Facilitation, Training & Workshop Design
Facilitation brings people together to get things done. From guiding decisions both big and small to building new skills or aligning diverse stakeholders, we design and lead processes that move you toward impact.
Use facilitation when you need to:
Plan strategically or manage change
Build skills through trainings or workshops
Convene partners with diverse perspectives
Make critical decisions where outcomes matter
Whether it’s a workshop, training, strategic planning process, or multi-stakeholder convening, IbD’s role is to create the conditions that help people work together productively, inclusively, and with purpose.
How We Work
Founded in the science of adult learning, our creative trainings and workshops strengthen the skills and ideas, and attitudes of participants. No two facilitation processes look the same—because no two organizations are the same. Our approach starts with deep listening: asking the right questions, clarifying goals, and reflecting back what success should look like.
From there, we recommend and design a process that fits your needs, culture, and objectives, ensuring:
Clarity: We help you uncover and refine the objectives behind your gathering.
Adaptability: If circumstances shift, we adjust in real-time to keep things on track.
Engagement: We design participatory processes so every voice is heard.
Neutrality: As third-party facilitators, we level the playing field and help navigate power dynamics.
Energy & Fun: We believe facilitation should build trust, spark creativity, and make collaboration enjoyable.
How We Design Trainings and Workshops
Facilitation means to make an action or process easy - or easier. At its core, it’s about designing processes that make it easier for groups to achieve meaningful outcomes.
We partner with you to co-create the right process and provide services that range from full planning and execution to targeted support for your unique challenge. With a broad toolkit of facilitation methods, training techniques, and design expertise, we tailor every experience to your team.
Our process often includes:
Understand Goals
Clarify your objectives for transforming knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
Design Experience
Build agendas and learning activities that maximize participation and relevance.
Understand Audience
Learn about the people you want to engage—their needs, experiences, and motivations.
Lead Workshop
Facilitate or co-lead the session, incorporating content experts where needed.
Outline Objectives
Define specific learning and workshop outcomes.
Provide Assessment
Deliver a full report with participant feedback and recommendations.
Lasting Impact
When facilitation is done well, groups don’t just reach their objectives—they leave feeling connected, motivated, and ready to act.
Participants know their voices mattered. Teams feel stronger. Leaders walk away with clear next steps, renewed trust, and a sense of momentum.
Workshops and trainings extend that impact by building lasting skills, creating shared language, and preparing teams to keep making progress long after the session ends.
Using the principles of adult learning, we ensure participants:
Understand “what’s in it for me?”
Contribute their own experience and knowledge.
Recognize training as practical and relevant.
Apply what they’ve learned during the session.
Engage in ways that match their preferred learning style.
Take responsibility for their own learning journey.
Walk away with tangible takeaways they can use right away.
Through facilitation we create more than conversations—we create the conditions for energizing action and deepening impact.
Contact us for a free consultation on how we can support your efforts.
Trainings for You
In addition to customized facilitation, training, and workshop design, we also offer a portfolio of ready-to-deliver trainings on core topics for nonprofit leaders:
The Open Standards:
For the practice of conservation
Behavior Change:
Strategic communications for advocacy
Meeting Facilitation:
Planning and leading better meetings
Business Skills:
Business acumen for nonprofit leaders
Virtual Meeting Facilitation:
Planning and leading better online meetings
Project Planning & Management:
Effective project design and delivery
Monitoring & Evaluation:
Tracking progress and learning from results
Featured Project
Humane World for Animals
Humane World’s Global Disaster Response team partnered with Impact by Design to shape the next phase of its strategic plan through a participatory planning workshop and facilitation training in Hyderabad, India.
