Creative Workshops
Gather the gold from your people, stakeholders and communities.
Unearth constructive information and valuable ideas to deliver the results you need.
Are you a leader who is frustrated with workshops that don’t work?
THE SOLUTION
It’s time to get creative.
Partner with Jacinta to create the right workshop solution for you. Jacinta designs creative processes with you to stimulate engagement and mine the gold from groups.
Gold = information to make decisions and ideas to solve problems.
Are you getting gold from your workshops?
What quality of information and ideas do you want?
Creative Workshop range from two hours to five days, or a series of workshops over a few months or a year.
Here’s a sprinkling of the hundreds that Jacinta has delivered:
Full day Energiser to re-connect teams with each other, their purpose and their goals.
Six co-creation workshops with health consumers to develop a Consumer Engagement Framework.
Collaborative conference session where 300 clinicians, patients and policy-makers identified 250 ways to measure the success of their health partnership.
Five deliberative sessions over two months for 32 diverse community members to a help water company plan and price their services and programs.
Three month program of partnership workshops to help nine organisations scope and build their partnership for a multi-million-dollar arts precinct.
Strategic planning sessions with health associations and Boards to revamp their strategies.
Four workshops with six team leaders to enrich communication, productivity and collaboration.
Consensus building workshop to reduce waste in healthcare for 20 people from government, industry, health services and unions.
Connection workshop to strengthen an infrastructure project team’s alignment to their strategy, each other and the interests of their stakeholders and customers.
A customised delivery can be tailored for your specific needs and the outcomes you want to achieve.
WHAT YOU GET
On the screen or in the room, Creative Workshops deliver:
✔ Engaged participants
✔ Productive conversations
✔ High-quality thinking
✔ Constructive information
✔ Valuable ideas
✔ Agreed actions
✔ Solutions to problems
✔ Decisions that stick
✔ Meaningful results
Creative workshops are ideal for you if you want to:
Unearth valuable ideas from your groups.
Engage your stakeholders to help you solve a problem.
Connect with your community and find out what matters to them.
Improve collaboration and cohesion across your teams and organisation.
Develop and deliver strategy across your organisation.
Get more value from your partnerships.
What’s included:
Creative Workshops experiences involve design, delivery and debrief.
Click the headings below for the details of what’s included…
>> Design
- Immersion in your key documents - the topic, your organisation and the participants.
- Discovery workshop to nail purpose, clarify outcomes, design workshop activities and preparatory communication with participants.
- Discussions with key participants to tailor the workshop (up to 10).
- Co-create design with you, featuring innovative solutions to workshop challenges.
- Collaborate with your team on venue reconnaissance, to develop content, materials, and finesse presentations, talks and Q&As.
>> Deliver
- Welcome video from Jacinta for participants with workshop tips and reflection questions to build trust and help them focus.
- Facilitate highly engaging, interactive and visual workshops, in a room or on the screen. For 5 to 50.
- Live capture of insights, decisions or actions.
- Live feedback from participants about their experience.
- Recording of online plenary discussions to review and capture nuances and quotes.
>> Debrief
- Summary capturing who participated, what they did and what they said.
- De-brief meeting with you – what worked, what could be even better, what more is needed.
WHO'S JACINTA?
Jacinta Cubis is a facilitation and engagement expert who helps organisations like yours to design and deliver gatherings that elicit the ‘gold’ you need.
Jacinta brings more than 25 years of facilitating engagement, collaboration and partnerships to the stage and screen.
She is trusted by clients in federal, state and local government, universities, health, transport, environment, water, environment, disability and social service sectors.
One of the things that sets Jacinta apart is that she thinks in pictures - fast! Her cartoons make it easy for people to talk about the hard stuff.
Jacinta holds accreditations in community engagement (IAP2) and as a partnership broker, along with tertiary qualifications in corporate social responsibility, international relations and communications.
Jacinta lives in Melbourne and works anywhere - online and on-site.
When Jacinta is not gathering gold, you might find her on her yoga mat, in her art studio, on the tennis court or the tango dance floor.
WHAT CLIENTS SAY
“Thanks for bringing so much energy and dynamism to each of the workshops you facilitated, Jacinta – we’ve gathered some fascinating insights from the University community to inform our Global Strategy, which was the key goal!”
Douglas Proctor, Pro Vice-Chancellor Global Engagement, Swinburne University of Technology
“Jacinta was excellent. She managed the session with our board (their first in-person meeting in over a year due to COVID) brilliantly - everyone contributed and it felt like a really safe space thanks to Jacinta. And most importantly, our strategic plan got the spring clean it needed.”
Tom Symondson, CEO, Victorian Healthcare Association
"Jacinta set us up for success by modelling engagement and co-creation from the start, both with our team and our consumers. Jacinta has left us with a clear map to sustain our vastly improved approach to consumer engagement."
Justine Carder, Program Manager, Paediatric Integrated Cancer Services, Victoria
"Jacinta did a fantastic job facilitating a room full of engagement professionals at the Community Engagement Summit. Jacinta’s natural facilitation skills made everyone in the room feel at ease, with lots of laughs and connections made. Jacinta clearly is an expert facilitator, and I’d highly recommend her for any complex community or stakeholder engagement project!”
Darius Turner, Co-Chair, Community Engagement Summit Series
“Jacinta has a gift for community engagement design and facilitation. Authentic, well considered and passionate in her approach, she creates a safe and supportive environment for people to fully engage with the issues. The great thing about her collaborative approach is that my team learns something new every time they meet with her.”
Karen Wilden, Executive Branch Director, ACT Government
“Sessions with Jacinta are such a breath of fresh air. Creative, well-paced and fun - and super inclusive. If you are looking for a facilitator who can bring the *whole* room along on the journey, you've found them!”
Steven Weir, Community Engagement Specialist, Lendlease
“I don’t hesitate to refer people to Jacinta when they're looking for a facilitator. Her energy and creativity are brilliant, as is her focus on outcomes. She prods you with just the right questions, gently and with a sense of humour.”
Belinda MacLeod-Smith, Consumer lead, Safer Care Victoria
“Our board was buzzing after a weekend online with Jacinta. I didn’t know if online strategic planning would work, but Jacinta proved it can. She made it engaging, fun and productive. We powered through our work, and left energised, not exhausted. I’ve already recommended Jacinta to another Board.”
Doris Whitmore, Chair, Tweedle Child and Family Health Service
NEXT STEPS
Let’s talk about what gold you want to get from your next workshop.