In this episode of Control the Room, Lauren Green joined Douglas Ferguson to discuss her facilitation journey, incorporating movement into meetings and the importance of facilitation training for leaders.

I hear it all the time. What’s the difference between graphic recording and graphic facilitation? There’s a lot of industry debate about this term, but no one is more qualified to make this distinction than David Sibbet.

During this podcast, Emily and Lauren discuss how Lauren got started in the field of visual facilitation, her tips for receiving feedback, the tools she uses, and what inspires her.

In this episode, we discuss how facilitators can become more confident in the nascent world of virtual facilitation, how dance and facilitation have more in common than many would think, and why we should strive for silence, not conversation.

Work with people the way they are, not as the way we wish them to be. Instead of trying to control how people act, turn attention to the structure of the meeting.

SessionLab takes the guesswork out of manipulating times and blocks of content to create an easy-to-follow agenda for facilitating virtually online or in person.

Watch Lauren's origin story of discovering and creating a career in visual notetaking. Then read on to learn ways you might build your origin story today.

Lauren and I dive into laughing and winding conversation about getting into visual notetaking, plus starting and pivoting a visual facilitation business.

A whole systems approach assumes that “the knowledge is the room”; participants already have everything they need in order to create a successful solution, idea or initiative.

Having come from the performing arts, I am fascinated by all the ways that performance shows up in my work as a facilitator. How is this room like a stage?

What I have learned in transitioning into the world of facilitation and organization development is that it is tough, especially for recent graduates or those early in their career.