Skills training in the epicMeets method and in using epics

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epic's skills training is offered as both live and online training, as well as tailored training programs to meet the needs of corporations, universities, and government organizations. 
Epicmeets unique method of group work combines physical and digital tools. The epic's tools and the digital guide help teams change how they work, communicate, and process information, aiming to make every meeting matter, empowering teams and individuals to communicate better, turning every meeting into an opportunity for learning, innovating, and growth. 
We offer three levels of skills training. Each one focuses on strengthening five competence areas for people who would like to use epicMeets' unique method, epics tools, and application in their domains. Through progress, you will grow in experience with the versatile use of epics, understanding of the benefits of using epics in various situations, epics facilitation practices, planning sessions with epics, and learning from others' use of epics.    

epics Explorer (level 1)

Discover the foundations of epicMeets unique method, and learn how to use epics.

Hands-on experience will teach you how to select and adapt the epicMeets method to support your session goals, whether you're facilitating dialogue, problem-solving, ideation, or feedback.  You will learn how to use them in your daily sessions, from simple warm-ups to impactful meeting endings, and for various needs, such as development work sessions or ideation sessions.  You'll also gain a foundational understanding of the metaphoric language of epics—how shapes and categories influence meaning—and how the epicMeets app enhances planning, flow, and engagement. The training develops core facilitation competencies, including inclusive methods, designing purposeful session flows, and guiding visible, shared thinking processes.  

For whom: every individual and team, building camaraderie and driving forward-thinking solutions that make a real impact. Explorer training is your starting point for enhancing your skills in the epicMeets method and working with epics.  

Duration: 3-hour training
Training assignments will follow the Explorer training using the epicMeets method and epics in real life (3 hours).

After this, you will achieve your epics facilitator level 1.

epics Pro (level 2)

Deepen your expertise in applying the epicMeets method and epics to professional domains. We currently offer four domain-specific PRO trainings: Strategy and business, People and culture, Innovation and creativity, and Coaching.  

As an epics Pro facilitator, you demonstrate your ability to select and adapt the methods to meet facilitation needs. Each specialization enhances your ability to design and lead engaging sessions that spark creativity and improve communication in sessions.

epics Pro – Strategy & Business

This training focuses on mastering epics to make your strategy and business more effective, engaging, and results-driven.

You'll learn how to apply Epics in strategy work to build a shared situational picture, clarify direction, prioritize objectives, evaluate options, and turn decisions into action. At the same time, you'll explore how to use them in business development to sharpen your value proposition, identify growth opportunities, assess business model options, and plan initiatives that drive sustainable success.

You'll also gain hands-on experience with the EpicMeets application, which helps you structure workshops, guide the process, run quick polls, and capture insights visually. This ensures that your strategy and business sessions are focused, collaborative, and impactful.

For whom: For those facilitating strategy work; for developers, coaches, team leads, professionals participating in strategy processes, and experts who want to deepen shared strategic understanding through impactful and participatory methods.

Duration: 5 hours of training

Training assignments after the Pro training, using the epicMeets method and epics in real-life scenarios.

After this, you will achieve your EPCIS PRO STRATEGY & BUSINESS skills level (level 2).

epics Pro – Coaching

Facilitate reflective, insight-driven conversations that foster growth and transformation. 

Do you want to learn how to guide a coaching conversation so that thinking doesn't rely solely on spoken words, but takes on a concrete, visual, and mutually understood form? This epics training takes you deep into visual working methods from a coaching perspective. In individual and small group coaching, visual and physical support tools enhance the perception of relationships between things and people, foster insights, and increase awareness of emotions.

They help participants structure their thoughts, enabling the coach to follow the conversation's flow more clearly and creating a shared field of visible thinking, enduring learning.

For whom: For individual and group coaches, managers, and consultants who use coaching methods and want to deepen shared understanding through impactful and participatory methods.

Duration: 5 hours of training

Training assignments after the Pro training, using the epicMeets method and epics in real-life scenarios.

After this, you will achieve your EPCIS PRO COACH competence level (level 2).

epics Pro – Innovation & Creativity

Enable divergent thinking, experimentation, and idea development through visual play.

This training equips you with tools and methods to unleash creative potential in individuals and teams. You'll learn to use epics to spark ideation, foster open-ended exploration, and guide innovation processes from fuzzy front-end to actionable concepts. The epicMeets method supports facilitation that embraces ambiguity, supports playful thinking, and helps surface surprising connections – essential for creating something genuinely new.

You'll explore how to support idea generation, evaluation, and development visually, and how to structure sessions that balance free exploration with concrete decision-making. The epics help clarify assumptions, test hypotheses, and build alignment across diverse perspectives. Whether you're facilitating product development, service design, internal innovation programs, or cross-functional sprints, this training helps you energize creativity and make innovation processes more inclusive, focused, and effective.

You'll also gain hands-on experience with the epicMeets application, which allows you to structure workshops, guide creative steps, and document progress visually. This makes the intangible more tangible and boosts engagement among all participants.

For whom: For facilitators of innovation work, R&D professionals, design thinkers, creative team leads, intrapreneurs, and consultants working in product, service, or organizational development who want to strengthen creative collaboration with participatory visual methods.

Duration: 5 hours of training

Training assignments after the Pro training, using the epicMeets method and epics in real-life scenarios.

After this, you will achieve your EPCIS PRO INNOVATION & CREATIVITY skills level (level 2).

epics Pro – People & Culture

Make values, team dynamics, and cultural shifts visible, discussable, and actionable.

This training focuses on using the epicMeets method and epics to explore, understand, and shape the human side of organizations. You'll learn how to design and lead sessions that build psychological safety, enhance team cohesion, and surface values and norms that often remain unspoken. Visual tools help create a common language for discussing complex topics like motivation, roles, feedback, collaboration, and change.

Facilitating people and culture sessions with Epics allows you to make the invisible visible by turning abstract concepts into shared visual frameworks that support open dialogue and collective understanding. The training covers supporting team reflection, exploring leadership and communication patterns, and co-creating culture-building initiatives.

Through the epicMeets application, you'll learn to guide structured conversations and capture insights in real-time, ensuring that cultural development efforts lead to meaningful actions and lasting impact.

For whom: For HR professionals, people development specialists, team leads, internal facilitators, and consultants working with organizational culture, employee engagement, leadership, and team dynamics who want to create inclusive, engaging, and people-centered development processes.

Duration: 5 hours of training
Training assignments after the Pro training, using the epicMeets method and epics in real-life scenarios.

After this, you will achieve your EPICS PRO PEOPLE & CULTURE competence level (level 2).

epics Master (Level 3)

Become a masterful designer in the epicMeets method and use epics in various sessions—from workshop architecture to group flow and learning impact.

At this level, you integrate everything from Explorer and Pro, and gain advanced skills in session design, multi-method sequencing, and adaptive facilitation. epics Masters are not only practitioners—they're creators of transformative, embodied group experiences.

This training includes a pre-task to plan a session of your choice with epics and the EpicMeets method. We will cover approaches to planning training during the training sessions and facilitation approaches with epics. You will develop your planned session further, get feedback, and have the opportunity to test parts of your session flows. You will also get tools for evaluating and improving session flow, engagement, and focused goals. You will also get peer feedback. To achieve the master level, you will conduct your session, collect feedback, and reflect on what you have learned. 

For whom: Workshop organizers, facilitators, and anyone wanting to be a versatile and skillful user of the EpicMeets method and epics. 

Duration: 1-day training.

Training assignments after the Pro training, using the epicMeets method and epics in real-life scenarios (3 hours).

After this, you will achieve your epics Master facilitator level (level 3).

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