Taster Workshop (2 hours)

Power, Partnership & Practical Tools

This on-demand session is a powerful and accessible introduction to co-production, designed for busy professionals who want to move beyond surface-level engagement.

Grounded in lived experience and informed by the FID Scale and MEASURE Framework, the training offers clear steps for understanding power dynamics, strengthening stakeholder engagement, and applying co-production meaningfully in your role.

Format: Pre-recorded video training (accessible anytime)
Cost: £30 per individual | £125 per team (up to 5 participants)
Designed for: Managers, peer leads, service designers, project teams

What’s Included

  • 45–60 minute pre-recorded training session

  • Downloadable Light Guide for ongoing use, including:

    • The Co-Production Flow Diagram

    • Key appendices from the Coercion to Coproduction guide

    • Step-by-step instructions for applying the tools in your context

    • Tips for improving stakeholder engagement across different stages of service or project delivery

  • Role-specific prompts – choose from 10+ tailored role profiles, including:

    • Project Managers: Embedding co-production throughout project lifecycles

    • Service Managers: Creating structures for ongoing stakeholder involvement

  • Optional self-assessment using FID and MEASURE tools

  • Certificate of completion

Why It’s Useful

  • Gives your team a shared starting point and language for co-production

  • Strengthens stakeholder engagement by offering practical, role-specific strategies

  • Provides tools you can return to throughout the year—during planning, delivery, and review

  • Supports a shift from tokenistic involvement to structured, meaningful influence

Core Training (1 Day)

Live or Virtual | Lived Experience–Led | Role-Specific Stakeholder Strategy

A full-day interactive workshop to help you embed co-production and meaningful stakeholder engagement into everyday practice, using structured tools and lived experience insight.

Whether you're delivering frontline services, managing projects, commissioning support, or shaping policy, this session equips you with a shared language, evidence-informed frameworks, and real-world strategies to create change.

Quick Overview

Format: Online or in-person (UK-wide)
Cost: £150 per person | £900 for up to 12 participants
Optional travel/venue costs for in-person delivery
Ideal for: NHS, local authorities, VCSEs, justice, housing, education, or employer teams

What’s Included

  • Full-day live training (6 hours, including breaks)

  • Participant Pack (print or PDF) with:

    • Co-Production Flow Diagram

    • FID Scale & MEASURE Framework

    • Worksheets, planning templates, and real-life case studies

  • Group tasks and breakout activities designed for reflection and collaboration

  • Certificate of completion

Customise Your Training by Role

When you book, you can select a version of the course tailored to your professional role. Each version includes role-specific examples, language, and stakeholder engagement strategies.

Why It’s Useful

  • Rooted in lived experience and delivered by experienced facilitators

  • Moves teams from values to action using tested frameworks

  • Gives professionals tools to co-produce safely, effectively, and sustainably

  • Supports stakeholder involvement that is intentional, repeatable, and impactful

  • Fully adaptable to your team’s sector, priorities, and goals

Train-the-Trainer 

3-Day Accredited Programme | Stakeholder-First | Tools You Can Trust

This intensive programme equips you to deliver high-impact co-production training using Waterdog’s evidence-based tools and frameworks, centred on lived experience, stakeholder influence, and system change.

Whether you’re training internally or across services, you’ll leave with everything needed to deliver sessions that challenge tokenism and build capacity for real partnership.

Quick Overview

Format: 3-day live training (in-person or virtual)
Assessment: Live facilitation task with peer feedback
Support: Quarterly trainer check-ins and updates
Cost: £900 per participant
Group and internal team rates available on request

Ideal for:
Peer leads, training managers, workforce development teams, EDI champions, OD leads, and anyone responsible for lived experience or stakeholder inclusion.

What You’ll Learn

  • How to confidently deliver co-production training rooted in lived experience

  • How to teach and apply the FID Scale, MEASURE Framework, and Co-Production Flow Diagram

  • How to facilitate reflective conversations around power, roles, and participation

  • How to customise sessions for different teams, roles, and service types

  • How to integrate stakeholder engagement into training and delivery planning

Stakeholder Engagement: Why, How, and What’s Next

Why it matters:
Co-production fails when stakeholder engagement is rushed, performative, or limited to feedback stages. True transformation requires consistent, early, and shared power with the right people in the room.

How we teach it:

  • You’ll learn to map stakeholder roles using the Co-Production Journey

  • Practice using FID & MEASURE to assess current engagement structures

  • Build strategies that work across services, commissioning, delivery, and policy

  • Facilitate workshops that help others do the same

What’s next:

  • Use your licence to run sessions that embed stakeholder strategy across projects and teams

  • Guide services in co-designing stakeholder engagement plans using Waterdog tools

  • Join quarterly trainer check-ins to refine your approach and share best practice

What’s Included

  • Trainer Kit Licence (12 months) – deliver co-production training using Waterdog resources

  • Printed Facilitator Handbook – with step-by-step delivery guides and examples

  • Editable Slide Deck – ready-to-use Slide Deck with visual aids

  • Downloadable Templates – planning, stakeholder strategy, and evaluation tools

  • Accreditation & Certification – become a recognised Waterdog trainer

  • Ongoing Support: Quarterly reflection sessions and content updates

Why It’s Useful

  • Builds confidence to train with lived experience at the centre

  • Provides a structured, flexible model you can deliver in any setting

  • Supports organisations to move from consultation to co-production

  • Makes stakeholder engagement practical, repeatable, and measurable

  • Saves development time, resources are tried, tested, and ready to use

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