There is a Workshop for that! | The greatest Podcast about Facilitation

Stop thinking, start doing! This is the motto of the Facilitators Connect retreat that will take place from 11 to 15 September 2023 in the Netherlands. An event not to be missed if you are an entrepreneur, facilitator or coach who aspires to start your own business. Connecting, face to face, exchanging and learning from the experience of others has a unique value. The organizers of this retreat, M...

I am very happy to present the first bonus episode of a series of talks, recorded live, face to face, during my travels. I am very lucky to meet interesting and inspiring people along the way who in one way or another have a connection to facilitation. This episode was recorded in the southeast of Bali, in a town called Sanur. There I discovered not only a welcoming workspace, called Livit Hub, bu...

If you're a facilitator or aspiring to be one, you've come to the right place. Today, we have a special guest with us, Rachel Davis, who is a Workshop Experience Designer and an expert in guiding facilitators to develop their skills and competencies. Rachel's journey into facilitation and workshop design is nothing short of inspiring. After years of experience as a facilitator, she decided to purs...

In this episode, i had the pleasure of speaking with Alexandru Popa, the Associate Director of Blockchain for Pharma Supply Chain at MSD. We discussed the link between MSD and blockchain technology and how this innovative technology is being used in the pharmaceutical industry to gather and record data. Alexandru shared with us how Design Thinking can be a useful approach for implementing new tech...

In this episode, we welcome Marc Jaspers, a creative concept strategist and workshop facilitation addict. Marc shares his journey to becoming a successful facilitator, including his experience as a marketing manager and how he failed by wanting to change everything. He explains why the Design Sprint was not the solution, but the right path, and shares advice from Jack Knapp on where to start with...

Every facilitator knows that facilitating a workshop does not start on the day of the workshop. The design of the workshop is an important phase where the right questions need to be asked, the underlying objectives of the client need to be detected, the participants of the workshop need to be taken into account. So where to start when designing a workshop, what to pay particular attention to and w...

**WRAP-UP** Isn't it the most beautiful job in the world to enable people to play? Talking about that: Don't we forget to play when we grow up, even though it is the most normal thing in the world when we are children? I go even further: it would be disturbing if a child could not play. So what happens to our creativity if we don't give it the space it needs? Today I welcome Manuel Grassler, a pla...

**Wrap-Up** In this episode, I meet **Jakob Knutzen**, co-founder and CEO of Butter, the platform by excellence to prepare and run collaborative remote sessions. **Online workshops as smooth as butter!** But Butter is not only a platform with all other tools, like Miro, Mural, Mentimenter, Youtube integrated but also a wonderful community of facilitators or a lot of persons So Jakob will tell us h...

**WRAP-UP** In this episode I have the pleasure of welcoming Pedram Parasmand from London. We both met in automn 2022 on linkedin and immediately had a great connection. Pedram is a workshop facilitator, co-founder and CEO of The Skills lab, which helps companies onboard new employees, implement learning programmes and courses, develop leadership, develop teams and implement organisational change...

**WRAP-UP** In this episode I welcome Mariusz Posadowski from Poland, a product designer, workshop designer and facilitator and the owner of the Instagram account uxwork.space with 35,000 followers. He leads a team of nearly 30 designers and has changed the work culture in his company by implementing facilitation and workshops to improve collaborative work performance. We talk about it: 👉🏻 When...

**WRAP-UP** In this episode, Karla Ramos, founder of Tribe of Agile, is my guest. She is an experienced agile coach and trainer who has been partnering with companies to help them reach a higher level of performance for over a decade. As she explained during our interview, beyond her expertise in agile methods, she wanted to deepen her knowledge and skills in facilitation. That's how we met at a f...

In this new episode, I talk to Michael Lewrick. He is the author of four international bestsellers, in which he describes the mindful transformation of people, teams, ecosystems and organizations In this new episode, we talk about 👉🏻 What is Design Thinking? What does this word combination mean? 👉🏻 Where Design Thinking comes from and what was his own Starting point on this topic? 👉🏻 What ar...

In this new episode, I talk to the lovely Rebecca Courtney. She is a facilitation coach at AJ&Smart, whose CEO is no other than her brother Jonathan. She is currently working on a new facilitation course which will be launched in December and has an interesting background, having started her career in education as a teacher. I first met Rebecca online, as she facilitates the bi-weekly Master Works...

**WRAP-UP** In this new episode I talk to my workshop design sparring partner, Matthew Shipp👏. He has a passion for facilitating process improvement through process mapping, pain points and identifying opportunities using the most skilled people available to identify challenges and create solutions, their team! He is a team productivity coach and founder of Emberi Solutions, a three-step workplac...

**Wrap Up** In this new episode, I talk to my friend Andra Stefanescu, my workshop Jedi. She is a neuromindfullness coach, and has facilitated over 200 workshops in the last two years. She helps teams to quickly create valued results using different trainings and techniques, and even legos and playmobil in her strategy workshops. In this new episode, we talk about. 👉🏻 Neuroscience & the 6 person...

**WRAP-UP** In this first episode, I share with you how this podcast started. How the so-called "Worshopper Master" programme initiated by AJ&smart -a Berlin-based digital product design studio- gave me the knowledge I needed to become more confident in my work as a facilitator with companies whose teams and industries I don't know. As this is a first episode, I'll take the time to introduce mysel...