Upcoming training workshops
Advance your skills in group facilitation, problem solving, systems thinking, innovation, and visualisation.
Italy - August 2025
Unleash Your Creativity
2.5-day Visual Storytelling Retreat in Florence
- Creative confidence - Learn tricks to judge yourself less and ideate more
- Visual storytelling knowhow - Methods to put into practice in your own work
- Reignite your artistic spark - Be inspired by walks and sketching in Florence
- Find your style - Drawing and mark-making to help you explore and express your artistic voice
- Community - Join a like-minded crew of visual thinkers hungry to change themselves and change the world
In partnership with:
2.5 day in-person
Wed 23-25 August 2025
Florence, Italy 🇮🇹
€1,200
South Africa - October 2025
Introduction to Visual Storytelling
Learn simple drawing skills to translate business information into engaging visuals
- Use the flipchart and the whiteboard more confidently with simple drawing and lettering
- Listen and communicate better combining words and pictures in smart ways
- Create persuasive business narratives, and apply them to meetings and flipcharts
- Use visual frameworks in meetings, to get groups to collaborate and align more effectively
In partnership with:
1 day in-person
10 October 2025
Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦
R3,690 (Earlybird price!)
Advanced Visual Storytelling Skills
Upgrade your business drawing skills and make a greater impact with your clients and teams
- Draw even the trickiest concepts more confidently and creatively with a range of simple but effective prompts
- Increase your powers of listening and synthesis to add more strategic value to any meeting or business communication
- Level-up your lettering skills for more engagement, clarity and meaning
- Gain valuable feedback on your drawing and visual storytelling from your peers
In partnership with:
1 day in-person
11 October 2025
Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦
R3,190 (Earlybird price!)
Interested in this training for your own team?
Impact-driven learning
Learning team skills takes more than a couple of hours together in a room or Zoom, and hoping for the best. Here’s how our training is different:
Ben did an awesome job as a trainer. Clear, articulate, responsive to all questions.
Product Manager
This was an amazing course. As a PM, the importance of problem framing is not a foreign concept to me, and I still feel like I learned a lot from this training. What was really great is that I was able to workshop an actual problem I'm currently working on in the class, and I came away with some awesome new insights on that problem
Product Manager, Atlassian
Ben made it happen in a very personalized way. He harvested the problems and situations from our experiences and rolled out the course using that. This course was so far the most productive one I've attended in Atlassian
Program Manager, Atlassian
I wanted to send a big thank you for your brilliant problem framing exercises! I used them as part of a kickoff workshop with a new client and it worked a treat! It was amazing to see them look at their problem in new ways!
Sayoa Jodar, UX Researcher
After our training, I sent a meeting request to 4 Directors about an issue I have been banging on about for a couple of years now. I structured my correspondence like you said, i.e. highlighted the risk, and I have already, this evening, had responses including the following “Thanks Shirralee, your explanation of this opportunity is very helpful, and it sounds very important from a client safeguarding perspective.”... So thank you!
Principal Practitioner, The Benevolent Society
Other services
Dive into the other services we offer, either as part of our training services, or separately.
Facilitation
We run workshops for better discovery, strategy, scoping, and innovation, whether it’s in the room, Zoom, or anything in between.
Visualisation
We turn complexity into clarity, and increase your audience’s engagement with illustrations, strategy maps and diagrams, live scribing, and other visual communications.
Coaching
We help your team work better together by using our very own innovation performance coaching program as a way for them to solve a current challenge, and pitch the solution to their leadership.
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