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Workshops

We don’t teach people how to use storytelling.

We teach people how to think about using storytelling!

From Creativity and Innovation to Empathy and Storytelling, we teach you how to confidently communicate!

Note: All Workshops Can Be Conducted Virtually. Please get in touch for more information!

All the current out-of-the-box products listed below can be delivered at your workplace or event. Contact us with your preference and dates to get the ball rolling.

Scroll down to view our out-of-the-box services for –

  • Influential Storytelling: Unlock the Power of Benefits-Based Messaging
  • Story Thinking: The Interactive Board Game
  • Introduction to Storytelling
  • Innovation Storytelling

If you have a training requirement not listed below, please get in touch. We offer custom design workshops on many subjects. Contact us with any questions!

Influential Storyteller: Unlock the Power of Benefits-Based Messaging

3-Hour Time Investment

Learn how to create benefits-based messages that convert, convince and connect with your audience! Join us for an immersive 3-hour workshop where you’ll learn to craft compelling narratives and master the art of influential communication. Take advantage of this opportunity to elevate your storytelling skills and make a lasting impact!

Transform your Communication Skills; key takeaways include:

  • Develop a sticky core message with our signature formula
  • Create audience-centric stories tailored to different stakeholder groups
  • Plot key information to build powerful story structures
  • Learn to communicate the benefits of change effectively
  • Use storytelling to address resistance and promote open dialogue

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2 Hour Workshop – Story Thinking: The Interactive Board Game

We work with your team to create opportunities for creative thinking through storytelling. Our approach is to take your team on a journey of exploration that uncovers their natural storytelling abilities. The process unlocks divergent thinking skills central to nurturing creativity, storytelling, and understanding that there can be multiple good paths to a desired outcome.


Cross the mystery-solving component of Clue with the imaginary world-building of role-playing games, and you have our game! Learn the fundamentals of creative thinking via an interactive storytelling experience. Each player will participate in creating a story that has a theme and a compelling message. Our interactive board game trains groups at scale the fundamentals of storytelling and story structure and facilitates creative thinking. The game is played with 2 or 3 teams of 10 people each, depending on the number of players.

The learning objectives include:

  • Learning the basic components of a story – Create A Sticky Core Message using a formula
  • Create empathy with our Audience First Storytelling Methodology
  • Define Story Structure using our simple format
  • Explore Divergent thinking models and exercise creativity 

Stories are what create and maintain cultures. They shape not only how we see ourselves but how we see the world. Storytelling is core to communicating effectively, taps into our innate creativity, and facilitates cohesion and understanding. The core deliverables of the game teach divergent thinking, creativity, and storytelling as a tool for leadership skills that our future demands.

This session can be run in-house or online.

A 50% deposit is required to reserve your date.

Book Your Session Here!

Introduction to Storytelling!

1.5 Hour Time Investment

Learn how to communicate your unique value proposition in this introduction to the power of your team’s story.

We capture and define the stories that convey your team’s value through the power of their stories. This workshop teaches the fundamentals of storytelling in an interactive, experience-based format to build storytelling confidence.

Through a simple 3-part process, we will learn how to deploy all the story gold within your business unit. We will chart your stories on a map to ensure they connect to your audience of customers and coworkers.

The learning objectives include –

  • Learning the basic components of a story – Create A Sticky Core Message using our signature formula
  • Create a customer-centric focus with our Audience First Storytelling Methodology
  • Clarify the messages that appeal to each stakeholder group, i.e., coworkers and customers.
  • Learn simple story construction with sharing time to build confidence and workshop their stories to refine understanding and build communication skills
  • Explore the fundamentals of storytelling in a fun and interactive way that will facilitate change in your organisation, business or life through the power of story.

Process And Deliverables

  • One-hour meeting to establish the core training objectives, What unique communication problems we are solving,
  • What are the roles and backgrounds of the team
  • Deliver a 1.5-hour workshop and worksheets for each participant
  • Feedback Phone Call after the session

FAQs

This session can be run in-house or online.

A 50% deposit is required to reserve your date.

Book Your Session Here!

Storytelling For Innovation

Full-Day Master Class

GET HANDS-ON TRAINING IN A NEW STORYTELLING FRAMEWORK AND LEARN HOW TO APPLY IT TO DESIGN.

How do we create innovative products and services that will solve big problems? 

Human-centred designers use empathy-based processes to get to know the people with whom they create solutions. Seeing through another person’s eyes can feel like magic or good luck. And yet, the tools to make this a repeatable and reliable process are entirely within our grasp. 

This tool is storytelling.

Storytelling for innovation provides a framework for human-centred designers, data and innovation teams with the tools to create clear insights and connections with the people they want to solve problems for.

By understanding the connection between empathy, storytelling and innovation. Stories are the only tool we have to create connections. Connection creates understanding; understanding creates agreement, and agreement facilitates action towards a shared goal that brings innovations into being.

Our framework for innovation storytelling fits into your workflow. This framework sits within the double diamond to create systems for sharing knowledge acquired through the journey. The process unlocks the empathy, creativity and insights needed to build desired solutions.

Full Day Training (In Person) Or Two x Two Hour Sessions Online

Act One – (Two Hours)
Understand character research and analysis
Create an emotional character for a persona
Extending role-playing knowledge and abilities by crafting meaningful persona dialogue for deeper insights

Intermission (Break)

Act Two – (Two Hours)
Hands-on activities to put the character and new skills into practice: –

  • Learn and test a framework for telling stories using your characters to create new solutions
  • Practical application to a current or past project (This content is co-designed and tailored to your specific needs)

Crafting story-based insights from data and innovation content can feel overwhelming. This workshop focuses on translating data into stories clearly and practically.

The deliverables included in this workshop are:

  • This is a framework for innovation storytelling that fits into your workflow. It sits within the double diamond to create systems for sharing knowledge acquired through the journey.
    • The process unlocks empathy skills central to nurturing creativity and deep insights to build desired solutions.

Here is what past participants have said!

“Using narratives and non-linear storytelling to build collective stories, i.e. ‘What can we build together!’

– Anonymous – WorkSafe Victoria, Australia 

“I was looking for a method that allowed empathy to be transmitted into my work. Not just a tool to design better but as the true purpose of my design. Megan confirmed what I was thinking and enriched my perspective stories are essential, stories can do great things.”

– Marco Regis, Strategic & UX Designer, Eupragma, Udine, Italy 

FAQs

This session can be run in-house in your business in organisation.

A 50% deposit is required to reserve your date.

Book Your Session Here!