Building on from our newsletter earlier this month on upcoming events, we wanted to tell you more about our Learning Labs series (previously called seminars).

As part of our website refresh, our online ‘seminar’ sessions have been renamed ‘Learning Labs.’ This change reflects our commitment to offering interactive, content-rich sessions that combine taught content, fresh input and practical takeaways with space to experiment and share experiences in a facilitated group environment.

Our Online Learning Labs series covers a wide range of topics to help you build essential facilitation skills: such as choosing interventions, working confidently with group dynamics, and enhancing your emotional resilience. Each half-day session is crafted to provide actionable insights that you can then apply in your practice.

Sessions run on Zoom from 1.00-4.30 pm and cost £80 for members and £115 for non-members. As an additional benefit, members are able to invite a non-member guest for free (one per year).

Our upcoming Learning Labs:

📅 30 January, Interventions and Traps

In next weeks session, we will introduce a range of possible interventions, and consider together, practically and experientially, what best serves our groups.

📅 27 February, Contracting

In this Learning Lab, we will examine how we work ethically and equitably with group participants, sponsors, clients and co-facilitators.

📅 27 March, Games People Play

Here, we will look at how participants (and facilitators) adopt and shift roles to give us power, rationalise issues, make us feel better about ourselves and more.

📅 22 May, Facilitation Myth Busting and the Perceived Weirdness Index

In this session, we will look at myth busting using Jonno Hanafin’s index of “Perceived Weirdness” to explore how we can be most effective as facilitators and agents of change.

📅 26 June, Safety, Learning and the Psychological Contract

In this Learning Lab, we will critically reflect on our own practice as facilitators and develop our own strengths and understanding of facilitating in and around the bounds of psychological safety.

📅 17 July, Facilitator Wellbeing (avoiding burnout)

In July, we will dig for the realities of working as a facilitator with no exception that we will in ourselves or others discover perfection, balance or permanence when it comes to wellbeing.

For more information on all events, please visit our events calendar, and if you have questions about which sessions align best with your practice and interests, feel free to reach out.