LEARNING
Go from running sessions to designing them with real intention and skill.
Most facilitation training teaches you how to be in the room. This course teaches you what to do before you ever walk into it.
PURPOSE + GOALS
Designing Facilitated Experiences
Designing Facilitated Experiences is built on a simple but powerful belief: great facilitators are great experience designers. The best sessions do not happen by accident. They are intentionally crafted, thoughtfully structured, and designed to take people from where they are to exactly where they need to go. And yet design is one of the most overlooked and undertrained skills in facilitation.
This course changes that.
You will develop a real, repeatable design process, one that starts the moment you have a conversation with a client or stakeholder, and carries through every decision you make before you facilitate. You will learn to think like a designer, not an activity-picker. And you will walk away with the confidence and the skillset to design any facilitated experience from the ground up, in your own voice, with purpose and intention behind every choice.Because even the most talented facilitator can’t save a poorly designed experience.
What You’ll Walk Away With
By the end of this course, you’ll begin to:
Think like a designer, not an activity-picker, trusting yourself to translate messy, unclear, or ambitious requests into a coherent, purposeful experience
Treat discovery as facilitation, knowing how to have scoping conversations that uncover what a session actually needs, and how to co-design with clients rather than just take orders
Design sessions as coherent arcs, mapping the journey from where participants are to where they need to go, with intention behind every element and transition.
Build a toolkit of activities you understand deeply and can adapt to different groups, goals, and contexts
Design the environment and materials to support outcomes, whether you are working in person, virtually, or somewhere in between
Stop over-preparing and over-stuffing, and start leaving room for the emergence that makes great facilitation come alive
Walk into any room with confidence, knowing that what you built was intentional, tested, and ready to deliver
It was excellent. I genuinely can't think of things I would have liked to be different. The experience I had was way above expectations (which were high to start with, I must add!).
Valeria
Cohort Participant
Who this is for
You’re facilitating workshops, retreats, team sessions, strategy days, or learning experiences and want them to be more intentional, more impactful, and more yours
You have been piecing sessions together from borrowed activities and frameworks and are ready to build your own design process from scratch
You want to stop over-stuffing sessions and start crafting experiences that flow and feel purposeful
You are newer to facilitation and want to build strong design foundations from the very beginning
You are experienced in the room but know that your design process is where you want to grow
You do not yet have a session in mind but want to develop the design skills and mindset to apply to any facilitated experience you will create