Facilitation Lab: Let’s Get to Kwerk
Vincent Perez
Often access to facilitators or business consultants has been a premium service and often, BBIPOC and URM communities are unable to access these services due to budget constraints, prioritization of business needs, and more.
Kwerk is helping these communities by promoting facilitation and mentorship as a service through brand workshops, business development, product creation and beyond. Kwerks mission is to ensure these budding entrepreneurs and small business owners are able to focus on core problems and solve them on their own without the need to spend an exorbitant amount of money to grow and scale their businesses.
During this session, kwerk Co-FounderVincent Perez will speak about their experiences facilitating for these entrepreneurs, the value it brings to underrepresented communities and the importance of a social impact model in the facilitation world. Audience members will explore possible solutions to the statement starter, “How might we empower traditionally underrepresented startups and entrepreneurs to solve their core business challenges creatively?”
Date
October 20, 2022
Time
1pm - 3pm CDT
Location
Live Online
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What to expect
What to Expect
We offer opportunities for facilitators to gather in a safe judgement-free zone to learn from experts and one another. Our community offers many levels of engagement and exclusive resources for facilitators, whether you are a beginner or a Master Facilitator. Our weekly Facilitation Lab makes up 5 key segments: impromptu networking, our guest facilitator session activity, community critique, a weekly giveaway, & After Hours. Come & network with facilitators from around the globe and expand your facilitator toolbelt from each Lab experience!
What You'll Learn
A withhold is a thought, feeling, or fact that you choose not to share with someone that impacts the quality of your connection, integrity, aliveness, personal growth, or shareholder value. All human relationships participate in withholding and the workplace is a hotbed for withholds. Research in psychological safety shows that the highest performing teams have a high capacity for revealing withholds. Learn with Garrett to understand more about Social Architect and "withhold culture" in this session.
How You'll Learn
The workshop will be activity-based with facilitation simulations and collaborative sessions. You’ll recognize, practice, and design your workshops based on key learning experience design principles. We won’t just talk at you — you’ll learn through doing, work with other participants, and get feedback. There will be plenty of time for Q&A, so you can learn in real-time from a master facilitator with tons of experience running hundreds of workshops at some of the world’s largest institutions and enterprises.
Agenda
Impromptu Networking
Engage with everyone in the community during a quick round of introductions to network and begin our time together
Guest Facilitator Session
Experience the lead facilitator's activity & method to engage together as a community.
Rose, Thorn, Bud Critique
Share your feedback as a community and offer expressions of tangible takeaways to our lead facilitator.
After Hours
Stay awhile & chat post-session about your experience in the Lab.
Who Should Attend
Team Managers & Leads
who want to learn more & benefit from the power of facilitation practice
UX Designers
who want to expand their facilitation skillset while gaining inspiration of new approaches
Experienced & New Facilitators
who want to level up their facilitation skills and enhance their facilitation tool belt
Teachers
who want to gain feedback & uncover new resources with forward-thinking activities
Key Takeaways
Discover what withholds are getting in the way of your life, career, and intimacy
Learn how to transform a Raw Withhold into a Skilled Withhold
Get a peek into the most advanced conscious communication skills training available
Practice a facilitation skill to have a room of crickets speak up
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Chris Federer
Vincent Perez
What People Are Saying
"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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A key part of our mission is to support diverse facilitators from different methodologies, backgrounds, races, genders, sexual orientations, cultures, and ages. If you are a part of, or serve, a traditionally underrepresented group and feel that this scholarship would allow you to amplify this mission, please apply now.
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 us via email if you have any concerns or if you wish to be exempted from this activity.
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Bring Your Ideas to Life
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