AI Explore Workshop: Learn AI Together, Use it Tomorrow
The Real Challenge: We’re Not Doing Enough
AI knowledge is everywhere, but actual practice? Not so much. According to Gallup (2024), 70% of employees never use AI. Only 10% use it weekly. Confidence is dropping , not because people don’t care but because they haven’t had a chance to try.
This AI Explore workshop is a fun, fast-paced, hands on half-day workshop that shows your team how to think with, build with, and collaborate using AI.
Why People First not Systems
In Ireland, 48% of people have tried GenAI, but only 10% use it daily and 28% use it weekly. Most teams haven't had a chance to practice together, so confidence and impact stall. (Deloitte Ireland, 2025)
We see it constantly: brilliant teams handed "AI strategies" they never helped build. Top-down "AI programs" fail when people don't get to try things.
Grassroots works: give mixed teams space to experiment, compare notes, and build shared language.
Spin up steering groups without training your people? You'll get avoidance, not adoption.
About the Workshop
CraicGP- Half day for non-technical teams
Purpose: demystify AI and build AI literacy through guided, hands-on practice.
You'll do: prompt basics, tool walk-throughs, simple workflows you can repeat at work.
You leave with: an AI starter playbook (prompts, patterns, customer GPT do's/don'ts) and actual confidence to keep going. Build a business in a team using tools - Final pitch wins.
Best for: ops, HR, finance, customer teams starting out.
Unplugged GPT- Half Day Cross functional teams
Purpose: get product, technical and non-technical colleagues exploring together.
You'll do: map workflows, try tools in squads, and score opportunities (impact × feasibility × risk).
You leave with: a Use-Case Doc, clear briefs, build options (option for us to build or you to build internally), owners, and a 30-60-90 plan.
Best for: Technical & Non Technical Mix
Build Lab - Full Day for Build
Purpose: Pushing the Unplugged GPT into build mode - with a single use case selected and each team builds a solution and pitches back the build
You'll do: design the flow, implement a no-PII core path, add review steps and an evaluation checklist.
You leave with: a prototype + implementation notes, plus a simple scale-up plan.
Best for: Teams with clear use case
Why Phycology Matter More than Prompts
Technical skills are teachable in an afternoon. But fear? Fear of breaking something, looking incompetent, or being replaced? That takes psychological safety to dissolve. Without it, your smartest people stay silent, your best ideas never surface, and your AI initiative becomes another PowerPoint that never left the boardroom.
AI Literacy Obligations are coming
The EU AI Act is already in force, and from February 2025 it introduced new obligations around AI literacy. By August 2026, regulators will begin active enforcement, with organisations expected to show staff have been trained on the capabilities, limits and risks of AI in line with their roles.
Our workshops gives your teams the practical skills and awareness they need now, while providing documented participation that helps demonstrate compliance when enforcement begins.
The Facilitation Team
You are in safe hands. This workshop is led by Jen Dowling, a Chartered Work & Organisational Psychologist and leading voice in the psychology of modern work. specialises in designing purposeful, high-impact gatherings to empower teams to connect, collaborate, and thrive in remote and hybrid environments.
Joining her is Reidin O’Connor, an AI Systems builder, most recently focused on marketing and sales automation. She has tried all he tools and shortcut your success.
