The Design Lab: Transforming Professional Learning

Transform your meetings, professional development, and facilitation with The Design Lab workshop series. Over three days, you'll explore evidence-based practices that breathe new life into your meetings, professional development sessions, and group facilitation, and you’ll come away with practical tools you can use right away. This experience is designed for both experienced facilitators and new leaders who want to enhance their professional practice in concrete ways. Through a combination of hands-on learning and community building, you'll connect with fellow leaders who share your commitment to creating meaningful experiences for adults in professional settings.

In this workshop, you'll:

• Reflect on, assess, refine, and redefine what makes professional learning and meetings transformational
• Create conditions and new systems for adult learning
• Design a professional development session, meeting, or equivalent content
• Explore effective facilitation skills through reflection and practice
• Explore tools to assess for impact and work with feedback
• Build connections among participants

Session topics include:

Day 1: 

• Redefining professional learning 
• The who, what, why, how, and who of professional learning
• Designing meetings with intention, choice, and adult agency in mind 
• Creating conditions for learning that foster belonging and psychological safety

Day 2:

• Increasing emotional intelligence as a facilitator
• Facilitation foundations rooted in self-awareness, community awareness, clear communication, and reflection
• Exploring power in facilitation
• Adapting facilitation to meet the needs of the moment, including when things go sideways

Day 3:

• Assessing the impact of professional learning—and designing with impact in mind
• Working with feedback and learn how to be an effective feedback receiver
• Share designs and celebrate learning
  

SCHEDULE

SESSION 1: July 28, 2025 | 9:00am - 3:00pm

SESSION 2: July 29, 2025 | 9:00am - 3:00pm

SESSION 3: July 30, 2025 | 9:00am - 3:00pm

AUDIENCE

This program is designed for positional leaders, department leaders, teacher-leaders, and anyone who wants to reimagine professional learning for adults.

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CANCELLATION POLICY

Life happens. We understand that there will be times when you cannot attend a workshop that you have registered and paid for.

Registration may be transferred to a different person up to 7 days before a session. However refunds will not be given, and a session missed for any reason will not be refunded.

Below we have outlined our cancellation and refund policy, which we have in place to ensure the most accurate numbers when we secure well in advance locations, catering, and facilitators. Thank you for understanding.

For our ongoing programs or one-day intensives, refunds are available (less a $50 processing fee) up to 22 days before the scheduled starting date. We are unable to provide refunds for cancellations made 21 days or less prior to the first day of a workshop. A missed session that is part of an ongoing program is non-refundable and non-transferrable. For our summer institutes refunds are available (less a $50 processing fee) up to 30 days before the scheduled starting date. We are unable to provide refunds for cancellations made 29 days or less prior to the first day of a summer institute.

Please contact us by email as soon as you know you cannot attend a workshop. This will allow us time to contact our waitlist and hopefully fill your spot.

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