workshops work Podcast
This is a podcast about facilitation: the practice of creating conditions for people to think better together.
Whether you’re leading strategy, navigating change or developing leaders, the quality of your conversations shapes the quality of your decisions.
Hosted by Dr Myriam Hadnes, behavioural economist, facilitator and founder of workshops.work, each episode explores the human dynamics of working together: how psychological safety is built, why some conversations lead to action while others stall, how leaders foster genuine participation, and what behavioural science can teach us about collaboration. Alongside these conversations, Dr Hadnes shares reflections from her own client work, offering practical insights from the realities of designing and facilitating workshops in organisations.
Recognised as the facilitation community’s most-recommended podcast in SessionLab’s State of Facilitation reports from 2024 to 2026, the show has grown into an archive of more than 350 conversations spanning the craft, the inner work, and the unexpected edges of facilitation. Whether you’re a facilitator, leader, consultant or L&D professional, you'll come away with sharper questions and a few ideas worth borrowing.
workshops work Podcast
107 - Unleash your facilitation superpowers with Jacob Chromy
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We use our facilitation skills in our work, but these are universally applicable skills. Negotiating with a toddler, hosting parties, working out which takeout to order!
Join me and Jacob Chromy in this episode of workshops work to learn how we can apply our facilitation skills in more walks of life - and how people from all walks of life can identify the facilitation skills they’ve been using this whole time!
It felt so liberating to explore the different ways our tools of the trade can be applied to make a difference in so many ways I hadn’t considered before. This conversation with Jacob really helped me see my work in a new light. I hope it will do the same for you, too!
Find out about:
- What Jacob learned from product design that he applies to workshop design
- How Jacob used facilitation skills with local climate groups to great effect
- How we are using facilitation skills in our daily lives without realising it
- Exploring barcamps – “ the anti-conference” – and how Jacob uses barcamps as part of in-house peer learning programmes
- Flattening the room in person and online
- Why Jacob created ‘family workshops’ and how they are used
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Questions and Answers
[01:20] When did you start calling yourself a facilitator?
[03:15] What is ‘pen and paper role play’?
[06:18] Did you learn anything from Role Playing Games that apply in your work today?
[08:05] What do you apply from your past in product design to your present in workshop design?
[19:43] What is a barcamp?
[21:48] How does this differ from an open space format?
[27:50] Can you explain Troika consulting in a little more detail?
[34:54] How do you use barcamp at quäntchen + glück - what are ‘Donedays’?
[38:49] What makes a workshop fail?
[40:53] Do you treat ‘workshop’ and ‘process’ as synonyms?
[44:12] I feel like I can sense the room in a remote workshop, is that not the same for you?
[52:49] Could you talk about your family workshops?
[58:27] What is the one thing you would like listeners to takeaway from this episode?
Links
‘Doneday’ at quäntchen + glück
Rolepay/Rollenspiel & Facilitation LinkedIn Group (German)
Facilitating For Future and Climate Activists - Climate Roundtable (German) and Template
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