There is a Workshop for that! | The greatest Podcast about Facilitation

In this new episode, I talk to the lovely Rebecca Courtney. She is a facilitation coach at AJ&Smart, whose CEO is no other than her brother Jonathan. She is currently working on a new facilitation course which will be launched in December and has an interesting background, having started her career in education as a teacher. I first met Rebecca online, as she facilitates the bi-weekly Master Workshopper programme community calls, and I also had the chance to meet her personally in Italy at the exclusive event organized by AJ&smart in Italy. In this episode, we talk about the following. 👉🏻 Her background as a teacher and how she stepped out of her comfort zone to take on a new challenge as a facilitation coach. 👉🏻 Her role as a facilitator for Workshopper Master community calls. 👉🏻 How she suddenly started to love the research work (which she didn't like that much in the past) for the preparation of the new facilitation course, which AJ&Smart will launch by the end of the year. 👉🏻 And how her first workshop went in front of 50 highly skilled facilitators and her learnings from that experience. *********************************** I hope you’ll enjoy this new episode 😃 👍🏻 To not miss the next episode, subscribe to the show via your podcast player. 🙏🏻 Share with me your thoughts about this episode Feeling inspired by the conversation in this episode? We can have our own and you could also be the next podcast guest if you wish to :) Email me at : [podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com](mailto:podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com) --- **LINK** **Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse Email: [podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com](mailto:podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com) Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez) Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/bp/nathyravez/free-call-30-min) Coming soon : [www.laworkshoppeuse.com](http://www.laworkshoppeuse.com/) **Rebecca Courtney** - Facilitation Coach Linkedin profile:[https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-courtney-928347241/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-courtney-928347241/) **AJ&Smart**: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/aj&smart/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aj&smart/) [https://www.instagram.com/ajsmartdesign/](https://www.instagram.com/ajsmartdesign/) *********************************** I hope you’ll enjoy this new episode 😃 👍🏻 To not miss the next episode, subscribe to the show via your podcast player. 🙏🏻 Share with me your thoughts about this episode Feeling inspired by the conversation in this episode? We can have our own and you could also be the next podcast guest if you wish to :) Email me at : [podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com](mailto:podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com) --- **LINK** **Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse Email: [podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com](mailto:podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com) Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez) Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/bp/nathyravez/free-call-30-min) Coming soon : [www.laworkshoppeuse.com](http://www.laworkshoppeuse.com/) Rebecca Courtney - Facilitation Coach Linkedin profile:[https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-courtney-928347241/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-courtney-928347241/) AJ&Smart: [https://www.linkedin.com/company/aj&smart/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aj&smart/) [https://www.instagram.com/ajsmartdesign/](https://www.instagram.com/ajsmartdesign/)

**WRAP-UP** In this new episode I talk to my workshop design sparring partner, Matthew Shipp👏. He has a passion for facilitating process improvement through process mapping, pain points and identifying opportunities using the most skilled people available to identify challenges and create solutions, their team! He is a team productivity coach and founder of Emberi Solutions, a three-step workplace effectiveness program, designed for startups owner and operators. He helps companies find their inefficiencies and optimize workflow. And by the way, he loves coffee, wine and Burbon . We met last summer in Italy at a very exclusive facilitation event. In this new episode, we talk about. 👉🏻 The nickname he got from the Workshopper Master Community 👉🏻 His journey from research lab technician to setting up his facilitation business 👉🏻 Why it's important to understand how clients work and adapt our facilitation approach to their needs and availability 👉🏻 Why he creates a custom asynchronous workshop and how it works I hope you enjoy this new episode 😃 *********************************** I hope you’ll enjoy this new episode 😃 🎙 To make sure you don't miss the next episode, subscribe to the show via your podcast player. 🙏🏻 Share with me your thoughts about this episode Feeling inspired by the conversation in this episode? We can have our own and you could also be the next podcast guest if you wish to :) Email me at : [podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com](mailto:podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com) --- **LINK** **Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse Email: [podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com](mailto:podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com) Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez) Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa) Coming soon : [www.laworkshoppeuse.com](http://www.laworkshoppeuse.com/) **Matthew Ship** Linkedin profile: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewshipp] (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewshipp/) Emberi Solutions: [https://emberisolutions.com](https://emberisolutions.com/) Email: emberisolutions@gmail.com References: Upshot Coffee: [https://weareupshotcoffee.com/](https://weareupshotcoffee.com/)

**Wrap Up** In this new episode, I talk to my friend Andra Stefanescu, my workshop Jedi. She is a neuromindfullness coach, and has facilitated over 200 workshops in the last two years. She helps teams to quickly create valued results using different trainings and techniques, and even legos and playmobil in her strategy workshops. In this new episode, we talk about. 👉🏻 Neuroscience & the 6 personality types and how to deal with them 👉🏻 Why 80% of innovation projects fail and how we can avoid or reduce some difficulties 👉🏻 How playmobils and legos can help teams visualise objectives during a workshop 👉🏻 How to bring participants to the forefront with the "back of the room" training technique. I hope you enjoy this new episode 😃 👍🏻 To make sure you don't miss the next episode, subscribe to the show via your podcast player. 🙏🏻 Share with me your thoughts on this episode or what you'd like to hear in this podcast. Feeling inspired by the conversation in this episode? We can have our own and you could also be the next guest on the podcast if you like :) Send me an email at: [podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com] ******************************************************************************* **LINKS** **Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse Email : [podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com] Linkedin : [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez] Book a free 30 minute call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa] Coming soon: [www.laworkshoppeuse.com] **Andra Stefanescu** Linkedin profile: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andracristianastefanescu/] If you would like to attend one (or both) of the events she is organising in Q3/2022: Click on the links below to book your tickets: 👉🏻 Tuesday, 25 October 2022 - 09:00 - 12:30 CET How to get tangible results using Design Sprint exercises? [https://www.eventbrite.at/e/design-sprint-bootcamp-tickets-430338763827] 👉🏻 Tuesday, 2 November 2022 - 09:00 - 12:30 CET How to gamify your workshops to engage your participants and get them into their creative flow? [https://www.eventbrite.at/e/how-to-gamify-your-workshops-and-trainings-tickets-430339806947] **References**: Julia Key: The serious Games Podcast on Spotify **Books** 👉🏻Training from the back of the room - written by Sharon L.Bowan 👉🏻 Seriouswork - written by Sean blair, Marko Rillo & Partners 👉🏻 The serious play Lego method - written by Sean Blair

**WRAP-UP** In this first episode, I share with you how this podcast started. How the so-called "Worshopper Master" programme initiated by AJ&smart -a Berlin-based digital product design studio- gave me the knowledge I needed to become more confident in my work as a facilitator with companies whose teams and industries I don't know. As this is a first episode, I'll take the time to introduce myself and tell you 👉🏻 where I am from 👉🏻 what my mother brought to my way of working 👉🏻 what my career milestones were and what they taught me 👉🏻 how I made the decision to start my own workshop facilitation business 👉🏻And how I met this community of workshop facilitators with whom I exchange, work and who will be the protagonists of this podcast throught the Workshopper master Programm of AJ&Smart **I interview 5 of my facilitators mates**, in a beautiful summer atmosphere around the pool, in the centre of the workation village where we met at the end of August 2022 (The sound is (you can hear the sound of the water and some people chatting in the background, but that's what we call live 🤪 ). And because you always have to end on a high note, **Jonathan Courtney - CEO of AJ&Smart** shares with me his first impressions on the last day of the workshopper 2022 retreat, organised by him and his colleagues. 👍🏻To not miss the next episode, subscribe to the show via your podcast player. 🙏🏻Share with me your thoughts about this episode or what you would like to hear in this podcast. Feeling inspired by the conversation in this episode? We can have our own and you could also be the next podcast guest if you wish to :) Email me at : podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com ************************************************************************ **LINK** NATHY RAVEZ - La Workshoppeuse Email: podcast@laworkshoppeuse.com Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez) Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa) Coming soon : www.laworkshoppeuse.com AJ&SMART Youtube channel : [https://www.youtube.com/c/AJSmart](https://www.youtube.com/c/AJSmart) If you want to know how to become a top 1%, high-paid facilitator, click on the following link: [https://go.ajsmart.com/step1?utm_source=crm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vsl-funnel-b](https://go.ajsmart.com/step1?utm_source=crm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vsl-funnel-b)