Are you looking to develop facilitation skills across your organization? Try the facilitation skills training agenda publicly available in SessionLab. You can take a peek at the exact workshop we ran with our own 12-person team:

400+ responses are in for the State of Facilitation 2025 survey. Early insight: in-person is seen as most impactful, but online/hybrid dominates practice. 👉 Add your perspective here: buff.ly/RdYsXjk 🌍 We’d especially love to hear from facilitators in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East!

The full agenda for the International Association of Facilitators’ Europe & Middle East “Why I 💜 Facilitation” Conference is live! 👉 Learn more & get your tickets: ilovefacilitation.ro #whyilovefacilitation #conference #iafeme #iafromania #facilitation

✨ I’m excited to introduce our new free Facilitation Assistant, a CustomGPT powered by SessionLab's vast repository of facilitation resources. 👉 Try it out here: chatgpt.com/g/g-cCPrbS3Q...)

A big thank you 💛 We’re gathering responses for the State of Facilitation survey - Impact of Facilitationand want to pause to thank those who’ve helped shape it with their advice and insights.

The State of Facilitation survey 2025 is live! This year, the focus is on Impact: - How do you measure the results of your sessions? - What works? - How do you communicate impact to others. Take the survey 👉 [https://buff.ly/lLsmFqn] And please share so we can capture a broader picture 🙌

Facilitators in Europe or the Middle East: this is for you 👇 The IAF EME Conference is in Bucharest, 7–9 Nov 2025. 3 tracks, amazing venue, focus on facilitation + leadership. Hosted by the excellent IAF Romania team Tickets now available: [ilovefacilitation.ro](ilovefacilitation.ro)

Collecting information from participants is key, every step of the way. We've made it easy to collect input directly in your workspace. ✨ Use Forms to: - Capture feedback post-workshop - Gather expectations before a session - Run a quick retro 📊 Spot trends + improve, without switching tools!

📚 Whether you're planning a strategy session, training, or workshop, we’ve collected our top PDF guides in one place: www.sessionlab.com/pub - Facilitating Futures - Training Design Handbook - Workshop Planning Guide - Meeting Facilitation Toolkit Perfect for bookmarking – or taking on holiday 😉

🚀 When workshops get tough, facilitators get magical. Level 3 of the Workshops & Wizards deck is for murky waters and mountainous terrain: 🔹 Stay neutral 🔹 Act on values 🔹 Reframe stuck conversations Designed for tricky moments in team dynamics or deep facilitation training.

🎤 What happens when a facilitator designs a speaker-heavy conference? Deborah Rim Moiso shares how she used tools like SessionLab, backcasting, and Impromptu Networking to make a big event more participatory. 🎥 Watch the interview here: buff.ly/E1tiVVD #Facilitation #EventDesign #FutureThinking

Facilitators, team leads: are you helping your group plan for what’s ahead? Scenario planning is a practical, hopeful way to explore complexity and build resilience. Our latest blog breaks it down, with tools you can use and a free guide on Facilitating Futures.

✨ Add a bit of magic and reflection to your day! Last minute call to join a free 90-minute community session where we’ll explore the whimsical Workshops & Wizards card deck 🧙♀️🃏✨ 📅 July 23rd – 3PM CET / 9AM ET 🔗 Join us here: (buff.ly/YeWjfk9) Deb 🐝 from SessionLab

Facilitators, consultants, futurists — curious what a full-day futures workshop looks like in practice? We’ve created a 1-day template with futurist @SuzanneWhitby that you can duplicate and remix in #SessionLab.

You know that feeling when you’re about to design a workshop but your notes are scattered everywhere?

How do you help people imagine the future, without drifting into fantasy or succumbing to fear? We’ve pulled 4 methods from our new guide Facilitating Futures to help facilitators lead future-focused workshops.

Yes, you *can* plan your workshop in Excel. But should you? Spreadsheets eat up time and mental energy that facilitators could use to improve the experience of the session.

Uncertainty isn’t going away, but facilitators are helping people face it, together. We are celebrating the launch of Facilitating Futures, a free guide packed with tools to run better futures-focused sessions. 🧰 15 methods 📖 Case studies from climate, AI, equity & more 🧠 Expert tips

In these volatile times, teams are turning to futures workshops to navigate uncertainty & spark transformation. 🌍 Want to level up your futures and foresight skills? We teamed up with Suzanne Whitby to create Facilitating Futures a free PDF full of real-world tips, stories, & methods

📄 Pages just dropped in SessionLab! Keep every brief, need-assessment & logistics note right beside your agenda, no more app-hopping. Click “+” → Page, pick a template (or blank) and plan away. Try it today and tag us with your own Page templates! 💡

Ever run a big event & lost your agenda in a sea of email threads? I just facilitated a 150-person workshop, & SessionLab helped keep everything clear and collaborative:

✨ Sometimes, facilitation is about making the invisible visible. The Level 2 cards in our Workshops & Wizards deck help name those hidden skills that make collaboration smoother 🧙‍♀️

Facilitators love card decks, & for good reason 🃏 They’re great for sparking creativity, encouraging engagement & learning new facilitation skills. 🎁 Bonus: they also make excellent gifts (self-gifting counts!) Got a go-to deck? Share it, we’re collecting favorites!

You packed sticky notes and markers…But did you remember the Compass of Helping Hands? 🧙‍♀️✨ We created a fantasy-inspired card deck to help facilitators name, share, and develop their skills. 🪄 Try the Use Workshops & Wizards card in your training or workshop! www.sessionlab.com/blog/worksho...

🧙 Workshops & Wizards is a card deck that brings magic to facilitation. Each item = a core skill like asking great questions or reading the room. Try the “Wizard’s Boon”: 1. Pick a card 2. Answer a prompt 3. Share how you’ll use that magic We’d love to hear how you use the cards! buff.ly/Ak6ZgRo

Feeling rushed in workshops? Try creating more *thinking space.* 🧠 Try these facilitation activities that invite reflection: 📝  [Two Wins and One Wish](buff.ly/YgOrX9z). 🚶 [Walking Brainstorm](buff.ly/exnMA65) 👥 [Fishbowl](buff.ly/QXAodli) Try one, and share your own in the SessionLab library!

Running workshops for global teams just got easier 🌍 Now you can translate your sessions inside SessionLab with our and faster AI Assistant. Whether you’re facilitating in French, Swedish, or Spanish, you can adapt and simplify your agenda in seconds. How do you handle translating your sessions?

Designing a workshop in 15 minutes? Yep. 🧠✨ 🛠️ Sketch a plan in Notion + Miro 📸 Snap a screenshot 🤖 Ask SessionLab’s AI assistant to turn it into a workshop agenda Inspired by tips from Alexandre Eisenchteter →

Ever wondered what really goes on behind the scenes of a facilitated workshop? 👀 Take a peek at my virtual planning desk for my full session planning process using SessionLab Deb from SessionLab

🗺️ The History Map #Workshop Help your team reflect on the past to guide what comes next. Designed by @MeetingMakers, this template surfaces key moments & lessons to support better learning & decision-making, especially during times of change. Try it here →

📚 Active learning turns theory into real understanding. Using: ✔️ Real-world application ✔️ Kolb’s learning cycle ✔️ Peer coaching & teaching ✔️ Designing for engagement What’s one small shift you’ve made to encourage active participation? www.sessionlab.com/blog/active-...

Need a helping hand with your workshop plan? SessionLab’s upgraded AI Assistant now: 🧠 Understands your session 📤 Turns docs into agendas 🌍 Translates content 💡 Suggests real improvements Try it out → [sessionlab.com/blog/improved-ai-assistant-in-sessionlab]

🎓 Six activities to bring theory to life! From paper toss resets to whiteboard rotations, check out these methods help transform learning into something memorable. ⬇️

🏗️ Featured Template: Enterprise Design Starter Workshop This one-day workshop helps large teams make sense of complexity and drive transformation across systems, services and structures. Perfect for times of disruption or product development. Try it out! →

Ever had tech fail mid-session? A cat on your laptop? Crickets after a big question? Play along with our Facilitation Challenges Bingo and get 4 in a row to win! Share what’s gone sideways in your sessions, and how you bounced back.

🧠 Design learning sessions that stick with SessionLab SessionLab helps facilitators, trainers and educators create engaging, structured agendas using: 🎨 Colour-coded blocks 🧩 Methods from the built-in library 🖱️ Drag-and-drop planning Try it for free!

🚫📊 Excel for session design? Hard no. So we grabbed some spray paint and made it official: ExpelExcel💥 The SessionLab team got together for a (very legal) graffiti session & declared our 💚for better workshop planning tools out loud & proud. Facilitators deserve better. So do your workshops.

New Template: Work Styles & Team Profile Workshop Every team has its own way of working. This one-day session by MeetingMakers helps teams explore personal work styles & align around a shared team profile. Try it yourself!

How do people learn to facilitate at work?💡 The State of Facilitation 2025 report reveals: 🔹 63% of in-house facilitators already had the skills before starting the role 🔹 27% learned facilitation on the job So how did they learn? ⬇️

How can an an organisational development team deliver leadership training programs to 700 participants across 10+ locations, each with a slightly different, yet consistent, agenda? Read how Norconsult uses SessionLab to deliver high-quality sessions at scale.

Every team has its own way of working. Even within the same department, teams form unique norms around communication, collaboration & problem-solving. So, how can leaders and facilitators support that process with intention? Here are a few approaches that can help ⬇️

Some activities bring people together without feeling forced, here are a few you might want to try with your team! 🎨 Doodling Together: Draw random squiggles and turn them into stories. Creativity + connection!