Designing collaborative workshops that produce results

A free one-hour webinar on designing workshops and co-creation sessions that produce usable outcomes, not just discussion.

Collaborative workshops absorb a great deal of time, and many end with little more than a wall of sticky notes and a promise to follow up. This free one-hour webinar from the Institute for Methods Innovation and the ATLIC project (Atlantic Innoblue Communities) shows you how to design workshops, co-creation sessions and participatory meetings that finish with something people can act on.

Daniela Martin, Director of Communications at the Institute for Methods Innovation, will present four design principles: designing backwards from a defined output; sequencing a session to open up, analyse and close down; choosing methods that manage power and status in the room; and capturing decisions so that follow-through happens.

Two published examples ground the principles in practice: the ATLIC Project white paper, which shows co-creation working at transnational scale across France, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, including honest reflection on what proved difficult; and the Elevate Co-lab co-creation guidelines, which show the same thinking applied to a single well-designed session.

Everyone who attends receives both documents after the webinar.

Who should attend

The session is designed for researchers running engagement or co-production activities, impact and engagement professionals, and coordinators of collaborative or transnational projects.

What you will take away

You will leave with a one-sentence design statement to write before any agenda, a three-part structure for sequencing collaborative work, established methods for reducing the influence of hierarchy on group decisions, and a follow-up routine that turns session outputs into action within two working days.

Practical details

Tuesday 25 August 2026, 3 pm to 4 pm (CEST), online and free of charge.

The hour comprises around forty minutes of presentation followed by time for your questions.

ATLIC is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Atlantic Area Programme.