Curious how people approach having music playing in the background during their workshops. • Do you put a lot of energy into designing a playlist? • Does it depend on the group with whom you're working? Feel free to share your thoughts! I included a link to a new song I discovered this week. Enjoy!

I am back in Australia after enjoying a wonderful 3 months touring Italy and surrounding countries. (although it was so hot) so I know we have seen some decline but you will see a lot more of me in the future. @David Newman Kicking off my new website Will Stammers Design Leader It's taken a lot of work, but I went live 3 days ago and landed on 3 core services: 1) Facilitation of Quick Wins - Short and Sharp and my favourite Design Sprint 2) Evolution of Services and Products - Service and Product Design 3) Digital and Product Transformation - Supporting Strategy & Advisory Services If you have time, I would love you to check it out at https://www.willstammersdesignleader.com/ All feedback is welcome, and you can email me at wstammers@gmail.com Some other areas of interest from the group: 1 - Pricing Strategy: I would also greatly appreciate any pricing strategies for the delivery of Facilitation. I do not want to deliver this at an hourly rate but as a package and price it as a get-your-feet-in-the-door proposition. I will mainly support Australia so any guidance would be most welcome. I think @Jonathan Courtney you had some guidance here, to that you shared after we just kicked off the club. 2 - Getting the message out there: I have started to write blog posts and launch them on LinkedIn to bring people to my site. Are there any other locations people have found to be successful? Well hope this finds you well, and I look forward to your guidance, collaboration and most of all engaging with you fine people!

What are some of your go-to exercises when facilitating UX or Product Discovery workshops? EDIT: I figured I didn't elaborate on his topic more, sorry for that! I didn't mention I actively do these. 🤓 So I am more interested in your experiences with some "unusual" workshop exercises besides those "standard" ones (like empathy mapping, feature bucketing, etc.) From my experience, some of the exercises I actively use are contextual mapping, empathy mapping (preferably if there are people we can find for interviewing), customer journey mapping (current vs. desired, might add HMWs to this exercise as well), feature prioritization and hierarchy, AttrakDiff scale, etc.

Hey squad! ✌️ hoping to get some advice about mapping 'shops, Currently running both EM & CJM to help my team align on how users experience various flows in our digital product, however the more I run these workshops, the more I feel like what we learn in EM can get discovered in the CJM, if we consider including the Thinking, Feeling, Seeing & Doing during the phases ('Doing' and 'Feeling' already covered in more depth during CJM anyway) Has anyone had any experience with running a workshop where both these maps were combined? Any pitfalls or advantages you experienced? or potential stumbling blocks you encountered? Any advice would be great! Thanks!

Hello Facilitators👋 I'm really curious about where everyone is from. I'd love to make this a mega post where we can see how diverse the Facilitator Club community is. Who knows, you might find a lot more people in your area than you thought! Once I have lots of answers on this post, I want to make a nice graph!