Leading Design Through Facilitation
3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
A facilitation course for designers ready to lead with confidence and run workshops that drive real progress.
Leading Design Through Facilitation
3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
A facilitation course for designers ready to lead with confidence and run workshops that drive real progress.
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Course overview
Lead workshops that drive clarity, action, and alignment.
This is a hands-on course for designers and product managers who want to level up their facilitation skills and lead workshops that actually drive clarity, alignment, and action.
Over 3 weeks, you’ll learn how to plan sessions with purpose, choose the right formats, and confidently guide teams through messy problems—turning collaboration into momentum.
Who is this course for
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This course is for mid to senior-level designers and product managers who want to lead workshops with more confidence and clarity.
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Those stepping into strategy conversations, project kickoffs, or messy team dynamics.
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People who ever felt unsure how to structure a session or hold space for collaboration.
Prerequisites
This course is not for juniors or those just starting.
It’s best suited for mid to senior-level designers already working cross-functionally and wanting to upskill.
No formal facilitation experience required.
You should be comfortable working in cross-functional teams and curious. Basic familiarity with tools like Miro or FigJam is helpful.
What you’ll get out of this course
Facilitate workshops and team sessions that create clarity, alignment, and next steps.
Learn to lead structured conversations that move projects forward—no more meandering meetings.
Lead without formal authority by guiding teams through structured conversations.
Build the confidence to hold the room, guide decisions, and create space for alignment—even if you’re not the loudest voice in the room.
Apply facilitation to real design challenges, from discovery to delivery.
Run retros, strategy sessions, and ideation workshops that turn complexity into clarity.
Use templates and tools to confidently run retros, kickoffs, and more.
Get example boards and agendas you can adapt to your team, format, and challenge—no guesswork required.
Leave with a facilitation toolkit you’ll actually use.
Plan, document, and reflect with confidence using the same systems I’ve used to lead 35+ workshops in fast-paced product teams.
What’s included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Carolina Poll in a real-time, interactive format.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Certificate of completion
Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.
Resources and templates
You will have exclusive access to Carol's templates, checklists and others.
Maven Guarantee
This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.
Course syllabus
6 live sessions • 61 lessons
Week 1
Oct
7
Introduction to Workshop Facilitation
Tue 10/711:30 AM—1:30 PM (UTC)Oct
9
Structure & Flow
Thu 10/911:30 AM—1:30 PM (UTC)
Foundations
Week 2
Oct
14
Planning Workshops
Tue 10/1411:30 AM—1:30 PM (UTC)Oct
16
Tried & Tested Formats
Thu 10/1611:30 AM—1:30 PM (UTC)
Designing Collaboration
Week 3
Oct
21
Facilitating Live
Tue 10/2111:30 AM—1:30 PM (UTC)Oct
23
Keeping Momentum
Thu 10/2311:30 AM—1:30 PM (UTC)
Facilitation in Action
Bonus
Resources & templates
What people are saying
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Mary Tresa Gabriel
Rosie Evans-Krimme
Christoph Poyault
Meet your instructor
Carolina Poll
17 years on Design | Strategic Product Designer & Workshop Facilitator
I’m Carolina Poll, a Strategic Designer, UX Consultant, and Workshop Facilitator with over a decade of experience helping startups and scale-ups build better products, faster.
I’ve led design and product teams across Europe and Latin America, worked with companies like CoachHub and Taxfix, and facilitated hundreds of workshops—from scrappy remote sprints to high-stakes strategy sessions.
After mentoring dozens of designers, I realized many of them struggle not with design itself, but with collaboration—getting buy-in, running productive meetings, and turning fuzzy problems into clear next steps.
That’s why I’m here:
To teach facilitation as a superpower for designers—because the ability to lead better conversations can completely change how you work, how you’re perceived, and the impact you make.
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Leading Design Through Facilitation
Course schedule
4-6 hours per week
Tuesdays & Thursdays
1:30pm - 3:30pm CEST
Live and hands-on sessions of about two hours.
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