Most workshops are 1/2-day or 1-day engagements. It all depends on the client's needs. We will work with you to find the right amount of time to accomplish your goals or we can work within your existing time constraints. We start by learning about your goals and then we build an agenda full of activities to maximize our time together. We also promise to be completely realistic about how much we can accomplish within the given time frame. We have had sessions as short as 90-minutes and as long as 5.5 days.

Absolutely not! Workshops are well-thought-out, planned, and coordinated engagements that bring people together for a specific purpose. Moreover, workshops are facilitated by a neutral third party (i.e. Mindflower). As your facilitator, we will guide you through the entire experience from planning to reporting. Still sound like a meeting? Let’s try it this way… Mindflower’s workshops are visual, creative, collaborative, dynamic, lively, and strategic. We carefully create a custom agenda to fit your needs, engage all participants, and accomplish your goals. We map out every single touchpoint and take you on a journey of thought, action, ideas, strategy, and/or creativity. We democratize the process and guide conversation to give everyone a voice. If this still sounds like “just another meeting” then we should most definitely talk because you run some phenomenal meetings!! ;-) 

Do you need to provide a general status update to your team? If so, you don’t need a workshop. Honestly, you probably just need an email but that’s another story.

Do you need to bring together a group of people to accomplish something together? Are you pushing the boundaries and exploring new territory? Are you developing a strategic plan for the future? Are you trying to reconnect as a group and build your team? You might need a workshop. This list could go on and on, so if you think you might need a workshop please contact Mindflower founder, Abby Wilkymacky using the Contact Us page.

Probably not. While we have no problem with those types of retreats or sessions, that is not what we offer. All of Mindflower’s workshops are rooted in the methodologies of Design Thinking, Creative Problem Solving, and Visual Thinking. We facilitate strategic workshops and sessions that motivate rooms of thinkers and doers to collaborate and solve problems. We run board retreats and team retreats that most definitely include some intentional team-building opportunities, but all of our activities are specifically designed to reach your goals for the day. We are more than willing to push the boundaries and explore the edges of our comfort zones, but we do this with great intention.

If you are reading this question/answer because you really want a direct answer, you will probably be frustrated by the response. The truth is: it varies. We offer value-based pricing based on the request, level of complexity, length of the session, the size of your organization, and your budget. For some clients, we embark on a robust human-centered research phase in advance of any workshop facilitation. For others, we illustrate their strategic workshop outcomes after a session. Situations like this are why our response to this question will always be “it varies”.

The more notice you can give us, the better results we can deliver! We typically book engagements that are 2 to 12 months in advance. Sometimes we have the capacity to take on shorter turnaround projects so please never hesitate to ask! Depending on the scope of your project, less notice might be just fine. As a small firm, it is not uncommon for us to hit our capacity limits for projects at any given time. If we have to turn down a project for capacity reasons, we will try to refer you to someone else but we cannot make any promises. The best way to ensure we can work together is to involve Mindflower as soon as possible so we can help you through the discovery process with enough time to implement solutions.