Facilitation Lab
Facilitation Lab Charlotte
That’s so retro!
With Phil Canning
In Partnership With Miro
November 21, 2024
5:30pm - 7:30pm ET
Practice Playground is a dynamic space dedicated to facilitators seeking to refine and enhance their skills in a hands-on, interactive practice environment.
At Facilitation Lab Charlotte, 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.
Join us at TM Studio, a creative, dynamic workspace located in Charlotte’s Camp North End. TM Studio is located right around the corner from Free Range Bar (perfect for a post-meetup beverage!)
For our second meetup, we’ll explore techniques, templates, and tips for facilitating retrospectives. Retrospectives are invaluable activities for teams to reflect, share openly and honestly, and improve. They can be short and sweet, and more detailed and thorough.
We will provide light snacks and beverages. Brain fuel!
At Facilitation Lab Charlotte, 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.
Join us at TM Studio, a creative, dynamic workspace located in Charlotte’s Camp North End. TM Studio is located right around the corner from Free Range Bar (perfect for a post-meetup beverage!)
For our second meetup, we’ll explore techniques, templates, and tips for facilitating retrospectives. Retrospectives are invaluable activities for teams to reflect, share openly and honestly, and improve. They can be short and sweet, and more detailed and thorough.
We will provide light snacks and beverages. Brain fuel!
November 21, 2024
5:30pm - 7:30pm ET
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About Facilitation Lab Charlotte
Facilitation Lab Charlotte 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 Charlotte hosted by Phil. 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
Contour drawing
Pair up with someone you don’t know, interview them for 2 minutes, and draw their portrait without looking!
Sailboat retro
How is your facilitation practice going? What’s going well? What’s holding you back?
Other retros? Volunteers?
Come with examples of retrospectives that have gone well for you (or maybe not so well), and try them out with group! We won’t get better unless we practice!
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 effecivelty 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
Phil Canning
As leader of Ally Financial’s human-centered design studio, TM Studio, Phil is a multi-faceted design thinker and certified facilitator. Prior to Ally, Phil has worked in a variety of capacities including engineering, supply chain, process improvement, accounting, and product management. When he’s not leading design thinking workshops to help teams innovate more creatively and collaboratively, he’s spending time with his family, reading a book, or cooking. He has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Notre Dame and an MBA from UNC’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business.
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.
