Group Workshops
design thinking sprints innovation processes ecosystem and journey mapping team building group work and dialogues creative confidence building ideation techniques and prototyping
Hire me to help facilitate a creative and productive event.
I can team up with your facilitator or fly solo—guiding a team session with specific goals. Workshops can take place either in-person or virtually—they’re a great way to bring your people together and unlock connection and action around a group endeavor.
For the past 20+ years, I’ve worked for some of the world’s most iconic brands as a live scribe and information design specialist.
I know how great events are planned and delivered.
If you want to create an event that builds your culture, boosts creative problem-solving, organises important priorities, or boosts communication and productivity, we should talk.
A well-planned creative gathering can do all of that.
Want to know some of my secret ingredients for an event that people look forward to?
Collaborative and creative tools such as:
whiteboards
quizzes
interactive games
visual templates
minimal use of slides
creative check-ins and check-outs
Visual facilitation can help people do their best work together.
I have deep knowledge and experience facilitating creative methods that pull people together to learn new skills, work collaboratively, and align their thinking with an exciting vision.
I’ve personally planned and delivered hundreds of workshops as lecturer for undergraduates in University of the Arts London and the UCD Innovation Academy.
Online Workshops
As a lecturer with University College Dublin (UCD) Innovation Academy, I have planned and delivered online workshops with co-facilitators to groups of up to 35 learners.
We employ a wide-ranging suite of online activities, collaborative digital tools, and fun conversation inputs—examples include Kahoot, Wheel Decide, Mural, Padlet, and Canva.
Also—when everything went online during lockdown—I worked with an Irish government department to design a workshop mapping out their services. We created a shareable map for all the stakeholders to agree on next-stage changes.
In-Person Workshops
In March 2020, facilitator Moze Jacobs and I designed and delivered ‘Dreamin’ Skibbereen’ held in UIlinn Art Centre.
The primary goal was to open an ideation, meditation, and mapping process to seed ideas for town development. The result was a thoughtful and creative session—with the outputs packaged into a visual PowerPoint that was shared with stakeholders and community members.
Training
With lockdown and increased remote working, there is a huge need for teams to use more engaging approaches to meetings that include visual tools.
My design services already hook into remote working contexts, so the training is an extension of these.
In May 2021, fellow UCD IA facilitator Clare Mulvany and I independently designed and ran a 5-week course called The Art of Online Facilitation’and delivered to 20+ participants. See more here.
Curious about upcoming training events?
Creative Confidence - Learning to Sketch Together
This an hour-long group experience that entertains while educating (edutains) your team to explore creative ways of working together through sketching and drawing.
I’ll share drawing tips and ideation techniques that help your group innovate (and have a blast in the process)!
Get ready to see and communicate about the world through a pencil!
I guarantee your team hasn’t enjoyed a collaborative and creative work session like this before!
Hi Clare and Orlagh,
I just wanted to let you know I just facilitated my first online class, it went really well, and I'm already thinking how I can make the next one better. Thank you so much for all the great teaching I have learned so much. I would never had agreed to do it if I wasn't on the course
All the best,
Antoinette
What you get:
one or more sessions that are aligned with your goals
a schedule and agenda developed with detailed timings
tools and activities planned to suit your group’s context and technology
Visual templates designed according to the session outline
Collaborative whiteboarding – Mural / Miro board
Interactive activities
Can look like design sprints / design thinking process
How and where do workshops happen:
Zoom / Teams
In-person
Workshop benefits:
Group clarity and decision-making
Engagement and relaxed productivity
Fun, absorbing
Interactive surprises
Lively discussion
Great for introverts and those with accessibility needs because non-verbal channels offer choices for participation!
The workshop process:
We prep beforehand at least 2-4 weeks before the workshop
We prep over zoom or by phone with a whiteboard
Online workshops can be as short as 2 hours online or up to half a day
In-person workshops start at a full day