Facilitation Lab w/ Elena Astilleros

Control the Room is a community of facilitators spanning many different facilitation styles and systems. Facilitation Lab is our weekly event where we create a safe place to explore, adapt, and practice facilitation approaches and methods.

Join us as a participant and learn through connecting with others or signup to lead a session and try out a new method for the first time. During COVID we accelerated our monthly meetups to occur weekly in support of the transition to virtual facilitation and adapting to online. Whatever your learning objectives may be, we are here to support you.

Each week we feature a guest to guide us through an experience, the entire group critiques them, and then as time permits, we run an open mic style facilitation jam.

For a look inside the Facilitation Lab, check out a preview in our Control the Room Sizzle HERE (https://vimeo.com/543730396/cf83e0c667)!

Agenda:

1:00-1:15 Networking/Warmup
1:15-1:25 Welcome/Why/Intro Host
1:25-2:10 Host Session
2:10-2:30 Rose, Thorn, Bud-Feedback on Host
2:30-3:00 Cleanup/Networking

This week on the mike we have special guest host facilitator, Elena Astilleros!

Session Teaser: Facilitator vs Distraction -- It’s up to you to win your meeting participant’s attention!

Never before have facilitators needed to battle against so many distractions. Unlike any other period in time, facilitators must stay two steps ahead of “normal” distractions AND also the real and insistent needs of pets, children and spouses. In a world where everyone is multitasking, it’s up to you to bring focus so sharp that participants of your meetings have to pay attention. And that all starts with YOU.

Because reality is so crazy, we are getting real in this session, and you’ll learn how you can reshape the way you command and bring focus in the sessions you facilitate. Get ready to have some fun and learn just how magnetic you can really be.

To get ready for this session, here’s some homework:

Notice all of the ways you get distracted. What do you do when meetings get boring? What keeps you from creating the results you want?
Watch this video: 2020's Most Embarrassing Zoom Moments (link HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZpEpNPaxsw&t=88s)

For some extra credit:

Check out this story Wired magazine published just in time for our lab ;) (https://www.wired.com/story/stop-looking-your-email-youre-video/)

Come ready to explore & unpack the conversation around distractions!

GIVEAWAY ALERT
Stay tuned, this week we'll be giving away a free ticket to one of our two upcoming workshops this summer with winner's choice: Workshop Design OR Professional Facilitation. Be sure to stick around and have a chance to win! We'll be naming one lucky winner.

If you are interested in being a featured guest, you can use our signup form here. https://links.voltagecontrol.com/facilitation-lab-signup

We use the same zoom link every week, so bookmark it and join us anytime.