Fall 2026 Facilitation Certification Application Deadline Sept 18th
Fall 2026 Facilitation Certification Application Deadline Sept 18th
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Facilitation Lab Summit | March 19, 2026

At the 2025 Facilitation Lab Summit, Elena Farden led an immersive session titled "Consent as Ceremony: Learnings from Nurturing Safe Connections in Indigenous Play Parties." Elena, known for weaving cultural rituals and deep respect for consent into her facilitation practice, provided profound insights into how we can integrate these sacred traditions into our own work.

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AI | March 12, 2026

AI may feel new, but the challenges beneath it; alignment, decision quality, behavior change, and adoption are as old as organizations themselves. What’s different now is speed. In this post, we explore how AI can magnify existing dysfunction or accelerate clarity and progress depending on how teams work together. Learn how facilitators can design intentional cadences, improve decision-making, and make work visible so AI enhances collaboration rather than scaling chaos. Discover practical shifts and the Ways of Working Assessment to help teams surface hidden friction, strengthen systems, and turn AI-driven speed into a strategic advantage.

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Alumni Stories | March 3, 2026

Nicole Richard’s journey from robotics engineer to global facilitator reveals how human-centered design, distributed team leadership, and facilitation intersect to create meaningful connection. From LEGO classrooms to rural Kenya, she shares how the Voltage Control Facilitation Certification helped her name and strengthen her facilitative leadership style. Discover how design thinking, community building, and intentional gatherings can transform teams, unlock collective wisdom, and fuel impact across borders.

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Alumni Stories | February 6, 2026

Josephine Jung shares a healthcare leader’s journey from admiring facilitation to practicing it in real, high-stakes rooms. Moving beyond toolkits and theory, she learned to “swim” through hands-on facilitation training with Voltage Control—designing purposeful gatherings, building psychological safety, and navigating group dynamics and conflict with confidence. With live projects, office hours, and an alumni community that keeps skills sharp, she explains how facilitation complements coaching, strengthens leadership, and becomes a human-centered advantage as AI reshapes work.

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Podcast | January 20, 2026

In this episode of the Facilitation Lab podcast, host Douglas Ferguson interviews Erin Warner, founder of Head + Heart Coaching and Facilitation. Erin shares her journey from traditional leadership training to interactive facilitation, emphasizing the power of peer learning, rituals, and the “flow channel” for team engagement. She discusses authentic facilitation, embodied practices, and her holistic “3D wellness” approach. Erin also explores how words and self-talk shape reality, encouraging leaders to foster connection, courage, and creativity. The episode highlights facilitation as a transformative tool for personal and collective growth in organizations and beyond.