Becky Hatchett, facilitator and lead brings over 18-years consultancy experience in training development, effective communication, community engagement, hosting & facilitation, illustration & design. She is driven by a passion for promoting creativity and social wellbeing and loves to innovate around complex issues, drawing on her creative background to harvest learning and drive change. Becky is used to supporting our clients online and offline to suit their needs. Engaging, coaching and co-designing with them to reach clear, meaningful and timely outcomes. Rebecca holds academic and vocational qualifications in Art & Design, Teaching, Counselling, Mental Health First Aid, Transactional Analysis and Safeguarding.
Workshop: The Innovator's Toolkit
Date: Tuesday 16 May, 10.30am - 3.30pm (please note change of date), and Friday 09 June, 10-12 noon
Location: Session 1: The Fumbally Stables, Dublin 8, and Session 2: Online via Zoom
IDEA is inviting you to join us for the first event in our Innovation Series 2023. This interactive and engaging 2-part workshop will introduce you to Innovation, as well as methods, exercises and activities that will help you identify your creative strengths, and enable you to think about, design and frame your projects differently.
The facilitators for this very first event in IDEA’s 2023 Innovation Series are Becky Hatchett, and Stéphanie Heckman of Think Visual. The aim is to equip participants with the tools they need to push the boundaries of how they think about their work, design their activities and engage with their audiences. Think Visual is a creative engagement consultancy that develops meaningful and impactful stakeholder engagement and communication. It helps organisations transform into places where people's spirit and innovation thrive, by harnessing their inherent creativity towards finding meaningful and purposeful connection to their work, their leaders and their peers.
The challenges Global Citizenship Education works to address are always evolving. To be able to respond effectively, we need to explore new ways of thinking about our work, designing our activities and engaging with our audiences. Strengthening our ability to imagine new solutions and trialling new ideas is vital to this. This is why IDEA is providing a space for our members to experiment and push the boundaries of Global Citizenship Education, so you can harness your creativity to bring about transformational change.
“It’s about creating ‘muscle memory’ for innovative ways of thinking and acting. The only way to learn innovation is to actually take action and do things”. - Emilia Saarelainen, Innovation Fellowship Programme Manager, UNHCR Innovation Service.
The workshop will take place across 2 sessions, Tuesday 16 May, 10.30am - 3.30pm, and Friday 09 June, 10-12 noon, and the activities will be grounded in practice, offering you the chance to start designing a project (real or fictional) that relates to you and your work. This could be designing a new workshop, a ground-breaking event or looking for a solution to a challenge you’re facing.
More details to follow shortly.
Fees:
Innovator's Toolkit Workshop:
IDEA Members: €90.00
Non Members: €120.00
Unwaged ( (refugees, asylum seekers, students, others): €5.00 - this can be paid in person
A general 2-day Design Thinking and Innovation training usually costs up to €1,500 per person. So, don’t miss out this great opportunity!
The fee includes participation in both days of the training workshop, lunch as well as templates and tools to take away for each participant.
The next session in our Innovation Series 2023, is The Innovator's Studio, taking place 22 June, Richmond Barracks, Dublin 8, 10.00am – 5.00pm.
You can attend the Innovator's Toolkit Workshop or the Innovator's Studio Lab as stand alone events, but if you would like to take part in both, you can sign up for a combined reduced rate when you register below.
Fees for the Innovator's Toolkit Workshop & Innovator's Studio Lab:
IDEA Members €150.00
Non Members: €200.00
Unwaged ( (refugees, asylum seekers, students, others): €5.00 - this can be paid in person
For more information, please contact Anya Sparynska via email here
Registration for this event is closed!
Biographies
Stéphanie Heckman, co-facilitato - Stéphanie, originally from the dune coast of The Netherlands, but now living and working in Belfast has an academic background in psychology, sociology, anthropology, linguistics and strategic sustainable leadership (MSc), as well as professional training in process design and facilitation, and visual practice. Stéphanie works internationally as an independent graphic recorder, visual facilitator and illustrator, prioritising collaborations with organisations working to address the climate crisis, peace & reconciliation, and leadership development. She has recently been focused on visually supporting the global political process for addressing climate change in partnership with the UN Climate Secretariat (UNFCCC).
Dates: Thursday 10 July,10.00am-6.00pm and Friday 11 July, 10.00am-3.00pm Location: An Tairseach, Wicklow IDEA is thrilled to open applications for our second iteration of the IDEA's Lab. In this first of its kind residential Lab, we will create space where members can bring their ideas for projects and try out new planning and design methods. Participants will have the opportunity to work on an idea from scratch to (almost) finish with the support of expert trainers and learn through group exchange in a welcoming and inspiring setting. Participants will come out of the training with: An early project design proofed, tested and built through group feedback, iteration, trialling and support. New approaches in designing innovative projects they can apply to their workplace Headspace and time to work on the design of an innovative project A chance to actively learn through group exchange and strengthen the sense of an innovative community of practice in Ireland How? Please email anya@ideaonline.ie to request an application form. Requesting an application form does not commit you to applying. The deadline for returning application form (including organisational sign off letter) is Friday 23 May, midnight . You will find further details in the application form. Participants must register as a team of 2min.- 4 max. Participants without a team member will be asked to pair up with other individual participants or find a partner outside their organisation. Cost : This training is funded by Irish Aid at the Department of Foreign Affairs and offered at a reduced rate. This training is only available to IDEA members. Non-IDEA members can participant as part of an IDEA member team. Fees for members of IDEA is €50 Irish Aid is the Government’s overseas development programme which supports partners working in some of the world’s poorest countries. Irish Aid also supports global citizenship education in Ireland to encourage learning and public engagement with global issues the ideas, opinions and comments expressed in this training are entirely the responsibility of its author(s) and do not necessarily represent or reflect DFA policy. Timeline: Applications open: 07 May Applications close: 23 May, midnight Preparatory session with trainer (30min, online): Mid June Lab arrival: Where possible we advise arrival on Wednesday 09 July in the evening. Accommodation and food will be provided from 09 July, 5.00pm - 11 July, 3.00pm Lab: 10 July,10.00am-6.00pm. 11 July, 10.00am-3.00pm Please don’t hesitate to get in touch at anya@ideaonline.ie if any of the above pose a barrier to your participation, or if you have any other questions.
Wednesday 18 June, 10.00am - 4.00pm
Wynn’s Hotel, Abbey Street Lower, Dublin 1
Last week, IDEA hosted the second webinar from our 2025 series, ‘Exploring Contemporary Crises and Issues through Global Citizenship Education, ' focusing on Palestine. If you missed out, you can watch the full video below!
