Facilitation Lab
Facilitation Lab Charlotte
Navigating Change
With Phil Canning and Jasmin Ashley
In Partnership With Miro
March 4, 2025
5:30pm - 7:30pm EST
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!)
In this meetup, we’ll explore techniques for facilitating change. Facilitation is critical to helping people understand the change, actively participate to create the desired future, and accept that what is required is changes in their own thoughts, attitudes and behaviors.
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!)
In this meetup, we’ll explore techniques for facilitating change. Facilitation is critical to helping people understand the change, actively participate to create the desired future, and accept that what is required is changes in their own thoughts, attitudes and behaviors.
We will provide light snacks and beverages. Brain fuel!
March 4, 2025
5:30pm - 7:30pm EST
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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
Warm-up or icebreaker
We’ll start by getting to know each other and have some fun!
Facilitating Change (guest speaker)
We’ll talk about the importance of facilitating change and some examples of how she has helped groups navigate change effectively.
Navigating Change Exercise
TBD
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
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.
Jasmin Ashley
Jasmin Ashley is a facilitation manager at Ally’s TM Studio. In her role she facilitates Human-centered design training, workshops, and strategic coaching for the company. Jasmin’s prior experience comes from Liberty Mutual and American Airlines where she had a diverse range of experiences ranging from managing a customer experience(CX) team, building and leading weekly training sessions using real-time data to improve CX, labor operations, and meet site targets to being the head of adoption strategy for design thinking(DT), building and leading a design thinking community of practice committee, facilitating workshops across the enterprise to scaling DT on an enterprise level. Jasmin earned an MA Human-centered Interaction Design and a BA in Psychology from the University of North Texas.
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.
