Episode 17

How to facilitate a workshop: A case story for sustainability managers

Run a workshop that encourages colleagues and stakeholders to be actively involved in your sustainability initiative.

  • How to plan and facilitate a workshop that builds collaboration
  • What are good activities? How to get people engaged?
  • Some top tips inspired by our workshop for the Coalition for Wind Industry Circularity

We recently facilitated a workshop for the Coalition for Wind Industry Circularity. Afterwards a number of participants and asked for advice about the exercises we used and how to design and facilitate something similar.

We decided to answer those requests by recording this episode as a 'case story' to share not just the particular activities we used, but also some of the principles behind them, and the thought process that informed our plans.

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Full guide and show notes at https://realise.earth/116

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Helping sustainability directors, managers & pioneers make change happen.

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Osbert Lancaster

Facilitator, consultant and trainer. 20+ years of helping leaders and managers of organisations large and small deliver change for people and nature. Led the development of the University of Edinburgh’s pioneering sustainability strategy. Co-created a UNESCO recognised leadership programme. Aspiring improv performer. Facilitation mantra: Talk less, listen more.