Become a Master Workshop Designer

We often talk about the importance of great facilitation and being confident at the front of the room. But great facilitation is only helpful if you have great workshop design.

Regardless of whether you’re leading meetings, workshops, training sessions or planning days—how you design and structure your session is critical for achieving meaningful outcomes. When you design well, the facilitation part is easy.

This online bootcamp is for anyone who leads meetings, workshops and community conversations and wants to make sure they are set up for success.

In this 6 Week Bootcamp, you will:

Discover a simple framework for planning meetings and workshops that achieve real outcomes.
How do you design a session that takes participants on a logical journey, while keeping them engaged and participating along the way? How can you ensure that any session is productive and achieves real outcomes for participants?

✅ Explore how great workshop design minimises the risk of challenging behaviour.
As a facilitator, you can’t make anyone behave in any particular way, but you can create an environment where the desired behaviours have the best chance of showing up. Understanding how and why behaviours show up, means you can design a process that supports positive participation. Process beats personality every time.

Gather a range of tools, activities, structures and processes.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you’ll treat everything as if it was a nail. However, if you fill your toolbox with a range of options, you can mix-and-match to create a truly purpose-built session. Discover no less than 65 activities, structures and processes that you can use in various situations.

Learn how to design your own interactive activities.
What if the perfect tool or activity doesn’t exist? Learn how to design your own interactive activities that demonstrate key principles or illustrate a point. Discover how to design activities that allow participants to experience the concept–not just talk about.

✅ Get practical techniques for pivoting your plan and re-planning on the fly.
It’s one thing to have a plan, but what happens if the plan’s not working? Discover simple ways address workshop challenges and pivot your plan on the fly.

This bootcamp is 6 weeks of exploring workshop design through the lens of your own context.
Throughout the journey you will get loads of tools and templates that provide step-by-step support for designing effective meetings and workshops. Plus, there’s time to explore the questions and challenges that are important to you.