Workshops & Team Development

Facilitation

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Facilitation Services

Kate offers comprehensive facilitation services grounded in positive psychology, promoting resilience, wellbeing, and lasting success.

Her engaging approach ensures participants thrive both professionally and personally, fostering growth, connection, and empowerment in all her programmes and workshops. Whether working with teams or individuals, Kate creates an environment that supports sustainable development and growth.

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Kate Birch — Facilitation

Workshops

Practical, evidence-based workshops for teams and leaders

Team Events

Offsites, strategy days and wellbeing sessions facilitated for your team

Interactive Learning

Our Workshops

Practical, evidence-based workshops designed to equip your team with the tools and mindset to flourish.

Workshop One

Working Better Together

Working Better Together is a practical, interactive workshop designed to help teams strengthen how they work with one another and reset shared expectations where needed. It supports teams to build respectful, trusting, and more connected ways of working by developing a common understanding of behaviours, communication, and accountability.

The workshop is particularly effective as a team reset following periods of change, increased pressure, or emerging tension. It provides a structured and psychologically safe opportunity to pause, reflect, and realign on how the team wants to work together going forward. Participants explore how mindset and everyday responses influence team culture, and how shifting from reactive to more deliberate, constructive behaviours can improve collaboration and trust.

Simple, accessible frameworks and tools are introduced to support open, honest, and caring communication. Common myths about trust, conflict, and team dynamics are unpacked, with a focus on what helps people feel safe, valued, and able to contribute. The emphasis is on practical application, shared language, and clear ownership, enabling teams to address issues early and strengthen day-to-day interactions.

Delivered in person, the workshop equips every participant with tools they can apply immediately, reinforcing that team culture is shaped through everyday conversations and behaviours.

Ideal target audience

Suitable for intact teams or groups working closely together. Can be delivered as:

  • a team reset following change, restructuring, or sustained pressure
  • a preventative intervention to strengthen collaboration and psychological safety
  • a development session for new teams forming or established teams wanting to improve ways of working

The workshop can be delivered to people leaders and their teams, or to team members alone.


Workshop Two

Making Conversations Count - an introduction to coaching skills for people leaders

This practical, in-person workshop supports people leaders to strengthen everyday conversations with their team members by developing core coaching and communication skills, including active listening, reflecting, paraphrasing, and asking purposeful, open-ended questions.

Participants will learn how to build trust, foster psychological safety, and have more effective conversations around performance, wellbeing, and development. Through practical exercises and real-world scenarios, leaders will gain tools to listen with intent, respond with clarity, and support staff growth in a way that encourages accountability, engagement, and collaboration.

Ideal target audience

This workshop is particularly suited to frontline and middle managers who want to build confidence in their people conversations and create a more respectful, people-focused workplace culture.


Workshop Three

Creating a Culture of Feedback and Respect

This practical workshop supports people leaders to build the confidence, structure, and skills needed to give clear, respectful feedback that strengthens performance while maintaining positive working relationships. Using well-established feedback principles and coaching-based frameworks, leaders learn how to balance honesty with empathy, and how to adapt their approach to different individuals and situations.

The workshop focuses on building an everyday feedback culture, not just managing difficult conversations. Participants practise preparing and delivering feedback, responding constructively to resistance, and maintaining respect and trust in challenging situations. A safe, supportive learning environment allows leaders to rehearse real workplace scenarios before applying the tools in their own teams.

Delivery can be in person or online and is designed to meet leaders where they are, with practical, real-world application at its core.

Ideal target audience

Frontline and middle people leaders, including those new to leadership or seeking greater confidence in performance, conduct, and wellbeing conversations.


Workshop Four

Mastering Adversity Together

In association with Blue Sky Minds

Mastering Adversity Together is a four-week, skills-based learning series designed to support mental wellbeing and sustained performance in complex, fast-paced work environments. The programme equips participants with practical strategies to manage attention, stress, and challenge more effectively, supporting resilience, focus, and constructive decision-making at work.

The sessions draw on contemporary psychological and neuroscience research and can be tailored to align with organisational context and culture. Each one-hour module is delivered in person or virtually to small, interactive groups of up to 12 participants. Participants receive a practical handout after each session to support application between modules.

The programme is delivered over four weeks, with one session per week. This spacing allows participants to practise and embed the tools in their day-to-day work, supporting habit formation and longer-term impact compared with a single intensive workshop.

Module One: Mindful Attention Training

Participants explore the role of attention in productivity, decision-making, and wellbeing. The session introduces practical techniques to improve focus and awareness, helping participants recognise how emotions and impulses influence behaviour at work.

Module Two: Understanding Your Stress Patterns

This module examines how the brain and body respond to pressure. Participants identify their own stress patterns and learn evidence-based techniques to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation in demanding situations.

Module Three: Respond, Don’t React

Focusing on common thinking patterns under pressure, this session helps participants learn how to pause, reframe, and respond more deliberately. Techniques for cultivating positive emotional states are introduced to support resilience and sustained energy.

Module Four: Working with Challenge and Uncertainty

Participants learn strategies to interrupt unhelpful thought spirals and focus attention on what is within their control. The session supports clearer thinking and more confident responses when navigating uncertainty and change.

Ideal target audience

Suitable for employees at all levels. Particularly beneficial for people working in high-pressure roles, periods of change, or complex stakeholder environments. This programme is preventative and skills-based, not therapeutic.

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Facilitation for Team Events

Create the space.
Unlock the conversation.
Achieve what matters.

Bringing your team together — whether for an offsite, strategy day, or wellbeing session — is a powerful opportunity. But too often, leaders find themselves juggling facilitation, timekeeping, and participation… and missing out on being part of the conversation itself.

That's where I come in. As your external facilitator, I work with you to design and guide the day so you can fully participate. Listening, contributing, and leading in a way that truly connects with your team.

Together, we'll create a session that is purposeful, engaging, and, most importantly, enjoyable.

What I Can Facilitate

Team Off Sites

Time away from the day-to-day to reconnect, reset, and strengthen how your team works together.

I create team off sites that:

  • Build trust and psychological safety
  • Strengthen relationships and team cohesion
  • Improve communication and collaboration
  • Surface what's working, and what's not

These sessions don't have to be confined to a conference room. I've facilitated off sites in a variety of environments, including outdoors. One client chose to combine their session with a walk across Auckland, creating space for more open, natural conversations while still achieving meaningful outcomes.

Strategy Away Days

Move beyond surface-level discussions and into meaningful, focused outcomes.

I help your team:

  • Align on priorities and direction
  • Have the conversations that really matter
  • Challenge thinking in a constructive way
  • Turn ideas into clear, actionable next steps
Wellbeing Events

Support your team to flourish — because when people feel better, they work better.

These sessions are designed to:

  • Create space for honest conversations about workload and pressure
  • Build awareness of individual and team needs
  • Strengthen resilience and sustainable ways of working
  • Embed practical wellbeing strategies into everyday habits

Why Use an External Facilitator?

Having an external facilitator changes the dynamic of the day.

  • You get to participate fully rather than manage the session
  • Conversations stay focused and productive
  • Everyone is engaged, not just the loudest voices
  • Outcomes are clear and actionable
  • And yes, I'll make sure it's an experience people genuinely enjoy
Team offsite facilitation activity
Team facilitation event in action

A Tailored Approach

No two teams are the same, so no two sessions are either. Every event is designed specifically for your team, your context, and your goals. I draw on world-class tools and approaches, including:

DISC Flow Personality insights to build self-awareness and understanding of others.
Emotional Culture Deck To help teams articulate how they want to feel — and work — together.
Workplace Rituals Deck Helps teams design regular workplace rituals that genuinely stick.
Belbin Team Roles Understanding your team's collective strengths for cohesion and efficiency.

This combination creates both practical outcomes and deeper, lasting shifts in how your team connects and performs.

Case Study

Building Connection and Readiness for Change

Client: A Finance & Actuarial Team in a large insurance company

Brief: To create an event for a newly formed team who were coming together in person for the first time, with the clear goal to build relationships, create a sense of belonging, and strengthen communication and collaboration.

Offsite One: Connection & Clarity

  • All team members completed DISC Flow profiling
  • We used the Emotional Culture Deck to explore how the team wanted to feel at their best
  • The team identified key behaviours to support success, and areas for development

The result? Greater understanding, stronger connection, and a shared language for how they work together.

Offsite Two: Sustaining Performance

Six months later, with a period of change on the horizon, the focus shifted to supporting the team to navigate what was ahead, sustainably and together.

  • Introduced team rituals to strengthen consistency and connection
  • Explored practical wellbeing strategies to manage pressure and maintain performance
  • Created shared commitments to support one another through change

The result? A more intentional, resilient team, clear on how they would move forward, together.

Let's Design Something That Works for Your Team

If you're planning an offsite, strategy day, or wellbeing event, I'd love to help you create an experience that delivers real impact — on the day, and beyond it.

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