Gather Better’s Impact Lab

Looking to become your team’s favorite facilitator? Level up your gathering skills in a supportive community! Transform your gathering skills in this immersive cohort experience.

What to Expect

Bring a gathering you’re planning—whether it’s a training, team meeting, or retreat—or breathe fresh life into a gathering that could benefit from a refresh (👀 I’m looking at you, weekly team meeting).

Over seven sessions, we'll dive deep into each step of Gather Better’s proven 5-step method for designing and facilitating impactful gatherings—- from getting crystal clear on your gathering’s 'why' to fueling continuous improvement via debriefing.

Emerge with the skills, confidence, and a replicable framework to design and facilitate gatherings that move your work forward.

What’s included (+ how it helps YOU)

  • 🎯 7 participatory workshops to master gathering with intention

    Learn proven, engaging techniques that drive results

  • 🛠 Exclusive access to templates and tools

    Save time with ready-to-use resources that take the guesswork out of planning process

  • 🤝 Accountability to ensure you progress in planning

    Stay motivated and on track with structured guidance to turn insights into action

  • 💡1:1 coaching sessions

    Receive guidance, customized to your unique needs and context

  • 💬 Private online community

    Connect asynchronously with peers to share ideas and seek support between sessions

  • 🔥 Live hot seat coaching

    Receive direct, tailored feedback in real time from Tes and your peers

About me (Tes Cohen), your guide

15+ years of experience as an experience designer and facilitator working :

  • With nonprofit, for-profit, government, and higher education organizations

  • With youth and adults, ages 5-75(ish)

  • In the US and abroad, across urban and rural environments

I’ve completed formal in-person facilitation training with Technology of Participation (TOP) and CO Humanities and served as a TA for Voltage Control’s Facilitation Certification in fall of 2024. I also have my Masters in Public Administration from NYU.

When it comes to gatherings, I draw significant inspiration from the work of Priya Parker, author of “The Art of Gathering” as well as adrienne maree brown, author of “Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation.”

Learn more about me here.

Kind Words

  • “Participating in [Impact Lab] was not only transformative in the way I think about professional gathering, but for my personal gatherings as well. Joining this cohort of vulnerable, open, brilliant folks with Tes’ thoughtful facilitation and leadership at the helm was one of the best things I’ve said ‘yes’ to in ages.”

    —Emma Byers, Nonprofit Leader

  • “One of my New Year's resolutions was to find a community of facilitators who are designing gatherings with intention and not just sticking to the "status quo." I found exactly that with [Impact Lab]. I'm leaving with a journal full of notes, fresh inspiration, and a sense of community centered around the magic that's possible when we have the opportunity to bring people together.”

    —Kimberly Green-Warren, Public Health Consultant

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