Dr. Dale Hunter is a group facilitator, mediator, coach and author in the field of facilitation. She is a co-founder and director of Zenergy Ltd. a New Zealand-based company providing facilitation, mediation, and coaching services to government, business and community sectors.

Dale facilitates conferences, public meetings, seminars and workshops both in New Zealand and internationally. She is also a mediator trained by world leaders in this field. Her client base includes local and central government, business, NGOs and special interest groups.

The Zenergy 8-module Diploma of Facilitation, co-designed by Hunter, now has 1500 people who have have participated in one or more modules. In addition, Dale has led facilitation training workshops in Europe, USA, Canada, China, Malaysia, South Africa and Taiwan.

Dale Hunter is the author of The Art of Facilitation (2007, 2009), and the principal co-author of Handling Groups in Action: The Use of Distinctions in Facilitation, The Zen of Groups and Co-operacy - A New Way of Being at Work. She has also contributed chapters to the IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation (2005) and Creating a Culture of Collaboration (2006) published by Jossey-Bass.

Hunter's doctoral thesis (2003) is entitled "Facilitation of sustainable co-operative processes in organisations" from the Social Ecology Research Group (SERG) at the University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, Australia.

Dr. Hunter is a member of the Generative Change Community, Asia; a sustaining member of the International Association of Facilitators; a former board member as Vice Chair International (2001-2007) and was instrumental in the development of the IAF Code of Ethics for Group Facilitators. She facilitated at the World Summit for Sustainable Development Stakeholders Forum in Johannesburg in 2002.

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