Workshop Templates
Ready-made workshop agendas – free and ready to use.
These workshop templates are ready-made agendas for different workshop formats. Each template contains every phase with timings and facilitation notes – free, no sign-up, works directly in your browser.
Check-in & Check-out
Emotional anchors at the start and end of a workshop — builds presence, connection and reflection in just 5-10 minutes.
Dot Voting
Fast, democratic prioritisation with sticker dots — ideal after brainstorms or gallery walks to surface top themes.
Design Thinking Workshop
A full-day Design Thinking workshop covering all five phases: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test.
Fishbowl
Discussion format with an inner and outer circle for contentious topics — surfaces different perspectives and balances uneven airtime.
Gallery Walk
Make team outcomes visible, collect feedback and debrief in plenum — with clear poster guidelines.
Hybrid Workshop: On-Site, Remote and Async, Synchronized
On-site, remote and async, synchronized – with dedicated tasks per mode. Learn more: [Hybrid workshops that work](https://sessionplan.de/en/blog/hybrid-workshops-that-work).
Intensive Workshop
Full-day intensive workshop with input sessions, group work, breakouts and structured reflection
Lightning Talks
Share knowledge in 5 minutes — a compact format for conferences, team events and workshop closings, with a real timer and Q&A per slot.
Internal Workshop for Beginners
A 2-hour agenda for your first internal workshop, with facilitation notes in every block – ideal for project leads without facilitation experience. Learn more: [In-house facilitation](https://sessionplan.de/en/in-house-facilitation).
Management Offsite Agenda
Strategic management offsite for planning, team alignment and key decisions
Micro-Workshop: 60-Minute Format
A compact 60-minute workshop with a clear focus question, an idea-gathering phase, small-group work and a decision – ideal for micro-facilitation between two meetings. Learn more: [Micro-workshops](https://sessionplan.de/en/blog/micro-workshops-micro-facilitation).
Neuroinclusive Workshop – An Agenda for Different Ways of Thinking
Workshop agenda with quiet reading time, anonymous idea collection and sensory breaks for different ways of thinking. Learn more: [Neuroinclusive workshops](https://sessionplan.de/en/blog/neuroinclusive-workshops).
Silent Brainstorming
Quiet idea generation without groupthink — followed by clustering and discussion. Ideal for diverse teams and hierarchy-sensitive groups.
Workshop with Energizers
A balanced half-day workshop with three built-in energizers – after each intensive work phase and after the lunch break. Just customize and go. Learn more: [Energizers for workshops](https://sessionplan.de/en/blog/energizers-for-workshops).
World Café
Participatory workshop method: participants rotate in small groups through several table stations and discuss different questions. Insights are brought together in the plenary at the end. Learn more: [Participatory methods](https://sessionplan.de/en/blog/liberating-structures-guide).