Facilitation Lab

Facilitation Lab Houston

Practice Playground

In Partnership With Miro

March 27, 2025
6pm - 8pm CDT​

Houston, TX

2808 Caroline St #100
Houston, TX 77004
Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out, this is your safe playground to push boundaries, explore new methods, and level up your facilitation skills!

At Facilitation Lab Houston, facilitators and collaborative leaders come together to experiment, refine, and grow through real-time practice and role-play – because we believe that learning by doing is the best way to develop our facilitation muscle!

We use a tried and tested role play format called Practice Playground, which is a dynamic, hands-on process to help us sharpen our skills in a low-stakes and interactive way.

This is a rare chance to practice in a truly safe and supportive environment, where we can test new techniques, experiment, take risks, and get valuable, constructive feedback from peers.

Make the most of your session
Come prepared to role-play and facilitate a new facilitation method or something you’ve been working on. We’ve found attendees who step up benefit the most because they receive tailored feedback, and leave with real growth and confidence.
March 27, 2025
6pm - 8pm CDT​

Houston, TX

2808 Caroline St #100
Houston, TX 77004
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About Facilitation Lab Houston

Facilitation Lab Houston is a monthly in-person meetup for changemakers, collaborative leaders, and facilitators across Houston. Our purpose is to foster learning by doing in a psychologically safe environment, building a strong and supportive community of peers across the region. As Regional Leads, Landi, Tib and Peter cultivate a space for experimentation and collaborative leadership development, with a focus on people-powered organizational change. Facilitation Lab Houston is a global network of regions, including other virtual meetups organized by continent and in-person meetups organized by cities. See the region list for a full list of all active meetups. You can also join us in the Facilitation Lab Community Hub to stay connected with the facilitation community and get reminders of all upcoming events.

Agenda

Opener
An attendee will lead us through an engaging opener
Practice & Role Play
Attendees take turns role-playing as facilitators and participants as we practices different methods
Debrief
After some quiet reflection we’ll debrief the role-play and key learnings
Closer
An attendee will lead us through a purposeful closer

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

Landi Spearman
I’m an EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP COACH and CHANGE CONSULTANT with a knack for equipping LEADERS with the MINDSET & SKILLSET to EMBRACE uncertainty, SMASH next level TARGETS & AVOID BURNOUT. I honed this unique talent growing up working in 8 multigenerational family businesses alongside my parents, on Chicago’s South Side.

In 2017, in response to the impact of Hurricane Harvey on experienced leaders, I shifted my successful relocation business model, from “moving boxes to moving mindsets.” Today, combining the latest behavioral science, data & proven change methodologies, the Organized SHIFT team leverages the proprietary SHIFT approach, to prepare leaders and multigenerational teams to navigate the pace, demands and uncertainty of change, with improved performance, burnout-free.
Tiberia (Tib) Morris
Tiberia is a seasoned professional with over eight years of experience in training and facilitation. As a self-published author and certified life guide (life coach), Tiberia is passionate about empowering others to grow, reflect, and embrace their journeys toward self-discovery and fulfillment.
Peter Durand
As an artist, educator & visual facilitator, I work with teams to understand & explain complex systems.
Through meaningful discussion, drawing, brainstorming, design thinking, and visual storytelling we can coordinate humans to solve systemic problems in healthcare, technology, society, energy, climate, and social entrepreneurship.

Thanks to my artistic and adventurous family, I was born in Kenya, grew up in the green hills of East Tennessee, and studied art and design in the United States, France, and Poland. Because of this, I cannot imagine a life without traveling, learning, and creating with others.

Founder of Alphachimp, LLC — A Visual Facilitation Company

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

"The community’s warmth and generosity in tending to me and the issue made me feel cared for and supported. Beyond the suggestions, which were immediately useful, the culture of the community makes leaning into that growth edge easier, and more delightful."

Katrina Mitchell
Senior Technical Advisor, JHPiego

“I just wanted to say thanks for the great session last night. Your feedback and suggestions were fantastic. I left very energized!"

Dan Corbin
Instructor at Pragmatic Institute
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.