In Managing through Systems: The minimum to maintain sanity, we'll cover the essential systems and information to track to maintain a healthy facilitation practice. Hint: it's NOT just about Quickbooks! We'll cover project and task tracking, scheduling, customer relationships, facilitation design, and the project lifecycle. This will be a group discussion where we crowdsource from you and the other participants what systems you use to track and maintain your business-essential data.

In this encore presentation following JJ's workshop at Voltage Control's Lab Summit, JJ will equip you with real strategies to create engaging and high trust experiences. He'll cover how to build playful experiences from Anticipation to Surprise to Pleasure & Joy to Understanding & Mastery to Renewal and Desire for More! Learn the art of the Twist, and make Creative Connections.

In Discovery: The key to winning work in the first conversation, we'll cover and practice using PLACES, Please: a proven method for effective initial conversations with potential clients. PLACES, Please is not a rigid process or a strict checklist: it's a dynamic and organic framework that guarantees you get the information you need to price and design winning experiences. And as a group, we'll discuss the questions most important to YOU during your intake calls.

In The Meeting Startup: The make-or-break moment in the meeting, we'll cover how to frame a meeting for success. We'll discuss the four area you MUST cover at the beginning of every meeting that are the difference between success and failure. We'll discuss Framing: techniques used to create containers for honest and authentic conversations. And as a group, we'll share our best methods for setting the stage, creating the right atmosphere, and making sure everyone in the room is on the same page and ready to work as their best selves.

You're getting a twofer with this one!

In part one, Brian will demonstrate how to facilitate a personal history: a graphic timeline that captures an individual's life, learnings, career, family, highlights, and lowlights. The personal history is a great activity for coaches, family members, and coworkers to understand each others' histories, defining moments, and stories.

And, the subject will be Joran Oppelt! Joran will be the latest in our Author Talk series. In part two, he'll be talking about his new book, Spiritual Edge: Exploring the Boundaries and Evolution of Religion. It addresses religious tools such as prayer and faith formation, challenges the status quo of traditional religious thinking, and points the way toward religious innovation.

In Team Portrait, I'll demonstrate a fantastic visual facilitation method for learning who's in the room. I'll cover the textbook example of a team portrait, then demonstrate variations where participants tap into their own creativity to build trust and deepen relationships, all while practicing skills they'll need later in a creative, participatory workshop. The Team Portrait affirms individuals' identity, draws on their strengths, and gives you as a facilitator insight into their expectations for the work ahead.

In Agreements, we'll cover ground rules for good meetings. These are the behaviors by which participants agree to hold themselves and each other acountable to in order to be in partnership with each other. As a group, we'll harvest your favorite Agreements, I'll share a few of my own, and we'll come away with a picklist you can use when you're designing your next meeting.

Drawing from his enterprise experience with AI technologies, Dave will share insights on how visual practitioners can leverage this emerging technology. Learn to identify AI's true capabilities, recognize its limitations, and develop strategies for integrating these tools into your practice while maintaining the uniquely human elements of your work.

In Principle Posters, I'll share a series of easy-to-draw-on-a-flipchart visual concepts that shine a light on human dynamics. Principle Posters are lenses to help your participant better understand human behaviors. They are simple images that can be drawn in a matter of seconds to help participants objectively understand the dynamics that YOU see in the room as an outside observer. And with that objective lens, they can reengage in the conversation without falling into mental traps.

Marsha Acker returns to NOVA Scribes to introduce us to her Read the Room Workbook! She'll share groundbreaking framework to decode and influence group dynamics: the 4-Player Model. In every conversation, participants take on one of four key roles—Mover, Follower, Opposer, and Bystander. When these roles are recognized and skillfully balanced, communication flows, ideas deepen, and collaboration thrives.

In Vision & Choices, we'll practice using two uncommon Grove templates to establish a future vision for your practice and build a bridge back to the present. Vision & Choices is one part inspirational and one part practical. They draw from the practices of strengths-based leadership, positive psychology, and appreciative inquiry to envision an idealized but achievable future that's within your power to achieve.