Services

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Coaching

Coaching

Reframing Conversations can provide:

  • After workshop feedback sessions for individuals wanting to enhance their speaking up or feedback practice.

  • Support and coaching leaders and employees on reframing their approach to conversations

  • Provide feedback on feedback - feedback to facilitators of experiential learning debriefing to enhance reflective practice and learner engagement

    Options:

  • 1:1 Mentoring/Feedback session: A focused 1-hour session for personalised mentoring, feedback, and strategic guidance. Ideal for coaches, facilitators, or leaders seeking clarity, refinement, or support with a specific challenge or project. Send us a message and let’s get started! Hit the Inquire button.

  • Team Mentoring/Feedback session: A 90-minute session designed for teams or small groups. We’ll explore dynamics, communication patterns, and shared goals using a reflective, inquiry-based approach. Great for leadership teams, coaching cohorts, or project groups. Ideal for educators seeking feedback on debriefing. Submit request via Inquire Now!

Consultation

Work With Us

Build Communication That Drives Real Change

At Reframing Conversations, we don’t just deliver training, we partner with you to design, implement, and evaluate communication and simulation strategies that create lasting impact.

Our Consulting Approach

We work alongside organisations to strengthen capability at every stage:

✔ Plan with clarity
✔ Design with purpose
✔ Deliver with confidence
✔ Evaluate what matters

Whether you're building from the ground up or enhancing existing programs, we bring practical expertise grounded in real-world experience.

Our Core Capabilities

1. Communication & Cultural Change

Transform how your people speak up, connect, and collaborate.

We support:

  • Cultural change programs focused on speaking up and psychological safety

  • Embedding effective feedback practices across teams

  • Strengthening everyday communication behaviours

  • Aligning communication with organisational values and safety goals

Build a culture where conversations lead to action, trust, and better outcomes.

2. Simulation Design & Facilitation

Bring learning to life through powerful, realistic experiences.

We offer:

  • Custom simulation design tailored to your environment

  • Expert facilitation of simulation sessions

  • Integration of communication skills into clinical or workplace scenarios

  • Structured debriefing techniques that drive insight and behaviour change

Move beyond theory — create experiences that stick.

3. Simulation Strategy & Planning

Take a strategic approach to simulation across your organisation.

We help you:

  • Develop organisational simulation strategies

  • Create operational plans for sustainable delivery

  • Align simulation activities with learning, safety, and performance goals

  • Maximise impact and resource investment

Turn simulation into a scalable, high-value capability.

4. Building Internal Capability

Equip your people to lead and sustain the work.

We support:

  • Developing internal facilitators and educators

  • Coaching leaders in communication and simulation delivery

  • Building long-term capability frameworks

  • Supporting teams to embed and sustain change

Empower your organisation from within.

Why Partner With Us?

✔ Practical, experience-based approach
✔ Tailored to your organisation — no off-the-shelf solutions
✔ Focus on sustainable, measurable outcomes
✔ Deep expertise in communication, culture, and simulation

Let’s Build Something That Lasts

Whether you’re starting fresh or evolving your current approach, we can help you create communication and simulation programs that truly make a difference.

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Speaking

Speaking & Presenting

Engaging, Practical, and Impactful Presentations

Melanie is an experienced and highly engaging presenter, delivering sessions that challenge thinking, build capability, and inspire real change in practice.

Whether as a keynote speaker, plenary presenter, Grand Rounds contributor, or within Communities of Practice, Melanie brings a practical, relatable approach grounded in real-world experience.

Presentation Topics

Each session is tailored to your audience, context, and goals — ensuring relevance and impact.

Challenging Healthcare Conversations

  • Speaking up with confidence

  • Giving and receiving meaningful feedback

  • Navigating difficult conversations in high-pressure environments

Intergroup Communication

  • Improving communication across teams and disciplines

  • Reducing silos and misunderstandings

  • Building collaborative, patient-focused interactions

Simulation Design

  • Creating effective, purposeful simulation experiences

  • Aligning simulation with learning and organisational goals

  • Designing scenarios that drive behaviour change

Simulation Prebriefing & Debriefing

  • Leading psychologically safe prebriefs

  • Facilitating impactful debriefs that go beyond “what happened”

  • Turning simulation into deep learning experiences

Establishing Psychological Safety

  • Creating environments where people feel safe to speak up

  • Supporting leaders to model and embed safety

  • Linking psychological safety to performance and outcomes

What Makes These Sessions Different?

✔ Practical and immediately applicable
✔ Grounded in real healthcare experience
✔ Engaging, relatable, and thought-provoking
✔ Designed to spark reflection and action — not just awareness

If you're looking for a speaker who connects, challenges, and delivers meaningful impact, Melanie can tailor a session to suit your audience and goals.

Flyer for a keynote speaker event with a photo of Melanie Barlow, a woman with blonde hair smiling. The event is a VSA September online webinar scheduled for September 22, 2025, focusing on understanding the difference between speaking up and feedback conversations.
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Conference poster for 2026 Laerdal SUN Conference titled 'Simulation Without Boundaries: Empowering Practice, Equity & Innovation,' scheduled for June 4-5, 2026, at Sofitel Gold Coast Broadbeach, Queensland, featuring images of keynote speakers Dr. Melanie Barlow and Victoria Brazil.
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