2025 ODA Conference
Pre-Conference Workshop
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Developing Better Organisations through the Practice of OD
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Story-based Facilitation Techniques

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Date: Wednesday, 30 April 2025, 6.30 pm – 8.00 pm AEST

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Our Guest: Shawn Callahan, Founder, Anecdote and ODA Member

  

Stories are how people make sense of the world—and when used well, they can transform how we facilitate learning, change, and collaboration. In this hands-on session, Shawn Callahan from Anecdote will introduce four practical, story-based techniques: Pre-mortem, Anecdote Circles, Jumpstart Storytelling, and Decision Games. You’ll get to experience at least three of these approaches for yourself, as well as pick up a few simple tips for spotting real stories (and avoiding communications masquerading as stories). Come ready to participate, reflect, and explore how story can elevate your facilitation practice.’s our network of practitioners that makes the ODA community so valuable. Join us in March as we tap into that collective wisdom. We all have needs, and sometimes the clues or even the solutions are right around us. ‘Reciprocity Rings’ leverage the idea that within a group, someone can help you take the next step, and you might just have what someone else needs too! Think of a professional need you haven't yet resolved and bring it to the group. Even if you don't have a specific need, come along to pay it forward to your ODA peers.

 

     

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