Facilitating with AI
Facilitating with AI
Introduction to Facilitation in an AI-Shaped World
Live Online
With Caterina Rodriguez
AI is changing how work gets done — but it hasn’t replaced the need for human facilitation. In fact, it’s made it more important.
In this introductory workshop, you’ll explore how facilitation skills and AI can work together to improve collaboration, decision-making, and alignment across teams. Rather than treating AI as a tool for faster output, we’ll focus on how facilitators and collaborative leaders can use AI inside the work — to surface perspectives, strengthen shared understanding, and design better group experiences.
This session is a practical entry point into Voltage Control’s facilitation approach and certification programs. You’ll learn the core qualities of effective facilitation, see how they map to real leadership challenges, and experience how AI can support — not replace — thoughtful, inclusive facilitation.
During this FREE, virtual workshop, you will:
In this introductory workshop, you’ll explore how facilitation skills and AI can work together to improve collaboration, decision-making, and alignment across teams. Rather than treating AI as a tool for faster output, we’ll focus on how facilitators and collaborative leaders can use AI inside the work — to surface perspectives, strengthen shared understanding, and design better group experiences.
This session is a practical entry point into Voltage Control’s facilitation approach and certification programs. You’ll learn the core qualities of effective facilitation, see how they map to real leadership challenges, and experience how AI can support — not replace — thoughtful, inclusive facilitation.
During this FREE, virtual workshop, you will:
- Learn what facilitation is and why it matters even more in an AI-enabled workplace
- Explore how facilitation competencies (purpose, inclusion, clarity, craft, and adaptability) guide effective use of AI with groups
- Practice a foundational facilitation framework — supported by AI — to improve participation, alignment, and decision-making
- Identify next steps for developing your facilitation practice and collaborative leadership skills
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Agenda
AI in the Flow of Collaborative Work
Explore how AI is already shaping meetings, decision-making, and team coordination — and why facilitation becomes even more essential in this moment.
Clarifying Purpose with AI
Define the purpose of a real meeting you lead and experiment with using AI as a thinking partner to sharpen and strengthen your intended outcomes.
Designing for Inclusion & Clarity
Use AI to surface blind spots, expand perspectives, and craft clearer prompts that guide both people and machines toward alignment.
Reflection, Guardrails & Next Steps
Identify one practical AI-enabled facilitation experiment you’ll run in your work — guided by ethical considerations and human-centered leadership.
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
Clarify and refine meeting purpose using AI as a collaborative thinking partner (Purposed)
Expand inclusion and surface blind spots with AI-supported perspective-taking (Inclusive)
Craft clearer prompts and communication structures that strengthen alignment across teams and tools (Clear & Crafted)
Commit to one intentional AI-enabled facilitation practice grounded in thoughtful human judgment (Adaptive)
Featured Facilitators
Caterina Rodriguez
Caterina (Cat) Rodriguez helps organizations redesign how work happens. As an organizational strategist and facilitation leader, she partners with teams to align around what matters, make better decisions together, and build ways of working that support lasting momentum. Across global teams and cross-sector initiatives, Cat works with leaders and distributed organizations navigating strategic inflection points and organizational complexity. She is often brought in when teams are working hard yet struggling to move forward together. Through thoughtfully designed, participatory processes, Cat helps teams align on what matters most and redesign the systems and practices that shape decision-making and collaboration. At the heart of her work is a belief that how we work together shapes what becomes possible and that better ways of working change what organizations can achieve.
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