​A space for facilitators to meet each month online to experiment, learn, share + exchange.

​This month: using storytelling in your practice.

​In this edition of #FacLab, we'll be looking at ways to use storytelling as a facilitation technique in your facilitation practice with Suzanne Whitby.

​About Suzanne: Suzanne knows a thing or two about the power of stories and storytelling: she uses stories and storytelling in her work as a facilitator of climate and sustainability workshops, when she trains natural scientists to communicate their work, and in her spare time as a performing oral storyteller. She is also working on a PhD where she is exploring the extent to which stories, the senses, and space can be vehicles for engaging, provoking thought, and (hopefully) driving action.

​Expect a lively 60-minute deep-dive into the world of stories, how they work and how to apply them, with space for discussion and sharing of your ideas, too.

​Feel free to connect with Suzanne on LinkedIn.

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​About #FacLab

​The pandemic opened up a whole new world for facilitators to network across timezones, borders and cultures, and we want to keep this going online.

​#FacLab (or The Facilitators’ Laboratory – a bit long, we agree!) is a space where we’ll:

• ​Introduce and new and interesting tools, methods and processes

• ​Share experiences with groups – we’ll talk about online, hybrid, specific facilitation methods (ORID, ToP, art of hosting, liberating structures, and many more!)

• ​Invite folks to demo cool things – either related to facilitation OR to the business of being a facilitator

• ​Have discussions around topics suggested by participants

​If you come along, you’ll get to help us choose the direction of our meetings, so get involved and tap into the power of the collective brain!!

​We meet once a month, on a Wednesday, and we try to time meetings to make it possible for folks in many different timezones to come along.

​Join us!

​Behind #FacLab

​#FacLab is organised by Suzanne Whitby, a facilitator, trainer and workshop designer who loves being able to create spaces for fellow facilitators to gather. Because once you gather, the possibilities are endless! She helps businesses understand, problem solve and think strategically about today's sustainability challenges, equips scientists and academics with the skills they need to share their work, and runs climate awareness workshops.