Workshopr Academy

Facilitation isn't a talent.It's a skill you can study.

Running your first workshop this week? Start with the 72-hour plan, then take the Foundations path. Five free series ebooks, three field guides, four toolkits and a learning path. Battle-tested and footnoted.

Start here: the 72-hour plan Then: the Foundations path

5 Series ebooks

3 Field guides

4 Toolkits

1 Learning path

Run Your First Design Workshop in 72 Hours book cover

Available Run Your First Design Workshop in 72 Hours

Available Facilitating With Intention

Available Did It Work?

Available They'll Never Say Yes

Available Get Out of the Car

Coming soon The Synthesis Playbook

The Facilitation Series

Six books that take you from running your first session to building a workshop culture across an organization. New to facilitating? Start with No. 01. Ten minutes a chapter, no padding.

Available

Run Your First Design Workshop in 72 Hours

A day-by-day sprint plan for your first workshop.

7 chapters

Read it

Available

Facilitating With Intention

The mindsets, methods, and moves that separate good facilitators from great ones.

7 chapters

Read it

Available

Did It Work?

Measuring workshop impact when half of it can't be put on a slide.

8 chapters

Read it

Available

They'll Never Say Yes

Selling internal workshops to leaders who think they don't have time.

6 chapters

Read it

Available

Get Out of the Car

On running rooms where you're not the most senior, the most expert, or the most expected.

8 chapters

Read it

Coming soon

The Synthesis Playbook

AI-assisted recipes for turning workshop outputs into defensible decisions.

12 chapters

Get notified

Six field guides

Standalone books that sit outside the series, each one short enough to read in an evening and specific enough to use the next morning: a hundred moves for tomorrow's meeting, an AI that has your eye, the facilitator you default to, the meetings that never needed to happen, the rooms going wrong, and the principles your team actually uses.

Available

Better Meetings and Workshops

100 field-tested tips for people who actually run the room. One page per tip, every one illustrated.

13 chapters

Read it

Available

Salt to Taste

How to teach an AI your eye for design taste, without touching a single model weight.

9 chapters · 7 prompts

Read it

Available

Facilitator DNA

A field guide to the five facilitator profiles: how each strength turns into its failure, and what to practice next.

9 chapters · 5 profiles

Read it

Coming soon

This Meeting Should Have Been An Email

How to identify what's actually on your calendar, and what to do about it. Four field marks, five families, scripts included.

16 chapters

Get notified

Coming soon

A Field Guide to Bad Rooms

How to tell what is going wrong in the room, and what to say next. Fifty specimens, and how to save the workshop.

50 specimens · 8 families

Get notified

Coming soon

Values, Principles, Manifestos

How a design team writes values, principles and a manifesto it agrees on, and actually uses. Sessions included.

10 chapters

Get notified

Four interactive toolkits

Tools to sharpen your skills, prep for sessions, and handle the unexpected. Each one earns its place by saving you a real fifteen minutes.

3.1

Hybrid Toolkit

Score your hybrid readiness and get a personalised setup checklist before the meeting starts.

Open → 3.2

Facilitator DNA Quiz

Discover your unique facilitation style. Five archetypes, one quiz, plenty of plot twists.

Take quiz → 3.3

Intervention Cards

Forty tactics for when things go sideways mid-session. Pull a card, run the move, save the room.

Browse → 3.4

Workshop Tips

Bite-sized facilitation advice across six categories. Read one a day for a quarter.

Read →

A syllabus of learning paths

Structured journeys with modules, exercises, and assessments. Foundations is available now; three more paths are coming.

4.1

Facilitation Foundations

Core skills every facilitator needs. From setting objectives to reading the room.

8 modules Beginner

Available Start the path

4.2

Executive & Leadership Facilitation

Running sessions with senior stakeholders. Navigate politics, drive alignment.

6 modules · ~5 hours Intermediate

Coming soon

4.3

Difficult Conversations & Team Alignment

Conflict resolution, feedback sessions, and building psychological safety.

5 modules · ~4 hours Intermediate

Coming soon

4.4

Neurodivergent & Accessible Facilitation

Design sessions that work for every brain. Inclusive participation methods baked in.

5 modules · ~4 hours All levels

Coming soon

Three paths are coming soon. Get notified when each one opens.

Get notified by newsletter