Step by Step Facilitators’ Guide to Discovering Miro

Virtual workshops come with a big challenge: engagement. Without the shared room, the shared energy, the whiteboard in the corner, it becomes much harder to keep participants active, connected, and co-creating with you.

Miro helps enormously with that.

It gives people a shared visual space to think and create in. It makes the process visible. It invites participation in a way that a plain video call simply cannot.

And for complex processes, ones with multiple steps, lots of content, or group work that needs to come together into something bigger, Miro is often what makes facilitating those processes virtually actually possible.
But it can also be wonderful for fairly simple, easy-going workshops. A way to give your session more visual support, more active participation, and more of that "we are building something together" feeling.

Yet, while one of the most versatile tools for virtual facilitation, training & workshops, Miro can be challenging to get comfortable with (especially when you encounter it for the first time).

Precisely because it offers a wide range of features and options, and a lot of flexibility in how you use the tool, there is no single path in learning it. Each trainer might need diverse features & possibilities, and what is relevant for one could be unnecessary for someone else.

My advice is:

Start simple. Learn the few things you really need. Start using them in workshops, one at a time. Then keep building from there.
With this article, I want to give you a practical starting point, so you can begin using Miro with confidence, without trying to learn everything at once, and with a clear idea of where to keep exploring as you keep growing your skills in Miro.
Don’t get overwhelmed by the abundance of features - scan through this article to see what is out there and what exists, but then start exploring it one step at a time.