NDB 2022
The Facilitator's Greenhouse
A warm and safe space for facilitators to find community and inspiration to grow their skills to the next level.
Weekly
Workshop Programme
Weekly
Community Programme
November 18th, 2022
24 hour Facilitation Festival
November 18th, 2022
24 hour Facilitation Festival
Innovative Facilitation
NeverDoneBefore explores the edges of the art and craft of facilitation by challenging assumptions about what makes workshops work.
Our facilitators take the risk of testing novel concepts and new ideas instead of pushing best practices and polished methods.
Together, we learn while nobody teaches. Experience and reflection are our guides towards professional and personal growth.
A Curious
Community
NeverDoneBefore brings together facilitators, trainers, coaches, team leaders from around the globe.
We created a space where everyone shows up as they are and welcome new members as if they joined their digital family.
The buddy-matching process makes it easy to find peers with and from we continuously learn synchronously in workshops and asynchronously on our platform.
NeverDoneBefore has become an Incubator to some, others refer to it as their Research & Development department. Everyone is responsible of their growth journey.
NeverDoneBefore is
Different
It is not a lean-back or a done-for-you programme. Everyone learns while nobody teaches.
While others offer best practices, polished speeches and keynotes, at NDB we don’t talk over slides. We dare to try, play with boundaries, assumptions and methods and set the trends together.
If you are ready to stretch your comfort zone and push yourself to become better in your practice: Join us!
Our Shared Agreements
Respect
We respect our shared purpose, our time, each other’s uniqueness, and ourselves.
Risk
We are willing to take risks, step playfully into the unknown, trusting that we cannot learn without failing.
Generosity
We are generous with our knowledge, our energy and each other.
Join us as a Member
Full Access
One time payment
One year - Full community access
- Curated & exclusive NeverDoneBefore workshops
- Access to all recordings
- An engaged online community
- Mentorship & buddy programme
- Member access to the Community Garden on Welo
- Full access to the NDB Festival in November
€990
Next intake: September
Full Access
Monthly instalments
Monthly payments - Full community access
- Curated & exclusive NeverDoneBefore workshops
- Access to all recordings
- An engaged & global online community
- Mentorship & buddy programme
- Member access to the Community Garden on Welo
- Full access to the NDB Festival in November
€90 per month
Next intake: September
Satisfaction guarantee
We believe in the value we deliver. Contact us to join a free taster workshop or, sign up, knowing that you can cancel your membership and get your money back without any questions asked (within 30 days for the yearly and 14 days for the monthly option).
Scholarships
It is not a lean-back or a done-for-you programme. Everyone learns but nobody teaches.
While others offer best practices, polished speeches and keynotes, at NDB we don’t talk over slides. We dare to try, play with boundaries, assumptions and methods and set the trends together.
With your Greenhouse Pass, you become a gardener as part of a global community.
Purchasing-Power Adjusted
NeverDoneBefore is an exclusive programme for a special breed of facilitators. A community composed of professionals, eager to lean into the unknown, taking risks and generously sharing their expertise.
The community’s exclusivity shall not prevent expert facilitators who share the commitment and mindset from joining.
Therefore, we offer purchasing-power-adjusted membership fees to those who live in low-income countries.
The next intake to the community is in September. Sign up for the
VIP Newsletter not to miss the opening to submit your request.
Next intake to the
Greenhouse
To facilitate the onboarding of new members to the community, you can join 4 times per year. The next cohort starts in September.
In 2022, everything we do within the NDB community follows the theme “The Facilitators’ Greenhouse”.
The Greenhouse represents a warm and nurturing space for our members to grow their skillsets and toolsets. We experiment and collaborate to invent the next facilitation trends.
The theme of 2023 will be announced in December!
What you get
A curated programme of exclusive NDB workshops that are contributed by workshops work podcast guests.
Sandbox sessions, contributed by community members who want to test a new workshop idea before launching it to a client or their company.
The NDB Buddy and Mentorship programme supports community members to grow confidence and competence to host their own ‘never done before’ workshop.
Community Programme
The Community Garden – a virtual space with 27/7 access for synchronous meet-ups and collaboration.
Weekly informal meet-ups in the Community Garden to discuss anything facilitation, business, life, personal growth and leadership.
Demo Sessions of new online collaboration tools.
Take a look
and see for yourself
Our Community Programme is getting in full swing. Take a look at our visual agenda on Mural to get a feel for what’s to come
The 2022 Festival
The festival is NDB’s flagship event. we celebrate the high art of facilitation with a 24-hours, global, online Festival. The curated workshop programme offers the newest ideas and experiments of workshops work podcast guests.
In live workshops, you get access to the un-explored and the experimental edges of facilitation.
The magic of the NeverDoneBefore Festival happens in the liminal space, between workshops, between spaces, between time.
Save the date: 18 November 2022
A new way of
collaborating
The times when you have to work by yourself on a workshop design or proposal are over.
At NDB you are no longer alone. The community generously shares – experience, information and knowledge.
And, in our community garden we can do this independent of time and space, without making appointments. With a growing global community, you will always meet someone.
24+
NDB Curated Workshops
35+
of our global community
200+
members in our online community
400+
in our co-working space
Words from our community
Aleksandra Potrykus-Majewska
Co-founder of WeWent
“In the last 9 months, I got to not only learn on a weekly basis from the podcast but also had a choice of 3 to 4 weekly offerings from workshops, open spaces, and discussions and a very active and responsive online community on Circle.
Here I could tap any time into the rich and extremely diverse knowledge and experience of the global community.”
Read the Full Article
Julio Maria Muhorro
Power Coach, Facilitator and Speaker
“NeverDoneBefore is a dream come true! From amazing people to brand new tools and exquisite expertise.
Here I feel I can find it all, and if we can’t find it, we create it!
#FeelingBlessed”
Matthew Bassett
Founder of Seshboard
“NeverDoneBefore isn’t just one of the best facilitator communities I’ve come across, but one of my favorite communities period.
There’s just something so special about having a friendly group of new and experienced facilitators coming together in the spirit of exploration, to try out brand new techniques and tools, explore new ideas, and learn from each others’ experiences in a deeply curious, open-minded and accepting way.”
Read the Full Article
Frequently Asked
Questions
To facilitate the onboarding of new members, you can join us 4 times per year: In September, January, April and July.
Members have to purchase a Pass to enter the community and can choose between a one-off payment and monthly instalments.
Those who live in a country with a weak currency can request a purchasing-power-based-price by filling in a form.
Yes! The membership includes all workshops and online events, including the 24-hours Festival and its afterglow.
All curated NDB workshops are recorded and recordings are accessible to members as long as they remain part of the community.
Many of our members don’t call themselves ‘facilitator’. The programme is self-guided and experiential in a way that we learn through participating and experiencing.
To fully benefit from the community programme, you have to be grounded in your practice so that you can reflect on the experience on a “meta-level” (with your facilitation-hat on).
We no longer have a programme for starting facilitators and recommend anyone who wants to join to be grounded in their practice so that they have the foundation to stretch.
All curated NDB workshops start at one of 4 standard times that allow a maximum number of participants to join independent of their location (in CET: 9 AM, 2 PM, 4 PM, 8 PM).
Workshops offered by community members are not restricted to a specific starting time.
our trusted partners
Dr Myriam Hadnes
NeverDoneBefore is a project of workshops.work B.V.
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