Workshop & training solutions:
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Design Thinking
Are you looking to improve your team’s design thinking skills? This workshop, tailored for service delivery organisations, aims to equip participants with the Creative and Design Thinking skills they need to innovate, engage and co-design around the complex challenges they tackle - past workshops have related to themes such as development education, health, conflict, equality and climate change.
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Story Telling for impact
Are you looking to improve your organisation’s storytelling skills? This hands on session will help you go beyond traditional presentations and communications, empowering participants to convey their ideas with impact, exploring visual storytelling and presentation techniques, while fostering a deeper understanding of your audiences and cultivating a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
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Activating the SDG’s
Are you looking to better align your organisation or team with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? This inspiring and positively challenging workshop helps organisations like yours connect with the goals and see how they too play a vital role in meeting targets. Through a range of creative team building exercises we will celebrate what you are already doing and explore how you can further adapt and contribute to global sustainability.
Other themes you might like
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Improve your stakeholder engagement
Learn how to creatively and effectively engage with your most important stakeholders. I’ll take your stakeholder engagement challenge and design a bespoke workshop, empowering you and your team with the tools and insights needed to foster authentic connections, align visions, and catalyse positive change.
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Liberate your co-design skills
Are you eager to tap into the collective intelligence of your team or community? Would you love them to collaborate more in the development of your services, solutions or communications? I offer a variety of liberating structures and co-creation tools to address your co-creation and engagement challenges.
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Effective public engagement
Are you looking to connect the public in your research, service, action plan or campaign? Let me help you craft and execute a public engagement event or activity which is infused with creativity and sensitivity - ensuring your initiatives resonate with the public in a meaningful and effective way.
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Engaging with Nature
I provide creative workshops and activities aimed at fostering a deeper connection between individuals and nature, while unlocking creativity. My approach places a strong emphasis on collective making and creative process, valuing the journey over the final outcome. By creating a welcoming space for making, talking, and sharing, participants engage in activities like Haiku poetry, crafting with natural materials, and printmaking.
Click this link to see an example project with the Irish Hospice Foundation.
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Bespoke away days
Are you looking to organise an away day with a difference? To have fun while unleashing the potential of your team? I can felp you to foster creativity, collaboration, and innovative thinking, through a tailored program of activity. For larger organisations I will gather a facilitation team to suit your needs needs. Click on this 2 day away day example with Pedagogy leaders from Germany and Ireland, including Compass Child and Family Services.
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Fully tailored
Schedule a consultation call where you can share insights into your organisational challenges and goals. Following our discussion, I will assess whether I can provide the solutions you need. If so, I will work with you to design a workshop, training, or event that aligns with your objectives.
If I am not a good fit for you I will do my best to recommend someone else who is.
Recent examples
2 day Innovation Lab with IDEA members (2024)
2 day Design Thinking training with Concern
Pedagogy team away days with Compass Group
Storytelling for impact workshop with Autodesk
Exploring grief and loss with the Irish Hospice Foundation
Inspiring innovation with IDEA (2023)
Imagining 2050 public engagement in research with UCC
Creative Leadership Training with Creative Ireland
Activating the SDG’s with Safe food
Tackling issues related to youth crime through the arts - conference with Drogheda Implementation Board
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Unleash Innovation
Unlock your team's creative potential! Learn techniques that foster creativity and inspire innovative problem-solving in your workplace.
In person and online
My in-person and online trainings offer you the chance to embrace innovation, infuse fresh ideas into your projects and strategies, and encourage a culture of enquiry and continuous improvement.
Challenge Assumptions
Thought the introduction of a range of liberating and design thinking approaches I’ll help you break free from the limitations of conventional thinking and give you the chance to challenge assumptions and question the status quo, leading to enhanced innovation in your work.
Seek New Perspectives
I use reflective exercises like empathy mapping to help you gain a new perspectives, broadening your understanding of your audiences and before developing solutions to their often complex challenges.
Practical Tools
My trainings go beyond theory, they provide practical tools and strategies that can be immediately applied to your projects, products and services.
’Excitement for future projects and our team’s capacity to deliver’
‘I felt quite nervous before this workshop and fearful I was not creative enough! But you both introduced us to the work so well and eased us in. It was a very comfortable space, I really do feel equipped and confident to be more creative and innovative thanks for this amazing workshop ‘
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Unlock Creative Communication
Let me take you on a journey through the world of visual storytelling. You'll discover the power of basic visual and metaphoric thinking techniques, and learn creative approaches for summarising complex concepts and building compelling narratives.
Fun and Engaging Activities
I’ll get you rolling up your sleeves and diving into a world of creativity, through fun and engaging activities that will have you thinking outside the box and collaborating with your colleagues in exciting new ways.
Zoom Out of Your Silos
Creative thinking can help you break free from the limitations of your daily routine, I can help you zoom out of your silos and see the bigger picture. You'll learn how to communicate more collectively and creatively, fostering a culture of innovation personally and within your organisation.
Real Work Scenarios
By bespeaking and co-designing my sessions with you in advance, I am able to apply the activities to real work scenarios.This means you leave with practical skills that you can immediately put to use, making a tangible impact on your projects and your team's success.
I feel confident to draw something now I will illustrate more on my practice from now on.
‘Lovely facilitation felt very collaborative and informative’
‘Thank you for helping us take a step back and reflect on how to make better use of communication’
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Elevate Your Events
Are you tired of the same old, uninspiring events and conferences? Ready to transform your events and conferences into dynamic, engaging experiences? Let's work together to create gatherings that inspire, stimulate creativity, and foster collaboration.
Creative Facilitation
I specialize in helping you design and deliver events that truly engage your audience. From facilitating sessions to sparking discussions and debates, I bring a creative touch to every aspect of your event.
Design Thinking Activities
Imagine attendees leaving your event bursting with fresh ideas and ready to collaborate. With a range of design thinking activities, I'll stimulate innovation, encourage out-of-the-box thinking, and foster collaboration among your participants.
Graphic Harvesting
Want to capture the essence of your event visually? My Graphic Harvesting services turn ideas, discussions, and insights into captivating visual representations. Your event will not only be memorable but visually stunning too.
Visual Enhancement
Enhance the impact of your event with a range of creative services. From eye-catching presentations and plenary animations, to visually appealing materials, I'll make sure your event leaves a lasting impression.
‘This one creative team day felt more effective than the year long strategy exercise we have just conducted’
‘I feel really energised. Thank you for such thought-provoking and engaging discussions you facilitated today, look forward to the next one - cheers ‘
