A space to think differently and make ideas happen.

Rent the Action Lab

One of Edmonton’s most unique venues that can be rented for private events, workshops, meetings, and strategic planning.

Action Lab is a social enterprise of Skills Society, a not-for-profit disability rights and service organization in Edmonton that has always been committed to innovation in supporting marginalized community members to find belonging and lead rich, inclusive lives.

When you work with Action Lab, you also support the employment of people with disabilities, change initiatives of Skills Society, and subsidize community groups who can’t afford our full rates.

Workshops & Facilitation

The Action Lab space was designed for hosting diverse collectives who need to tap into the deep knowledge in their community, look at issues from unique perspectives and generate strategic possibilities. The Action Lab experience promotes creativity, offers tools to help tap into collective wisdom and helps people and systems to prototype proposed solutions. Our skilled, creative team is ready to help you steward your next project, strategic planning workshop or deep dive system change exploration.

Social Innovation

A social innovation lab is a collaborative problem solving approach that helps a diverse collective make sense of root causes of a complex challenge and then generate possible solutions that can be stress tested with real world people and systems who are affected. A powerful byproduct of social innovation labs is that they tend to generate rich relationship building of participants, and deeper shared understanding of complex problems- all essential ingredients if trying to make real systems change.

Our skilled facilitators are ready to steward you and your team through a social innovation process that dives deep into a complex challenge and results in promising solutions co-designed with your community.