**WRAP-UP**

Isn't it the most beautiful job in the world to enable people to play?

Talking about that:

Don't we forget to play when we grow up, even though it is the most normal thing in the world when we are children? I go even further: it would be disturbing if a child could not play.

So what happens to our creativity if we don't give it the space it needs?

Today I welcome Manuel Grassler, a playful thinker, a playpreneur. His mission is bringing playful methodologies into the business environment and helping people solve complex problems with a playful manner.

Manuel is a workshop facilitator and trainer for methods such as lego serious play, playmobil pro or card-based tools, among others.

In this episode you will learn

- What the difference is between game and play

- How a facilitator can bring his participant to adopt a playful thinking

- What the benefits are of such an experience for the participant?

**CONTACT - LA WORKSHOPPEUSE / Nathy Ravez**

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**Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse

Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez)

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**LINK- Guest**

Manuel Grassler

**Linkedin profile:**[https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgrassler/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgrassler/)

**Webside:** [https://manuelgrassler.com](https://manuelgrassler.com/)

****LSP® Playing Cards Business Edition English :****

********[https://manuelgrassler.com/product/lsp-playing-cards-business-edition/](https://manuelgrassler.com/product/lsp-playing-cards-business-edition/)

**Reference Book**:

James Carse „Finite and Infinite Games“

Simon Sinek “ The infinite Game”

**Wrap-Up**

In this episode, I meet **Jakob Knutzen**, co-founder and CEO of Butter, the platform by excellence to prepare and run collaborative remote sessions.

**Online workshops as smooth as butter!**

But Butter is not only a platform with all other tools, like Miro, Mural, Mentimenter, Youtube integrated but also a wonderful community of facilitators or a lot of persons

So Jakob will tell us how he founded Butter and of course we will talk about the platform, the community and facilitation.

We talk about :

👉🏻 His path from consultant to co-founder and CEO of Butter

👉🏻 The creation of the butter platform

👉🏻 The power of the butter community

👉🏻 Why facilitation the skill of the future is

**CONTACT - LA WORKSHOPPEUSE / Nathy Ravez**

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Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez)

Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa)

**LINK & DISCOUNT CODE**

👏👏> >**Butter Discount for podcast audience**👏👏 :

**30% discount** on Butter's annual plans using the code **NATHY30** at checkout.

**Webside:** [https://www.butter.us](https://www.butter.us/)

Jakob Linkedin Profile:[https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakobknutzen/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakobknutzen/)

Joint the amazing Butter Community: [https://community.butter.us/home](https://community.butter.us/home)

Butter - Youtube Channel: [https://www.youtube.com/@Butter_HQ](https://www.youtube.com/@Butter_HQ)

Anamaria - Community Manager : [https://www.linkedin.com/in/anamariadorgo/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/anamariadorgo/)

**WRAP-UP**

In this episode I have the pleasure of welcoming Pedram Parasmand from London. We both met in automn 2022 on linkedin and immediately had a great connection.

Pedram is a workshop facilitator, co-founder and CEO of The Skills lab, which helps companies onboard new employees, implement learning programmes and courses, develop leadership, develop teams and implement organisational change programmes.

He also created the Workshop Mastery programme to help business owners, consultants and coaches deliver workshops that make a big impact and leave a lasting impression on their clients.

We talk about it:

👉🏻 His journey from physics teacher to qualified workshop facilitator and founder of The Skills Lab.

👉🏻 How to create impactful and accessible workshops for clients.

👉🏻 The importance of framing the workshop around the participants and their needs.

👉🏻 Pedram presented its incredible programme: The Workshop Mastery Programm

**CONTACT - LA WORKSHOPPEUSE / Nathy Ravez**

🙏🏻 Share with me your thoughts about this episode or what you would like to hear in this podcast.Feeling inspired by the conversation in this episode?

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**Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse

Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez)

Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa)

**LINK- Pedram Parasmand**

**Linkedin profile:**[https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedramparasmand/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedramparasmand/)

**Webside:** [https://www.theskillslab.com/](https://www.theskillslab.com/)

🎉🎁 **GIFT** - **15% Discount** on **The Workshop Mastery Program**

**The Workshop Mastery Programm:**

[https://www.theskillslab.com/workshop-design-mastery-programme](https://www.theskillslab.com/workshop-design-mastery-programme)

Pedram offers a 15% discount on the programme for the podcast listeners who book a consultation call and go on to sign up for the programme

To let him know you’re one of the podcast listeners you just need to type 'There's a Workshop for That' in the 'How did you hear about us?' question on the consultation call survey.

**DOWNLOAD his free facilitation guide here:**

[https://theskillslab.com/sppark-facilitation-guide](https://theskillslab.com/sppark-facilitation-guide)

**WRAP-UP**

In this episode I welcome Mariusz Posadowski from Poland, a product designer, workshop designer and facilitator and the owner of the Instagram account uxwork.space with 35,000 followers.

He leads a team of nearly 30 designers and has changed the work culture in his company by implementing facilitation and workshops to improve collaborative work performance.

We talk about it:

👉🏻 When he started on instagram, what is the purpose of the uxwork.space account and how he has grown this amazing community

👉🏻 How he discovered facilitation

👉🏻 How he integrated his facilitation skills into his work at his company

👉🏻 How facilitation enables teams to work better together

👉🏻 He gives us an overview of the online course he created

And finally, Mariusz 🎅🏻reveals his Christmas present 🎄 🎁for the podcast audience.

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> We can have our own and you could also be the next podcast guest if you wish to :)

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**LINK**

**Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse

Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez)

Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa)

**Mariusz Posadowski**

Linkedin profile: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariusz-posadowski-a9705112/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariusz-posadowski-a9705112/)

Webside:

[https://www.wavesmelons.com](https://www.wavesmelons.com/)

🎉🎁 GIFT🎅🏻🎄 - 10% Discount for Mariusz Course :

👋🏻 Use the Coupon CODE to get this discount : **PODCAST10** on the webside

Reference

Book : Sprint from Jake Knapp

[https://www.thesprintbook.com](https://www.thesprintbook.com/)

The Workshopper Master Programm from AJ&Smart:

[https://www.workshopper.com/courses/workshopper-master](https://www.workshopper.com/courses/workshopper-master)

**WRAP-UP**

In this episode, Karla Ramos, founder of Tribe of Agile, is my guest.

She is an experienced agile coach and trainer who has been partnering with companies to help them reach a higher level of performance for over a decade.

As she explained during our interview, beyond her expertise in agile methods, she wanted to deepen her knowledge and skills in facilitation. That's how we met at a facilitation retreat last summer.

We talk today about

👉🏻 Her incredible career path

👉🏻 The skills she learned in her first job as a student that will help her throughout her career

👉🏻 The reason she left her comfort zone at the top of her career to find what she really wanted to do.

👉🏻 How she discovered her passion for agile methodology.

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**LINK**

**Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse

Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez)

Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa)

**Karla Ramos**

Linkedin profile: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/karla-judith-ramos/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karla-judith-ramos/)

**Karla’s Linkedin:**

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/karla-judith-ramos/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karla-judith-ramos/)

**Tribe of Agile Linkedin**

[https://www.linkedin.com/company/tribe-of-agile/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tribe-of-agile/)

**Tribe of Agile Website:**

[https://tribeofagile.com/](https://tribeofagile.com/)

Reference

Book : Sprint from Jake Knapp

[https://www.thesprintbook.com](https://www.thesprintbook.com/)

In this new episode, I talk to Michael Lewrick. He is the author of four international bestsellers, in which he describes the mindful transformation of people, teams, ecosystems and organizations

In this new episode, we talk about

👉🏻 What is Design Thinking? What does this word combination mean?

👉🏻 Where Design Thinking comes from and what was his own Starting point on this topic?

👉🏻 What are the challenges of companies in maintaining a customer-centric ability?

👉🏻 How to overcome these challenges with projects based learning

👉🏻  How 50 skilled facilitators failed the egg challenge

👉🏻  His books and the templates he create for facilitate Design thinking Workshops

🙏🏻 Share with me your thoughts about this episode or what you would like to hear in this podcast.Feeling inspired by the conversation in this episode?

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**LINK**

**Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez)

Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa)Coming soon : [www.laworkshoppeuse.com](http://www.laworkshoppeuse.com/)

**Michael Lewrick**

Linkedin profile: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-lewrick/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-lewrick/)

There are many basic books about design thinking in the market, but for all those who want to apply desing thinking at level 4, the new book "Design Thinking for Business Growth" by Michael Lewrick is the perfect guide to the future!

Link: [https://en.business-ecosystem-design.com/](https://en.business-ecosystem-design.com/)

Design Thinking Retreat in Bali (Indonesia)

Link: [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michael-lewrick_design-thinking-retreat-activity-6995704608077574144-fudG?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michael-lewrick_design-thinking-retreat-activity-6995704608077574144-fudG?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop)

In this new episode, I talk to the lovely Rebecca Courtney.

She is a facilitation coach at AJ&Smart, whose CEO is no other than her brother Jonathan.

She is currently working on a new facilitation course which will be launched in December and has an interesting background, having started her career in education as a teacher.

I first met Rebecca online, as she facilitates the bi-weekly Master Workshopper programme community calls, and I also had the chance to meet her personally in Italy at the exclusive event organized by AJ&smart in Italy.

In this episode, we talk about the following.

👉🏻 Her background as a teacher and how she stepped out of her comfort zone to take on a new challenge as a facilitation coach.

👉🏻 Her role as a facilitator for Workshopper Master community calls.

👉🏻 How she suddenly started to love the research work (which she didn't like that much in the past) for the preparation of the new facilitation course, which AJ&Smart will launch by the end of the year.

👉🏻 And how her first workshop went in front of 50 highly skilled facilitators and her learnings from that experience.

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I hope you’ll enjoy this new episode 😃

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**LINK**

**Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez)

Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/bp/nathyravez/free-call-30-min)

Coming soon : [www.laworkshoppeuse.com](http://www.laworkshoppeuse.com/)

**Rebecca Courtney** - Facilitation Coach

Linkedin profile:[https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-courtney-928347241/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-courtney-928347241/)

**AJ&Smart**:

[https://www.linkedin.com/company/aj&smart/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aj&smart/)

[https://www.instagram.com/ajsmartdesign/](https://www.instagram.com/ajsmartdesign/)

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**LINK**

**Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez)

Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/bp/nathyravez/free-call-30-min)

Coming soon : [www.laworkshoppeuse.com](http://www.laworkshoppeuse.com/)

Rebecca Courtney - Facilitation Coach

Linkedin profile:[https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-courtney-928347241/](https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-courtney-928347241/)

AJ&Smart:

[https://www.linkedin.com/company/aj&smart/](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aj&smart/)

[https://www.instagram.com/ajsmartdesign/](https://www.instagram.com/ajsmartdesign/)

**WRAP-UP**

In this new episode I talk to my workshop design sparring partner, Matthew Shipp👏.

He has a passion for facilitating process improvement through process mapping, pain points and identifying opportunities using the most skilled people available to identify challenges and create solutions, their team!

He is a team productivity coach and founder of Emberi Solutions, a three-step workplace effectiveness program, designed for startups owner and operators.

He helps companies find their inefficiencies and optimize workflow.

And by the way, he loves coffee, wine and Burbon .

We met last summer in Italy at a very exclusive facilitation event.

In this new episode, we talk about.

👉🏻 The nickname he got from the Workshopper Master Community

👉🏻 His journey from research lab technician to setting up his facilitation business

👉🏻 Why it's important to understand how clients work and adapt our facilitation approach to their needs and availability

👉🏻 Why he creates a custom asynchronous workshop and how it works

I hope you enjoy this new episode 😃

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I hope you’ll enjoy this new episode 😃

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**LINK**

**Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse

Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez]

(https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez)

Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa)

Coming soon : [www.laworkshoppeuse.com](http://www.laworkshoppeuse.com/)

**Matthew Ship**

Linkedin profile: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewshipp]

(https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewshipp/)

Emberi Solutions: [https://emberisolutions.com](https://emberisolutions.com/)

Email: [email protected]

References:

Upshot Coffee: [https://weareupshotcoffee.com/](https://weareupshotcoffee.com/)

**Wrap Up**

In this new episode, I talk to my friend Andra Stefanescu, my workshop Jedi.

She is a neuromindfullness coach, and has facilitated over 200 workshops in the last two years.

She helps teams to quickly create valued results using different trainings and techniques, and even legos and playmobil in her strategy workshops.

In this new episode, we talk about.

👉🏻 Neuroscience & the 6 personality types and how to deal with them

👉🏻 Why 80% of innovation projects fail and how we can avoid or reduce some difficulties

👉🏻 How playmobils and legos can help teams visualise objectives during a workshop

👉🏻 How to bring participants to the forefront with the "back of the room" training technique.

I hope you enjoy this new episode 😃

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Feeling inspired by the conversation in this episode?

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Send me an email at: [[email protected]]

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**LINKS**

**Nathy Ravez** - La Workshoppeuse

Email : [[email protected]]

Linkedin : [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez]

Book a free 30 minute call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa]

Coming soon: [www.laworkshoppeuse.com]

**Andra Stefanescu**

Linkedin profile: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andracristianastefanescu/]

If you would like to attend one (or both) of the events she is organising in Q3/2022:

Click on the links below to book your tickets:

👉🏻 Tuesday, 25 October 2022 - 09:00 - 12:30 CET

How to get tangible results using Design Sprint exercises?

[https://www.eventbrite.at/e/design-sprint-bootcamp-tickets-430338763827]

👉🏻 Tuesday, 2 November 2022 - 09:00 - 12:30 CET

How to gamify your workshops to engage your participants and get them into their creative flow?

[https://www.eventbrite.at/e/how-to-gamify-your-workshops-and-trainings-tickets-430339806947]

**References**:

Julia Key: The serious Games Podcast on Spotify

**Books**

👉🏻Training from the back of the room - written by Sharon L.Bowan

👉🏻 Seriouswork - written by Sean blair, Marko Rillo & Partners

👉🏻 The serious play Lego method - written by Sean Blair

**WRAP-UP**

In this first episode, I share with you how this podcast started. How the so-called "Worshopper Master" programme initiated by AJ&smart -a Berlin-based digital product design studio- gave me the knowledge I needed to become more confident in my work as a facilitator with companies whose teams and industries I don't know.

As this is a first episode, I'll take the time to introduce myself and tell you

👉🏻 where I am from

👉🏻 what my mother brought to my way of working

👉🏻 what my career milestones were and what they taught me

👉🏻 how I made the decision to start my own workshop facilitation business

👉🏻And how I met this community of workshop facilitators with whom I exchange, work and who will be the protagonists of this podcast throught the Workshopper master Programm of AJ&Smart

**I interview 5 of my facilitators mates**, in a beautiful summer atmosphere around the pool, in the centre of the workation village where we met at the end of August 2022 (The sound is (you can hear the sound of the water and some people chatting in the background, but that's what we call live 🤪 ).

And because you always have to end on a high note, **Jonathan Courtney - CEO of AJ&Smart** shares with me his first impressions on the last day of the workshopper 2022 retreat, organised by him and his colleagues.

👍🏻To not miss the next episode, subscribe to the show via your podcast player.

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**LINK**

NATHY RAVEZ - La Workshoppeuse

Email: [email protected]

Linkedin: [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathyravez)

Book a 30 min free Call: [https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa](https://doodle.com/meeting/organize/id/epQP5VNa)

Coming soon : www.laworkshoppeuse.com

AJ&SMART

Youtube channel : [https://www.youtube.com/c/AJSmart](https://www.youtube.com/c/AJSmart)

If you want to know how to become a top 1%, high-paid facilitator, click on the following link:

[https://go.ajsmart.com/step1?utm_source=crm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vsl-funnel-b](https://go.ajsmart.com/step1?utm_source=crm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=vsl-funnel-b)