Online Faciliation Mastery
This course is for those looking to really master online facilitation . It will give you the advanced skills to best adapt to the current circumstances and improve your efficiency, effectiveness and impact. By receiving direct feedback from our facilitators on your own personal projects, you will receive actionable direction to improve your performance and drive innovation in your organisation.

Online Facilitation Mastery
This Online Facilitation Mastery course enables you to become an expert facilitator of online Design Thinking workshops, driving innovation in your business. Using your own live project, you will receive personalised, tailored feedback and guidance on your skills as a facilitator – from leading practitioners.
Length
3 live sessions - 2.5 hours each
Next course
18 Aug - 3 session course
Online - Live sessions via Zoom & Mural
Max number of places – 12
Exclusive discount price
£750 (+ VAT if applicable)
Regular price
£825 (+ VAT if applicable)

Course Prospectus
This course is for formally trained and/or experienced Design Thinking facilitators, who are seeking a higher level of proficiency in running innovation sessions online. It is focussed on people who would like to further develop their online facilitation skills while working on concrete practical projects. This includes people wanting to build confidence, improve and widen their facilitation skill set – all within the online environment.
This is a natural progression from our Online Design Thinking Facilitation course. Attendance at a Design Thinkers Academy course is not a prerequisite, however, in order to take part in this course you will need to have been on either our in-person Design Thinking Facilitation course, our Online Design Thinking facilitation course, one delivered by the wider Design Thinkers group or another equivalent facilitation course. You will also need some understanding of platforms used to deliver online sessions (e.g. Mural, Miro, etc ). If you’re entirely new to the topic of online facilitation, we’d recommend you attend first our Online Design Thinking Facilitation course.
Contact us to talk about the best course for you. We want to ensure you’ll get the best learning experience.
This course is for anyone who wants to:
- Lead impactful online workshops, drawing maximum value and impact from your sessions.
- Increase work flexibility: enable your teams to collaborate virtually anytime, from anywhere.
- Decrease your projects’ costs, through no travel costs.
- Improve your ability to overcome work disruptions by leveraging virtual tools.
- Enable teams to work with colleagues who are geographically dispersed, with whom they don’t usually interact.
- Get all your stakeholders in the same session in an easy way due to the accessibility of the virtual setting.
Advance your online facilitation practice working on your own real projects.. With personal coaching and peer feedback throughout, you’ll learn how to:
- Deliver high impact online sessions, making the most of the online setting
- Get the most out of participants’ contributions by understanding dynamics and steering interactions
- Identify and apply the best Design Thinking methods and techniques to your own context and personal projects
- Constructively assess your personal facilitation technique and identify concrete steps to accelerate development and mastery
- Onboarding
This is an obligatory session for those who haven’t already attended our Online Design Thinking Facilitation course, to bring you up to speed with facilitation in an online environment and get you familiar with the tools)
- Session 1
Preparation, prepare and then facilitate your own Design Thinking session, with peer review and guidance from coaches. For your session you will be working on your own personal project, receiving direct feedback in how to deliver your work.
- Session 2
Share back your online facilitation experience. Here you will debrief and identify personal action points to develop further and improve upon.
You will then get setup to facilitate your next Design Thinking session, with peer feedback and guidance from coaches.
- Session 3
Here we will continue to examine and evaluate our own performances, building actionable steps on how and where to improve. This session will look to the future and how to effectively bring these facilitation skills into your working life.
Length
3 live sessions - 2.5 hours each
Next course
18 Aug - 3 session course
Online - Live sessions via Zoom & Mural
Max number of places – 12
Exclusive discount price
£750 (+ VAT if applicable)
Regular price
£825 (+ VAT if applicable)
Q. Why Design Thinking now?
A.
At the Design Thinkers Academy London, we recognise the huge and immediate challenges that business currently face, due to Covid-19. Now, more than ever, we need to face the world with a new mindset, realising that the traditional formulas that have served companies so steadily for generations, might not be the right answer for the new reality that faces us all. So, as many of you sit at home, we want to offer an opportunity for you to become pro-active and to meet these challenges head on. This course is about learning how to facilitate engaging Design Thinking sessions to collaborate efficiently during these times where it’s most needed.
Our Online Facilitation Mastery course offers you the perfect opportunity to upskill and become an advanced facilitator online, able to confidently manage and run challenging workshops and creative sessions.
Q. How will the online sessions be taught?
A.
Different to many other online courses, this is a live course, meaning you will be directly taught in real time by our coaches. It is not a self-paced, online tutorial course, but is a high intensity live course from leading coaches in the field and will be individual to each delegate taking part.
Q. Is this course the same as the Facilitation Mastery offered in person?
A.
No. This course is focused in online facilitation, specifically focused on supporting people in implementing their own projects in their organisation. This course is centred around the difficulties people are having in bringing their elite facilitation skills to an online setting. You might be an expert facilitator in-person but struggling online – this course has been built to change that.
Q. How will I do the course online? What equipment do I need?
A.
Equipment: The only equipment you’ll need is a computer with a fast and reliable connection to the internet (recommended minimum speed 1 Mbps, you can check your network speed here https://www.speedtest.net/), microphone, webcam and speakers or headphones.
Tools: Access is easy and universal, using industry standard web-based tools. Zoom is our primary tool for voice call, with exercises taking place within Mural and Google Docs.
Note: both these tools are available and accessible through Chrome browser; we recommend using Chrome for the best experience.
Q. How long will the course take?
A.
All sessions: 9-11.30 am BST
Dates:
Fri 14 Aug – onboarding
Tues 18 Aug
Tues 15 Sep
Tues 6 Oct
Time Commitment:
3 coaching sessions, 2-3 weeks apart, (plus an initial onboarding session depending on your previous of experience)
Q. Is there a bundle price if I do both Online Facilitation and Online Facilitation Mastery?
A.
Yes! We offer a bundle price – with our current intro offer standing at £1500 +VAT, saving you £245. Get in touch to find out more.
Q. I would like to speak to someone for more information. How can I contact you?
A.
We have special rates for NHS workers, unemployed, charities and students and multiple bookings. Please get in touch to find out more. If you’re booking a lot of spaces, you may want to talk to us about tailoring a course especially for your organisation. Call us on +44 7711 068 553 or email shanna@designthinkersacademy.co.uk to find out how we can help you.
Q. English isn’t my first language. Does that matter?
A.
People from all over the world will be taking part and this cultural mix is one of the real strengths of our training. However, it is important to have good basic spoken English to get the most out of our courses.
Q. Do I need to pay VAT?
A.
*** Please note, there are different tax implications depending on your status, please do read this before you make payment. We are complying with HMRC, the UK Government regulations ***
Please only pay via the link on this page if you are one of the below as your invoice will include 20% UK VAT:
- UK business
- UK non-business individual
- Individual from the EC (Europe)
- Businesses from the EC (reverse charge rule)
- Worldwide non EC businesses (out of the scope of UK VAT)
- Worldwide non EC individuals (out of the scope of UK VAT)
Team
Arnoud Koning
Design Thinking Facilitator
Procter & Gamble
Susana Osório
Learning Designer
Design Thinkers Academy London
David Kester
Co-founder, Design Thinking Expert
Design Thinkers Academy
DK&A
Arnoud Koning
Design Thinking Facilitator
Procter & Gamble
Susana Osório
Learning Designer
Design Thinkers Academy London
David Kester
Co-founder, Design Thinking Expert
Design Thinkers Academy
DK&A

THE SMALL PRINT
Discount- We offer a sliding scale of discounts on this course. Pay full price for the first space you book, 10% off the second and third, and 15% off every space you book after that.
If you’re booking a lot of spaces, you may want to talk to us about tailoring a course especially for your business.
Read our terms and conditions for booking here

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