#SessionLab
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:
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.
www.sessionlab.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM
The wait is over — the IAF Europe & Middle East Conference program is live!

Special thanks to SessionLab for sponsoring this year’s conference agenda!

Review our agenda and secure your ticket today: ilovefacilitation.ro

#Facilitation #IAFEME #Leadership
September 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Celebrating the IAF Facilitation Summit 2024 Leaderboard Winners!

🥇 Brunda Manurkar
🥈 Sorin Cenușa
🥉 Revathi Turaga
🏅 Ramesh Srinivasan
🏅 Karim Jan

Prizes by: AI Tinkerers, Facilitation Resources, GroupMap, SessionLab, Stormz, Butter.

Congrats to all! 🌟

#IAFFS2024
December 16, 2024 at 3:49 PM
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
How to organize a workshop with SessionLab | SessionLab
Peek into a day in the life of a workshop facilitator to learn how to organize a workshop with SessionLab step-by-step, from blank canvas to full workshop session design.
www.sessionlab.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The shrimp vertebra thing is reason #487 I use AI tools for exactly nothing. The one time I purposefully invoked an AI was in SessionLab because I had workshop-creator's block. It got me over the block because it was So. Wrong. I had to fix it.
October 25, 2024 at 1:13 PM
🧠 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!
May 7, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Steps in that direction that I can think of, from both directions toward the middle, are
* UMass Amherst Econ, the top heterodox program
* Whoever formalized parecon?
* This EU group: app.sessionlab.com/sessions/MAd...
* gems in the Berkeley bubble like Topos Institute
...
Complex Anarchism Symposium
SessionLab - An easier way to design workshops
app.sessionlab.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
🗣️ Over to you:

What’s worked for you when aligning how your team works together?

We’d love to hear your perspective 👇

#facilitation #waysOfWorking #teamdevelopment #SessionLab
April 14, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Totally. I wrote about this in the @sessionlab State of #Facilitation report - there is no substitute for active participation when it comes to developing and improving skills in facilitating www.sessionlab.com/state-of-fac...
State of Facilitation 2023 – Report and Expert Insights
The first-ever report on the State of Facilitation. Data, trends, and insights from a survey of workshop design and facilitation professionals worldwide.
www.sessionlab.com
December 9, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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.
July 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🎤 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
100+ People? Here's how to engage them
Behind the Sessions: episode one with Deborah Rim Moiso
buff.ly
July 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🗺️ 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 →
History Map Workshop | SessionLab
The History Map Workshop is designed to help teams reflect on key past events, milestones, and lessons learned, laying a foundation for future decision-making.
www.sessionlab.com
May 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Getting alignment -is a soft skill I tried to learn as part of “meeting facilitation”. I asked for help/ observe me run meetings for Dems, then offer advice & strategies.

Worth it/1-hr Training:
The 10-step budgeting process for boards
(Takes ~3 months to do)
👇
propelnonprofits.org/trainings/
April 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
こういうのやりたいかもなー How to build an internal facilitation community of practice | SessionLab www.sessionlab.com/blog/facilit...
How to build an internal facilitation community of practice | SessionLab
Learn how to build a facilitation community of practice, grow internal capability, and create a hub where facilitators share, learn, and improve together.
www.sessionlab.com
July 19, 2026 at 11:45 PM
組織内でファシリテーションができる人たち(チーム)をどう増やしていくかという話 How to scale facilitation in your organization | SessionLab www.sessionlab.com/blog/how-to-...
How to scale facilitation in your organization | SessionLab
Explore the facilitation maturity model, create more impact from your interventions and begin scaling your facilitation capabilities in this practical guide.
www.sessionlab.com
July 17, 2026 at 10:15 AM
✨ 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
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.
www.sessionlab.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM

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

Carrin from SessionLab
September 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📚 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 😉
Publications | SessionLab
Explore our collection of free PDFs and downloads and improve your facilitation and session design skills.
www.sessionlab.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
✨ 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
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…
community.sessionlab.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Yeah, same 😅

That’s why we love the new Pages feature in SessionLab:

- Your notes + your agenda in one place
- Templates for workshop briefs, needs assessments & more
- No more hunting through random files!

📂 Try starting with Pages next time, your future self will thank you.
July 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
SessionLab is purpose-built for designing workshops and trainings:
🧩 Drag-and-drop blocks
⏱️ Timings update automatically
🤝 Collaboration that doesn’t get lost in email threads.

Spreadsheets weren’t made for this. SessionLab was.

www.sessionlab.com/blog/excel-a...
SessionLab Vs Excel | SessionLab
Still using Excel for agenda planning? Remove the frustration and upgrade to SessionLab for free. Agenda design made easy with automatic time calculation.
www.sessionlab.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Includes:
🧭 Scenario planning
💬 Postcards from the future
🌀 Futures Wheel, Backcasting & more

Created with Suzanne Whitby + contributors Christel Scholten, Sara Tremi Proietti, Sophia Cheng and Megan Evans 🙌

📥 Grab your copy: buff.ly/HGKUsTS

How are *you* facilitating futures?
Facilitating Futures Playbook | SessionLab
15 methods and workshop tools for guiding a group through a meaningful futures conversation, from mapping the present to embodying the future and taking action.
www.sessionlab.com
July 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM