Unlock Your Co-Design Potential - July 2025

Does your organisation want to implement more meaningful community engagement, like co-design, but not sure of your next steps?

Co-design can transform engagement and decision making, creating more impactful and sustainable solutions. Leadership and service designers are often unsure about how to implement co-design effectively or face internal resistance. This course will equip you with a tailored strategy for implementing co-design that aligns with your organisation's needs.

Our co-design experts will take you through a structured approach to evaluate where your organisation is on their co-design growth journey. You’ll gain hands-on experience developing a co-design strategy tailored to your specific context, with insights on how to choose what's appropriate for your organisation to facilitate effective, safe and inclusive engagement with internal buy-in. This 4-hour interactive session will empower you with the knowledge and tools to drive successful co-design projects.

What you’ll take away from this 4-hour online course:

• A detailed understanding of what supports or hinders co-design in your context.
• Insights on whether co-design is the right approach for your organisation at this time.
• Clarity on the type of engagement and collaboration your organisation is ready for.
• A personalised action plan to bring co-design into your organisation.
• Opportunities to connect with peers who are facing similar challenges.

This course is for you, if:

• Your organisation needs to improve the way it meaningfully collaborates and engages with people internally and externally.
• You have tried to engage people with lived experience and experienced pushback or limited success.
• You appreciate human centred design and wish to bring more of it into your team.
• You are motivated to lead, influence or support the growth of co-design with leaders and staff in your organisation.

Our co-design trainers bring their extensive experience in Human-centred design and Co-design across sectors, focusing on practical exercises for your context rather than abstract theories.

Benefits of Training with Portable

We use human-centred design and ethical co-design every day at Portable to overcome difficult challenges with practical solutions, created in collaboration with people who are seeking transformational change.

Using these practices, our team of designers, strategists and technologists have successfully delivered over 900 projects across a range of impact areas including mental health, access to justice, government innovation, and more.

Not to mention:

• Run by industry experts
• Intimate workshop size
• Engaging hands-on training

Add-on coaching sessions

At checkout you have the option to add-on 3 coaching sessions, an hour long each, to help you put co-design into your existing practice. While the course will give you practical and hands-on experience, the coaching will help you tailor your specific action plan relevant to your organisation and complexities.

These sessions are available to the participants of the course at a 10% discount.