Creative Facilitation Masterclass - Become a World-Class Facilitator

If you are someone who needs to lead and facilitate impactful, engaging and dynamic workshops or brainstorms then this course has been designed for you!

Become a world-class creative facilitator. This course will give you the best creative facilitation tools and techniques from around the globe. Give yourself a competitive edge and learn the techniques that we have used with our clients - Nike, The United Nations, LEGO, Ogilvy, Edelman, Westpac, One Green Bean, Coca-Cola, The BBC, Foxtel, Pepsi, TBWA, Nestle and Google.

Course description

In this one-day course you will learn to facilitate workshops, brainstorms and any meeting that requires participants to generate ideas and or think strategically. You will be armed with templates, processes and a creative tool kit that you can use to design, facilitate and lead creative workshops. You will also create your own facilitation style so your workshops will be engaging, fun, dynamic and highly effective.

You will be taught how to design and plan a dynamic, impactful and kickarse workshop that has your participants staying engaged and energised from start to finish. More importantly, your workshops will hit your objectives every time.You will gain confidence as a workshop facilitator knowing how to lead brainstorms and how to inspire and extract great ideas out of a group.

As well as facilitation skills, you will be armed with creative thinking techniques to get your participants generating innovative and game-changing ideas for any business challenge.

This training day is intense, stimulating and highly interactive. You will become a masterful facilitator and your creative thinking ability will be challenged and stretched to a new level. Your workshops will not be the same again!

Key learning outcomes

• Confidence in designing and facilitating dynamic and effective workshops with a group internally or with clients
• The soft and hard skills needed to be a world-class facilitator 
• Use templates and tool-kits to keep your workshops and brainstorms fresh
• A thorough understanding of the Idea Generation process and confidence in knowing which techniques to use for different challenges
• Learn how to bring your ideas to life in order to be sold in and get others on board and excited about your ideas
• Planning and strategic thinking techniques that guarantee the success of your workshops and brainstorms before they even begin
• Increased ability to generate great ideas in a short amount of time

Who is this course for? 

Anyone who needs to facilitate ideas, strategy and innovation sessions. Anyone who needs to come up with great ideas. Anyone who wants to increase their creative ability. Anyone interested in innovation and staying ahead of the competition.

This Course has helped participants to: 

 - Become masterful brainstorm facilitators

 - Run highly successful meetings, workshops and brainstorms

 - Come up with ideas for new products and services and launch them

 - Generate great ideas for advertising/communications campaigns

 - Gain creative confidence in work and personal life

 - Win new business pitches

*Lunch and refreshments are provided

What have others said about the Masterclass…

I recently attended the Master class with Nicole from the Ideas Bodega and I was blown away by the amount of relevant information and productive tools that were provided. It was by far and way the most useful course I have attended and Nicole's passion and professionalism were undoubtedly major contributors to this experience. She has identified an important area in our market and has made herself an expert in the art of the brainstorm.

Director, Nine Entertainment Co, Sydney

I recently did the Ideas Bodega 'Creative Facilitation Masterclass'. This was such a fantastic session and I got so much out of it. Nicole is a star and has poured so much of the new high level of skill and knowledge she has in virtual facilitation into the program. The added bonus was being exposed to her brilliant fundamentals on brainstorming, divergent and convergent thinking. I've been able to put in to place what we learnt immediately into our sessions - and they are far more engaging and effective than they would have been otherwise.

Change Management Practitioner

"Really valuable tools and techniques for creative facilitation, planning and brainstorming.  It was a hugely beneficial process and I would highly recommend it to any organisation wishing to inject a fresh approach to their creative output."       

Managing Director, One Green Bean, Sydney

The masterclass was both inspiring but also really practical too (where many other training courses fail), arming you with the best ways to get the most out of your and your team’s thinking. Nicole led the class superbly, using lots of different examples and experiences. Would recommend it for all agency folk; relevant for suits, creatives and planners alike.

Senior Planner, Ogilvy, Melbourne

Nicole ran a two-day Masterclass with incredible results. The team was thrilled with the workshop, with many claiming this to be one of the best they'd experienced. The impact has certainly been far-reaching across the business. On a professional level, I cannot recommend Nicole highly enough. 

Client Services Director at Hill+Knowlton Strategies Australia

Learning the art of facilitation has been incredibly useful and revolutionised the way we brainstorm in the organisation.

Brand Strategist, Moon, Sydney

The workshop was very inspiring and gave us a great framework and guidance for future brainstorms.

Group Account Director, Ogilvy & Mather, Ho Chi Minh City

I use to run out of the office when we had a brainstorm! Now I really enjoy facilitating them and find them highly productive. Everyone is getting involved and the clients have been very impressed with our ideas.                                

Director of Brand Strategy, Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners, New York

As a designer I am expected to come up with great ideas as a matter of course.  But, there are times when ideas ebb and ideas flow, so having a set of reliable and fun tools to fall back on is a great thing, and that is what Nicole gave me. The creative team that attended found the sessions very useful and definitely felt that they gained value and new learnings from the workshop. I felt that Nicole's presentation style, inventiveness and her ability to deal with the nature of our business showed a good deal of insight on how to get to the nuts and bolts of any challenge and instil creativity within people. Having been involved in idea generation, problem solving and innovation challenges myself I really felt I left the workshop refreshed and re-energised to tackle client briefs in new and different ways.

Creative Design Director, Hulsboch 

The workshop was engaging and gave us different methodologies and tools that can be put to use as part of a creative brainstorm. I enjoyed the use of real examples. I would definitely recommend this course to anyone who needs to generate new ideas or creative solutions for clients.                                                                   

Account Director, Google, Sydney

We all thought we knew how to facilitate brainstorms but were really surprised by the new tools! The training was highly energetic, highly creative and extremely useful. We are using the tools in every brainstorm and generating fantastic ideas for our clients.          

Director, Burson-Marsteller, Sydney