suzanne whitby: workshops
A big part of what I do is designing and delivering workshops, learning experiences, and programmes. Facilitation makes my heart sing.
Below is an overview of some of the workshops that I offer – these span all of the different things that I do. I offer these workshops as public events, as well as tailored offerings for event organisers, communities, organisations and other groups. Most workshops can be delivered in English or German.
Curious? Want to know more about any of these workshops? Get in touch.
COMMUNICATION
From interpersonal communication to intercultural communication, and science communication to practical marketing & digital communication skills, here are some of the workshops I offer:
Clear, Confident Presentation & Speaking
Do you want to become a more impactful presenter, whilst building on your natural strengths so that you come across clearly, confidently and authentically?
I offer coaching and tailor-made workshops on every aspect of presenting and speaking, from planning and structure to crafting your content, and from designing strong visual aids to delivering your talk and managing questions with confidence.
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TetraMap® Communication Styles
Using a framework that uses nature-based metaphors, this workshop is designed to help you recognise different communication styles, identify your own style, and find ways to work successfully with people who communicate in different ways to the way that you do.
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WordPress Training
I offer three workshops (also available as one-to-one coaching) to help individuals, aspiring small business owners and change makers learn and use WordPress.
First, I offer a general “how to use WordPress” workshop. This is ideal for people who need to work with an existing WordPress website. I cover all the basics – what WordPress is, the different sections in the backend, how to create pages and posts. I also cover intermediate themes, like how to use plugins and widgets, SEO and co., design and themes, and backups. Typically this takes3-6 hours, depending on how many people and the themes we cover.
Second, I offer a “build your own website in one day” workshop. This is a hands-on workshop where… wait for it… I work with you to help you plan, design and build your website in one day. This is great for individuals, aspiring business owners, and anyone who wants to build skills whilst building a website. You’ll leave with your own website, which you can work on after the workshop in my testing area until you are ready to go live. You’ll also have the skills and knowledge you need to maintain your website moving forward.
Finally, I offer a one-to-one workshop/coaching programme for graphic designers or aspiring website developers who want to learn everything they need to design and develop WordPress websites for other people.
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Intercultural Intelligence Workshop
A fun, participatory workshop to build an understanding of communication styles across cultures, and how to build skills, knowledge and strategies to communicate and collaborate across cultural barriers.
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Non-verbal Communication Training
What are you saying without saying a word? This workshop is designed to make you aware of what our body language and voice communicates to others, and how to use that knowledge to manage our voice and body to come across confidently and consistently in everyday conversations, meetings and presentations.
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Communicating Climate & Sustainability
This workshop is all about helping you think strategically about our big beautiful brains, how they get in the way of making so-called logical decisions, and how we can build on existing communication models and behaviour change research to spark interest, engage hearts and minds, and encourage action.
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Transformative Values & Communication
Over the course of five online sessions, participants build an understanding of the social psychology of values and explore they can engage broader and deeper commitment to pro-social and pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours.
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Communication Skills for Scientists
Through my training company, SciComm Success, I offer many different workshops and communication training programmes specifically designed with scientists, researchers, engineers and academics in mind.
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SUSTAINABILITY & CLIMATE CHANGE
I offer a selection of interactive workshops and gamified experiences to help groups build an understanding of themes relating to climate change, climate solutions, and sustainable futures. These include:
Climate Fresk Workshop
An interactive, participatory workshop based on data from the IPCC reports. In 4 hours, we’ll learn the causes and consequences of climate change, and think critically about what we can do to be part of the solution.
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Circular Economy Workshop
Build an understanding of the problems that a linear economy causes, how a circular economy can tackle these problems, and how to support a sustainable, circular economy.
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Carbon Literacy Training for Everyone
A full day of Carbon Literacy Training to help individuals and teams understand why CO2 and emissions and global heating are connected, and how to reduce emissions – individually and collectively.
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Climate Solutions & Policies
In this interactive, solutions-focused workshop, we’ll use a real-time climate simulation model to work together to find policies that will keep the planet below 1.5 degrees hotter than pre-industrial levels, and explore issues of social and climate justice at the same time.
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Multi-solving & Co-benefits Workshop
When thinking about today’s social and environmental challenges, how can a multi-solving approach help to deliver solutions to many problems? A workshop to provoke critical and solutions thinking.
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Deep Time Walk (Walkshop)
Deep Time Walk is a transformative journey through 4.6bn years of Earth history via a 4.6km guided walk to encourage critical thinking about humanity’s role in today’s sustainability challenges and our role in seeking solutions.
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Climate Stories Workshop
Climate change is abstract, scary, and seemingly far away. And yet, climate change is here and all over the world, we are experiencing the impacts of a warming world.
The Climate Stories workshop is designed to make climate change personal. By harnessing the power of storytelling, participants will have an opportunity to see the connection between climate change and day-to-day activities, attitudes, and experiences.
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The Ecological Handprint
We often hear about our ecological footprint: the negative impacts that our actions have on the world. In this uplifting workshop, we’ll think about how to shift from fear, frustration and feeling stuck to exploring ways that we can have a positive impact on the world around us.
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CREATIVITY & STORYTELLING
I currently offer a small selection of workshops that involve creativity and storytelling. These include:
The Artist’s Way
A facilitated 14-week programme based on Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, a programme designed to encourage creativity, confidence, and positive change.
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Collecting and telling traditional tales
In this workshop, you will learn how to find traditional tales that interest you, and teach you how to make it yours, and then how to tell it orally in your own unique style.
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“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
― Aristotle