Facilitation Lab
Facilitation Lab Portsmouth
Playing with Complexity
With Chad Moore and Devon Skerritt
With the sun staying up, we are all in on play, design, and movement in our next Facilitation Lab. Our guest, the multi-talented Chad Moore, will bring a well-honed blend of creativity, facilitation, and embodied play for learning how to tackle the unavoidable nature of complexity.
This workshop is an embodied, interactive experience mixing the art of movement, a dash of improvisation, and the science of complexity. Participants won't just learn about complexity — they will play with it so that they feel it in their bodies.
Chad will share core exercises for participants to experience first-hand, complete with facilitation guides so that they may adapt/modify these for their own practices. Time permitting, we’ll see what’s on the participants' minds and craft exercises in the moment to explore those areas.
This workshop is an embodied, interactive experience mixing the art of movement, a dash of improvisation, and the science of complexity. Participants won't just learn about complexity — they will play with it so that they feel it in their bodies.
Chad will share core exercises for participants to experience first-hand, complete with facilitation guides so that they may adapt/modify these for their own practices. Time permitting, we’ll see what’s on the participants' minds and craft exercises in the moment to explore those areas.
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Featured in the Lab
A note of preparation: Expect standing and movement. You’ll probably get 2000 steps in during this workshop. Wear comfortable clothes and shoes. Bring a water bottle.
About Facilitation Lab Portsmouth
Facilitation Lab Portsmouth is a monthly in-person meetup for changemakers, collaborative leaders, and facilitators across Portsmouth. 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 Lead, Devon cultivates a space for experimentation and collaborative leadership development, with a focus on people-powered organizational change.
Facilitation Lab Portsmouth 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
Chad Moore
Chad has spent 25 years at the intersection of creative craft, human behavior, and organizational change. From game studios to behavior change consultancies to giant enterprises, including an online school he co-founded from scratch, the through-line has always been the same: Chad helps creative people and organizations do their most meaningful work — especially when the path forward isn't clear. While building his creative consulting and graphic facilitation practice with Where Light Gathers, Chad's work is rooted in three values:
1. Presence: Being fully awake to this moment, marveling at life's fleeting beauty and complexity.
2. Creation: Making things and experiences with intention, not consuming or managing on autopilot.
3. Enabling: Helping others discover and express their creativity, growth, and authentic potential.
1. Presence: Being fully awake to this moment, marveling at life's fleeting beauty and complexity.
2. Creation: Making things and experiences with intention, not consuming or managing on autopilot.
3. Enabling: Helping others discover and express their creativity, growth, and authentic potential.
Devon Skerritt
Devon Skerritt, Ed.D., is an independent design researcher, facilitator, and strategist growing people’s capacity to navigate change and imagine possibilities by design. Driven by curiosity, Devon works at the intersections of learning, inquiry, and civic engagement focused on communities’ participation in initiatives impacting them. Over eight years of human-centered design practice, Devon drove design thinking through facilitation, coaching, and qualitative research across innovation teams at Southern New Hampshire University and organized Design and Innovation programs at Southern Methodist University through academic experiences and corporate partnerships. Devon has served as an adjunct lecturer teaching about Life Design and Liberatory design thinking, and brings more than 15 added years of experience in education administration roles serving students as an advisor and counselor at organizations from K12 to higher education. Devon received his Ed.D. from SMU and master’s degree in higher education from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, where was also a 2015 Social Impact Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, with a B.A. in
history from Colgate University.
history from Colgate University.
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
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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.
