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
349 episodes
344 - From Fear to Calm: Facilitating in an Age of Overload with Mike Parker
Does an empty cup have nothing in it? Possibilitarian Mike Parker, believes not in its nothingness, but in its potential. Because when we pour our thoughts, feelings, assumptions and beliefs out of the cup, setting everything free, we create a ...
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Episode 344
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1:12:15
343 - The Paradox of Professional Facilitation with Vinay Kumar
If a facilitator goes unseen, are they any less present? This is the beautiful paradox of facilitation: as we grow more adept in our craft, our presence in the room becomes less noticeable – less needed – because we’ve subtly set th...
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Episode 343
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1:00:29
342 - Trust, Values and Change: A Facilitator’s Dialogue with AI with Holger Nauheimer
Can an AI bot really become a co-facilitator? Returning to the show with a new book co-authored by artificial intelligence and an AI sidekick named Nyx, is Holgar Nauheimer.After 30 years building a facilitation legacy, Holgar shares a g...
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Episode 342
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341 - Driving Sustainable Change through Motivational Interviewing with Jeff Wetherhold
As the old saying goes, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. And master of change Jeff Wetherhold is no stranger to this.He helps teams and leaders to create long-lasting, sustainable change not by plans, great in...
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Episode 341
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1:16:13
340 - From Archetypes to Authenticity in Leadership with Sarah Budd
Are we all just cosplaying as leaders? Donning a mask or a costume that helps us better play the role we think we should be playing?Helping leaders to show up with truth in a world that never stays still, is leadership psycholog...
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Episode 340
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1:14:26
339 - 1-Page Plans and the Discipline to Stay the Course with David Greer
Fuzzy goals, misaligned cultural values, and the allure of shiny object syndrome holds even the best entrepreneurs back. So what’s the secret to success?David Greer’s strategic one-page plans! Coach and facilitator of strategic planning,...
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Episode 339
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1:13:37
338 - Trust, Nerves and Group Dynamics at 2,000 Feet with Josie White
Bringing her childhood dream to life is Josie White, the hot air balloon pilot. From an early obsession with their magical, multi-coloured domes, to a fully-fledged pilot, Josie now flies and facilitates passengers 2000 feet up in the air over ...
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Episode 338
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337 - From Webinar to Workshop: Rethink Corporate Training with Myriam Hadnes
Corporate training, we all know the drill. The tonedeaf PowerPoint karaoke begins in the background, regurgitating slide content word for word, as you absentmindedly reply to an email…your mind still lingering in your last meeting. ...
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Episode 337
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336 - Facilitating from the Middle: Holding Space Without Taking Over with Julia Slay
How do you teach facilitators to hold a group, master that crucial first 15-minutes of a workshop, and show them that they already have all the answers, without giving any away?As a researcher by nature, and a facilitator – at first by a...
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Episode 336
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335 - Beyond Competence: Facilitating Uncertain Spaces with Rebecca Hopkins
How can you know yourself more? What would you tell your younger self? And what are you going to do with this life?Born with a microphone in her hand, and asking all of life’s big, juicy questions, leadership facilitator & coach Rebe...
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Episode 335
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334 - Before You Call the Lawyer: Reimagining Conflict with Ursula Taylor
Friday night card game clash, or shareholder dispute – at its core, all conflict is the same.Ursula Taylor has seen time and time again, from the court room, to the board room, that every conflict is created and perpetuated from unproces...
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Episode 334
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1:03:30
333 - Facilitating with Fabric, Feeling, and Freedom with Paula Short
A Mary Poppins’ bag of glitter, a big beating drum, a lump of clay, and a shiny gold crown. Bringing her wonderful, precious collection of props to the show, is the brilliant Paula Short.As a personal development psychotherapist, talente...
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Episode 333
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1:15:57
332 - From Corporate Slides to Human Connection with Emanuele Mazzanti
We are human beings, not human doings! So how did we find ourselves doing more, more, more, when all we’ve ever needed exists here within us?Emanuele Mazzanti is here to remind us of this. As a facilitator alchemist for EY and a...
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Episode 332
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331 - Performing to Teach: The Power of Wonder and Magic with Dr Ben Levy
Bitten by the magic bug at a bar mitzvah when he was 12-years old, and led on a lifelong journey from teacher, to coach, to psychologist and magician, is Dr Ben Levy. Now the founder of Magic Lessons, he’s on a mission to make learning feel exa...
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Episode 331
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1:04:57
330 - Difficult Conversations: From Avoidance to Alignment with Myriam Hadnes
The conversations we dread, the ones we avoid, and the ones that hold so much emotional weight – are often the ones we wish we’d had sooner. So why do we fear them so much?As a recovering people-pleaser, I know the drill all too well: th...
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Episode 330
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329 - Listening is the Gateway to Asking Better Questions with Chedva Ludmir
When we stop looking for the perfect question, when we choose to reflect rather than react, and when we wait and listen, for just a little while longer – it can change everything.Public speaker, serial entrepreneur and owner of Consider,...
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Episode 329
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1:02:22
328 - Healing the Boardroom: Insights from the Inner Child with Jason Perelson
Leaders, who’s really running the business? Is it you, or is it your inner child in the boardroom chair, with all of your messy, unresolved childhood patterns, triggers, and attachment styles running the show?Here to help us find the hea...
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Episode 328
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1:21:06
327 - Building Facilitation from the Inside Out with Matt Homann
Stale, stuffy boardrooms, awkwardly arranged furniture, and scratchy marker-pens that have nearly run dry. A facilitator’s lament – and perhaps, our worst enemy.Tired of the constant shapeshifting to squeeze into spaces that were never m...
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Episode 327
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1:12:43
326 - When Leaders Listen: The Shift Towards Facilitative Leadership with Rob Lion
One of the greatest paradoxes of leadership is that to lead well, you must learn to let go. To get comfortable with not having all the answers! To release your grip, relinquish control, and know that the wisdom already exists in everyone around...
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Episode 326
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1:14:39
325 - From Activation to Realisation: Learning through Play with Mohsin Memon
Context is everything. But when we remove ourselves from the tried-and-tested playing board of our work environment, to rewrite the rules and become new characters on fresh, unchartered ground? Everything changes.On a mission to create a...
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Episode 325
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1:00:42
324 - Facilitating Reflections: Beyond Tools and Into Ourselves with Thomas Lahnthaler
If facilitation was a mirror, what would you see? Would there be frameworks propping you up, a lingering desire to be liked, or insecurities sat atop your shoulder, quietly whispering in your ear?In his new book Facilitating Reflections,...
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Episode 324
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1:26:09
323 - The Art of Curation in an Age of Overload with Bruno Giussani
Curation is far more than an artistic act – it is a political one! It’s what’s to leave in, what to take out, what to filter and what to frame. And through this sense-making assembly, it becomes an invitation: to pay attention, to expand our mi...
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Episode 323
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1:15:18
322 - The Courage to Facilitate Without Fixing with Parker J. Palmer
Hailing from Quaker circles and Berkeley’s grassroots community movements in the 1960s, is the sagacious Parker J. Palmer – activist, facilitator, teacher and author. His unconventional entry into facilitation was piqued by a fascination with c...
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Episode 322
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1:15:57
321 - Resting in Complexity: The Inner Work of Modern Leadership with Marco Valente
How do we host ourselves as facilitators – and how do we host others? How do we grow bigger minds to meet the complexity out there, and then rest in it without needing to know the answers?Marco Valente joins me for a big, juicy and mind-...
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Episode 321
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1:12:29
320 - Facilitating with the Brain in Mind with Amanda Cookson
Helping people to do their best thinking, is Amanda Cookson. A coach, facilitator and all-round neuroscience whizz, she’s made it her mission to help leaders better understand what it means to be human.And it all starts with our own thin...
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Episode 320
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