Facilitation Lab
Facilitation Lab Milan
Practice: Click by Jake Knapp
With Daniele Grieco and Fabrizio Faraco
In Partnership With Miro and La Traccia Buona edizioni
May 9, 2025
10am - 5pm CEST
Milano MI, Italy
Via Massimo D’Azeglio, 3
Milano MI, Italy 20154
Milano MI, Italy 20154
Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out, this is your safe playground to push boundaries, explore new methods, and level up your facilitation skills!
At Facilitation Lab Milan, 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. At Facilitation Lab Milan, you’ll find over 20 different workshops to explore. 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.
Plus: This month we’re excited to partner with Jake Knapp (author of NYT best seller Design Sprint) around the launch of his new book Click: How to Make What People Want. Click introduces the Foundation Sprint – 2 day workshop for starting projects the right way. We’ll be practicing the “Differentiators” a key activity from the Foundation Sprint. This exercise helps teams define what makes their projects radically different from competitors, setting the stage for successful innovation.
As a very special bonus, we will give away a copy of Click to each participant. This book offers ten important lessons, a step-by-step playbook for the Foundation Sprint, and memorable stories from companies like Nike, Google, and Slack.
Last but not least, we’ll host a fireside chat with Douglas Ferguson to present “Basta riunioni del c***o!” — the Italian edition of The Non-Obvious Guide to Magical Meetings.
At Facilitation Lab Milan, 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. At Facilitation Lab Milan, you’ll find over 20 different workshops to explore. 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.
Plus: This month we’re excited to partner with Jake Knapp (author of NYT best seller Design Sprint) around the launch of his new book Click: How to Make What People Want. Click introduces the Foundation Sprint – 2 day workshop for starting projects the right way. We’ll be practicing the “Differentiators” a key activity from the Foundation Sprint. This exercise helps teams define what makes their projects radically different from competitors, setting the stage for successful innovation.
As a very special bonus, we will give away a copy of Click to each participant. This book offers ten important lessons, a step-by-step playbook for the Foundation Sprint, and memorable stories from companies like Nike, Google, and Slack.
Last but not least, we’ll host a fireside chat with Douglas Ferguson to present “Basta riunioni del c***o!” — the Italian edition of The Non-Obvious Guide to Magical Meetings.
May 9, 2025
10am - 5pm CEST
Milano MI, Italy
Via Massimo D’Azeglio, 3
Milano MI, Italy 20154
Milano MI, Italy 20154
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About Facilitation Lab Milan
Facilitation Lab Milan is a monthly in-person meetup for changemakers, collaborative leaders, and facilitators across Milan. 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 Leads, Daniel and Fabrizio cultivate a space for experimentation and collaborative leadership development, with a focus on people-powered organizational change.
Facilitation Lab Milan 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
Daniele Grieco
Facilitator and publisher, I work with companies and organizations—both institutional and non-profit—across various sectors and sizes, designing and leading workshops that help unlock, motivate, and make the most of every organization’s most valuable asset: its people. I trained with some of the world’s leading facilitators and am a certified facilitator in the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology. I also serve as community manager for one of Italy’s leading facilitation networks. I’m a passionate advocate of Liberating Structures, bringing them wherever they’re most needed—from schools to healthcare and social institutions. I’m the founder and editorial director of La Traccia Buona, a publishing house specializing in non-fiction focused on social and ethical issues, facilitation, and personal-professional development. I’ve translated several foundational facilitation texts into Italian, including books by Adam Kahane and Douglas Ferguson.
Fabrizio Faraco
My career has evolved from technical roles to management, and from human resources to marketing—a lifetime of experiences, all centered around developing marketing and leadership skills. Today, I’m a Certified Facilitator in LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® methodology, Design Sprint, and Design Thinking. I also work as a Mentor, Project Manager, Trainer, Speaker, and Author of Maieutic Facilitation—a book on facilitation. Together, these roles allow me to help companies bring innovation to life.
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.
La Traccia Buona edizioni
La Traccia Buona is a publishing house specializing in non-fiction, with a strong focus on facilitation, innovative business models, professional growth, and functional medicine. Our core audience includes professional and interest-based communities with whom we maintain close ties—often actively engaging with and nurturing these groups. The works we publish are authored by outstanding professionals who are highly qualified in their fields. In addition to new releases, we prioritize acquiring books written by global thought leaders whose work aligns with our editorial vision.
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
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 our events manager if you have any concerns or if you wish to be exempted from this activity.
