Te Pitau Whakarei – creating a bow wave for facilitation
Nelson New Zealand Aotearoa 25 - 27 November 2009
Pre-conference workshops 23 - 24 November 2009
IAF CPF™Accreditation 21 - 22 November 2009

• Conference Registration
• Preconference Workshops
• Conference Programme
• Whakatū Marae & Founders Heritage Park (Venue)
• Accommodation
• Attain IAF Certified™ Professional Accreditation
• Conference Creation Team

Full Conference: 25-27 November 2009

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IAF members

Day Registration

Early bird

Bathurst Early Bird

• All prices above are charged in NZ$ and include Goods and Services Tax of 12.5%
• To qualify for IAF Members prices please phone us at +643 546 6022 us or email:
• Registration closes on 19th November 2009

Day Registration:

• Day registration fee includes conference sessions programmed for the day, conference programme and bag, lunch and tea/coffee breaks.  Does NOT include conference dinner, or Wednesday evening function -  tickets can be purchased separately for these. 

Registration fee includes:

• Attendance to all conference sessions.
• Teas and Lunches
• Evening function
• Conference dinner

Registration does not include:

• Accommodation
• Additional tickets for partners to attend functions
• Meals not stated in the programme will be at the delegates expense, as will accommodation and all items of a personal nature, ie: minibar, telephone, laundry etc.

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Thursday November 26



Thursday November 26

The 12th Annual Australasian Facilitators' Network (AFN) Conference will be held at the Whakatū Marae and Founders Heritage Park in the heart of Nelson, New Zealand.

A stay in Nelson is one of life’s pleasures.

Whakatū marae, one of seven marae in the region, is a sign of the revival of Nelson–Marlborough’s eight tribes. Along with new marae projects there are educational and health facilities; they also provide training programmes, and have developed significant commercial fishing and aquaculture businesses.

Founders Heritage Park is a historic village containing many of the old historic buildings and artefacts of Nelson. Nelsonians created this historic townscape featuring real and period buildings, much as they were in colonial days of the 19th century.

Renowned for being New Zealand's sunniest spot, Nelson offers creative culture, spectacular natural beauty and an abundance of local produce in a central and accessible location.

The Australasian Facilitators Network (AFN) is a self-organising community of practitioners based in Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia and the Pacific, who have been meeting since 1992.

The Annual AFN Conference began in 1998.  At this event, professional and voluntary facilitators gather to ‘sharpen the saw’, reflect, discuss, challenge, learn, share, meet, mix, create and recreate.  It is a not-for-profit conference organised by volunteers on behalf of their peers.

AFN is pleased to be part of the Affiliate Facilitator Network of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF). 

The IAF is the world-wide professional body established to promote, support and advance the art and practice of professional facilitation through methods exchange, professional growth, practical and published research, and collegial networking.  It is dedicated to growing facilitators and encouraging the use of group process methodologies worldwide.