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Creativity is the string that weaves through most (if not all) facets of life. As a facilitator, you design workshops that bring people together aroun...

How can you, as a facilitator, create new and exciting possibilities for your workshop participants? The answer lies in provoking your audience to li...

Whether you’re hosting a physical or virtual meeting, the last thing you want to do is put the audience to sleep! If you want to keep people engaged d...

We’ve reached a time when more people than ever are working remotely, and this includes facilitators. Tracy Cosgrove, Founder of PTSM, is passionate ...

We put so much emphasis on how we look and how we use body language to communicate with our audience that we often neglect to consider our voices. It’...

Knowledge is one of the universal currencies with which we trade – we enrich each other with the knowledge we share and facilitate, but what are the s...

Throughout lockdown, I and many other facilitators, have loved watching and participating in Backstage Pass – the virtual workshops held by digital wo...

Competitive spirits, high stakes, cut-throat attitudes… Boardrooms and changing rooms have more in common than we might first think. Tim Harkness, on...

The world is changing and we are in a new moment of equality and anti-racism. Strategic designer, and design educator by trade, Hina Shahid is at the...

Why would I invite “the exact opposite of an Executive Coach” and, as her clients describe her, “a witch” to speak on workshops work? Because Laura B...

Forum Theatre is a unique approach to facilitation – creating space for change and reflection through creativity, play, and certainly some bravery (to...

Questions are the lifeblood of communication. Without questions, we only have statements – cold, certain, absolute. If there is no room for curiosity,...

workshops work is a podcast for facilitators, by a facilitator, about facilitation… so why have I invited Assistant Professor of Humanities and Libera...

Sarah McVanel is a recognition expert, a public speaker, a facilitator… and she thinks that we are “mutts”. Put your pitchforks down, this is a good ...

Everyone has their strengths, but not everyone gets to work in a way that is congruent with them. Well, that is unless they attend one of Murray Guest...

Teeth gnashing, fists waving, pulses racing… Conflict conjures up a certain image in many people’s minds. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In fac...

A workshop that goes exactly to plan is a workshop that exists in our dreams. The unexpected isn’t something we should be afraid of – fantastic ideas...

Stories are far more than books we bury our noses in; they are the fabric of our culture and history, and the foundations of our progress. A world wit...

When I first read about AI and facilitation, I was worried the robots were coming for my job… but then I spoke with Laure Cohen van Delft and realised...

Workshops are arranged for many different reasons, but so often there is something more beneath the surface – a deeper question that needs to be answe...

Imagine turning up to a workshop to find there is no agenda. You haven’t walked into a nightmare – quite the opposite, in fact! No Agenda is an innov...

How can we facilitate meaningful change in a sector that is infamous for being rigid and slow-moving? (Though I am not sure I agree with that position...

It is my pleasure to bring you this episode of Workshops Work, featuring Nisaar Jagroep. Nisaar is a master of Agile (though is too humble to call him...

The Art of Hosting is a beautiful embodiment of many of the features of facilitation, combined with its own set of unique approaches and concepts. Mar...

We can find inspiration for our work as facilitators in the most surprising places. I would have said that game design is one of those surprising sour...

Prototyping is a mainstay of the tech world, but nothing exists in a vacuum anymore. Disciplines are increasingly cross-pollinating and useful strateg...

As part of the Virtual Collaboration Campus 2020, we invited all participants to join an inclusive Fishbowl conversation (similar to the one for Episo...

Beauty appears in different ways – with our intention or entirely without provocation – but how can we purposefully create beauty in our workshops, an...

As facilitators, change is our business, our livelihood, our North Star. Eugenio Moliní has spent his life thinking about change. He’s chased it, avo...

As facilitators, we are used to holding physical and mental space for groups – but what changes when we do this virtually and how can we facilitate ef...