Train-the-trainer program by Trainers Toolbox
Learn how to create engaging and impactful learning experiences in a blended learning program delivered in 7 online modules, along with a live weekend in Stockholm!
Applications are OPEN until 5th of September or until the group is full.
The group is starting 4rd of October with live weekend in Stockholm 3rd & 4th of December (open for locals & travellers).
Train-the-trainer program by Trainers Toolbox is the way for you to build the skills in design and delivery of high quality, engaging and impactful learning experiences for adults, both in a live and online setting.
Great training is a mix of art and science. It is built on a foundation of learning science, psychology, neuroscience and other “tools” we have from the world of knowledge. On the other side, a high-quality learning experience also leverages trainers’ authenticity, using their character, personal strengths, skills, knowledge and life experiences in shaping the optimal and unique learning experience.
In the TTT program by Trainers Toolbox, we believe in balance between these two factors: while teaching attendees the research-based foundation and techniques, we explore your strengths, personal style, skillset, and support you in developing and leveraging them in the training room.
Joining Trainers Toolbox’s Train the Trainer, you will:
- gain an overview of knowledge and skills needed to create a great learning experience
- learn how to design and structure learning experiences
- practice delivering a great training session - advancing your presentation and facilitation skills
- raise level of self-awareness of your training style, boost your confidence as a trainer and get personal feedback
- learn how to engage and motivate learners and to make learning experience impactful and memorable
- enrich your trainers’ toolbox with valuable tools
- get tips, tricks and best practices by experienced trainer
- get connected with the like-minded alumni
Who is this program for?
Train the Trainer program is a comprehensive program of skills for trainers’ that covers the foundations of the knowledge, skills and attitudes that a trainer needs to design and deliver a great learning experience.
As such, while it is aimed at beginners’ trainers, it is also valuable for trainers who are already delivering training but never went through a full and comprehensive Train the Trainer program.
Train the Trainer is for you if you are:
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an expert in any field of expertise who is looking to get better at transferring their knowledge to others, and build more knowledge and experience with the design and delivery of an impactful learning experience
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aspiring trainers who would like to be doing more workshops in the future (or even shift their career in that direction) so they are looking to advance their skills of workshop design and delivery
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a trainer or educator (or anyone doing workshops) with some experience who haven’t been to comprehensive TTT education yet and wish to who wish to grow their skills as a trainer and get quality feedback, as well as new tools and best practices
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anyone interested in a deep understanding of the adult learning process and developing a set of skills and methods to design impactful learning experiences
Did you recognise yourself in any of these? Let us know.
While these are our most common attendees, TTT is open to anyone who wishes to hone their skills in designing and delivering quality learning experiences.

The foundations of the program

1. Experiential learning basics
Understanding the approach and methodology of experiential learning, understanding adult learners, learning science, trainers competencies, goals in learning, and needs assessment.
2. Training Design
Skills needed for training design, elements that need to be covered in each session, main models and approaches used in training design, how to design impactful experiential activities and working with understanding design according to diverse length of activity, gamification in training.


3. Training Delivery skills
Facilitation skills and tools, presentation skills, using prompts in training, understanding group dynamics and leveraging them in training room, setting the right atmosphere and emotion in training, dealing with challenging groups and participants, space facilitation, evaluation, feedback and a training session follow up.
4. Enriching your trainers’ toolbox
Diving into broad range of tools for training and best theories and models of leadership, communication, teamwork, etc.
even more than other topics, the 4th pillar will be highly customised according to attendees’ preferences and needs.

While we will spend dedicated modules primarily focused on each of these pillars, attendees will be learning and practising all of the pillars throughout all modules – e.g. discovering new trainers tools and models by choosing them as a topic to practice design and delivery on, practising elements of delivery such as presentations, facilitation and debriefing throughout each of the modules and receiving continuous feedback.
The program will focus on practical aspects of training to maximise the time for practice, debriefing, discussions and other activities, but attendees will receive comprehensive reading for homework as well as preparation assignments for delivery and facilitation.
Train-the-Trainer program outlines
TTT program by Trainers Toolbox is covering 9 modules split through 7 online calls and 2 live days in a fluid way, with all the topics interconnected.
The exact topics are subject to change from the side of the trainer following the attendees’ needs and preferences, as the whole program is highly customised.
All the modules will be customised according to the needs and goals of the attendees, and according to their own learning processes.

1. Intro & basics of experiential learning
Get2know, setting bases for effective communication and feedback in the group. Practicing first presentation for this course, giving and receiving feedback, practicing other skills such as facilitation. Setting goals for the course. Concept of meta-star and all the levels on which we will leverage learning. Experiential learning: what it is, why we do it, how it works. Trainer’s competencies: trainer’s compass (values, attitudes, skills, behaviours as a trainer). Toolbox: all the toolbox we want to build and how we will be doing it (eg. repository of energisers, icebreakers, games, activities, models…)
2. Training Design - design basics according to adult learning needs
Understanding adult learning: learning science, positive psychology, neuroscience in learning (learning cycle), preferences of individual learners, evidence-based training methods. Training Design (session or event): design session timeline, models for effective session design (blooms taxonomy, 4mat), how to make it engaging and optimal for learning
3. Training design - from activity to session to event
Design according to the goal of the learning and the time available. Choosing icebreakers and energisers in a goal-oriented way, design of learning activities.
4. Training delivery - presentation skills and group dynamics
Motivation/why of learning. Presentation skills (spontaneous vs prepared vs prepared with flexibility). Group dynamics.
5. Training delivery - facilitation
Presenting vs. facilitating vs. guiding the process. Facilitation skills (basic and advanced): facilitation toolbox, facilitation from short activity to the whole event.
6. Training delivery - advanced facilitation
Debriefing. Emotions optimal for learning. Managing emotion and atmosphere in the training room. Managing focus, attention and energy. Learning space design. Adapting learning methods to diverse group sizes.
7. Training delivery
Working with challenging participants. Evaluation, feedback, closing and follow up on a training session or event.
8. Trainers toolbox - custom made modules depending on training topics preferences
Most common theories of motivation, communication, teamwork, leadership… Surveys, assessments, tools that trainer can use. Disc, insights, belbin, mbti…. Using ppt. Using flipcharts. Tools from positive psychology. Coaching skills and tools in training. Best places to find tools and activities.
Improve your skills as a trainer, discover your authentic qualities and become the best trainer you can be!
Logistics and practical details
TTT Stockholm currently open for signups!
- Dates of online modules (starting at 18h CET*, 3h long)
*if the whole group agrees it is an option to do mornings in the workday instead of evening , and move “weekend module” to workdays – get in touch to get exact times & dates for this option
Mon, 3.10.
Mon, 24.10.
Thu, 27.10.
Mon, 7.11.
Tue, 9.11.
Thu, 8.12.
Tue, 13.12.
Live weekend 3rd & 4th of December 2022. (Sat & Sun, 9am – 6:30pm).
Program is open both for locals and travellers.
engaging and highly interactive program, with a lot of practical exercises, reflection and discussion
working in a small group (6-8 attendees)
highly customised according to the attendees’ needs, experiences and learning goals.
the fee is 1120 EUR
Zagreb and Florence coming up in early 2023
We will send announcements with exact dates via Trainers Toolbox monthly newsletter. Sign up here and stay updated with all news regarding new TTT dates!
About the trainer - Mirna Šmidt
Since graduating from a one-year-long Train the Trainer education in 2008, Mirna kept delivering training and deepening her knowledge and skills as a trainer. Over the past 11 years, she delivered at a range of training events, building extensive experience in “classical” topics such as… communication, presentation, teamwork and leadership, but also rich experience in a broad range of positive psychology topics, train advanced trainer tools and events. She is an NLP Master practitioner, as well as a certified coach since 2011, and loves enriching her training with the tools and techniques from these fields.

Having delivered for NGOs and non-profit organisations, startups and startup incubators, as well as conferences and corporate audiences for clients such as Cisco and L’Oreal, and in over 20 countries, Mirna is no stranger to diverse sectors, audience sizes and backgrounds, and able to adjust her training design and delivery, while keeping with evidence-based practices of experiential and adult learning.
Currently, her main focus in training is positive psychology. She is one of the first graduates of Masters of Applied Positive Psychology from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge.
As a founder and a head trainer of Happiness Academy, she keeps on building and delivering programs and workshops focused on designing life and career according to her own values and vision, strengthening wellbeing, personal strengths and resilience to challenges. All her programs are built on research-based practices and tools.
Over the years, Mirna delivered eight Train the Trainer programs and two Train advanced trainer programs, most of them in around 100h in duration and highly international groups of participants.
Mirna also runs Trainers Toolbox, an initiative to share tools and knowledge with trainers around the world.
What participants say
Trainers Toolbox Train the Trainer alumni

Train the Trainer Zagreb 2019 - graduated in November 2019
Oliver Linzbauer
Matea Lay
Ivana Kljaković Gašpić
Marija Malkoč Kušt
Sonja Karoglan Todorović
Meri Tukač
Train the Trainer Zagreb 2019/2020 - graduated in January 2020
Anna Danes
Marcel Majsan
Nikolina Mihić
Mihaela Marija Perković


Train the Trainer Budapest 2020 - graduated in January 2020
Trainers Lab was TTT delivered in collaboration between Learning Laboratory and Trainers Toolbox.
Zoltán Kappelmayer
Eszter Takács
Viktória Csonka
Ivett Hegyi
Alina Alexandra Baciu
Martina Bálind
Train the Trainer Zagreb 2021 - graduated in March 2021
The first group to graduate from blended TTT program, where we worked in both online and live ways, enabling attendees to be skilled in both ways of delivery.
Klara Čičin-Šain
Nikolina Božanović
Denis Stanarević
Jelena Jokanović


Train the Trainer Zagreb 2021 - graduated in November 2021
Blended TTT program, where we worked in both online and live ways, enabling attendees to be skilled in both ways of delivery.
Peter Bodik
Nina Garić Saganić
Maja Živanović
Marieta Di Gallo
Ivan Capan
Ana Hlavati
Train the Trainer - virtual 2021/2022 - graduated in January 2022
Irina Hagiu
Ana Maria Radu
Ramona Grigoras
Veronica Staicu
Alina Bucur

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