MAFN Online Workshop Series: Steps to Unlearning: A Cohort Experience for Facilitators Ready to Rethink Habits and Embrace Emergence

Duration:  3-part Series, 90 minutes each. 

• Session 1: 01/14/2026, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST
• Session 2: 01/21/2026, 1:00 AM - 2:30 PM EST
• Session 3: 01/28/2026, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST

About the workshop: 

This series invites facilitators to embark on a journey of unlearning habitual mindsets and approaches to facilitation and embracing practices that support emergence, creativity, and co-creation. Through interactive sessions, participants will reflect on unconscious patterns, experiment with adaptive tools, and build their capacity to hold space for dynamic, participant-led outcomes.

Learning Objectives 

In this session, participants will:

• Identify and reflect on facilitation habits that may unintentionally limit creativity and emergence

• Practice adaptive techniques that encourage group-led insight and co-creation

• Build a supportive learning community committed to reflection, experimentation, and unlearning

NOTE: This workshop will be recorded for distribution to all who register (breakout rooms will not be recorded).

This is a 90-minute online workshop series. All 3 sessions will be held from 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT. 

Speaker: 

Amy J. Wilson is a nationally recognized expert in facilitation, organizational innovation, and systems change. A former Presidential Innovation Fellow and author of Empathy for Change, she has over 20 years of experience helping public, private, and nonprofit organizations rethink how they work and lead. She is the founder of Culture Shift Studio and Healing for Work, and creator of The Steps to Unlearning—an interactive storytelling project that supports facilitators and leaders in embracing emergence. Amy has facilitated hundreds of workshops, leadership retreats, and participatory design sessions that turn bold ideas into practical action.