Effective event facilitation and collaborative process design should, in our view, be participatory and based on interactive facilitation techniques – including co-creation. This approach goes beyond conventional collaboration. It describes the capacity of groups and organisations to bring different perspectives into relationship with each other so that new insights, workable solutions, and shared ownership emerge.

Particularly in conferences, strategic retreats, or change processes, it becomes clear whether this potential is activated or left unused. What is decisive is not primarily the content, but the quality of the underlying process.

This form of participatory process design can also be learned. In the Salonhosting Academy, Ursula Hillbrand passes on the corresponding principles and methods to leaders, teams, entrepreneurs, and students.

Ursula Hillbrand facilitates a wide range of formats and contexts, including:

• Large group facilitation and large group interventions
• Interactive conferences and stakeholder dialogues
• Strategy retreats and leadership off-sites
• Kick-off meetings and launch events
• Future Backwards Conference and open space events
• Online and hybrid event facilitation
• Corporate events and facilitation skills training

The specific design is always tailored to the purpose, context, and composition of the participants.

Would you like to facilitate events yourself and design dialogue processes professionally?

You can learn this naturally and practically in our facilitation skills training workshops. Ursula Hillbrand supports organisations in the conception and delivery of events – and shares this practice simultaneously through different learning formats.

In the Salonhosting Academy, leaders, teams, entrepreneurs, and students learn how to design events and dialogue processes so that participation, clarity, and lasting outcomes become possible. The Academy is closely connected to practical work and makes proven approaches from real transformation processes accessible.