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Co-design can transform engagement and decision making, creating more impactful and sustainable solutions. Leadership and service designers are often unsure about how to implement co-design effectively or face internal resistance. This course will equip you with a tailored strategy for implementing co-design that aligns with your organisation's needs.
Our co-design experts will take you through a structured approach to evaluate where your organisation is on their co-design growth journey. You’ll gain hands-on experience developing a co-design strategy tailored to your specific context, with insights on how to choose what's appropriate for your organisation to facilitate effective, safe and inclusive engagement with internal buy-in. This 4-hour interactive session will empower you with the knowledge and tools to drive successful co-design projects.
Training
Upcoming workshop
Preparing your organisation for meaningful collaboration.
Unlock Your Co-Design Potential
March 2025
Does your organisation need to implement more meaningful community engagement, like co-design, but not sure of your next steps?
$995
WEDNESDAY
05 MARCH 2025
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM AEST
What you’ll take away from this 4-hour online course:
- A detailed understanding of what supports or hinders co-design in your context.
- Insights on whether co-design is the right approach for your organisation at this time.
- Clarity on the type of engagement and collaboration your organisation is ready for.
- A personalised action plan to bring co-design into your organisation.
- Opportunities to connect with peers who are facing similar challenges.
Co-Design Coaching
Add-on Sessions
At checkout you have the option to add-on 3 coaching sessions, an hour long each, to help you put co-design into your existing practice. While the course will give you practical and hands-on experience, the coaching will help you tailor your specific action plan relevant to your organisation and complexities.
$600
THREE SESSIONS
EACH 1 HOUR LONG
- Only one needs to be purchased per business; multiple participants may take advantage of the coaching
- Available at a 10% discount to those who take the Co-Design course
This course is for you, if:
- Your organisation needs to improve the way it meaningfully collaborates and engages with people internally and externally.
- You have tried to engage people with lived experience and experienced pushback or limited success.
- You appreciate human centred design and wish to bring more of it into your team.
- You are motivated to lead, influence or support the growth of co-design with leaders and staff in your organisation.
Co-Design Toolkit
Portable's playbook: The Co-Design Toolkit
In addition to your time in the course, you will walk away with an action plan template, extra reflective activities and additional resources. It's a kit of co-design support to make sure the lessons and tools of they day can be implemented into your every day practice.
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Benefits
Perks of training with Portable
Led by our experts
Our workshops are run by experienced Portable leaders who work with our clients to research, design, implement, and improve products and services that make a real impact on the lives of those they serve.
Intimate workshop sizes
Restricting the number of attendees in our workshops ensures that you’re given the opportunity to take full advantage of the content and our facilitators. Invest your time with confidence that it will develop your knowledge and skills to practically apply to your next project.
Hands-on training
We understand the value of learning by doing. That’s why our workshops are designed to provide you with a combination of fundamental theory, practical exercises and thought-provoking discussions. You’ll also receive our Ethical Human Centred Design Toolkit to support your future projects.
Team
The people powering our training
As an award winning co-design coach and Principal Design Strategist at Portable, Belinda is responsible for driving human-centred design principles, and challenging clients to always design with the end-user and communities in mind.
Belinda uses qualitative research and design thinking to develop, facilitate and synthesise co-design and research projects to better understand the core problems that shape potential solutions for clients.
Need training for your team, department or entire organisation?
As experts in capability building, the Portable team regularly facilitates co-design and ethical human-centred design workshops with organisations across each of our key impact areas including mental health, justice, the public sector and more.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our Develop Your Co-Design Strategy course has been designed for leaders with experience with human-centred design.
We recommend that participants have attended a course or having a working knowledge before attending this course.
With our experts there to support you throughout the session, we’re confident that you’ll find the course to be engaging and enjoyable while ensuring that you walk away with the tools to succeed.
Our Develop Your Co-Design Strategy course is facilitated using Miro and Zoom. While there is no prior knowledge required, we do recommend creating an account for these programs and ensuring that you have a reliable internet connection on the day.
You’ll receive an email in the week leading up to the event which covers everything you’ll need to be ready on the day.
Once the session is complete, you’ll be given access to the course content, the Develop Your Co-Design Strategy Toolkit, and the appropriate contact details to ensure that you can apply the skills you’ve gained out in the real world.
We’re always updating our planned courses so be sure to sign up to our waiting list if you feel that the upcoming training sessions aren’t suitable.
It’s important to note that the primary content covered in our Develop Your Co-Design Strategy courses remains consistent across all sessions. We assign impact areas and sectors as a way of guiding the attendees to attend sessions likely to contain individuals from similar industries to facilitate more engaging conversations in working groups.
We sure do! Portable regularly facilitates co-design and ethical human-centred design workshops with organisations across mental health, justice, the public sector, and more.
Speak with our team today to find out more about booking a tailored session for your organisation.
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