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Price is per person and inclusive of GST. Catering is included, along with a take home set of materials and games valued at $125. Use the button below to request an invoice to register.
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DetailsDate: 14 November 2025
Time: 9:30am - 4pm Location: In-person, 55 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 Advance your evaluation practice with a day of interactive learning, creativity, and serious fun. This workshop is for anyone wanting to strengthen their own evaluation and systems thinking skills — and learn how to build those skills in others.
In recent years, behavioural science has shown the power of pictures, stories, and play in supporting learning and positive change. Applying these insights to evaluation capacity building opens up new ways to engage participants, sustain motivation, and create deeper impact. In this full-day workshop, facilitators Dr Samantha Abbato and Matt Healey combine their toolkits from Visual Insights People and First Person Consulting to offer:
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Dr Samantha Abbato is a senior evaluation consultant with more than twenty years of experience and strong methodological expertise across a range of qualitative and quantitative disciplines. Sam’s academic grounding in quantitative methods is built upon a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physiology and a Master of Public Health and a PhD in epidemiology and biostatistics. She has extensive qualitative training in medical anthropology (PhD, UC Berkeley).
Sam employs a utilisation-focused approach to evaluation practice and consistently uses mixed methods, case studies and collaborative processes that consistently incorporate skills transfer to clients. As an independent consultant, Sam has assisted various clients including non-government organisations and local, state, and Commonwealth governments. As the director of Visual Insights People since 2013, she has introduced a pictures, stories and play approach to evaluation and evaluation capacity building. Using cartoons, animation, and checklists, Visual Insights People has created various engaging evaluation training tools for use in AES workshops and client team training. Sam is the recipient of the AES 2015 award for best evaluation publication |
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Matt is a Principal Consultant and Co-Founder of First Person Consulting. His practice sits at the interface of evaluation, systems practice, and design. Over the last 10 years he has led more than 150 different projects spanning social justice, public health, and the environment.
Drawing on these broader knowledge bases in collaboration with clients, his focus is on figuring out 'what works' for them and those they work with. He thrives in fostering collaborative working relationships with clients, and is a recognised facilitator and presenter virtually and in-person. He works on developing solutions and ways forward to address different complex problems and situations, with humour and humility. Matt has designed and led multiple evalaution capability building programs for State Government Departments and agencies, developed an organisational change approach to support VicHealth to shift to a systems-based way of working for its 10-Year Strategy, and is currently leading a systems thinking capability building program. He has led multiple Executive Courses in systemic change, evaluation, and design for Poli.Design in Italy, and regularly leads AES workshops. Matt also co-hosts the It Depends Podcast with Matt and Tenille, and created the Catalyst: The Systems Thinking Strategy Game. |
