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Meeting Culture | February 25, 2026

At the 2026 Facilitation Lab Summit in Austin, eight facilitators explored what it means to lead from the “edge”—where certainty dissolves and something new can emerge. This recap traces facilitation’s evolution from expert control to illuminated presence: shifting from certainty to curiosity, expertise to authenticity, analysis to whole intelligence, structure to exploration, and control to safety. Featuring insights on collective intelligence, expedition-style innovation, finding your facilitation voice, embodiment, belonging, and trauma-informed practice—plus why these skills matter now as organizations face unprecedented complexity.

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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.

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AI | December 16, 2025

Make AI a visible teammate in 2025—not a side tool. This article shows how to move AI from “nice-to-have” prompts to the operating core of your team: weaving it through meeting arcs (open, explore, decide, close), speeding decisions with AI-generated options and consent-based methods, and building trust through clear working agreements and verification habits. You’ll learn how to redesign whole workflows (not isolated tasks), create living memory that reduces churn, and prototype AI-centered rituals you can test in two weeks. Includes an AI-at-the-Center Bingo diagnostic to assess maturity and pick January experiments that boost clarity, alignment, and throughput.

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Alumni Stories | December 8, 2025

Tech leader Brian Buck shares how he shifted from being “the smartest person in the room” to designing rooms that are smart together. In this Voltage Control Facilitation Certification alumni story, he explains how bridging tech and business, embracing professional facilitation, and learning to trust the room helped him lead enterprise-level transformation, build psychological safety, and amplify others—especially in an AI-enabled world.

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Meeting Culture | October 14, 2025

Discover how AI teaming comes alive on the Miro canvas. At Canvas 2025, Voltage Control and Miro unveil AI Flows and Sidekicks that put AI inside the circle—listening, synthesizing, and acting with your team in real time. Turn briefs and research into shared artifacts in minutes with Instant Prototyping, then invite Sidekicks like the Challenger, Synthesizer, Optimist, Historian, Sketcher, and Co-Facilitator to surface risks, connect patterns, and guide process. Grounded in facilitation, this approach accelerates alignment, boosts engagement, and makes collaboration more transparent, inclusive, and human.

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Podcast | October 8, 2025

In this Facilitation Lab podcast episode, host Douglas Ferguson interviews Rubens Filho, Director of Spells & CEO of Abracademy, about using magic as a tool for transformative learning and team development. Rubens shares how magic, psychology, and learning design are blended to create engaging, research-informed workshops that foster curiosity, wonder, and collaboration. The discussion covers the origins of Abracademy, the power of metaphor and storytelling in leadership, the importance of embracing diverse perspectives, and the impact of shifting from militarized to magical language in the workplace. The episode highlights the value of human-centered, memorable learning experiences.