In this episode, Pilar talks to fellow podcast team members Helene and Nikki, along with Penny Walker and Shanaka Dias about a global, hybrid process they facilitated together, running over 4 days with multiple languages and timezones. They reflect on planning in advance, adapting in the moment and working well as a team. The full transcript is below. All of the team can be found on LinkedIn: Penny Walker:            https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennywalker/ Shanaka Dias             https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanaka-dias-8765b51/ Helene Jewell             https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenejewell/ Nikki Wilson                https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolawilson2/ Pilar Orti                      https://www.linkedin.com/in/pilarorti/   And you can find all of the links to IAF England and Wales on the Facilitation Stories website: https://www.facilitationstories.com/ SPEAKERS PO – Pilar Orti HJ – Helene Jewell NW – Nikki Wilson PW- Penny Walker SD – Shanaka Dias   PO  00:03 Hello and welcome to Facilitation Stories brought to you by the England and Wales chapter of the International Association of facilitators also known as IAF. My name is Pilar Orti and I have the absolute pleasure of recording today with not one guest, not two, not three, but four. So first of all, let me introduce fellow co-hosts of the show Helene Jewell, hello, Helene.   HJ  00:26 Hello, nice to see you.   PO  00:30 Nikki Wilson. Hello, Nikki.   NW Hello.   PO  00:33 And I then like to welcome back to the show Penny Walker who first appeared in episode two of this show. So welcome back, Penny.   PW  00:40 Thanks very much. It's lovely to be here.   PO  00:43 And finally, first time guest and someone I've never chatted to before Shanaka Dias, welcome to the show.   SD  00:50 Thank you. Thank you for having me.   PO  00:52 So to have some proper introductions, I've asked each guest to prepare just two lines to introduce themselves. So we're going to say the same order in which I introduced you so that you'll know when it's coming. So Helene Jewell, we'd like to introduce yourself.   HJ  01:06 Hello,I'm Helene. I'm a freelance facilitator based in Bristol, and I work cross sector with all kinds of clients and Yeah, mostly team organisational development and strategy stuff.   PO  01:18 Excellent. Thanks, Helen and Nikki Wilson.   NW  01:21 Hello, I'm Nikki, I'm based in Essex and I run a social purpose business focusing on facilitation, research and strategic support. And as a facilitator, I particularly enjoy working on Deliberative Public Eengagement projects and Action Learning.   PO  01:39 Thank you. Thanks, Nikki and Penny Walker.   PW  01:42 Thanks, Pilar. I'm Penny. I'm an independent facilitator based in North London, and my specialism, I suppose is working with clients to have more effective conversations about tricky things. Maybe because they're complicated or there's conflict, or there's multiple parties. And those conversations are mainly about sustainable development topics. It might be climate change, it might be biodiversity loss. It might be I don't know social enterprises coming together. So those kinds of conversations. Yeah.   PO  02:14 Thanks, Penny, and Shanaka Dias.   02:17 Hello, I'm Shanaka. I'm based in London. I'm a freelancer. I work in the social sector with charities and foundations. And I guess my specialism is bringing people together to firstly have difficult conversations and to look at ways to come together around measure mission and vision and strategy.   PO  02:40 Thank you Shanaka. Thank you very much. Right. So the reason we have you all together for this very special episode, and we're really testing the platform as well, is that you all facilitated a trilingual hybrid session back in January 2023. Is that correct?   PW That's righ