Date: June 30^th 2007

Venue: Media centre Nis

Note taker: Tatjana Obradović- Tošić, Administration Assistant, Reka Mleka, Nis

Facilitators:  Suzana Živković  and  Tamara Živadinović

First and Last Name

Organization/Title

Tel/Mobile

E-mail Addresss

Rosemary Cairns

Researcher; also Certified Professional Facilitator (IAF)

064/6137892

rxc102@gmail.com

Jagoda Petrović – Ukaj

Teacher

064/123-14-20

bebaukaj@yahoo.com

Dušan Gamser

CRV-ITINERA Consultant

063/38-59-64

d.gamser@sezampro.yu

Aleksandar Anđelković

HRSD – HR officer

064/32-22-784

andjelkovic.aleksandar@gmail.com

Dragan Petković

PROTECTA –Program manager

065/666-23-99

dragan@protecta.org.yu

Nenad Stojanović

PROTECTA –Program manager

065/44-95-345

neni@protecta.org.yu

Tatjana Balaban

CITY OF NIS- Coordinator

064/15-62-717

balaban@info-net.co.yu

Miloš Lišanin

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064/24-75-810

rajskiotoci@yahoo.com

Marko Došljak

PROTECTA –Project manager

064/668-69-31

doshljak@gmail.com

Tamara Živadinović

REKA MLEKA – Head Process Facilitator

063/73-49-633

tamaraz@optointernational.co.yu

Tatjana Obradović-Tošić

REKA MLEKA – Administration Assistant

064/25-20-464

tatjanao@optointernational.co.yu

Suzana Živković

REKA MLEKA – Facilitator/Translator

063/814-23-32

suzanaz@optointernational.co.yu

Agenda Item:

Discussion

An update on activities in Forming the Serbian IAF network

Suzana Zivkovic from Reka Mleka gave an introduction.

The idea to form a Serbian IAF network was born in October 2006, after the IAF conference in Stockholm

Jim Campbell and Jon Jenkins from the IAF recommended that Rosemary Cairns, who is working in Serbia and is a certificated facilitator, joins the formation process.

Since October, Suzana, Tamara, Rosemary and other facilitators, that had been a part of this initiative, have been meeting to discuss creating a facilitators’ network in Serbia. As a result of this Wiki PB was started and the questionnaire for assessing interest was created. The questionnaire was sent to a number of addresses, mostly through private networks. The responses had been collected and processed. 

The responses to the questionnaires

Tamara Zivadinovic from Reka Mleka first invited everyone to introduce themselves.

She gave an overview of what Reka Mleka has in its library about facilitation, as well as some handbooks that had been translated by the project. She also gave an introduction what the agenda of the day should look like.

She briefly presented the summarized responses to the questionnaires. It is agreed to post these results at Wiki PB.

General Discussion

During the meeting different items were discussed:

1. The meaning of the word facilitation in Serbian – can it be translated or should it remain the same. The general consent is that this is a word (“fasilitator”) that is becoming widely used and should therefore be accepted in the Serbian language.
2. Membership fees for IAF – membership fee is 50$ per year, and anybody who pays the fee can become a member of the IAF. Only obstacle is that fee can be paid only through internet. Rosemary said that she is going to check other possibilities for paying the IAF fee.
3. Rosemary presented the benefits of being a member of the IAF: networking, participation at conferences, exchanging knowledge, newsletters, scholarships, certification processes, etc.
4. To become a member of IAF there are no specific requirements, for certification there are
5. The Serbian network can either have formal (legal) or informal status. The group has agreed that it is good to start as an informal network, and than later to establish professional association, or some other organization.
6. Work as a network, or an association? – First to start as a network. Rosemary added that IAF is currently working as a cooperative
7. The list of network members’ specialties and training needs should be compiled in order to plan activities and to assess what potentials we have within the network.
8. What problems are existing in working in networks and how we can overcome them – Milos talked about the bad experience he has had in working with networks and added that the ways of overcoming them are: that we have to have an agreement on how we are going to work and a joint goal

Discussion about goals of network

We brainstormed some goals of our network:

• to list the resources
• to allow professional development
• to have rotating system of management
• to ensure information flow
• to include all possible interested members
• to position the group/network on the market
• to set quality standards in facilitation
• to get feedback information (evaluation) on members who are facilitating workshops or trainings
• to involve members in internal training (and external), or other activities according their specialties
• to set up WIKI – http://iafserbia.pbwiki.com as an information desk
• WIKI should be open for reading to the broader audience, but only “invited” people to be able to post comments and information
• to create a questionnaire to assess specialities of interested facilitators (potential members) – general and specific ones; as well as list people’s fields of interest
• members can express their interest in which areas are they willing to make a presentation/training or share knowledge with others. First such a occasion is going to be at September meeting (8^th of September)
• to create theme groups at a later stage
• to create a list of books and documents we can share with others
• to create a data base on knowledge and techniques that are used in Serbia, for example – CRDA, Reka Mleka and others.

Item

Person/s Responsible

Deadline

Note

The next meeting of the network is to be held on Saturday, September 8^th in Belgrade

Jagoda, Protecta and Milica

13th July 2007

Jagoda, Protecta and Milica to find a venue

Make a mailing list

Reka Mleka

13^th July 2007

Minutes and mailing list to be forwarded to everybody

Reka Mleka

13^th July 2007

Inform all potential members about the network

All

Create a questionnaire

Tatjana, Aleksandar and Rosemary

31^st July

Read the material on IAF Affiliation and give feedback

ALL

13^th July

Those who want to make a presentation on their work at the September meeting should inform us

ALL

13^th July

Suggestions about the name of the network

ALL

13^th July

Those who want to facilitate the meeting in September should inform us

ALL

13^th July

Suggestions for the September meeting AGENDA

All

13^th July