Workshops and facilitation
Does your team need a recharge and refocus? Time out to be nourished and experience the benefits of arts-based approaches in your own lives?
Are you looking for ways to be more innovative in your community engagement or research & evaluation practice?
Is your leadership in need of some creativity?
Looking for something different to do with friends or colleagues, to create moments of joy through play together?
Or perhaps you need support to leverage your team’s insights, experiences, and ideas?
I love to custom-design workshops and facilitation processes that connect participants with their creativity, to each other and to place.
I work with a strengths-based approach that combines the power of self-determination and holistic health, with the joy and dialogical nature of creativity and connection. My facilitation approach is premised on public health as a collective act that requires dialogue and social transformation.
I can deliver workshops on a range of topics and methods that have been central to my own creative, health promotion and research practice, including:
Team creative play - time out to be nourished and grounded as a team
Arts-based methods to nurture inner/individual or team creativity and collaboration
Design thinking for health promotion
Product or service ideation - brainstorm to address prioritised user needs/jobs to be done
Have something else in mind that you don’t see here? Let’s talk. Contact me or sign up for a discovery call to get started.
What people are saying
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I experienced firsthand Karen’s fantastic skills in facilitation to assist our team to develop program logics and monitoring and evaluation frameworks for local health initiatives. Karen spent time equipping and mentoring myself and other staff to develop our skills, knowledge and confidence in evaluating our health promotion initiatives. Karen was exceptional at explaining evaluation processes in a clear and logical manner... Karen was always keen and willing to check in with people along the way to benefit their learning. In addition to Karen’s professionalism, she happens to have one of the most charming and infectious personalities.
Nicole Tindale, Health Promotion Officer, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
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The thing that sets Karen apart is that she’s such a joy to work with and it doesn’t end up feeling like work. She approaches every situation with such energy, generosity and openness. She makes other people feel like the experts, building confidence of others and in doing so empowers everyone around her to help build a stronger workforce. Working with Karen has been one of the most enjoyable and intellectually stimulating experiences of my career to date.
Health Promotion Coordinator, NSW health service
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Karen facilitated whole of room engagement, strong Indigenous input and a comfortable feeling in the room. You were awesome!
Workshop participant
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Three standout successes of Karen's workshop are: 1. participant empowerment; 2. invited guests, especially Indigenous contributors, and; 3. very well organised and facilitated.
Workshop participant
Recent arts-based workshops
Tap into your creativity and wellbeing with our arts-based workshop at Hinze Dam. No experience necessary, all materials provided.
“This was a really great experience. I’d love to do it again!”
“Beautiful natural surrounds as well as comfortable facilities, freedom to explore and play”
“Wonderful welcome atmosphere, relaxed, individuality allowed”