Helllooo Facilitators 👋 Join us for an Open-Community Call tomorrow, June 7th, at 6pm CET. This informal gathering is an EXCELLENT opportunity to introduce ourselves, connect with fellow facilitators, and share successes and challenges that we might be experiencing in the world of Facilitation. During the call, feel free to introduce yourself, discuss your expertise, or highlight recent accomplishments/ongoing obstacles. Whether you're a seasoned facilitator or just starting out, your presence and participation will enrich our community and create an environment of collaborative learning. 📅 Date: June 7th, 6pm CET 🗺️ Location: Access the call through the community forum link or use this link Really looking forward to chatting to you all tomorrow!

I would love to open an overview list for worldwide facilitation and facilitation related events and gatherings. A dear friend an colleague invited me to a beautiful opportunity to surrender into playfulness this weekend at https://play14.org – a facilitation-related movement/franchise piece/micro TED for facilitators, this time in Berlin. It was inspiring, refreshing, uplifting and energising, especially as there were a lot of cross-industry and cross-institutional fans of PLAY! Play14 happened irregularly across major European cities but is open for anyone to host along their guidelines – it was held as an Open Space. Fifty people played, exchanged, observed, promoted, tested and had fun while learning. Which events and event series of comparable kinds do you know?

Hey Facilitators! 👋 We’ve got something super exciting lined up for you! We’re hosting a live Q&A session with the fantastic @Nathy Ravez, who is not only a workshop facilitator and collaboration coach, but also a podcast host! Nathy’s life took a 180-degree turn when she chose to dive into the world of facilitation. She’s going to share her roller-coaster journey with us, and trust us, it’s a story you don’t want to miss! 👉 So, here’s the plan: 📅 When? Wednesday, May 24th at 12pm CEST. 🗺️ Where? LIVE on Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85414950665 This is a golden opportunity to glean insights, ask questions, and see how you can chart a similar course. Will I see you there?

Hey all, I posted a proposal to allow people in London (England) to meet up, network and chat a few weeks back. I've managed to secure a great spot adjacent and overlooking the Tower of London. The event is posted on Meetup and I'm in the process of posting it far and wide, Please feel free to help me get it out there! It'd be great to build some momentum here and my motivation is purely to get to know more expereinced facilitators. I'm trying to make a transistion from being an Army Officer (Gurkha Engineers) to the resl world and am passionate about this space. Link: https://www.meetup.com/london_innovation_network/events/293465328/ if you dont have access or want to create a meetup account, please message me and I'll add you. Where: Citizen M Tower Hill (Floor 7 then upto the mezzanine or balcony if the weather is good to enjoy the amazing view) When: 1830 - 2100 on Wed 24 May 22 and then monthly at same time. What: Informal Innovation and Facilitation chats and a little speed networking (20 mins). Future events may have a little more structure.....just need to work that out. I hope to see you there and look forward to meeting you. Dave

Who would like to meet somewhere in the Netherlands in the spring? I think it would be nice to meet up with anyone who would like to chat and exchange experiences with a group of people. Let me know in the comments and I'll post a poll with some options for a day and location 🤓.

I have hosting an event in Tower Hill, London tomorrow evening for people passionate about change, innovation and professional facilitation. Come join us and help me build momentum that will allow us all to network, have interesting conversations and a few drinks in an amazing location..... The view is a bit special! Wed 24 May at 6.30 Checkout this Meetup with London Innovation Network: https://meetu.ps/e/M7640/vTTG0/i Or via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/london-innovation-network-evening-drinks-and-informal-networking-tickets-634725510087?aff=eand

*Disclaimer: This is not an official AJ&Smart meet-up. Hi everyone! It’s almost 3 months later, but…..we have a date 🎉 and a location! Together with @Lieke Kamp we organised a meetup in Amsterdam on Thursday May 25th. It will start around 🕢18:30 and it will ends around 21:30. It’s a meetup for and by the workshop enthusiasts! What the program will look like exactly, we all determine with a questionnaire🗒️. Please let us know if you think you will be there. We will share the link for the questionnaire and some additional information in the upcoming days.

Wow wow wow, what a meeting! Thanks @Jonathan Courtney for joining (and everyone else of course!) So much to learn, so much to unpack... Lots of posts unpacking this great meetup (this being one of them) Sharing some of my notes in the comments 👇

Hey Facilitators! Meeting so many of you on the first Facilitator Club community call last night was great! During the call, we chatted about the following: - our first facilitation experiences - how do you explain your role as a facilitator to others - how to get facilitation clients What other community events would you like to see us organize?

Hello Facilitators!👋 We are so EXCITED to announce that we’ll be hosting a virtual meet-up next Thursday, March 9th at 7PM CET. This is the perfect opportunity for us all to come together, get to know one another and chat about Facilitation and Workshopping in a super casual way! The purpose of this call is for you to meet and learn from other community members in a friendly, open, and relatively unstructured format! This call won’t have a ‘theme,’ but we will draw from conversations happening within the community. As the format is so unstructured, if you’d like to discuss any successes or challenges you’re experiencing in the world of facilitation and workshopping, this is the space to share. We want to make this community as unique as possible and make genuine connections with you so we can all grow and learn together as Facilitators so meeting virtually is a great step in the right direction! If you’re interested in joining, here's the link to this call. The link to join is also in the Skool calendar 🤗 Hope to see many of you at this call. I'm SUPER excited to meet you all 💛

Happy Womens day to all woman who are filling colours of their existence in the world. My training today with professional woman.

I'm not sure how many of you know of Voltage Control out of Texas, but they run an online Facilitation Lab every Thursday where a guest facilitator runs a short workshop (often they are prototyping) for other facilitators and then receive feedback from a supportive group of peers. This might be of interest to some in this community, particularly if you are newer to this. The numbers present vary from 15 upwards. I had over 60 the day I ran an Improv Workshop. Free registration. You can sign up for it here: https://voltagecontrol.com/facilitation-lab/

How often have you led a workshop or session, and found it difficult to keep everyone engaged? 😵‍💫​ Next week, I am hosting a free workshop on Butter.us - a very cool virtual meeting platform that is built for facilitators and has lots of cool engagement tools, plus you can build your agenda right inside the platform. I am excited to share my step-by-step methodology ("The Engagement Spiral") to make the most of every voice in the room, ensuring that even the quietest participants feel heard and valued. This balances the voices of all participants, ensuring that loud participants don't take over the meeting, while also helping shy participants find their voice.​ By the end of the workshop, you’ll know how to create a space where everyone feels invited to share their ideas and perspectives, leading to a more productive, inclusive and engaging experience for all. In this session you'll learn:​ 🤩 Different methods to encourage participation and engagement from all participants.​ ✨ How to balance the voices of all participants, making sure that no one takes over the meeting and even introverted participants feel seen, heard and valued. I'd love to see some familiar facilitators from our club there 😄 You can register for free here: https://lu.ma/ButterMixer46 And if you can't make it, I am hosting a couple more events and workshops this month. I just posted about them on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jankeck_join-me-for-these-free-learning-opportunities-activity-7028715350359732224-oWRK

New Jersey Tech volunteers meetup group will host a virtual event to try to test a design sprint: https://www.meetup.com/nj-tech-volunteers/events/291651464?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link

Hey fellow worshoppers, I'm excited to announce that along with @Katrien Schepers, we are organizing a meet-up in Brussels on March 21st, starting at 6 pm. We will be discussing the next big trend in the facilitation world, a topic that Jonathan is particularly passionate about. During the event, we'll share practical tips on how to run successfully that type of workshops and provide a real-life case study to illustrate the theory behind the topic. This is a great opportunity to expand your facilitation skills, learn from others and connect with them. To reserve your spot, please follow the link below to register for the meet-up. We can't wait to see you there!" And to already answer your questions, yes there will be some food 😂🍕 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/workshopper-meet-up-tickets-545383826707

Last week a local design agency did something really smart. They've created and hosted our first (local) Service Designers Connect meet-up, in which they initially demonstrated workshopping by running a warm-up exercise of - you have 10 minutes to design instructions for "How to make a paper airplane". We were then treated to free pizza, always a winner. In the second session, they stuck with the theme and had us create a pizza box and pizza to represent Service Designers Connect itself - with the box being the packaging/marketing and the pizza being the content of the meet-ups. It was a good way for them to generate ideas and understand expectations. The whole process has also helped establish them as a local authority on the subject, which will lead to some business coming their way. Sponsoring these kinds of sessions can propel a business forward, but the real benefit is how it helps connect the local design community as a whole. If there isn't anything running in your area, organising a regular meet-up is a great way to find your tribe and get yourself some recognition as well. What's going on near you that you'd like to share?

Hi All!! Art of Facilitation update: I would like to try to get the first "Art of Facilitation" MeetUp scheduled since several people have registered interest. Please read the description below and if you like the sound of this, let me know your e mail and I will send you an invite! ***You get all kinds of people in workshops. And most of them play along nicely together. But one or two are there to disrupt or even boycott all your hard work and preparation (how dare they!). In our facilitation journey, we will likely meet the cynic, the interrupter, the showoff, the "I have done all of this before" person, the obstructer, the multi-tasker and the underminer....to name but a few! In this meetup, we will gather to identify the different personalities at workshops, review the challenges they present and share our experiences for how to handle these situations with grace*** Date and Time: February 10th 7am USA (PT), 10am USA (ET) 4pm: CET Duration: 90 minutes Let's have some fun with this one!!

Hello Everyone, I'm organizing a free online 1/2 day Facilitation Toolbox Conference on March 1, 2023, from 12:00 to 4:30 PM EST/NYC time. The conference intends to help Agile practitioners get some tools to become better facilitators. We had over 2000 people registered for our previous conferences. Here's the schedule for the conference: Session #1: 12:15 to 1:00 PM NEW YORK TIME Session #2: 1:15 to 2:15 PM NEW YORK TIME Session #3: 2:30 to 3:15 PM NEW YORK TIME Session #4: 3:30 to 4:15 PM NEW YORK TIME Let me know if you are interested and available to present at any of these times. Thanks! Miljan

Who’s attending? Look forward to seeing you in the webinar presented by @Jonathan Courtney cheers Will