Increase your creativity and satisfaction in your work

Design Thinking​ is an innovative, dynamic and human centered approach to learning, cooperating and problem solving. During the course you will get to know and experience design thinking as a structured framework for identifying challenges, developing potential solutions, refining and testing ideas. Design Thinking can be flexibly implemented in an educational environment, serving equally well as a framework for course design or structure for an activity or group project.

During this 5-day course course you will have the chance to gain knowledge about the background of design thinking good practices, but also to experience both tools and methods used on each DT stage and whole process.

You will be exposed to different types of icebreakers and energizers, including outdoor challenges.

An additional advantage of this course is the opportunity to meet people from similar European organisations and to expand your professional networks and your scope for potential future partnerships.

What is waiting for you

Design Thinking materials

Our custom-designed M-Powered Design Thinking materials will provide you with a practical knowledge, exercises, and fun!

In the bosom of nature

Spending the time in the heart of the mountains of Connemara will promote relaxation and calm.

This course features

• 5 days in a truly unique place, the Killary Lodge, which overlooks Killary Fjord on the West coast of Ireland.
• Outdoor activities (such as hiking, cycling, and climbing) in the morning and project management workshops in the afternoon. We believe that physical activity opens up the mind and creativity!
• Practical Design Thinking tools which you will test through our workshops and bring home to share with your colleagues.
• Networking with people from all over Europe who work on similar projects.
• Relaxation and reflection in one of the most beautiful places in Ireland.

Programme

Day 1: 

• Why we are here and who we are?​ – Introduction and integration
• How we would like to work?​ – Group contract development
• Benefits of Design thinking method?​ – good practices of DT

Day 2:

• Experience DT process – ​workshop
• Stage 1. Empathize– how to start DT process? – ​tools of insights development

Day 3:

• Stage 2. Define – how to diagnose the needs? –​ work with different inspiring tools
• Stage 3. Ideate – how to boost creativeness? – ​effective brainstorming

Day 4:

• Stage 4 – Prototype – how to implement the ideas? – ​three methods of prototyping
• Stage 5​ – ​Test – how to get the feedback? – ​art of giving and receiving feedbacks

Day 5:

• Whole day Design Thinking workshop​ – practice, experience and reflection.

There will be everyday outdoor challenges organised to stimulate participants’ creativity.

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Benefits

• Competences to conduct workshops and processes using the DT method
• Specific tools for carrying out each stage of the DT process
• The opportunity to practice moderating and using DT tools to work with a group
• Increased opportunities for professional and career development
• Improved foreign language competences
• Increased motivation and satisfaction in daily work
• Wider European network

Killary Lodge

Derrynacleigh, Leenane Co. Galway, Ireland

The Killary Lodge is a sensitively designed accommodation base that overlooks Killary Fjord on the Wild Atlantic Way. The center has won awards for sustainability projects and green initiatives. Built to blend into this stunning landscape of the Connemara mountains and to be kind to the environment, the accommodation base has all of the necessary facilities to ensure you have a comfortable stay. The Design Thinking workshops will take place in a relaxation room with an open turf fire and stunning views.

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