Butter 🧈 (Acquired by Miro)

Butter’s next big move: joining forces with Miro! 💥 Yes, you read that right. In 2020, we created Butter to make online workshops better for both facilitators and participants. Butter has since proudly powered thousands of high-energy workshops. We’ve built a community of passionate facilitators who have helped shape our products. And we want to take things to the next level for you. Joining Miro allows us to take our ambitions even further: with more resources, more reach, and deeper integration into the tools you already love. Miro has redefined visual collaboration for millions, and it’s always been a favorite tool among our community. The Miro-Butter integration has always been very dearly loved by many of our users. We believe that workshops are where innovation starts. So we’re bringing Butter’s deep facilitation expertise into Miro’s ecosystem—to make online workshops even better. And to further enable innovation with the right tools. A huge, buttery thank you to our community 💛🙏 Your energy, creativity, and passion for workshops have been our biggest inspiration 🥳 We can’t wait to co-create the next era of workshops with Miro for you all! 🚀

How can you design an awesome workshop on the fly with AI? 🔥 Let’s learn together in our next Buttermixer with Rachel Davis—happening on March 13th! 🤩 In this session, we’re teaming up with our ultra-fave Rachel (Workshop Experience Designer & Facilitator) to co-create a workshop from scratch—with AI as our creative partner. We’ll take YOUR input and use Custom GPTs, image generators, and more to generate ideas, craft activities, and build a full workshop flow. We'll remix what AI shares with our unique facilitation flavor, and refine it to fit our style, audience, and personality ✨ What you’ll gain: ⚡ A ready-to-use set of activities & workshop instructions to bring into your own sessions. 🎬 A behind-the-scenes look at how to build in Butter Scenes, from structure to engagement. 🤖 Real-time AI tool demonstrations. See how they can assist, without taking over! 🎭 A fun, interactive experience—because what’s better than learning through play? This session is for you if you want to learn how AI can support your workshop creation process, and love to co-create, improvise, and experiment in a collaborative space. 📅 It’s happening on March 13, 2025 (Thursday) at 5-6pm CET. Save your spot here: https://lu.ma/lq0ern1k. See you there! 👋

January flew by! Are you already on your way to make 2025 your most exciting year yet? 🤩 If you still need a bit of inspiration, then join our upcoming Facilitation Sandbox—2025 Bingo: A joyful goal-setting adventure with Mimp J. and Danielle Taschereau Mamers, PhD 🥳 Forget dry KPIs and rigid SMART goals—this session is all about fun, possibility, and expansive thinking! Mimp and Danielle, both experts in visual facilitation and design, will guide us through a playful hour of dreaming big. You'll be creating your very own 2025 bingo card—and together, we’ll explore 25 cool experiences and achievements to look forward to or work toward in the year ahead. ✨ What you’ll gain - A personalized list of 25 joyful, daring and delightful things to pursue in 2025 - A fresh, expansive sense of possibility and excitement for the year - An awesome time with a community of like-minded facilitators! This session is perfect for anyone seeking to fill their year with purpose, creativity, and joy. It's happening on Jan 29 (Wed), 6-7pm GMT+1. Save your spot here: https://lu.ma/yatbhav1. See you there! 👋

New in Butter Scenes: Gauge opinions instantly with Scale Polls ⚖️ Ever wondered how confident your team feels, how much they resonate with an idea, or where their energy is at? And this is where our new Scale Polls come in! 🔥 It’s a quick, visual, and customizable way to measure opinions and attitudes during your workshops. What you can do: ✨ Create custom scales & labels: Confidence checks, energy levels, opinions—tailor it to your session’s needs. ✨ Add multiple statements: Get clear, actionable answers in one go. ✨ Add images or GIFs: Make your scales pop! ✨ Let AI spark your next question: Helpful if you’re feeling a bit stuck. Ready to try Scale Polls? Try it out here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gJu26dpD We’d love to hear how it works for you!

Next Buttermixer: Learn how to focus on what truly matters with Essentialism 🧘♀️✨ Facilitators wear many hats: serving clients, running projects, and guiding sessions with impact—all while balancing personal priorities. With so much on our plates, it’s easy to feel stretched thin, even when we’re surrounded by tools meant to help! Enter Essentialism: the practice of identifying what’s truly vital and focusing your time, energy, and resources there, while letting go of everything else 🧘♀️ In this Buttermixer with Wouter Smeets and Carlos Cole from Life-Centric Work Lab, you’ll learn how to pause, ask “What matters most right now?”, and navigate your work and life with clarity and intention 💛 What you’ll take away: 🍃 Discover what Essentialism is and why it’s a game-changer for focus 🧭 Identify your core values and highest priorities—your personal compass 🌊 Learn how to eliminate the trivial, achieve flow, and show up with intention Whether you’re juggling client demands or looking for a clearer way to lead, this session will help you reclaim focus and create space for what truly matters. 🗓 Join us on December 19th (Thursday), 5-6pm GMT+1. Save your spot here: https://lu.ma/vegmk1ha See you there 👋

🔥 New in Butter Scenes: One Word Polls. Big insights, one word at a time! 🔥 Facilitators, we get it—you’re juggling a lot during sessions. You’re meant to guide conversations, manage everyone’s energy, spot patterns and themes that emerge—all without losing momentum. That’s where One Word Polls come in. It’s the simplest way to surface themes and insights quickly. ✨ Participants respond with a single word—no overthinking. ✨ Answers are instantly displayed as a word cloud. ✨ Customize it to fit your session vibe. Use gradients, sticker-style, or match it to your session theme! Whether you’re gathering key takeaways, sparking quick reactions, or closing with reflections, One-Word Polls help you spot recurring themes at a glance and keep the conversation flowing. Ready to try it in your next session? We’d love to hear how it works for you! 🤩

Master your check-ins: 3 ways to get to know your participants 🕵️♂️ A well-framed check-in question does more than break the ice—it helps you understand who’s in the room with you, and tailor your sessions for maximum impact! It also opens up the conversations to why your session might be important for them. Here are four approaches, with real examples from our facilitator friends 🔥 1️⃣ Check their skill level or how familiar they are with the topic Example: Pedro asked "What’s your experience with facilitation?" before leading a workshop on facilitation styles. Nathy checked "How far along are you in your freelance journey?" before her workshop on freelancing. 👉 Why it works: You can gauge expertise levels and adapt the session to meet participants where they are. This also helps you provide relevant advice and guide participants toward their next steps. 2️⃣  Explore participants’ current activities or focus areas Example: Will asked "What are you up to at the moment?" before teaching about building healthy communities. 👉 Why it works: You get real-world context that allows you to connect your content to participants’ realities. 3️⃣ Uncover participants’ goals, intentions, or the projects they care about Example: Anamaria asked "What communities are you building?" to kick off her workshop on co-creation. 👉 Why it works: You can align the workshop with participants' aspirations and invite them to share more about their goals. 💡 What’s your go-to check-in question to get to know your participants? Share your ideas in the comments below! 👇

Join our next Buttermixer: Think Like an Innovator with Leo Chan 💡 Imagine the world around you as a treasure trove of inspiration, where a simple walk could lead to your next breakthrough! 💡😍 This is the magic of associative thinking: connecting seemingly unrelated dots into something remarkable ✨ It's the spark behind inventions like Velcro and countless other breakthroughs! In our next mixer, Leo will teach you how the world’s greatest innovators use this skill to drive breakthroughs. Originally delivered at SXSW 2024, this session is your chance to learn from the best! Here’s what we’ll explore: 🧠 The key trait of top innovators: Why associative thinking drives creative success ⚡ The process: How to spark connections and unlock new ideas 🧰 Practical tools: Apply associative thinking to your own work and challenges Whether you're solving complex problems or chasing your next big idea, this session will shift how you see the world—and your potential! 📅 When: December 12th (Thursday), 6–7 PM GMT+1 Don’t miss it—register now! 👉 https://lu.ma/0iw191cf See you there 👋

New on Butter Scenes: Build on ideas from scene to scene with ⚡ Data Connections ⚡ Manually copy-pasting stickies and flipping between activities can kill your flow. With Data Connections, you can predefine how participants’ inputs seamlessly flow from one activity to the next—like using top poll answers to kickstart a brainstorm, or transforming bookmarked sticky notes into kanban categories. It’s like Zapier, but for your workshop activities! 🔥 Why is this powerful? ⚡ Keeps your activities dynamic and tailored ⚡ Saves you valuable energy in-session ⚡ Helps you facilitate more effortlessly while wowing your clients Every idea builds on the last—keeping your workshops smooth, focused, and much more impactful. Check out the video to learn how to set it up. Curious to try it? 👉 https://butter.us What’s your top tip for making workshop activities feel more cohesive? How do you ensure participant input drives the session forward? Let us know! 💬

Awkward silence can kill the mood 🔪 …so we created 📻Butter FM to bring you 🎵tunes🎵 and 〰️vibes〰️ Butter FM lets you play music directly within Scenes, which is great for when participants have their heads down doing their individual or group activities. (💡 Fun fact: Elevator music was first invented to boost worker productivity in factories!) Having a built-in music player in Butter Scenes means that whichever video conferencing tool you pair it with—Zoom, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams—you’ll be bringing the good vibes with you. Whether it’s something groovy or jazzy or energizing, you’ll be able to set the mood juuust right with Butter FM. Oh, and for those of you who loved the tunes we had on Butter Video, we’ve made sure those are available as well on Butter Scenes. 😉 You’re welcome. (And more bops to come, obviously…) Try this in your next workshop and see how much it makes a difference with the energy in the room! 👉 https://butter.us What’s your fav classic Butter tune from Butter Video? ⭐ Tell us a story in the comments about a time you wish you had music in a live virtual session! 😬