EventStorming Facilitation Virtual Workshop (4 x 3 hr) - October 2025

  • Dates: Oct 7-10, 2025 (Tue-Fri)
  • Time: 9:00 am - Noon MDT (UTC−06:00)
  • Location: Live online (Zoom + Miro)
  • Instructor: Paul Rayner, author of The EventStorming Handbook, founder of Explore DDD Conference

What you’ll be able to do after this workshop

  • Facilitate Big Picture EventStorming to rapidly align diverse stakeholders.
  • Run Process EventStorming to expose rules, bottlenecks, and options.
  • Guide teams from discovery → modeling → solution design with confidence.
  • Ask powerful questions that surface tacit knowledge and hard constraints.
  • Adapt your facilitation for virtual and in-person formats.
  • Plan an EventStorming session tailored to your organization’s context.

"We really enjoyed the EventStorming workshop! Paul’s facilitation style and methodology made participation and collaboration easy. The workshop was highly valuable!"

Who should attend

Anyone collaborating on complex software/products: engineers, architects, product managers/owners, designers, BAs, testers, delivery/engineering managers, directors, CTOs. No prior EventStorming experience required.

Format & tools

  • 4 live, instructor-led sessions (3 hours each) via Zoom + Miro.
  • Highly interactive: short demos, hands-on exercises, breakout rooms, and Q&A.
  • Please join camera-on with a mic and stable internet—this collaborative format depends on real-time discussion.

You’ll receive prep details a couple of weeks beforehand and an electronic certificate of completion afterward.

We run this as a camera-on, participatory format. If that isn’t feasible for you, this workshop may not be the right fit.

Pricing & teams

  • Individual ticket: $1,450 earlybird, $1,650 regular
  • Group discounts:
  • 3-5 tickets: $100 off each
  • 6+: $200 off each

"10/10 would do it again and plan to extend for more people in my organization (and recommend to friends who I know could use this)."

Curriculum outline

Session 1 — Foundations

  • What problems EventStorming is best at
  • Domain events: definition and examples
  • Practice: EventStorming a narrative together

Session 2 — Big Picture

  • Identify key events & milestones; make unknowns visible
  • Enrich with actors & motivations; discover sub-process goals
  • Techniques for keeping modeling focused

Session 3 — Process Modeling

  • Collaborative modeling patterns to explore options fast
  • Make rules, policies, and alternatives explicit
  • Virtual vs. in-person facilitation tips

Session 4 — Designing Solutions

  • Decisions, data, aggregates/state machines, lifecycles
  • Blend UX/service design with software design
  • Plan an EventStorming session for your context

About the instructor

Paul Rayner is a developer, coach, and popular conference speaker with 30+ years’ experience. He founded the Explore DDD conference and co-founded DDD Denver. Paul wrote The EventStorming Handbook and co-authored BDD with Cucumber. He teaches and consults on DDD and EventStorming through Virtual Genius. He lives in Denver with his family.

"Paul is a great instructor. The sessions were carefully planned, the content was appropriate and he clearly has a deep knowledge of the subject."

Questions?

Emailinfo@virtualgenius.com and we'll gladly answer any other questions you may have about our workshops and coaching.

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Additional Information

Need an Invoice? Please send us an email and we will be happy to process your request. A $15 administrative fee will be added to the order.

Need a Refund? Refunds are available up to two weeks before the start of the workshop. Refunds incur a 10% administrative fee.

Cancellation Policy: We will send an email confirming that a workshop has reached the minimum number of participants 10-14 days before the workshop. Workshops not meeting the minimum number of participants will be cancelled. If that should happen, attendees will be able to register for another workshop or receive a full refund.

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