadership started, I don't know if now work at the same, but I think it's very similar. And any leadership position is taken at the same time by two people of different genders. So we suggest different genders, both are leader together. And you know, as IAF you need to have only one reference, one the chapter leader, but I was the person who did the senior tour. But for me and Deborah, we have the same power. And for me, was very important to share the season and to share also that after the meeting with the IAF International. And was very, very useful also to define the future strategy, also to when we decided to engage more members from the south of Italy, we decided together this and we decided to to have regular meetings with us, with me and Deborah. We call the coffee time meeting, or the beer meeting, the beer time meeting. So every week, we had a short meeting of half an hour to share ideas and also to share information that we took from from different meetings that we participate. So we shared also the duties you know about, to be a chapter leader. And so was a very good experience, and we suggested this managed model to all the chapters.   H.J Nice, and for you Sara, does that, is it a model that feels nice working alongside somebody else?   S.P Yeah, very much. I really appreciated this initiative. And when Andrea proposed me to take the role and told me that Giacomo was in as well, I was really relieved. I was like, Okay, now, now I know that I can do it like this. You know, in pairs. Yeah, I think it's very interesting to be together. And also you can, you know, divide activities, such as the previous one I was talking about, when you have to travel around. And also you can, you know, share meetings where you have to, that you have to attend, but mostly you can discuss and share fears and projects for the future. And also Giacomo and I have very different backgrounds. How are you know, we live in different places, in different type of communities, our jobs are a little bit different. So it's very interesting because we see things from very different perspectives and this is also always very, very rich, and something that I really, really recommend. So I'm really, really enjoying this. And also the nice thing was that at the last general conference, we kind of hosted the conference, which is organised by Gerardo every year. But also we decided to have a session together for a session. So we brought a workshop so we could test, you know, our Co-leadership in person and during work. So that's nice.   H.J So it sounds great from sort of lots of different perspectives. And yeah, interesting thinking about that diversity perspective that you both bring two sort of different mindsets or different ways of facilitating to your leadership. And I can absolutely, having been passed England and Wales chapter chair, I can absolutely relate to that being a bit scared of doing it by yourself. So if you've got somebody to work alongside with that must feel really good. So the other thing you you've just mentioned again, leading us nicely onto, my next question is about your annual conference. It would be really nice to hear a bit more about about the how that works, about your plans and past conferences as well. You tell us a bit more.   A.P Yeah, maybe I could introduce some themes related to the past conferences. And what I could say a lot of subjects. We started with ‘the collaboration era' was the title of the first Italian conference. Was the first conference to make know better the professional facilitator, and to start also the collaboration with different professional you know. At the time, each facilitator was very jealous about his work ,his profession, because it was, was something very precious, so we decided to start collaboration to share experience methods and what what we know. In our conference, everyone bring his or her experience and the share methods could offer a free workshop so you have to share something of your professional experience also. And another theme that I loved, it was “where the donkey falls”. So when you are a facilitator, you do everything very well, but when you start to converge to the, to take the decision, here come the problems. So how we could take good decision, how we could go in the conversing way and respect our participants or the group's members. And after that was very good for me, the covid free editions conference, because we shared all we learned in these months of pandemic situation also about the online. But were moment to share those feelings as professional, as individual, as a member of a family, and what does. Also the last conference we organised were about the facilitate in a few words, so no verbal facilitation. How to use the body, arms? You know, we are Italian. We could was very, very well para verbal. But you never stop to study. You have to improve your skills. So we decide to face this team. And the last in the in 2024 the team was neutrality in facilitation. I mean, it's possible to be really neutral as a facilitator in a group, how you can do to be natural, what methods, what you have to do before the groups works before the workshop or after, to be more neutral. And at the end, one of the most nice for me experience of the conference was the agile and facilitation conference that was there during the European Middle East, original conference of the IAF, so was a very, was an international conference. We mainly, not mainly, all the conference has been organised in Italian language. This was the only conference can I organise in English. Always in Milan was dedicated to Agile. So to work with an agile methods, and also to go in deep in the Agile methods that it's not only for person that work with computer and engineers but it's also good for design thinking, the facilitator. And I don't know if Sara wants to add something more about this experience?   S.P Yes, thank you  Andrea, it was very exhaustive. Yeah, what I would like to add is more like a personal, maybe, point of view for in a way, because I, as I said before, I met facilitation three years ago. So I just attended a couple of conferences the last two. So the first one was, yeah, the one like facilitating in a few words, and that, for me, was really amazing, because I just met facilitation and I had no idea, like not no idea, but I was very young in facilitation. So experiencing facilitation through the body and through paraverbal was very enriching for me, because I could learn a lot and experiment on myself a lot. And the second one, and the very nice thing for me was that I was asked by Andrea, I think by Andrea, or by Delfino, I don't remember, to to facilitate the open space technology that we always have during the conference. And it was the first time for me, and that was absolutely amazing experience. And in general, the great thing about the conference is that it brings together very different people, and you get to know that, other words, you know, exist in facilitation. And this is something that being new. It's always you know, something to discover. So it's very interesting. And another thing that I would like to add is that in the this year, last conference, which was held in March, the one about neutrality, was organised in a slightly different way, because there was like a preparation path conference. And people were, are kind of supported and not tutored, but supported in their planning and designing of the workshops that they wanted to to offer. And these, and they were like, they were like feedback, attentions, so that people could improve and take care of, you know, details supported by by a team of, you know, facilitators, and these ensured great quality of of workshops during the conference. It was really, really, really high quality. And I believe that it helped also young facilitators to, you know, to offer workshops with less anxiety. I don't know how to say that, you know, so, yeah, that was really, really nice. I think   A.P If I put up just a very practical thing that is not obvious, the conference is all organised by volunteers, and this is a choice, because the fee is very low, so it's about 180 or 150 euros. It depends about the year. So we want to be very open also to person that are not facilitator, are curious about facilitators or facilitation methods and stories, and that's all.   H.J Sounds kind of similar to the conference that we put on in England and Wales, actually there's, yeah, definite similarities. Nice. Thank you.   N.W Brilliant. And so I suppose building again on that kind of peer led nature of the work the chapter often builds collaborations and partnerships, both within Italy and beyond. So if we just start off with Italy, could you share some examples of some recent and current collaborations that you're involved with?   A.P Yeah, thank you, Nikki for the question. Yes. When I became chapter leader, together with Deborah, we decide to enforce relation with National Association, because we understood that we have to grow, and to grow we have to enforce the relation to know more association that are interested in the same subjects. So mainly we did intervention to explain what I effectively do and what are the core competencies, support, facilitator, and, you know, just to present ourselves and to explain what a facilitator is. We invite all the members of different association to share information and objectives, to find common ground. So we work, in particular with IP two, that is an association in Italy that work on public participation. And if the members are more academic, are more are not professional facilitator, but like to work in the field of facilitator and the public democratic choices. So they are very engaged about what IAF is. And also, we decide to start collaboration with Association like Facilit Ambiente, that is an association, a private association that is offered by the Chamber of Commerce of Milan Monza Brianza Lodi. And it's a sort of service offered for preventing environmental conflicts through facilitation. So they trust in facilitation. They want to support and promote the facilitations approaches and also IAF approaches and the core competencies. So also we work with the open gulf consultation, that is the national consultation, that aim to engage citizens, normal citizens, in the decision related to the government. And there is a national platform, online platform, and you can vote, you know, like this deal, but it's a national platform. So very, very hard to participate because you need, you need to use a lot of personal data to vote before, but for us, was a must. As an international association, as a national association of facilitation, we have to speak also with the Italian government about these, these subjects.   H.J Thank you. Sara, was there anything to add from you?   S.P Yeah, just that this, we are with the associate association that Andrea mentioned, the Association for Public Participation. We are now reviewing the Participation Charter, which was elaborated, created 10 years ago. So after 10 years, this charter has been reviewed. And the Charter is a document promoted by IAF Italy, and this AIP through association with other associations that establishes principles and objectives and guidelines for promoting public participation in decision making processes and the process of reviewing this charter just ended. So we will present this work at the Festival of the Participation, which would be held soon in Italy. So we are quite, quite proud of this. And yes, in general, we try to connect with the associate Association in order to spread facilitation, and also to promote the recognition of the facilitator, facilitator profession in Italy, because this profession is not yet recognised here.   H.J Amazing, Wow. Sounds like you've got lots and lots of Yeah, lots of work that you're doing, and perhaps lots more to do, just thinking about collaborations, but more specifically about the twinning that you've been doing with other chapters. I wanted to ask you a bit more about that. So we spoke to Bogdan, as I said before, from IAF Romania in a previous Chapter Chat and we know that you've twinned with IAF Romania, and you have started, I think, to twin with IAF Syria. And I just wondered if you could tell us a bit more about that.   S.P Yeah, yeah. We, Giacomo and I, decided to carry on this, this initiative that was started by Andrea and Deborah with the Romania when but we did with this training with Syria. And it was a very, very enriching experience for us, because it could help us expand our horizon, you know, also beyond, beyond the Western culture. And so we had a series of virtual workshop, online workshop with with Syrian, in order to share knowledge, resources and best practices between our chapters. We had four meetings about the first one was like, like, the role of facilitation in post disaster recovery. And this was really interesting, because we exchange different stories, and we could see how different it was to, for example, recover after natural disaster. Like it was like in Italy, because we have, we had a few earthquakes in the last few years that and then we had to rebuild, you know, buildings and communities. Whereas in Syria, they had to rebuild after war, and then also after earthquakes. So we could share this experience, and we would see the differences and the great job that they did, and that we also tried to do here in Italy. And also it was very nice because each, each each meeting, the other meetings, were about the conflict management and cultural diversity. So it was, it was very nice to because there are, there might be great differences, you know, in culture, especially when you, when you compare Italy to Syria. So it really makes you think and reflect even out of the session. You know, you have to think about cultural diversity at the basis of the relation. I don't know how to explain it better. And it was nice because we had the chance to co facilitate. So it was an Italian and a Syrian facilitator. And so it was really enriching and but what I saw and what I really liked is that, because I did facilitate one of these meetings, and it was the openness and the human connection that we could find and share when doing something that we really liked. So it was something that went beyond cultural diversity and went beyond the barrier, also the language barrier that you can meet when you go facilitate. You know, maybe Andrea wants to tell us a few more about the Romanian experience.   A.P But, yeah, sure. Just something to add about the idea, the idea, when we decide, with Deborah to propose this twinning during a meeting of the European chapter, we decide to propose a twinning that was composed about three, four meetings, thematic meetings. And of course, that will not take more than two years twinning, because, from our idea, also the Chapter must be in charge for two years. And every two years we want to change chapter leaders and as well, co chapter leaders. And so the twinning at this time about the Romania was amazing because was the first twinning so we decided together, also with bogdan and his and their colleagues, we decided also to share how it's different the professional facilitator in Romania and Italy. So starting from, what are your clients? What are your fees? And something very, very practical, but also if you work more in the private or public sector and what you did, what are your institution? So the line was to enrich each other with methods, but also take inspiration how to work in a different way with different clients that together are not you don't know. And so was very fun also to understand that we are in the same boat, so everything is the same in your nation. So a very good experience that I suggest to each chapter to start.   H.J Thank you. So then thinking about, actually, I just wanted to pick up on one thing you were talking about there, the language, which obviously we as native English speakers have as the kind of luxury, if you like that, when things are in a shared language, they are often in English, which is quite easy for us. How does that, How hard or easy is that to for example, work with Romania, work with Syria and have to use for both of you to be using a language that isn't your own.   S.P Well, actually, I mean, I do really like languages so and I think it's fun to when you meet someone who is not a native English speaker, to find your own vocabulary, like you build up your own vocabulary, which maybe it's not even English, it's not Italian, it's not Syrian, it's not Romanian, but somehow you understand each other, and that's fun. But I have to say that sometimes it can be a barrier, because, like maybe not all the, not all our members felt confident to facilitate in English. So, yeah, so you really need to encourage them that you will find a way to build up your vocab, vocabulary. And also, I think that during the sessions, there is this, at least for me, like, kind of worried that I may not understand well what people are saying, and maybe I my facilitation could be, you know, so and so. And so, you really need to trust yourself, I think, a little bit more, but also, and that's why I really like facilitation, you can always rely on your co facilitator, so if you or make a joke about it, so if you are two, if it's two, you know facilitators not speaking English as a native language, I think it's a lot easier to to manage that.   A.P If I could share, I remember my first online meeting with the monthly meeting with the European Middle East, and I was so scared about the language, because I never studied English, so I learned by myself. So I was so scared or what, what I could say with these facilitators, so professional facilitator. And there was, I met Andrew Spiteri, you know, in a breakout room, and he was so polite, so friendly, that I was very relaxed. And after that meeting, I said myself, everything will be okay. Don't, don't, don't be scared. Don't worry about the English. And you can also use para verbal and don't speak.   H.J Yeah,that's always a fall back, isn't it? Wow, yes, I've delivered training in a different language. Anyway, moving on. So yeah, looking ahead, what's happening in the near future in IAF Italy and yeah, how would you like to see things develop over the next few years?   S.P Okay, so looking ahead, so our focus, I think, remain on strengthening the culture of participation and participation in general. For sure, public participation is, you know, something that is important for us. And also, yeah, having this thing that I mentioned before that having the professional facilitator formally recognised. So something, yeah, it's like to we would like, yeah, this profession to be seen and understood and recognised at a, you know, an institutional level. This is the general, you know, the frame. So in the near future, of course, there is the next general conference. I know it's we are a year ahead, but it takes a lot of work. And of course, the conference is organised by Gerardo, but it's in collaboration with the Chapter. So we are working on improving the model, the new method that we experimented last year. And so we want to see where it goes if we keep working on that. So with this preparation path, and try to trying to scout a little bit new facilitators and see if they want to put themselves to the test, you know. So that it can be the annual conference, can be a place where people, even less experienced facilitators, can can try it, can grow, can know facilitation better and know themselves better as facilitators. This is Yeah, in the near future. In the long term, I think we would like to, the Chapter to transform into a proper, real, like community, where facilitators can share, can support each other, can network and also create work opportunities together. We what we would like is that people feel free to ask each other for help, for support, if they are short of ideas or about a session or a method or something like that. Then we want people to rely on each other, and we want to facilitate this trust building process, I don't know. And also, we would like the chapter to be a point of reference at the national level for organisations who are seeking facilitator facilitation services or just want to learn something more about it. So we would like to be Yeah, like a subject, someone people facilitators and organisation can rely on and can go and ask for help or information.     H.J Great. Anything else from you Andrea? Any other thoughts on the future?   A.P Of course, you know, I'm not now the chapter leader, but I absolutely have some ideas. And Sara had said something very important for me, so support the facilitator and to give them visibility. Organise moment to present facilitator to clients, to to factories, to person that don't know facilitator, and have to know and have to use facilitator because it's better. And when you try facilitator, you ask to yourself, why I didn't do it before. So I want to that IAF Italy support also the professional part of the individual facilitator and for me, it's very important, because in Italy, we need to grow with numbers. And I mean, also in Europe, but in our case, we have to make grow the knowledge of facilitators.   S.P I would just like to add that, I mean, my personal dream is also, of course, since I work in public administration, to bring facilitation in public administration, you know. So this is something that I try to do, you know, very, very small things in my everyday life, at work, but this is, it's more a personal dream this, but I would like to mention that as well, because I think we really need that. We do have, I think that facilitation is kind of entering institutions at a small, at the municipal level, so, you know, town hall level. But in the bigger institution which I belong to, I don't see that much, and I think we really, really, really need that. And also I think that for the for the chapter, something that we should try to, should invest on is young facilitators, of course, and this is also a campaign that IAF global is carrying on. We know that some of our members did join initiatives that have been carried on at the global level. And we are very happy about that. And I also, I would like to maybe this is also a personal, a personal dream. But I really like the share and learn idea, you know, the series that we have at the global level. And I would like that to have that maybe at a chapter level, maybe Italian, maybe even in a more structured way, maybe easier. So something that not felt like kind of overwhelming by people, but that can be, you know, a way to to exchange between peers,   N.W Great, well, lots of big plans and you've got a big work agenda ahead of you, but it sounds like some, some great ambitions there, and really interesting different things that you're getting involved in. So just before we wrap up then, where should we go if we want to find out more about you and the IAF Italy Chapter?   S.P We have a website, and then we also you can reach us, reach us at our email. So the website is, of course, www.Iaf-italy.org , and the email Italy@IAF-word.org so you can always write to us, we always answer and see, check our emails. And you can also write to me. My email is s.tremmiproietti@gmail.com and yeah, this is, this is our contact.   H.J Thank you so much. So I think it just leaves us to say thank you for joining us today, Sara and Andrea. It has been really fascinating talking to you and hearing all about IAF Italy, past, present and future. And hopefully we'll get a chance to speak to you again soon.   S.P Thank you. Thank you Helene and Nikki for the invitation. It was my first experience, and I'm really happy about it.   A.P Thank you so much for the invitation.   H.J  So listeners, we've reached the end of another episode of Facilitation Stories, the community podcast for IAF, England and Wales.   N.W If you'd like to find out more about the IAF and how to get involved, all of the links are on our website, facilitationstories.com   H.J And to make sure you never miss an episode, why not subscribe to the show on whatever podcast app you use   N.W We're always on the lookout for new episode ideas. So is there a fabulous facilitator you think we should talk to?   H.J Or something interesting emerging in the world of facilitation you think listeners need to hear about.   N.W Send us an email at podcast@IAF-EnglandWales.org   H.J We hope you'll join us again soon for more Facilitation Stories.   N.W Until then, thank you for listening.  

This week we're reading and discussing chapters 54-55 of Crescent City: House of Flame and Shadows by Sarah J Maas! Welcome to CHAPTER CHAT! Natasha and Christine are debuting a whole new show releasing weekly on Thursdays where they will be reading or re-reading and having in-depth discussions about some of their favorite books. Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls *** 1) Portland, OR | Tuesday, May 21 @ 7PM at Powell's Books (Cedar Hills location) *not ticketed - https://www.powells.com/events-update 2) Los Angeles, CA | Wednesday, May 22 @ 7PM at The Ripped Bodice Tickets: https://e.sparxo.com/ChristineRiccio-AttachedAtTheHip-TicketedLA-Event 3) Philadelphia, PA. | Thursday, May 23 time TBA at Reads and Company Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/christine-riccio-author-of-attached-at-the-hip-tickets-894608306527?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl 4) Union, NJ | Friday, May 24 @ 5 PM @ Barnes and Noble in conversation with Hannah Maehrer *Not ticketed 5) St. Louis, MO | Tuesday, May 28 @ 7PM  in conversation with Jesse George Tickets: https://thenovelneighbor.com/events/36543 6) Marietta, GA | Wednesday May 29 @ 6PM | signing/meet & greet style event Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-and-greet-book-signing-with-bestselling-author-christine-riccio-tickets-884307998027?aff=oddtdtcreator 7) Winter Park, FL | Thursday, May 30 @ 6PM at Writers Block in conversation with Robby Weber Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-person-event-with-author-christine-riccio-tickets-877539041897?aff=oddtdtcreator *** Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

This week we're reading and discussing chapters 51-53 of Crescent City: House of Flame and Shadows by Sarah J Maas! Welcome to CHAPTER CHAT! Natasha and Christine are debuting a whole new show releasing weekly on Thursdays where they will be reading or re-reading and having in-depth discussions about some of their favorite books. Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

This week we're reading and discussing chapters 46-50 of Crescent City: House of Flame and Shadows by Sarah J Maas! Welcome to CHAPTER CHAT! Natasha and Christine are debuting a whole new show releasing weekly on Thursdays where they will be reading or re-reading and having in-depth discussions about some of their favorite books. Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

This week we're reading and discussing chapters 44-45 of Crescent City: House of Flame and Shadows by Sarah J Maas! Welcome to CHAPTER CHAT! Natasha and Christine are debuting a whole new show releasing weekly on Thursdays where they will be reading or re-reading and having in-depth discussions about some of their favorite books. Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

This week we're reading and discussing chapters 41-43 of Crescent City: House of Flame and Shadows by Sarah J Maas! Welcome to CHAPTER CHAT! Natasha and Christine are debuting a whole new show releasing weekly on Thursdays where they will be reading or re-reading and having in-depth discussions about some of their favorite books. Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

This week we're reading and discussing chapters 37-40 of Crescent City: House of Flame and Shadows by Sarah J Maas! Welcome to CHAPTER CHAT! Natasha and Christine are debuting a whole new show releasing weekly on Thursdays where they will be reading or re-reading and having in-depth discussions about some of their favorite books. Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

This week we're reading and discussing chapters 31-36 of Crescent City: House of Flame and Shadows by Sarah J Maas! Welcome to CHAPTER CHAT! Natasha and Christine are debuting a whole new show releasing weekly on Thursdays where they will be reading or re-reading and having in-depth discussions about some of their favorite books. Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

In epsode Bogdan tells us about himself as a facilitator and trainer, what it means to be a playful facilitator and his journey into facilitation.  He tells Nikki and Helene about how IAF Romania and how it all began, from joining IAF in 2018 to getting intouch with other facilitatrors in Romania. With the start of the pandemic 2 years later and everyone had more time he found out what was needed to start a chapter, and started IAF Romania with Bogdan as the Chair.  Since 2020 the chaoter has grown to 27 members, with more facilitators wanting to be a part of the community. The growth has happened in terms of quality of events as well as numbers.  Facilitation is not well known in Romania and not well known in organisations.  Bogdan talks about engaging new people to the world of facilitation, organising events and enabling people to make connections and talks in more detail about some of the events they have hosted for example Open Space in HR.  They also have a group mentoring programme and how that works. They have two types of approaches - one for the community and one for the IAF Romania members. Most events are co-facilitated so there is a lot of learning.  Some examples of the events are: Training about having impact in online facilitation - Nelson from Portugal. Pop up sharing around a particular topic. Facilitators Studio - where someone can bring a new design to try out. Facilitator Lab - helping two facilitators to create something together. An example of this is AI and facilitation.  The core members of 10/12 come up with the ideas for all the events and build the ideas together. They plan to have their first in person event - a facilitation festival in the autumn.  Bogdan talks about collaborations with other IAF Chapters and explains how these have worked: Twin Chapters with IAF Italy Facilitation Lightening Talks, some of which were with IAF Ireland and IAF Italy He talks extensively about the collaboration with IAF Japan and the 9 or 10 meetings that were needed to set this up and the cultural learning points.  Helene asks Bogdan to talk about his role in IAF Europe and Middle East as part of the share and learn team and the benefits of bringing together different cultures and facilitation experience.  Bogdan talks about what next for IAF Romania - elections, continued focus on mentoring, sending chapters from the Power of Facilitation book out in their newsletter which they have translated into Romanian.  Bogdan lastly talks about his hope for the future and the facilitation festival.  To contact Bogdan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bogdangrigore82/ IAF Romania: https://www.iaf-world.org/site/chapters/romania https://www.linkedin.com/company/iaf-romania-international-association-of-facilitators-romanian-chapter/?originalSubdomain=ro  The Power of Facilition:  https://facpower.org/2021/06/01/what-is-the-power-of-facilitation-and-why-is-it-important/  Lightening Talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcOrr9Sj17U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tluzc03l4sM Celebrating Diversity with IAF Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FctxQou8F9w Find Helene on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenejewell/ Find Nikki on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolawilson2/  Listen to our podcasts: https://www.facilitationstories.com/   Email: podcast@iaf-englandwales.org  

This week we're reading and discussing chapters 25-30 of Crescent City: House of Flame and Shadows by Sarah J Maas! Welcome to CHAPTER CHAT! Natasha and Christine are debuting a whole new show releasing weekly on Thursdays where they will be reading or re-reading and having in-depth discussions about some of their favorite books. Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

This week we're reading and discussing chapters 19-25 of Crescent City: House of Flame and Shadows by Sarah J Maas! Welcome to CHAPTER CHAT! Natasha and Christine are debuting a whole new show releasing weekly on Thursdays where they will be reading or re-reading and having in-depth discussions about some of their favorite books. Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

This week we're reading and discussing chapters 11-18 of Crescent City: House of Flame and Shadows by Sarah J Maas! Welcome to CHAPTER CHAT! Natasha and Christine are debuting a whole new show releasing weekly on Thursdays where they will be reading or re-reading and having in-depth discussions about some of their favorite books. Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

This week we're reading and discussing chapters 6-10 of Crescent City: House of Flame and Shadows by Sarah J Maas! Welcome to CHAPTER CHAT! Natasha and Christine are debuting a whole new show releasing weekly on Thursdays where they will be reading or re-reading and having in-depth discussions about some of their favorite books. Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

This week we're reading and discussing chapters 1-5 of Crescent City: House of Flame and Shadows by Sarah J Maas! Welcome to CHAPTER CHAT! Natasha and Christine are debuting a whole new show releasing weekly on Thursdays where they will be reading or re-reading and having in-depth discussions about some of their favorite books. Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

Reading and discussing chapters 36-46 of A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas. This is the last part Welcome to CHAPTER CHAT! Natasha and Christine are debuting a whole new show releasing weekly on Thursdays where they will be re-reading and having in-depth discussions about some of their favorite books. They have pulled their re-read of A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas i.e. ACOTAR from last year to release in 4 Parts. Welcome to Part 1 of their ACOTAR Re-Read. Today they are discussing the last Chapters 36-46. Careful of mild spoilers as they are up to date on all of Sarah's books and the goal here is to uncover details to support her upcoming books. Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

Reading and discussing chapters 26-35 of A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas. This part 3 of 4. Welcome to CHAPTER CHAT! Natasha and Christine are debuting a whole new show releasing weekly on Thursdays where they will be re-reading and having in-depth discussions about some of their favorite books. They have pulled their re-read of A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas i.e. ACOTAR from last year to release in 4 Parts. Welcome to Part 3 of their ACOTAR Re-Read. Today they are discussing Chapters 26-35. Careful of mild spoilers as they are up to date on all of Sarah's books and the goal here is to uncover details to support her upcoming books. Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

Reading and discussing chapters 14-25 of A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas. This is part 2 of 4. Welcome to CHAPTER CHAT! Natasha and Christine are debuting a whole new show releasing weekly on Thursdays where they will be re-reading and having in-depth discussions about some of their favorite books. They have pulled their re-read of A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas i.e. ACOTAR from last year to release in 4 Parts. Welcome to Part 2 of their ACOTAR Re-Read. Today they are discussing Chapters 14-25. Careful of mild spoilers as they are up to date on all of Sarah's books and the goal here is to uncover details to support her upcoming books. Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube (no visuals from Chapter Chat): http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

Welcome to CHAPTER CHAT! Natasha and Christine are debuting a whole new show releasing weekly on Thursdays where they will be re-reading and having in-depth discussions about some of their favorite books. They have pulled their re-read of A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas i.e. ACOTAR from last year to release in 4 Parts. Welcome to Part 1 of their ACOTAR Re-Read. Today they are discussing Chapters 1-13. Careful of mild spoilers as they are up to date on all of Sarah's books and the goal here is to uncover details to support her upcoming books. Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls  PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls  Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls

Here's another #twominutechapterchat for my forthcoming book How Ableism Fuels Racism. In this episode I share the central thoughts about chapter one of the book which is titled Disability, Blackness, and Early American Christianity. Make sure to preorder your copy I included I'm just going going going on on o ppl Get full access to Autism Pastor Press at autismpastor.substack.com/subscribe

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Today we're introducing a new quarterly feature “Chapter Chat”. As many listeners know, the England and Wales chapter is just one of the many IAF volunteer-led chapters globally, all working within 6 regions across 65 countries. While all chapters are united under the IAF vision and operate in accordance to the IAF Code of Ethics they are all run in a slightly different way, and reflect the context they're working within. So alongside our episodes capturing individual facilitators' stories, each quarter we're going to chat to people leading other chapters, about how they see the status of facilitation where they are, and the history, priorities, current projects and aspirations for their chapter. To kick us off, we have a special episode reflecting on a year of facilitation in the EME region, where Helene and Nikki talk to Tamara Zivadinovic Regional Director of the Europe and Middle East Region of the IAF. Tamara talks about her own facilitation practise, how she got involved in IAF and her her journey to becoming Regional Director.  She explains to Helene and Nikki what are your main responsibilities are as regional Director and what has been happening in the Region over the last year. She talks about celebrating the many IAF volunteers and about her proudest moments as Regional Director. Tamara shares what is coming up in 2024, her hopes for the region and finishes up with an ask for the members of the region. You can contact Tamara on: rep.europe@iaf-world.org or find her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamara-zivadinovic-4975384/ 

Christine Riccio & Natasha Polis talk all things nerdy in the book, tv, movie, pop culture, fandoms, and how they integrate into their adult lives. Today they're having some fun projecting their own version of the 74th Hunger Games, what book characters they'd team up with, and how they'd survive. Plus Britney Spear's member The Woman in Me, the SAG strike, and more. Chapter Chat is back! This week they're chatting chapters 30 and 31 of A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas.  Today in Fangirl Tea Time: Christine and Natasha have a story time chat .That's available on the Patreon for Team Jacob and up! Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls   PRE-ORDER Christine's new novel Attached at the Hip out May 21, 2024: https://a.co/d/grmPeVy  Add Attached at the Hip on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195790639-attached-at-the-hip Check out the Selkie Collection and get 10% off your order with code TASHAPOLIS https://selkiecollection.com/collections/all Follow the visual show on our Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls   Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/  Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls The toothbrush holder thing Christine talks about: https://a.co/d/46iXeB2 

Grab your headphones and get ready to be inspired by the incredible ladies from Oklahoma State as they share their recruitment success stories and offer valuable insights for Tri Delta chapters everywhere! Sarah Cothran, collegiate chapter president, and Kennedy Carver, vice president of membership experience, offer us a peek into their chapter's recruitment and retention efforts while providing their perspectives on fostering respect, effective communication and setting priorities within the chapter to help every member thrive! This engaging discussion delves deep into the core elements that set the stage for the Tri Delta experience.

This AAPC Social Hour features Marti Johnson, Director of local chapter services at AAPC and MariaRita Genovese of the National Advisory Board. Also joining in this social hour is Alyssa Carr, author of an article in Healthcare Business Monthly entitled, "Five questions to ask when verifying speech therapy benefits", as well as Renee Dustman from Healthcare Business Monthly.  This channel features videos about AAPC, the leader in certifications for the business of healthcare. If you're looking to start a new career, an AAPC certification as a Certified Medical Coder (CPC) can land you a job with a 55k salary in as little as 120 days. AAPC offers lots of certification options. To get started, go to https://www.aapc.com/training/medical-coding-training.aspx Follow AAPC on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/206425/ Like AAPC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AAPCFan/ Follow AAPC on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aapc_official/ Follow AAPC on Twitter: https://twitter.com/aapcstaff    

Christine Riccio & Natasha Polis talk all things nerdy in the book, tv, movie, pop culture, fandoms, and how they integrate into their adult lives. Today they're deep diving into The Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare, how we found the books, our first impressions, why they were iconic, and why we fell in love with them. Plus some SAG strike news, Fourth Wing feels, and more. This week in Chapter Chat they venture into chapters 8,9, and 10 of A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas. Today in Fangirl Tea Time: we talk about our favorite new doll movie! That's available on the Patreon for Team Jacob and up! Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls  Follow the visual show on Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls  Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/ Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls Find Katie on the internet: instagram.com/paperbackprairie What Right Now:  Music - What Was I Made For by Billie Ellish, Bad Bitch by Tessa Violet, The Good Witch by Maisie Peters Books - The Honeymoon Crashers by Christina Lauren audiobook (out august 1st, 2023) , Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, Icebreaker by Hannah Grace, Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon, and Red Rising by Pierce Brown Products: Patrick Starr's setting spray

Christine Riccio & Natasha Polis talk all things nerdy in the book, tv, movie, pop culture, fandoms, and how they integrate into their adult lives. Today they're breaking down hyped books - the ones of 2013, ten years ago vs the ones of today in 2023. Plus the latest Taylor Swift's news, Maise Peters, the SAG/Writers strike, and more. This week in Chapter Chat they venture into chapter 7 of A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas.  Today in Fangirl Tea Time: Christine tells a long winded story! That's available on the Patreon for Team Jacob and up! Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls   Follow the visual show on Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls   Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/  Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls What Right Now:  TV - The Witcher, Secret Invasion, The Summer I Turned Pretty  Books - Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, and Icebreaker by Hannah Grace.

Christine Riccio & Natasha Polis talk all things nerdy in the book, tv, movie, pop culture, fandoms, and how they integrate into their adult lives. Today they're breaking down Taylor Swift's newest drop Speak Now TV, sifting through all the vault tracks. And fan casting their favorite series A Court of Thrones and Roses by Sarah J. Maas. Plus they chat Ali Hazelwood books, Riley Sager, the Barbie movie and more! And this week in Chapter Chat they venture into chapters 5 and 6 of A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas.  Today in Fangirl Tea Time: Natasha gives us the low down on her entire experience at the World Premiere of Greta Gerwig's Barbie! That's available on the Patreon for Team Jacob and up! Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls   Follow the visual show on Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls   Follow Nahomy!  https://www.instagram.com/nahomyslibrary/ | https://www.youtube.com/c/nahomyslibrary Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/  Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls What Right Now:  Movies - Encanto, Barbie, The Little Mermaid, Are You There God It's Me Margaret, Love Again TV - The Bear S2, Virgin River S4, The Curious Case of Natalia Grace, Never Have I Ever Books - Red Rising by Pierce Brown, Love Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood, The Only One Left by Riley Sager

Christine Riccio & Natasha Polis talk all things nerdy in the book, tv, movie, pop culture, fandoms, and how they integrate into their adult lives. Today they're chatting all things PIXAR. Favorites, least favorites, most quotable lines, most memorable characters. Plus they chat Taylor Swift news, Olivia Rodrigo, Jennifer L. Armentrout's Blood and Ash series, Superman casting news, and more! And this week in Chapter Chat we venture into chapters 3 and 4 of A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas.  Today in Fangirl Tea Time: we've got more fun stories to share about things going on in our life.  That's available on the Patreon for Team Jacob and up! Join those F%#KING FANGIRLS Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/thoseforkingfangirls   Follow the visual show on Youtube: http://youtube.com/@thoseforkingfangirls   Website: https://thoseforkingfangirls.com/  Email us feedback: thoseforkingfangirls@gmail.com  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoseforkingfangirls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/forkfangirlspod  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thoseforkingfangirls Fun facts about Pixar were found via: buzz feed article, screen rant article, and wikipedia. What Right Now:  Movies - No Hard Feelings, Evil Dead Rise TV - Heartstopper Books - Twisted Love by Ana Huang

Mike and Cari finish the book, "Let the Children Play" by discussing each of the remaining chapters for about 10 minutes each. Starting with the next book, the hosts will introduce a new format for Chapter Chat that will allow them to review more books per year.  

Mike and Cari are back with a new Chapter Chat book selection: "Let the Children Play" by Pasi Sahlberg and William Doyle, 2019. This episodes contains a lively discussion of Chapter 1.  

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In this episode, we conclude our discussions on the second book in this Summer's Chapter Chat series, The Law of Divine Compensation by Marianne Williamson. This week, Samm and Josh discuss a variety of powerful messages regarding abundance. Josh shares how the common belief that people carry regarding finite opportunities, while Samm presents the extreme opposite of people overwhelmed by the magnitude of opportunities, hear how they find common ground in both scenarios. Samm shares how judgement of others sometimes causes the most harm to ourselves and Josh shares how meditation has shown up in his life. The conversation concludes reiterating the absolute importance of living in alignment when it comes to matters of manifesting abundance.

In this episode, we continue our discussions on the second book in this Summer's Chapter Chat series, The Law of Divine Compensation by Marianne Williamson. This week, Samm and Josh discuss the feelings of guilt commonly associated with earning money for doing what you love. Josh shares why he believes that people use this guilt as an excuse. Samm shares about surrendering spiritually to keep the ego at bay and once again reiterates the ego's agenda to limit us and fuel fear. Samm and Josh also discuss the concept of answering your calling, and what living and working actually looks like with a calling. There's no doubt that this book delivered takeaway after takeaway, join this dive deep into The Law of Divine Compensation.

In this episode, we begin our discussions on the second book in this Summer's Chapter Chat series, The Law of Divine Compensation by Marianne Williamson. These book convos will be led by Samm and her husband, Josh. The two couldn't be more different when it came to matters of money when they were first married in 2009. This week they begin sharing their initial reactions to the book including the obvious very different approach Marianne presents when it comes to obtaining the abundance you seek in life. If you are searching for the secret formula to making money? Well, then this is not the book, continue searching. Instead this book is filled with powerful lessons about shifting to a higher vibration, so that we are naturally aligned to receive all that we'll ever need in life.

Welcome to our first Chapter Chats Book Club episode, we are starting with The Slight Edge by Jeff Olsen. This book was the sole inspiration for Chapter Chat with his recommendation to establish a daily habit of reading 10 pages a day. Join us for conversation as we unpack the first 70 pages. You'll hear our first reactions to the book and we dive deep into a discussion about time and the need for simplicity. Access Show Notes