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Elana ShyongCreative facilitator & trainer

Hosting the Coliving Awards and More: Weekly Recap, 23 October 2026

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This week was all about one of my favorite topics, people! Weekly recap below.

🎭 Coliving Conference: My heart is still in London after another wonderful edition of the Coliving Conference. It was an honour to host the Coliving Awards ceremony again, this time alongside the Coliving Hub team Andreea and Morgane, a great reminder of how much energy and possibility exists in the shared living sector.

🎭 International Association of Facilitators (IAF) Barcelona meetup: I hosted the IAF España meetup in Barcelona with Allison, bringing together 15 facilitators in one room. It was inspiring to see this community grow and to hear how people are facilitating across education, business, technology, cohousing, the arts, and more!

🎭 Coliving Hub webinar: Yesterday, I facilitated a great webinar with Matilde Leitão, who we met during the Coliving Gathering at Bansko Nomad Fest. She shared Nomadico’s model for empowering places to connect with coliving, another example of how community-led thinking is shaping the future of how we live and work. Such an interesting model!

🎭 ISTA finance meeting: Tomorrow, I’ll be joining the ISTA - Global Learning Through the Arts board finance meeting, continuing the important behind-the-scenes work that helps support arts education and the wider ISTA community. While finance is definitely not my strong suit, it will be great to develop my skills and grow.

🎭 Design Thinking training course completed: I finished a Design Thinking course for teachers from Germany 🇩🇪, France 🇫🇷, and Denmark 🇩🇰 with Euromentor SL. It was a pleasure to work with such an engaged group of educators, exploring practical ways to bring creativity, collaboration, and student-centred learning into the classroom!

If you’re an educator or team leader looking to bring more creativity, participation, and collaboration into your organization, come say hello! I’m currently planning workshops and training programmes for the coming months.

#dramaineducation #facilitation #communitybuilding #designthinking #training #artsineducation #workshopfacilitation #professionaldevelopment #learninganddevelopment

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