This energetic, hands-on workshop is designed to supercharge your creative problem-solving capabilities. The Ideation Intensive equips participants with proven tools and techniques to generate user-centred ideas — and the confidence to take them forward. Whether you’re designing services, products, or policies, this session will help you break out of business-as-usual thinking and unlock new possibilities.
What you’ll learn
- How to frame problems to spark creative thinking
- A range of ideation techniques
- How to create the right conditions for ideation: mindsets, environments, and facilitation tips
- Techniques for prioritising, clustering, and developing ideas into concepts
Key activities
- Problem framing for ideation
- Fast-paced individual and group ideation rounds
- Structured idea clustering and concept development
- Peer critique and idea pitching practice
Who it’s for
Ideal for service designers, innovation teams, product leads, strategists, or anyone tasked with creating new solutions or rethinking existing ones.
Format
Half, one or multi-day, in-person or virtual
Highly interactive, fast-paced format
Participants will leave with a toolkit of idea generation methods, a set of strong early-stage concepts, and the skills to facilitate ideation sessions with their own teams.
About the facilitator
All training is facilitated by Iain Barker, a highly experienced practitioner with 30 years experience leading ideation activities.
Interested?
Get in touch if you’re interested in attending an online session or want to talk about running one of these sessions in-house within your organisation.