Collaborative workshops

Workshops where your team actually produces.

Team alignment on a new project, evolving roles and missions, user-centered ideation, action plans for a new strategy, reorganizations: collaborative workshops are dedicated moments for solving complex problems. My main offer is simple: a bespoke workshop, or a workshop cycle, designed for the specific outcome you need.

Colorful workshop flipchart inviting participants to explore
Tailored to your needs

Every workshop is designed for your outcome

I don't sell formats off the shelf. Every engagement starts from your situation: what you need to produce, who needs to be in the room, and what has to be true when everyone walks out. From there I design the workshop, or the cycle of workshops, that gets you there.

The signature formats below show the kind of work I do and why it works. Treat them as a sample, not a menu: most of what I deliver is a custom design that borrows from several of them.

Damien Gauthier facilitating a session
3 h – 3 days

from focused working sessions to off-site events

2 – 80

participants, from agile team to large collaborative events

FR · EN

on-site or remote

Vision & roadmap workshops

Align your leadership team on a shared vision and turn it into a concrete, prioritized roadmap. From a one-day strategy session to a two-day off-site for 40 senior managers, the group travels through lessons learned, opening, convergence, consolidation and presentation, and owns the result, because they built it.

Benefits

  • A shared vision every stakeholder helped shape, and will defend
  • A prioritized roadmap or project portfolio, not a wish list
  • Team cohesion built through the work itself, not team-building gimmicks

Why it works

  • Co-creation and alignment: cross-team collaboration around one shared direction
  • Fast execution: ideas and decisions emerge in days, not months of committees
  • Actionable results: insights feed directly into strategic and operational decisions

Strategic Retrospective

Take stock and move forward. A situation-analysis workshop built on Lean Startup and Gamestorming tools: analyze the current situation (Force Field Analysis), build a vision (Design the Box), set up the change (Organizational Culture Mapping).

Benefits

  • Maximum engagement: interactive exercises keep teams focused and everyone participating
  • Simplicity in complexity: complex situations become explorable and concrete innovation paths emerge
  • Collective decisions: team alignment and collaborative decision-making by design

Why it works

  • Co-creation fosters alignment around a shared vision
  • A playful, engaging frame makes decisions emerge quickly
  • Outputs are directly actionable for strategic and operational steering

Department Dating

Discover the synergies hiding between your departments. Each department builds its profile, activities and strengths, then meets the others in fast one-to-one sessions to explore concrete collaborations. The workshop closes with an action and follow-up plan.

Benefits

  • Breaks silos: departments understand each other and generate cross-team projects
  • Concrete action points, ready to implement immediately
  • Stronger cohesion: a playful, interactive setting builds trust between leadership teams

Why it works

  • Engaging methodology based on the Team Canvas model, visual brainstorming and dynamic interactions
  • Immediate alignment: in a few hours, teams connect, generate ideas and define actions

LEGO® Serious Play®

Hands building LEGO models during a Serious Play workshop

Model problems and solutions with your hands. Participants build LEGO® models of their ideas, strategies and solutions, each construction is a visual metaphor that helps explore complex concepts and turn them into immediately usable solutions.

Benefits

  • Active, equal participation: everyone contributes, whatever their position in the organization
  • Deep reflection: the symbolic visual language frees participants from the judgement of others
  • Tangible results: abstract ideas become visible, and become concrete, feasible actions

Why it works

  • Deep, playful exploration in a non-intimidating environment
  • Every model anchors a strategic discussion tied to your challenges and objectives
  • Builds collaboration, communication and trust inside the team

The River of 7 Stones

The river of 7 stones board with cards

Prepare your organization for change. Based on ten years of academic research, this game takes the whole team through the seven stages of change: a full panorama of positive and negative impacts, ideas to improve the project and increase its adoption, and concrete actions to address what surfaced.

Benefits

  • A rapid, complete panorama of the change's impacts
  • Playful, collaborative participation of the entire team
  • A prioritized list of concrete actions for the next steps

Why it works

  • The seven stages surface an exhaustive list of change blockers and drivers
  • The game opens dialogue and gives everyone a place to speak
  • The team leaves with prioritized actions to mitigate the risks
And beyond

These formats are starting points

Hackathons, innovation labs, serious games, graphic facilitation, large collaborative events, every workshop I deliver is designed for your specific situation. The formats above show how I work; the right format for you might not exist yet.

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