Playbooks
Practical, field-tested guidance for facilitating and documenting workshops where several groups are talking at once.
Does Recording a Workshop Change How Honestly People Speak?
Yes, under specific conditions, and no, not automatically. What the research on chilling effects says, when the risk is real, and what reduces it.
How Facilitators Win More Client Work
Clients rarely choose the facilitator with the cleverest exercises. They choose the one they trust to deliver a result. A practical guide to standing out through niche, proof, better proposals, and deliverables that show up on time.
How to Document a Citizens' Assembly or Public Dialogue With Many Tables
A practical guide to capturing what dozens of citizen tables say and turning it into one report that holds up to public scrutiny, from the classic "theme team" to keeping a synthesis traceable and honest about disagreement.
How to Document a Workshop With Multiple Breakout Groups
A practical guide to the methods facilitators use to capture what's said at every table when a workshop splits into several breakout groups at once.
How to Document World Café, Open Space, Liberating Structures, and Design Sprint Sessions
Four facilitation formats that scatter the conversation on purpose, and how to document each one faithfully using its own harvesting tradition rather than generic note-taking.
How to Keep a Conference Session Interactive After It Ends
Live polling solves the 45 minutes on stage. It does nothing for the conversation you want to keep going once the mic turns off. What keeps a session's content alive afterward.
How to Make Sure Everyone Gets Heard in a Workshop
A few structural choices decide who talks in a workshop far more than who's polite. What the research on group discussion says drives the imbalance, and what changes it.
How to Prove a Workshop Worked, Without Losing the Evening to Write-Up
Facilitators themselves say the real failure point isn't the session, it's what happens after. A practical guide to agreeing success up front, capturing reasoning, and getting proof into people's hands while it's still fresh.
How to Set Up a Room for a Multi-Table Workshop
Practical guidance on table spacing, sightlines, acoustics, and setup checklists for workshops where several breakout groups meet in the same room.
Is AI-Assisted Workshop Analysis Legal Under the EU AI Act and GDPR?
Two separate EU laws govern AI analysis of a workshop: the AI Act decides which practices are banned, GDPR decides how personal data is handled. Here is what each one says about emotion detection, biometric data, gender analytics, and recordings.
RoomRadar vs Otter, Fireflies, Miro, Zoom AI Companion, and Teams Facilitator
A fair, factual comparison of RoomRadar, Otter, Fireflies, Miro, Mural, Zoom AI Companion, and Microsoft Teams Facilitator, grouped by the job each is built for: notes for one conversation, a shared visual canvas, or capturing many small-group discussions at once.
What Is a Sketchnote, and How Do You Get One From a Workshop?
A sketchnote is a single hand-drawn-style image that maps a discussion visually instead of in paragraphs. What makes one good, how to make one yourself, and what to expect if you hire someone.