"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up somewhere else"

Laurence J. Peter


About

Fox Facilitation and Planning offers facilitation in strategic thinking & planning, partnership for collective impact, and team building. It also offers organisational reviews, program evaluations and policy development for the not-for-profit, local government & public sectors
Located on Dharawal country in Wollongong NSW, Fox Facilitation and Planning serves the sector from Sydney to Narooma on the far south coast.
Fox Facilitation and Planning, is currently run by a sole operator, Katie Fox. Katie works from community development principles and has a demonstrated history of working in the not for profit and public sectors in various countries

  • Facilitation

    Fox Facilitation and Planning always produces results through consensus by empowering participants, managing group dynamics and ensuring the
    interpretation and collation of the information collected is accurate

  • Collective Impact

    Strategic partnerships across sectors and industries, empower people to create vibrant, inclusive and connected communities. Fox Facilitation and Planning assists in building those
    partnerships by nurturing relationships, developing resources, establishing equity, exploring options and ensuring due diligence

  • Planning

    Using Logical Framework Planning, Fox Facilitation and Planning takes participants on a journey of reflection about the 'why?', an analysis of the 'what?', and a process by which to identify the 'how'

  • Team Building

    By creating an environment in which participants feel safe to contribute, Fox Facilitation and Planning guides activities that foster wellbeing, improve communication and encourage positive collaboration
    ensuring overall team cohesion and morale.

Experience in Australia

  • In Australia, Katie has worked in community housing, a regional peak body for community services and most recently with an Aboriginal women's community controlled organisation. This experience has included:

  • Management of a Suicide Prevention Program and afterhours roster

  • Development and management of a Regional Alcohol and other Drugs Brokerage Program

  • Supporting vulnerable tenants to sustain their tenancies

  • Local area based planning for the
  • Department of Family & Community
  • Services under the Targeted Earlier
  • Intervention reform
  • Submissions to state and federal
  • governments

  • Giving evidence at parliamentary
  • enquiries

  • Facilitation of strategic planning
  • workshops with numerous organisations and interagencies

  • Research project on mental health
  • services in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven
Fox Facilitation and Planning acknowledges that it operates on land that was never ceded and pays respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land

International Experience

  • Katie has also worked in the not for profit sector in Ireland, Mexico and the United States. Her work included:

  • Facilitating meetings with the Irish
  • Embassy and Consultates, the Irish
  • Foreign Minister and Irish immigration
  • lobby groups in the United States as the Executive Director of a National Coalition.

  • Managing a Family Resource Centre

  • Establishing various programs with special interest groups including young people, migrant women, Ireland's indigenous community and local development groups.

  • Facilitating partnerships and mergers between not-for-profit organisations across Ireland

  • Developing policies and strategies for
  • organisations and local government

  • Developing and delivering modules for
  • community leadership and facilitation
  • courses

  • Volunteering as a human rights observer in Indigenous communities in Mexico


What people say

"Katie is passionate and knowledgeable. She is excellent at managing group dynamics, is respectful of individuals and the group and approaches the work with professionalism and humour"
Sarah Wilson - Corporate Services Manager, Multicultural Communities Council of Illawarra
Katie's knowledge, support and understanding of people’s needs and situations is incredibly deep founded. This is evident every time she facilitates and works with our organisation
Joanne North - Kiama Meals on Wheels
Katie's work in local planning brought organisations and people together to work on a common 10 year strategy. While the work was hard, she kept everyone on track and got results with what can only be described as comedy gold. Jenny Briscoe-Hough - Tender Funerals Australia