Join a workshop. Find your voice.
Open enrollment workshops for anyone ready to strengthen their human engagement competencies. Come solo, bring a colleague, or join with others who are done with assessments that diagnose everything and change nothing.
How Public Workshops work
Open enrollment means you sign up when you're ready. No waiting for your company to buy in. No cohort you have to commit to for six months.
Each workshop is practice-based
You're not watching slides or filling out personality assessments. You're in the room (or on Zoom) with real people, practicing real scenarios that trigger the stress conditions where breakdown happens.
Small groups only
4-6 participants per session so everyone gets practice time. Facilitators who've been through the work themselves—not trainers reading from a manual.
Built on our Six-Box Model™
The structure for developing human engagement competencies.
Three questions applied to three relationships. A structure for seeing how you show up under stress, deciding if that's how you want to, and practicing new competencies until they stick.
What you'll practice
Public Workshops offer three foundational modules, the building blocks of human engagement practice.
Module 1
Relationship
Discovering your audience. What happens when people feel seen versus when they don't. The difference between presenting AT someone and connecting WITH them.
Module 2
Demand
Your call to action. What you're actually asking for, why you're afraid to ask for it, and what changes when you stop hiding behind content.
Module 3
Storytelling
Storytelling is important for several reasons: it’s how we share ethics and morals, it’s how we provide context - and perhaps most importantly, it’s how we show up under stress. Change the story!
Note: Modules 4–6 (Atmosphere, Storytelling, and Leadership) are available through Organization Programs for teams.
Flexible by design
No corporate training calendar.
No cohort commitment.
Practice when you're ready.
In-person or virtual
Workshops run in-person or via Zoom with equal effectiveness. Based in North Vancouver, we work globally across time zones.
On-demand sessions
Sessions scheduled based on demand, not arbitrary training cycles. Register when you're ready.
One module or three
Complete a single workshop or the full series. After your first session, you get Lab Pass app access for ongoing practice.
This might be for you if...
You’re exhausted by programs that analyze your personality but don't change your behavior
You want to be more persuasive, but “presentation skills training” makes you cringe
You freeze in high-stakes moments and you’re tired of it
You remember when humans knew how to talk to each other
You’re ready for practice, not another assessment
Continue the practice
See your progress. Measure what matters.
After your first workshop, you get Lab Pass, our practice app. Track how you show up under pressure, practice with your cohort, and keep the work alive between sessions.
Workshop cover charge
$250
Scholarship pricing: $50 per seat. Contact us ›
Group bookings (4-6): Get in touch to schedule.
Enterprise teams: Check out our programs built for scale.
Real practice, real change
More than a decade of workshops
years of practice
People found what they came for
satisfaction rate
“The way the Connection Lab workshop is structured this experience is very simple, yet very powerful. People didn't expect something so simple to be so powerful.”
“My Connection Lab experience has opened a new door to my professional development. I see the benefits of my program in both my work and personal relationships. My staff is more responsive to me, as is the most senior management.”
“I got so much more value out of it than I ever could have imagined. A true watershed moment for finding a voice that I didn't know I possessed and finding a comfort in myself that didn't feel achievable to me.”
Questions we hear
Public Workshops use pay-what-you-can pricing ($25-$250 per workshop). Enterprise Programs are custom-quoted based on team size and engagement length.
After your first workshop, you get access to ongoing practice tools and community. It's not a content library or a quiz platform—it's a way to track how you're showing up under stress in real life. Log your experiences, notice your patterns, practice with your cohort between sessions. Self-coaching features keep the breakthroughs alive. The workshop gives you the initial shift. Lab Pass makes sure it sticks.
Yes. The practice works in-person or on Zoom—there's no magic to being in the same room. You still get real scenarios, real stress, real feedback. We've facilitated workshops for distributed teams across six continents at this point. Get in touch and we'll talk through what makes sense for your setup.
Each module is a half-day workshop—usually 3-4 hours depending on the group. You're not signing up for a six-month cohort you have to commit to upfront. Come to one, see how it lands, decide if you want to continue. Some people do all three modules back-to-back over a few weeks. Others space them out over months. The practice works either way—it's more about when you're ready than hitting some predetermined schedule.
Assessments diagnose you and send you on your way with a label. DISC, Myers-Briggs, Enneagram—they tell you what type you are, maybe give you some insights about yourself, then it's over. We don't diagnose. We practice. You get reps under real stress conditions until new behaviors become automatic. Your MBTI results don't change anyone's behavior. Practice does.
This isn't about becoming an extrovert. It's about showing up authentically under stress—whatever that looks like for you. Introverts often have the most powerful breakthroughs because connection doesn't require volume.
Practice, not information. You don't need another book or another framework—you need reps. We create scenarios that trigger real stress responses, then coach you through new ways of responding until those become automatic. It's muscle memory, not theory.
You get access to Lab Pass, our practice app. It's not a content library or a quiz platform—it's a way to track how you're showing up under stress in real life. Log your experiences, notice your patterns, practice with your cohort between sessions. The workshop gives you the initial breakthrough. Lab Pass keeps the work alive so you're not starting from scratch every time you show up to a hard conversation.
You practice. Real scenarios that trigger real stress responses—the board meeting, the difficult conversation, the presentation where you're losing the room. You get in front of the group and try. Facilitators give you immediate, specific feedback. You try again. No slides, no personality tests, no binders to take home. Just reps under pressure until you notice yourself doing something different. Most people see patterns they've been running for years within the first hour.
Probably not. For intact teams, Enterprise Programs are a better fit—you get all six modules instead of three, we custom-design for your team's actual challenges, and we work alongside you until behavior sticks. Public Workshops are great for individuals or small groups from different companies. But if you want to move your whole team, Enterprise is the way.
You'll notice shifts in the first session—people see themselves differently, catch patterns they've been running for years. But lasting change? That takes practice over time. Most people need a few months of reps before new behaviors become automatic. That's why Lab Pass exists—to keep you practicing between workshops so you're not starting from scratch every time.
Presentation training teaches technique—hand gestures, slide design, vocal variety, where to stand, how to make eye contact. We're teaching relationship. What happens when your audience feels seen versus when they don't. What you're actually asking for and why they might say no. Why your content isn't your biggest asset—your ability to connect is. Technique might make you smoother, but it won't make you more effective if you're solving the wrong problem.
No. Each module stands on its own—you're not missing anything critical if you skip one. A lot of people start with Module 1 to see how it lands, then decide whether to continue. Some do all three back-to-back because they're hungry for it. Others space them out over months. The modules build on each other, but they're not sequential in the sense that you'll be lost without the previous one. Take what you need when you need it.