Advanced Facilitation

Enable yourself to develop and deliver impactful Design Thinking workshops by learning best practices from experts and putting the shared theory immediately in practice, working in groups on a brief that simulates a real life scenario. Throughout the 4 sessions you’ll become proficient on how to: 

1- Frame and scope a workshop brief and challenge;  

2 – Understand your user, i.e. know your workshop audience and common biases in how adults approach and best integrate new learnings and information; 

3 – Design the Design Thinking process for a workshop, i.e. how to structure sessions, and chose activities and flow; 

4 – Detail workshop materials, tailoring them to your user (audience) and brief (intended outcomes); 

5 – Develop your awareness of who are “you” as a facilitator – through assessment of your own personal biases, you’ll understand your own comfort and stretch areas. 

While not mandatory, you are highly encouraged to start your own facilitation project in parallel to the course. Your personal project can be self-initiated and small. If you decide to do so, this will allow you to apply the theory to your own context throughout the course, and will enable you to contribute more to the group conversations by sharing your own challenges and experiences 

 

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• Session 1:

  Setting the workshop brief, including business context, scoping and framing a challenge, and defining a clear workshop purpose 

• Session 2:

  Understanding the user (your workshop audience) and you (your biases) 

• Session 3:

  Designing a workshop tailored to the brief and user (audience) 

• Session 4:

  Detailing workshop materials tailored to the goals and audience 

Q. How is this course different from Online Design Thinking Facilitation course?

A.

Whilst Online Design Thinking Facilitation course focuses on workshop delivery, by developing your in-session facilitation skills and confidence in delivering online design thinking sessions through rounds of facilitation practice and feedback, our this Advanced Facilitation course focuses on workshop development. It covers the broader aspects around how to scope, frame and design workshops tailored to your audiences and intended outcomes. You’ll learn best practices to ensure that you’ll be developing and delivering impactful sessions for your audiences that successfully deliver the intended outcomes. 

Q. Where can I find more about the course?

A.

If you want more details on the course, listen to this podcast on the art of facilitation with Susana Quast Osório and Arnoud Koning. Here they talk about facilitation itself, what it takes to be a good facilitator, before covering our two online facilitation courses in more detail.

21:50min for Advanced Facilitation summary.

 

Q. Why Design Thinking?

A.

At the Design Thinkers Academy London, we recognise the huge and immediate challenges that businesses currently face.  Now, more than ever, we need to face the world with a new mindset, realising that the traditional formulas that have served companies so steadily for generations, might not be the right answer for the new reality that faces us all. We want to offer an opportunity for you to become proactive and to meet these challenges head on. This is about understanding the new user that the world faces and building the right solutions for them. Design Thinking offers the perfect opportunity to develop your skill set for the future and be in the best placed position to prepare your business to flourish going forward. 

Q. How will the online sessions be taught?

A.

Different to many other online courses, this is a live course, meaning you will be directly taught in real time by our coaches. It is not a self-paced, online tutorial course, but is a high intensity live course from leading coaches in the field and will be individual to each delegate taking part.

Q. How will I do the course online? What equipment do I need?

A.

Equipment: The only equipment you’ll need is a computer with a fast and reliable connection to the internet (recommended minimum speed 1 Mbps, you can check your network speed here https://www.speedtest.net/), microphone, webcam and speakers or headphones. 

Tools: Access is easy and universal, using industry standard web-based tools. Zoom is our primary tool for voice call, with exercises taking place within Mural and Google Docs.

Note: both these tools are available and accessible through Chrome browser; we recommend using Chrome for the best experience. 

Q. How long will the course take?

A.

All sessions: 09:00 – 11:30 BST

Dates:

Time Commitment:  

4 sessions, 2-3 weeks apart

Q. Is there a bundle price if I do both Online Facilitation and Advanced Facilitation?

A.

Yes! We offer a bundle price – with our current intro offer standing at £1500 +VAT, saving you £245. Get in touch to find out more.

Q. I would like to speak to someone for more information. How can I contact you?

A.

We have special rates for NHS workers, unemployed, charities and students and multiple bookings. Please get in touch to find out more. If you’re booking a lot of spaces, you may want to talk to us about tailoring a course especially for your organisation. Call us on +44 7711 068 553 or email shanna@designthinkersacademy.co.uk to find out how we can help you.

Q. English isn’t my first language. Does that matter?

A.

People from all over the world will be taking part and this cultural mix is one of the real strengths of our training. However, it is important to have good basic spoken English to get the most out of our courses. 

Q. Do I need to pay VAT?

A.

• UK business
• UK non-business individual
• Individual from the EC (Europe)

• Businesses from the EC (reverse charge rule)
• Worldwide non EC businesses (out of the scope of UK VAT)
• Worldwide non EC individuals (out of the scope of UK VAT)