Selected Feedback from Evaluation Forms

Registration Process

• Really, really good … almost like there were not hundreds of other people you were all responding to…. So very nice and welcoming.
• Great assistance on opening day of conference with registering.
• A professional and smooth (effective) process…

Keynote Speakers

• Kiwi was very moving and inspirational.
• Ben Furman was terrific.
• Ben gave so much in such a wonderful entertaining fashion.
• Ben Furman was very inspiring.
• Ben Furman needs to return!

General

• Just wanted to thank you all for such a wonderful conference…there wasn’t a dull moment nor a workshop. I thought I needed to change…the quality of the presentations was great, also the venue and the organisation was sensational for a first conference!
• I found the ambience of the conference and the sessions I attended to be inspiring, nourishing and restorative.
• Thank you for being brave enough to put this all together.
• One of the best conferences I have been to in recent times.
• A great accomplishment for Kyabra and staff.
• …My colleagues and I really enjoyed our experience as both presenters and as audience members.  The Powerhouse is an amazing venue, and New Farm is a beautiful location. Everybody we met at the conference was friendly and polite and your team members in their purple shirts were always easy to find and very approachable. The calibre of your keynote speakers was high and their presentations were quite thought provoking at several levels. It was certainly difficult choosing between workshop sessions given the variety of choices and topics of interest…”
• Having the resources available to check out was great.  A smorgasboard of ideas.
• I can honestly say that this is by far the best conference I have ever attended.  Stimulating, intersting, fun, exciting to be with like minds.
• It was extremely heartening to be a participant at a conference that was so inclusive and at not time provided any moments of a sense of expert speakers who were guarding their knowledge.  There was such a free and healthy exchange of ideas.
• Very impressed.   Great team and really enjoyable conference.  Thanks to you all – well worth the trip from N.Z.
• Thank you all for your wonderful hospitality and friendly welcome.  You organised a great conference.  It has been great making new contacts and picking up new ideas and strategies.  Hopefully we will meet again in Auckland next year.
• Congratulations.  A brilliant conference.
• Thank You.  Excellent venue, inspiring presenters and participants.
• And what a bloody good strong, purple kind of team you are. Congratulations on a wonderful job.  I was continually amazed at the way you all seemed warm and inviting and helpful to others, grabbing chats and waving gaily as people passed by.  The whole thing appeared to run smoothly and calmly.  It was a delight being able to spend the three days with you all. As a team I felt we really benefited. We have had some wonderful discussions in regards to what we learned from workshops and have had fun and some challenge in relating this knowledge back to the work that we currently do. I think we came away feeling motivated, happy in that we are feeling strong about the way we currently do approach our work, and hopeful that there is much to learn and looking forward to doing that. … So many thanks and well done to you all.  May you all sleep well and I hope you have lots of chances to talk about and celebrate this mighty effort and may you also have lots of chances to wear your purple shirts.  Purple was a great colour to choose. It means …. strength., creativity, passion and courage…..”

Purple Shirts

• Purple shirts (staff) were fantastic, helpful, pleasant. Many, many thanks to them.
• Purple people were great!
• Staff very approachable/helpful
• Lots of support from purple people
• Purple Team extremely welcoming
• The purple shirt friends were helpful throughout the process, beginning of the day to the end

Ideas You Gave Us For Next Time/Things We Can Do Differently

• Notepads in satchel
• Conference dinner/social event/get together
• More variety in lunch menu, bottled water, more fruit
• Some way of monitoring workshop participants at room doors – the competition to get into certain workshops was strong
• Encourage workshop presenters to give out handouts
• Shorter days
• Run some workshops more than once (rotation)
• Less Powerpoint presentations, more small group sessions
  

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