Facilitation Lab

Facilitation Lab Africa

Practice Playground

With Britta Wulfekammer and Reshma Khan

In Partnership With Miro

March 18, 2025
5pm - 7pm CET​
Live Online
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We are excited to invite you to the inaugural Africa Facilitation Lab Practice Playground! For the first time, facilitators based in the region will be leading this dynamic space dedicated to facilitators seeking to refine and enhance their skills in a hands-on, interactive practice environment.

At Facilitation Lab Africa, facilitators come together to explore, experiment, and evolve their craft. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to the field, this lab offers an unparalleled opportunity to practice in real-time, receive constructive feedback, and learn from peers through role-play.

Come prepared to practice various facilitation techniques, from traditional methods to cutting-edge approaches. This environment is designed to be safe, supportive, and conducive to growth, allowing you to try new strategies, fine-tune your skills, and gain confidence in your facilitation abilities.

In this introductory session, we will explore what it means to facilitate, get to know and network with others from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and come together to explore, experiment, and evolve our craft. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to the field, this lab offers an unparalleled opportunity to practice in real-time, receive constructive feedback, and learn from peers through role-play.
March 18, 2025
5pm - 7pm CET​
Live Online

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About Facilitation Lab Africa

Facilitation Lab Africa is a monthly virtual 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 Africa hosted by Britta and Reshma, 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
Idea Marketplace & Voting
Everyone shares their practice areas and opportunities for growth edges and we vote on the top ones.
Practice & Role Play
Participants take turns facilitating a method or the group role-playing a real-life facilitation scenario
Reflect, Debrief, & Commit
We’ll end with an opportunity for some quiet reflection, group debriefing, and solo commitments

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

Britta Wulfekammer
Certified Executive, Team Coach, and Facilitator, passionate about driving social impact across emerging markets. As the founder of Coaching Across Borders, I partner with leaders from purpose-driven corporations, social enterprises, and non-profits to accelerate their work’s impact. My unique blend of experiences comes from roles at globally recognized firms like Sony and IKEA, and deep involvement in the non-profit sector. With experience coaching leaders and teams across >50 countries, my coaching approach is tailored to leaders eager to make a real difference. Rooted in diverse cultures from the US, Germany, Sweden to my current base in Kenya, I balance a global perspective with local insight. Passionate about transformative change in Africa, I stand at the intersection of business and genuine development, ready to assist leaders in breaking through challenges to maximize their social impact.
Reshma Khan
Reshma Aziz Khan is Kenyan and grew up in Nairobi, the Green City in the Sun. She has worked in the non-profit sector for over a decade, and has led team strategy, organizational development and transformation initiatives in various parts of Africa as well as Asia, the Middle East and North America. Her keen awareness on cross-cultural engagement allows her to respectfully navigate and work with people of all cultures, mind-sets and diversities. What she says on her purpose as a facilitator: ‘‘I am a CONDUIT FOR EFFECTIVE DIALOGUE AND DECISION MAKING.I create and hold a safe space for participants so that all voices feel that they can speak and be heard. Pushing my own boundaries, also actively encourage divergent thinking, and encourage generative conflict and differing viewpoints to be shared, and hold space for individuals to work through that discomfort towards then converging towards shared ownership on a decision. I aim for every participant to leave each session knowing their specific purpose going forward and feeling that they can get behind whatever decision was made, and feeling that they were fully included and validated.’

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
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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.