Conference
Control the Room is now Facilitation Lab Summit
Control the Room
First Annual Facilitator Summit
Join us for this two-day interactive event!
Are you responsible for meetings that drive outcomes, exploratory sessions, off-sites, strategic planning, daily standups, retrospectives, or workshops of any kind?
Are you a strategy consultant, negotiator, manager, Scrum Master or design thinker? Deepen your knowledge on how to facilitate meetings that matter and connect with other facilitation and meeting practitioners.
Date
February 5–7, 2019
Time
8am–6pm CST
Location
Austin, TX
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Workshop
Facilitation Master Class
May 22 or 24, 2019
A hands-on workshop to sharpen your facilitation skills with Daniel Stillman & Douglas Ferguson
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Conference
Austin Facilitator Summit
May 23, 2019
A full-day of expert facilitators sharing methods & activities featuring 16 Master Facilitators
Opening Speaker
Priya Parker
Master facilitator and author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
With a background in facilitating high-powered gatherings around the world, Priya will share inspired recommendations for leading meetings of any kind.
Bonus: All attendees will receive a signed copy of Priya’s book.
Event Speakers
Douglas Ferguson
Master of Ceremonies
Anna Jackson
Principal at Alpinista Consulting
Ben Guhin
Stay Curious, Find Joy
Brian Sullivan
Empathy Immersion
Céline Thibault
Making the Meta – Physical
Daniel Stillman
Narrative Facilitation Design
Greg Galle
Think Wrong to Solve Next
Heidi Helfand
Leadership starts with listening
Jessica Lowry
20 Minute Mindful Facilitation Workshop
John Colaruotolo
I’m an Attention Seeker: Facilitating with Visual Models
Keith McCandless
Radical Departures: Productively Including Every Voice With Liberating Structures
Kevin Hoffman
Finding and Managing Style Biases in Facilitation
Marni Wilhite
Stay Curious, Find Joy
Mohamed Ali Abdirahman
I am not a label. Facilitating for community in a transient age.
Neha Saigal
Getting a team to think outside the box
Patricia Selmo
Pump Up Your Flipcharts
Reagan Pugh
Creating a Storytelling Organization
Terrence Metz
Consensual Prioritization
Tomasz Borek
Working with "Facilitator Challengers"
Wait, What's Facilitation?
Whether you know it or not, you are probably a facilitator. The act of facilitating is to make an operation or process easier. Facilitation skills are crucial to exercise when planning and running meetings to make them as participative and productive as possible. It’s imperative to company profit and culture to conduct successful meetings. Perfecting the art of facilitation is one of the most important and beneficial skill sets that make a successful leader.
A skilled facilitator can supercharge a team’s performance by functioning as a process guide for navigating complicated business challenges. Facilitators are experts at leading groups through key meetings and gatherings. Facilitators exist to enable better gatherings between teams, stakeholders, or collaborators of any kind.
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Venue
Capital Factory
Austin, TX 78701
What People Are Saying
"I loved the conference. As a relatively novice facilitator, I returned energized and inspired. When I signed up for the conference - I mostly did so because of rave reviews from my colleagues. It was a little hard to tell what I was getting into from the event page. There's so much value here for folks in leadership roles etc."
Vishal
UX SUPERVISOR
"I realized my entire role is facilitation. I have to do a lot of lateral influencing. So I use these skills even if it is not a super-structured workshop. Our product team has micro meetings all the time, and these methods help us get the most of those moments. My team can lean on me to facilitate. You will redesign the way you have conversations. I can’t believe every college student doesn’t have to take a class like this. This is how you collaborate. It is the underpinning of the future of work."
Savannah
PRODUCT DESIGNER AT TAILWIND
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