Quick story.
Over the last few years I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard some version of this:
“We ran a workshop but we left with vague notes, no decisions, and another meeting on the calendar.”
It’s not that people don’t care.
It’s that the workshop wasn’t designed to do actual work.
Same patterns every time:
Fuzzy goal (“alignment,” “input,” “brainstorming”).
The wrong mix of people in the room.
Activities chosen because they’re “fun” or familiar, not because they lead to a specific output.
No plan for what happens with the results, so they die in a deck.
If you’ve been around workshops for more than five minutes, you’ve seen this too.
So I built the thing I wanted years ago: a small, live session on how to design a workshop properly.
The Workshop Workshop (yes, that’s the name)
It’s a 4‑hour live session where we walk through the full lifecycle of workshop design using real examples:
Planning: set a realistic goal, pick the right participants, and choose the right type of session.
Designing: shape the flow and activities so they actually produce decisions, evidence, or next steps.
Delivering: package the outputs into something your stakeholders will actually use.
We’ll work through concrete examples, build reusable templates, and, you’ll leave with tangible tools and methods you can apply to your next workshop.
This is for you if…
You’re the designer / researcher / PM who keeps getting asked to run a workshop.
You already facilitate sessions, but you want your workshops to be sharper and more deliberate.
You want a way to design sessions that your team values, not dreads.
If that’s you, I’d love to have you in this cohort.
If this isn’t the right time, no worries.
You’ll still get the regular newsletter on Wednesday.
But if you read this and immediately thought of That One Workshop you’re dreading (or still annoyed about), this session is designed with you in mind.
– Tanya
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