TRAINING
Social Design Sydney delivers trainings for change-makers, designers and teams interested in social and systems change. We deliver both public workshops and bespoke trainings tailored for teams/organisations. A specialty is Trauma Informed Design Research training delivered by Jax Wechsler.
Get in touch if you would like to chat about training.
TESTIMONIALS TEAM TRAININGS
Trauma Informed Design Research Training
“This specialised training focuses on conducting customer research with vulnerable populations, offering valuable tools like ‘Strength Based Practice’ and ‘Appreciative Inquiry’ that benefit all design research endeavours. The psychological insights gained are not just useful professionally but also in navigating life. Thank you, Jax, for driving capability uplift in this crucial space across Australia. It was an honour to have you at Westpac.”
– Rowan Davis, Divisional Design Lead,
Westpac Group
“We are so grateful for Jax’s support in working with the Fire to Flourish team. When we reflected on our program’s guiding principles earlier this year, “being trauma-informed” was the one everyone felt least confident putting into practice. The way you brought together theory, examples, practical advice and safe discussion space was really powerful. The team has come away with new insights, skills and refreshed commitments. A particular shout out from our community teams – they deeply valued the space you held for them to reflect, learn and plan their complex community facilitation work together. Highly recommended!”
– Briony Rogers, CEO
Fire to Flourish, Monash Sustainable Development Institute
“We completed this training last year and found it really valuable in our line of work.”
– Susie Flynn, Experience Design Principle, beyond blue
“I had a fantastic time in Jax’s trauma informed research and design course this week. Brilliant materials and great activities for our team. It will definitely better equip us to help with some of the public sector’s most complex social policy challenges. But also just good practices for any project.”
– Nick Sunderland, Director at Scyne
“We’ve found Jax’s insights enormously informative and it has been so valuable to have the space to collectively reflect on our practice as evaluators and how we can create safe spaces, empowerment, collaboration and choice in evaluations. Plenty of good activities to embed the learning too! Thanks Jax!”
– Jade Maloney, CEO
ARTD Consultants
UPCOMING TRAININGS
A PAST TRAINING
We were extremely privileged to have Liz Sanders hold some classes for us. Here is a video of Liz’s presentation for the Introduction to Co-design class. A 2 day advanced class was also held.
About Liz
Liz Sanders is a professor, author and the founder of MakeTools, a company that explores new spaces in the emerging design landscapes. She is a visionary in pre-design research, having introduced many of the tools, techniques and methods being used today to drive and/or inspire design from a human-centered perspective. Liz has practiced co-designing across all the design disciplines. Her current focus is on bringing participatory, human-centered design thinking and co-creation practices to the challenges we face for the future. Liz speaks about and offers learning experiences in human-centered design research and innovation for clients, colleagues and students around the world.
