Flearn Workshop
Learn the best lessons from the worst moments, with your peers.
❌ Keep your mistakes to yourself? “No one else would have stuffed up like that!”
❌ Feel alone with your f&!k ups? “Everyone else has it together!”
❌ See the same mistakes happening in your team, organisation or industry? “And nobody’s talking about them!”
❌ Dread the thought of sitting through a “post project review”? “No one wants to be the one who f&!ked up.”
Flearn could be just the right fit for your conference or organisation.
Jacinta makes Flearn safe, energising, practical and fun. You share your f&!k ups and listen to others. No spin. Just real, raw, "oh-my-god-you-too?" aha moments. You:
- Realise you’re not alone. Everyone’s got a story, and they’re just as messy as yours.
- See failure differently—not as a career-ending disaster, but as a font of wisdom.
- Benefit from learning from others’ f&!k ups first, instead of repeating the same mistakes.
- Courage to share your f&!k ups in the future
- Newfound confidence to embrace failure for learning
- Authentic professional connections built on vulnerability
- Sharpened insight to avoid repeating f&!k ups
- A treasure trove of Flearns to fuel smarter decisions
✔ Have a f&!k up that you are comfortable sharing
✔ Want to listen to and learn from others
✔ Believe learning can be fun
Flearn is NOT for you if you:
✘ Expect to just listen to a presenter or panel
✘ Want to blame and gossip
✘ Whinge
What people say
🎥 Watch Ellie’s quick video feedback on her Flearn experience.
“I’ve been to a lot of conference sessions over my years and that was by far the best workshop I’ve done so far. I loved learning from each other’s flearns!”
Ellie, IAP2 24 conference delegate
“The Flearn workshop gave me a safe and energising space to reflect, learn, and grow. It was a great opportunity to connect with other engagement professionals, share experiences, and gain new insights to apply to my work.”
Michele Barry, Plantek
“I really enjoyed sharing our failures as a learning opportunity. There wasn't any finger pointing. Instead, lots of laughs and acknowledgement of failure being a pathway to success and knowledge. What a great way to reframe our sector, given so many of us are perfectionists!”
Elizabeth McMahon, Arup
“The workshop on f**k ups was one of the best learning experiences I have ever been to!”
“The collective ‘flearning’ shows that we’re not alone in this.”
“It was so beneficial hearing from really experienced people – we’re all learning.”
“It felt safe to share and listen to f&!k ups.”
“A great session. The structure kept it from going into the detail of the trauma and packaged the Flearns up for us all at the end.”
“I thought I might just vent, but it’s about contributing to culture change.”
“No matter how long you’ve been in the industry, you make mistakes and that’s okay, because otherwise you can’t learn.”
“It felt comforting to know that I wasn’t alone.”
“We should do this every quarter!”
Photos: IAP2 Australasia Conference 2024, Jacinta Cubis, Carol Tu
Your Flearn facilitator
Jacinta Cubis is a (fl)awesome facilitator - flawed + awesome.
She has emerged from her own f&!k ups bruised but otherwise alive and well. She looks forward to flearning with you!
Jacinta helps you in two ways: she facilitates workshops, meetings, and community conversations for you, and shows you how to facilitate.
You get the results your group needs with thoughtful design and facilitation, backed by expertise Jacinta has developed over 25 years.
Jacinta brings her real self to the room so that the people in it can be themselves too. People feel safe to say what they really think, not what they think they should say.
(Fl)awesome stands out in a world where it’s hard to tell the difference between fake and real. Jacinta’s approach creates genuine engagement in groups.
Jacinta’s qualifications span community engagement and partnership brokering, corporate social responsibility, international relations and communications.
Jacinta lives in Narrm/Melbourne, on unceded Wurrundjeri Country, and works anywhere - online and on-site. When Jacinta is not facilitating, or helping you learn how, she practices yoga, trains in calisthenics, paints in her art studio, plays tennis and gets around on two wheels.
"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."