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Facilitation Techniques and Workshop Activities | Library Hundreds of group facilitation activities for workshops, meetings and training sessions. Find the best team building activities, energisers, process facilitation and leadership development techniques.

✨ A tip I love: invite learners to continue their journey by joining a course, visiting an exhibition or reading a book that aligns with their vision.

💬 Have a go-to method for self-directed learning? Submit it to the SessionLab library! www.sessionlab.com/library

Vision Board Creation In this activity, participants will create vision boards to visually represent their entrepreneurial goals and aspirations, fostering clarity and motivation in their goal-setting process.…

🖼️ [Vision Board Creation allows participants to imagine who they want to become: www.sessionlab.com/methods/visi...

Quick-Change Artists In these days of constant change, adaptability and resilience are highly desirable personal qualities. This activity enables the participants to tap into their group wisdom and work on their ability…

🎭 Quick-Change Artists encourages people to explore traits that support adaptability: www.sessionlab.com/methods/quic...

Letter to Myself Often done at the end of a workshop or program, the purpose of this exercise is to support participants in applying their insights and learnings, by writing a letter and sending it to their future…

✉️ Letter to Myself helps participants reflect, set goals and stay accountable: www.sessionlab.com/methods/lett...

🧠 Want to help your participants take charge of their own learning? Here are three engaging methods that make it meaningful and memorable.

Facilitation Skills Training | SessionLab A one-day practical workshop to introduce and practice facilitation skills. Based on a real-life workshop designed for the SessionLab team.

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:

State of Facilitation 2025 Survey Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.

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.

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🌍 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!

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💬 Share your experience in the comments or DM me directly, I’d love to hear how you’re experimenting with it!

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👉 Where did it fall short, or what would make it more useful for you?

Your feedback will directly shape how we improve the tool to better support workshop design and facilitation practice. Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts! 💚

It already has a 4.9/5 rating from a handful of reviews and I’d love for you to test it and tell us what works (and what doesn’t!).

I’d be especially curious to hear:

👉 What kinds of sessions or agendas did you try designing with the Facilitation Assistant?

With the Facilitation Assistant, you can:

🔹 Design agendas and structure sessions with expert guidance

🔹 Reflect on and improve your facilitation skills

🔹 Discover curated methods and resources to use straight away!

ChatGPT - Facilitation & Meeting Assistant SessionLab's expert agenda planner and facilitation coach is designed to help you design better meetings, workshops, training and group sessions. Improve your facilitation skills and discover…

✨ I’m excited to introduce our new free Facilitation Assistant, a CustomGPT powered by SessionLab's vast repository of facilitation resources.

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👉 Complete the survey + leave your email at the end

👉 Get the report in your inbox as soon as it’s published in early 2026

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Special shoutout to: Romy Alexandra, Steve Bouchard, Julia Donohue, Myriam Hadnes, Anna Gullstrand, Shalaka Gundi, Tim Leake, Melanie Martinelli, Chris Taylor & Christine Thomas, our expert commentators for this year.

Want early access to the report?

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.

State of Facilitation 2025 Survey Turn data collection into an experience with Typeform. Create beautiful online forms, surveys, quizzes, and so much more. Try it for FREE.

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.

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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!

Publications | SessionLab Explore our collection of free PDFs and downloads and improve your facilitation and session design skills.

📚 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 😉

Thanks for registering your interest | SessionLab Workshops & Wizards is a deck of magical items designed to support effective collaboration and facilitation. Thanks for registering interest in a physical copy!

Grab the full deck + ready-to-use Miro board: www.sessionlab.com/blog/worksho...
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🚀 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.

100+ People? Here's how to engage them Behind the Sessions: episode one with Deborah Rim Moiso

🎤 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.
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How to facilitate scenario planning workshops | SessionLab Learn how to lead teams in long-term strategy development in this article on scenario planning, futures, and foresight. Packed with methods, tips and templates.

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Top 5 tips for better scenario planning workshops:

✅ Adapt your plan

📌 Focus on action

🌍 Encourage diverse views

🌀 Give it space

💬 Include action planning

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.

Workshops and Wizards Card Deck: Community Play + Q&A with Deborah Rim Moiso and James Smart // 2... | SessionLab Community Join us on July 23rd for a playful, hands-on session exploring the Workshops & Wizards facilitation card deck, a magical tool to help you reflect on, learn and celebrate great collaboration and…

✨ 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
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🧭 Explore trends
🎲 Use playful methods
💡 Build shared insight
💪 Strengthen resilience
🚀 Map out next steps

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