Workshops Unfiltered: Insights, Challenges & Hot Takes
Facilitators assemble! 🧠💥
This is the session where workshoppers gather to say the quiet part out loud.
We invite you to reflect, rant, confess, and contribute. Expect sticky note storms, insight bombs, and a whole lot of “omg YESSS same” energy.
In this Buttermixer with Rachel Davis, we’re getting real about the facilitator experience: what’s working, what’s weird, and what’s weighing us down. No need to pretend everything’s smooth sailing — we’re here to speak truths, swap war stories, and dream up better ways of working.
Here’s what we’ll dig into:
🧩 What’s actually happening in workshops right now (the good, the bad, the awkward)
🧠 The cognitive load of facilitation (and why it matters more than people think)
💥 What we’re sick of, what we secretly love, and what needs to evolve
You’ll walk away with a fresh perspective on your craft, and ideas you didn't know you needed for evolving your practice. You'll feel wildly seen by people who get that “just facilitating” is never just facilitating — and get to share the space with others who understand both the power of holding space.
This session is best for:
Facilitators of all kinds—whether you run workshops daily or just drop in occasionally
Collaboration nerds who think deeply about how humans create, align, and decide together
Community builders, coaches, designers, educators, team leads—anyone holding space for others to do great work
People who have opinions about breakout rooms, icebreakers, agendas, workshop tech, culture—and aren’t afraid to share them
📆 It’s happening on May 6 (Tuesday) at 6:00-7:00pm CEST (GMT+2).
Bring your stories, your stickies, and your spicy takes. See you there! 👋
About the host
Meet Rachel, a Workshop Experience Designer and Facilitator based in the United States. She has almost 20 years experience across design thinking, brand and creative strategy, workshop creation, and facilitation. She’s a firm believer that play is the doorway to our wildest ideas, and as a result, she’s built her own consulting company to help others bring that joy and energy into their workshops.
Coming from an environment where being creative was like pulling teeth, she’s worked throughout her career to help others move past the thoughts that they are ‘just not creative. or they ‘don’t have good ideas.’ Community is also a huge part of her journey. Rachel is a Miro Hero Expert, part of the Butter Experts Collective, helps run the ButterMixers, a twice monthly session with the curious minds over at the Butter Community.
She looks for inspiration everywhere and one of her favorite things to explore are books. She probably have way too many books on her reading list right now, so don’t ever hesitate to ask her for a suggestion on what to read next!
✨ Connect with Rachel on her LinkedIn and Bento.
Some pre-event reminders
Joining your first Butter session? Our participant guide will help you get set up right!
For the smoothest experience, do join using Google Chrome on a laptop or PC or download our desktop app. Since we're usually using Miro in our workshops, we recommend joining in with your ad blockers turned off (temporarily), and not in incognito mode.
Test your setup! Use this to check your mic & video ahead.