Facilitation Lab
Facilitation Lab Dallas
Building Deeper Connections
With J Schuh
In Partnership With Miro
August 22, 2024
6pm - 8pm CT​
This session is designed to explore empathy and enhance your ability to perceive and respond to the feelings and thoughts of others, fostering a more inclusive and supportive environment. Through practical exercises, reflective discussions, and role-playing scenarios, participants will learn effective techniques to cultivate empathy within groups, enhance communication, and improve collaborative outcomes.
MISSION: Foster a vibrant community where facilitators can connect, pose questions, and share stories; all about facilitation. Open Connections brings together facilitators from diverse backgrounds and levels of experience. This space is dedicated to nurturing meaningful exchanges and fostering deep connections among community members and new visitors alike. Whether you are a seasoned expert or just beginning your facilitation journey, Open Connections offers an inclusive environment to engage with peers, exchange ideas, and build professional networks.
MISSION: Foster a vibrant community where facilitators can connect, pose questions, and share stories; all about facilitation. Open Connections brings together facilitators from diverse backgrounds and levels of experience. This space is dedicated to nurturing meaningful exchanges and fostering deep connections among community members and new visitors alike. Whether you are a seasoned expert or just beginning your facilitation journey, Open Connections offers an inclusive environment to engage with peers, exchange ideas, and build professional networks.
August 22, 2024
6pm - 8pm CT​
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About Facilitation Lab Dallas
Facilitation Lab Dallas is a meetup focused on helping facilitators & collaborative leaders connect with peers in a supportive and inspiring facilitation playground.
We gather to experience and explore all aspects of facilitation, including Liberating Structures, Game Storming, Thinking Wrong, MG Taylor, Improv, and much more.
At each meeting, we rotate topics and approaches, from highlighting practitioners sharing tips and tricks to open facilitation practice where you get hands-on with new tools and concepts.
In addition to Facilitation Lab Dallas hosted by J, there are meetups around the globe hosted by Facilitation Lab regional leads. See the region list for a full list of all active meetups.
Join the Facilitation Lab Community Hub to connect asynchronously with the facilitation community and get reminders of all upcoming events.
Agenda
Impromptu Networking
We’ll open with some connections to give you an opportunity to meet other community members
Ice Breaker: Hopes & Fears
Everyone shares their hopes & fears related to learning how to adapt to unexpected events in facilitation
Small Group Discussions
Participants take turns sharing stories and experiences when they have had to pivot in the moment and what insights they learned from those experiences. Each group with then summarize insights learned from each other and a volunteer with playback the groups findings.
Reflect, Debrief, & Commit
We’ll end with an opportunity for some quiet reflection, group debriefing, and solo commitments
Who Should Attend
Experienced & New Facilitators
Who want to level up their facilitation skills and enhance their ability to effectively engage participants
Chiefs of Staff
Who want to align initiatives across departments and ensure strategic projects are implemented successfully
Product & Project Managers
Who want to steer stakeholders to the best outcomes and learn best practices in stakeholder management
Teachers & Trainers
Who want to design the most impactful learning and create engaging learning experiences
Key Takeaways
Gain hands-on experience with a spectrum of facilitation techniques, from classic to cutting-edge.
Receive immediate, constructive feedback in a nurturing environment to refine your facilitation skills.
Explore the depths of your existing facilitation knowledge and boost your confidence through low-stakes practice sessions.
Realize the potential to learn from anyone, appreciating the value of diverse experiences and perspectives.
Featured Facilitators
J Schuh
J Schuh is an award-winning Animator, Author, Speaker, Coach and UX Design Strategist. J founded his company Toons-N-Design in 1998 and has produced animation, commercials, interactive experiences, films and video games films for over 20 years. His clients include Adobe, American Airlines, AVON, Coca-Cola, Comedy Central, FedEx and MTV.
As a seasoned facilitator and UX Design Strategist he has partnered with both corporate clients and startup ventures, training over 2000 employees and innovation teams in design thinking to pioneer groundbreaking products. J is highly sought after as a thought leader, consultant, and speaker on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other cutting-edge technology solutions.
J has been an adjunct professor for 20+ years and has taught animation, motion graphic design, storyboarding, and user experience at Collin College, Texas A&M Commerce and Southern Methodist University.
As a seasoned facilitator and UX Design Strategist he has partnered with both corporate clients and startup ventures, training over 2000 employees and innovation teams in design thinking to pioneer groundbreaking products. J is highly sought after as a thought leader, consultant, and speaker on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other cutting-edge technology solutions.
J has been an adjunct professor for 20+ years and has taught animation, motion graphic design, storyboarding, and user experience at Collin College, Texas A&M Commerce and Southern Methodist University.
In Partnership With
Miro
Miro is an online workspace for innovation that is visually reminiscent to whiteboards we have in meeting rooms. All the tools are located on the left side of the screen. And it allows you to add various content from texts to images, create maps and diagrams, and work with visual templates together with a team.
What People are Saying
"In a world where we tend to connect digitally, it's so important to still come together, especially in a shared community where we're learning from each other and we're also affirming each other. So, coming here is worth the travel. It's worth being in the presence of others. You can't replicate that in a digital forum."
Susan Wilson-Golab
Bloomfield Hills Schools
"I always enjoy the opportunity to network with other facilitators in the Facilitation Lab. I've gained so much knowledge from other attendees' insights & experiences each and every week in our community."
Anonymous
Facilitation Lab Attendee
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Please note that photographs, video & audio recordings will be taken throughout this event. These will be used by Voltage Control for marketing and publicity in our publications, on our website and in social media, or in any third party publication. Please contact our events manager if you have any concerns or if you wish to be exempted from this activity.
