April 2026

At the 2026 Facilitation Lab Summit, Shannon Hart drew on five years of facilitating innovation sessions at Shell International to make a compelling case: real innovation doesn't come from a perfect agenda. It comes from creating the right conditions and trusting what emerges. From building a solid base camp before sessions begin, to running exercises that reveal how ideas evolve through co-creation, to protecting the open space where emergence actually happens, Shannon offered a practical and human-centered framework for facilitating in the unknown. A must-read for anyone who wants to move from controlling the room to truly holding it.

At the 2026 Facilitation Lab Summit, Shannon Hart drew on five years of facilitating innovation sessions at Shell International to make a compelling case: real innovation doesn't come from a perfect agenda. It comes from creating the right conditions and trusting what emerges. From building a solid base camp before sessions begin, to running exercises that reveal how ideas evolve through co-creation, to protecting the open space where emergence actually happens, Shannon offered a practical and human-centered framework for facilitating in the unknown. A must-read for anyone who wants to move from controlling the room to truly holding it.

At the 2026 Facilitation Lab Summit, Chris Lunney introduced the concept of Whole Intelligence; the idea that navigating the unknown requires far more than analytical thinking. It demands integrating the wisdom of the body, heart, subconscious, and imagination alongside the mind. Through a guided heart meditation, a framework for trackable experiments, and practical methods drawn from somatic practice and embodied play, Chris offered facilitators a new starting point for finding authentic paths forward. A must-read for anyone who has felt stuck trying to plan the perfect route from Point A to Point B and sensed that something essential was missing from the map.