19th Mar 2019
The next Group Facilitation Skills course which Orla is training will be in Manchester on 24th-25th April. Information & booking link here. Testimonials for this course include The best training course I’ve ever done It exceeded my expectations, because the
8th Jan 2019
We are currently visiting St. Andrews for our January 2019 Development Day. We’re based at Bruce’s house to celebrate his last day as a member of Framework. In addition to our normal work activities, we have been walking along the
17th Nov 2018
After twenty deeply satisfying years as a Framework member, I have decided to bring my career in consultancy to a close at the end of this year. Since making my decision I have been recalling the many people I have
I am currently preparing an advocacy training for a group of CSO grantees of the EU’s Peacebuilding Initiative in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The CSOs are diverse in their organisational type, size, and field of expertise and include
Several members of the FW collective will often be collaborating on a consultancy, and this means developing effective at-distance working methods. We’ve discovered the huge benefits that using WhatsApp can bring for real-time collaboration. When do we use it? Two
5th Oct 2018
A retreat in the Lake District sounds like ‘just’ having fun – and it is! We’ve just finished our three day autumn retreat: our chance to reflect, re-connect, and recharge. It’s like making bread: after all the hard work of
What kind of leadership best supports OD? What is the relationship between leadership and organisational culture? What can we learn from our own experience and from recent management thinking on leadership? These were some of the questions that participants from across the
We are very excited about the expansion of the Framework collective with Alison Carney joining us in May as a full member. Alison’s work as a consultant has focused on building the capacities of International Development organisations, specifically NGOs and
5th Jun 2018
Some of the best training courses are those where you learn just as much as the participants! Recently, I was training a Group Facilitation Methods course for ICA:UK and a participant let us know (via the comments and requests section
25th May 2018
Earlier this year I completed an extremely interesting assignment with the Dutch organisation PAX for Peace. PAX approached INTRAC to ask for help with devising and piloting an action learning programme. INTRAC asked me if I would be interested to
I’m sure many of you are seeing your newsfeeds full of discussion about what is happening in Ukraine, and how best to help. That desire to help is a basic human instinct, and the reason why many of our current
