Facilitation Lab
Facilitation Lab DC
Practice Playground
With John Rabasa, Victor Udoewa, and Kathy Ditmore
In Partnership With Miro
September 11, 2024
12pm - 1pm EDT​
Live Online
Facilitation Lab is an open space for practitioners of facilitation, from expert professionals to new beginners, to share experiences and challenges, and experiment with various techniques for onsite and virtual workshops and sessions. Join this kick-off to meet other DC area facilitators and contribute to setting the flow, feeling, and rhythm.
September 11, 2024
12pm - 1pm EDT​
Live Online
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About Facilitation Lab DC
Facilitation Lab DC is a monthly in-person 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 DC hosted by John, Kathy, and Victor, Voltage Control hosts Facilitation Lab HQ, and there are other 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
What’s in it for me?
Everyone jots down what the perceived benefits for the DC area Facilitation Lab.
Working agreements and logistics
Planning next in-person meeting
Closer
Reflection
Who Should Attend
Experienced & New Facilitators
Who want to level up their facilitation skills and enhance their facilitation tool belt
Chiefs of Staff
Who want to align and support initiatives across departments
Product & Project Managers
Who want to steer stakeholders to the best outcomes
Teachers & Trainers
Who want to design the most impactful learning
Key Takeaways
Introduce the Facilitation Lab
Capture topics of interest
Plan for next meeting, including location
Network with facilitators in your area
Featured Facilitators
John Rabasa
John Rabasa is the founder and lead Product Innovation Champion at YesAnd.space. Focus is to provide facilitation and coaching for tech product leaders and their teams. Also improv nerd.
Victor Udoewa
Victor Udoewa, Service Design Lead at the CDC, is a practitioner of Radical Participatory Design, and has experience giving up power, prioritizing the wisdom and skills of community members as they lead their own interventions and approaches.
Kathy Ditmore
Facilitative Project Manager & Change Manager with particular interest in the nuances in culture change.
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
Photo Disclaimer
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.
