Facilitation Lab

Facilitation Lab Denver

September Happy Hour

With Eli Wood and Catherine McGowin

In Partnership With Miro

September 4, 2024
6pm - 8pm MT​

Denver, CO

Wynkoop Brewery
2nd Floor Billiards Hall, 1634 18th St, Denver, CO 80202
Denver, CO 80202
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This month, we’re keeping it simple. Let’s gather for a relaxing networking happy hour. Come learn more about the Facilitation Lab community and meet other like-minded professionals interested in organizing, hosting, and running better collaborative sessions.

Whether you’re a beginner or an expert in workshops and facilitation, this event will allow you to reconnect with familiar faces, meet new practitioners, share experiences, situations and insights.

We’re pleased to provide a selection of complimentary snacks from our sponsor, Miro, the AI-powered visual workspace, for you to enjoy. For any additional food and drinks, a full menu will be available for purchase from Wynkoop Brewery. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to a fantastic event!

Please RSVP to join us for a casual evening of community, conversation, and networking.

Food and drinks will be provided!

September 4, 2024
6pm - 8pm MT​

Denver, CO

Wynkoop Brewery
2nd Floor Billiards Hall, 1634 18th St, Denver, CO 80202
Denver, CO 80202
Get Directions›
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About Facilitation Lab Denver

Facilitation Lab Denver 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 Denver hosted by Eli. Voltage Control hosts Faciliation 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

Conversations and Networking
Start the evening with a warm welcome, and engaging conversations.
Signup & Voting
Select from a wide range of workshop activities and exercises then vote on the ones to try.
Design Thinking Playground
Once the stage is set and the roles are assigned, action and practice.
Community Debrief
Reflective session on the evening’s activities and new connections we’ve made together.

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

Discover new local connections
Explore new workshop methods
Identify ways space impacts our practice
Realize the potential to learn from anyone, appreciating the value of diverse experiences and perspectives.

Featured Facilitators

Eli Wood
Based in Denver, Colorado, Eli loves facilitating Design Sprints and other creative workshops with Voltage Control. Eli has facilitated Design Sprints for Adobe, Humana, The City of Austin, and Fidelity Investments.

He has also delivered rapid prototyping, strategic design, and development projects for LAX, Mastercard, Cisco, CBRE. When not making things, he enjoys spending time in nature.
Catherine McGowin
Catherine loves creating innovative products, services, and programs by aligning strategic vision with effective execution. Over the past decade, she has spearheaded initiatives in the future of work and corporate education, helping organizations such as UST, Accenture, Microsoft, and Ogilvy unlock human potential, enhance well-being, and build resilience in a changing workforce landscape.

In her personal life, Catherine enjoys mountain sports, music, and spending time with friends, family, and her husky dog.

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

“The best part of the Facilitation Lab is the opportunity to network with other facilitators. This community provides a unique opportunity to learn and grow from the insights and experiences of the other attendees.”

J Schuh
Workshop Facilitator
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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.