workshops work
Welcome to “workshops work,” the podcast that transforms how professionals engage, inspire, and lead groups. Ranked among the top 5% most popular podcasts globally, it is hosted by Dr Myriam Hadnes, a behavioural economist and facilitation expert. Each episode delves into the techniques and mindsets that make workshops truly impactful.
Join us every week as we sit down with world-renowned facilitators and uncover their secrets to creating psychological safety, fostering collaboration, and sparking innovation. Whether you’re a Facilitator, L&D professional, HR leader, manager, coach or trainer, you’ll find practical tips, inspiring stories, and actionable insights to elevate your group dynamics.
From navigating conflict to unlocking creativity, “workshops work” blends theory with practice, ensuring you walk away with tools you can immediately apply. Dr Myriam Hadnes doesn’t just interview; she facilitates enriching conversations that shift perspectives and deepen understanding.
Subscribe now to change the world, one workshop at a time.
Episodes
320 episodes
315 - Beyond the Quick Fix: Holding Space for What Wants to Emerge with Quanita Roberson
Sometimes, just sometimes, you meet someone who is a balm to the soul, who speak words of wisdom, magic, and nurturing depth. Quanita Roberson has this gift - and she returns to the show to share it with us once again!Mingling spiritual ...
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Episode 315
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1:21:44
314 - Connection Before Content: A New Approach to Museum Learning with Claire Bown
A pair of flimsy plastic headphones, a voice in your ears bombarding you with dates, names and historical periods, and a momentary pause at each work of art as you side-step the seemingly disinterested guided tour.If this sounds familiar...
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Episode 314
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1:01:10
313 - Digging into the Future: The Art of Future Archaeology with Markus Iofecea
Can we explore the future as if it were an archaeological site? Instead of predicting trends or following hype cycles, future archaeologist Markus Iofcea uncovers artifacts - fragments of possible futures - that help us rethin...
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Episode 313
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1:11:46
312 - From Mapping to Meaning: Co-Creation Through Jobs to Be Done with Jim Kalbach
Facilitation isn’t just about guiding a process—it’s about creating meaning. And in this episode, Jim Kalbach, author of The Jobs To Be Done: Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs, shares how facilitation...
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Episode 312
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1:11:13
311 - Facilitating Courage: A Deeper Look at Psychological Safety with Myriam Hadnes
It’s an art form, but it’s not rocket science. It’s courageous, but it’s not not cushy or comforting. And it’s saying no in meaningful ways, rather than saying yes to everything.Psychological safety is as much about what it’s
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Episode 311
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310 - Listening Deeper: Finding the Questions That Need to Be Asked with Akshay Kapur
As executive coach Akshay Kapur will tell you, silence isn’t just a pause - but spaciousness that allows for someone to jump into its still, shiny waters.And our conversation this week was a celebration of these gorgeous, ripe spaces in ...
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Episode 310
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1:10:07
309 - Resourcing the Room: The Art of Holding Space for Healing with Louise Marra
Bringing beautiful indigenous wisdom to the complexities of trauma-resolution is Louise Marra. A facilitator and occasional human-fielder, Louise joins me for a conversation about finding our way back: to a healed state, to the earth, to oursel...
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Episode 309
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1:14:52
308 - Navigating the Emotional Landscape of Facilitation with Kerri Price
The journey of the facilitator is rarely linear. It’s often happily accidental, a little squiggly, and punctuated with moments of imposter as we take it from the side-hustle shadows, to big centre-stage business.And Kerri Price can attes...
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Episode 308
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1:04:27
307 - From Sober Raves to Corporate Joy: Facilitating Connection Across Contexts with Jacques The Party Scientist
If joy was an episode, then it would be episode 307. Welcome back, for the third time, to Jacques The Party Scientist, sober rave host, and social norm disruptor!I’ve witnessed Jacques’ journey for quite some years now as he’s facilitate...
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Episode 307
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1:16:34
306 - Creating Psychological Safety in Psychedelic Work with Kacey Cardin
This week we take a hiatus from the ‘usual’ facilitation content, to journey into the wonders of the psychedelic with Kacey Cardin, as she introduces us to its sacred, healing powers.Working with LSD, psilocybin, MDMA and Ketamine as her...
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Episode 306
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1:09:53
305 - From Limiting Beliefs to Inclusive Leadership with Aim-on Wongsaparn
How often do you tell yourself that you can’t do something? We all have a habit of collecting self-fulfilling prophecies in our pockets, that’s just human nature - but what might happen if we dared to say ‘I can’?Joining us for a beautif...
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Episode 305
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1:08:58
304 - Authenticity and Creativity: Elevating Workshops with Visual Techniques with Patti Dobrowolski
From Broadway actor, to drama therapist for county jails, a four-times Tedx speaker and now a Live Illustrator, Patti Dobrowolski is a rare, creative talent that has befriended reinvention…And she now helps others to do the same, designi...
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Episode 304
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1:13:19
303 - Nonviolent Communication in Practice with Ranjitha Jeurkar
When we tell someone how we feel, we expect to feel understood, don’t we? But as Ranjitha Jeurkar will tell you - it’s often not that simple. Empathy can be a complex tapestry: there’s needs to be met, paradigms at play, forefeelings that can s...
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Episode 303
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1:02:31
302 - Facilitating the Future: Architecture, Collaboration, and Innovation with Benjamin Nott
We live an incredible 80% of our lives indoors. In houses, workplaces, schools and vehicles - spaces that become the backdrop to our time on this earth.But behind the permanence of bricks and the mortar, the making of our interior worlds...
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Episode 302
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1:10:22
301 - Facilitating High-Stakes Multi-Stakeholder Climate Conversations with Barbara Oliveira
When an island is sinking, whose responsibility is it to save? What approach do we take, and who foots the bill?Big, high-stakes climate conversations always share the same goal: to save the planet. But when a diverse group of stakeholde...
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Episode 301
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1:08:30
300 - 300 Episodes of Curiosity and Connection: Lessons from workshops work with Myriam Hadnes
Listeners, what an adventure it’s been! 300 episodes. 300 guests. 300 soulful, wise, curious, facilitation-affirming conversations - each one, a gift! To celebrate my podcast tercentenary, I sit down with my microphone for an intros...
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Episode 300
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43:33
299 - Navigating our Edges Through Inclusion-Based and Trauma-Informed Facilitation with Maggie Coulter
What does it *really* mean to meet people where they’re at? What can happen when we surrender to the serendipity of life? And how do we become aware of our own edges?This episode is punctuated with some big, beautiful questions that Magg...
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Episode 299
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1:09:37
298 - Unlocking Creativity Through Trust and Adaptability with Mark Tippin
What does it mean to unbuckle ourselves from certainty and step with both feet into the space between question and answer? It means to be a facilitator, of course! To trust in the process, to find structure in the spaciousness, and to shapeshif...
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Episode 298
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1:03:19
297 - Breaking Down Complexity with the Co- Founder of Liberating Structures with Henri Lipmanowicz
The author of the indomitable Liberating Structures joins me in the podcast chair this week - a book that has offered wisdom to facilitators from all four corners of the world, and built organisations from the ground up - the one, the only Henr...
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Episode 297
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1:26:54
296 - The Power of Trauma Awareness in Design and Facilitation with Rachael Dietkus
Everyone who steps into our workshop room brings their own experience. An emotional backpack of mosaic stories, hardships and histories - some, more traumatic than others.But the weight of trauma demands a special kind of care: far beyon...
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Episode 296
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1:08:58
295 - Doing the Inner Work: Learnings from Vipassana Meditation with Myriam Hadnes
What can we learn about ourselves when we silence the world outside, quieten our voices, and make peace with discomfort, in the knowledge that everything in life is impermanent?At the end of October, I stepped into my fifth silent Vipass...
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Episode 295
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294 - Learning From Burning Man About Transformative Experience Design with Rob Blakemore
Burning Man is the ultimate expression of radical, creative trust. As 80,000 people from all over the world gather in the Nevada Desert, they join together on a blank canvas to co-create a utopia of art, community, culture and human spirit - le...
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Episode 294
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1:10:08
293 - Facilitation as Salesmanship: Building Trust and Buy-In with Alan Versteeg
Are facilitators just salespeople in disguise? We’re not on commission, we’re not driven by a desired outcome, we don’t have a product, and nor are we in a numbers game… and yet, the longer I spoke to Alan Versteeg this week, the more I realise...
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Episode 293
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1:04:39
292 - Facilitation Beyond Methodology: Healing, Connection, and Commitment with Jutta Weimar
What is your inner calling? For many facilitators, it’s to build spaces of deep, life-affirming connection. After all, facilitation is more than just its methodologies and its tools; it’s about doing the soul-searching inner work to understand ...
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Episode 292
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1:03:54
291 - Building Trust through Facilitation with Maria Arpa
There is great richness to be found in human connection - when we know how. To truly see others, to step into vulnerability and to find hidden reflections in ourselves.Maria Arpa is an absolute powerhouse of inspiration. From mediation t...
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Episode 291
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