Course Description
Design Thinking Facilitation 2-Day Workshop
Learn how to successfully facilitate Design Thinking workshop sessions in this globally recognised 2-day workshop for Design Thinking practitioners.
We kick off this workshop with an overview of the key steps to designing and facilitating sessions with tips on how to create the right environment for collaboration and creativity and how to harness thought diversity and get the best from mixed audiences.
Next is the ‘learn by doing’ stage where participants are put into teams to work on an end to end design challenges with the opportunity for each participant to facilitate a stage of the DT process followed by a reflective practice receiving feedback and tips from their fellow participants and a dedicated DT Facilitator coach.
The Design Thinking Facilitation workshop provides the ideal mix of theory & practice for participants, in a safe space, guiding by highly experienced Design Thinking facilitators.
This in person training is available as a public workshop in the advertised locations and in-house workshop for companies looking to upskill groups of 6 and more people.
Early bird pricing available up until 4 weeks out from the advertised workshop. Discounted rates available for multiple people from the same company.
Early Bird Price
AUD$1750 / NZD$1950
Length
2 days
Language
English
Standard Price
AUD$1900 / NZD$2100
Involvement
8 hours a day
Course Type
In-person
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COURSE OVERVIEW
Over the 2 day workshop you’ll have the opportunity to facilitate and participate as a team member working on a hypothetical challenge that impacts people. Each stage is followed by a reflection round where team members provide their feedback on the facilitator along with tips and advice from a dedicated DTA Facilitator Coach.
We do this by creating a real world learning environment for people of all experience levels to build their own facilitation style in a safe space for creating change.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Facilitation is key in running successful Design Thinking workshop sessions, which are meant to bring together people from diverse backgrounds to work on specific challenges. Creating a space and environment where people feel confident and can be creative is the key responsibility for the facilitator.
We strongly believe in ‘Learning by Doing’, so the Facilitation Training will be a high energy and hands-on event. You’ll be challenged to work in small teams working on all the different aspects of facilitating workshops. You will be using Design Thinking tools (like Stakeholder Mapping, Customer Journey Mapping, Prototyping), the focus, however, will be on your personal facilitation skills of designing and facilitating Design Thinking workshops.
Meet your instructors
Darryl McClay
Managing Partner DT Academy NZ & AUS and also Partners with other Design Thinking Facilitators
Darryl combines his design thinking expertise with his leadership experience to help people and organizations become more human-centered and focused on creating meaningful experiences.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
Learn how to facilitate Design Thinking workshop sessions for mixed audiences in this 2-day high energy course for Design Thinking practitioners. So you read all the books and articles on Service Design & Design Thinking. You attended a few training sessions. You listened to inspirational keynote speakers at conferences. You know the famous case studies. You get it. But how to facilitate a Design Thinking session? How to design a high energy learning flow? That calls for a different skill set. DesignThinkers Academy can help you out.
We designed a ‘Learning by Doing’ experience in a 2-day classroom setting followed by Personal Online Coaching sessions for you to learn how to facilitate Design Thinking workshop sessions for mixed audiences.
The objective of the 2-day classroom training is to understand your facilitation skills’ strengths and improve your personal opportunity areas through a combination of facilitation experiences and coaching. The activities for the 2-day classroom training are a balanced mix of theory and practice.
TOPICS FACILITATION TRAINING
Workshop & Agenda Design for different types of workshops; Problem Statements & Reframing; Facilitation Theory, Tips and Hands-on Experience with a Real Case Study; Core Design Thinking workshop flow as starting point for Future Workshop Design.
RECONNECT SESSION
Workshop Design and review of the participant’s workshop examples, Advanced Facilitation Techniques and Turning Workshop Results into Action Steps.