Methods

Using Powerful Questions

This workshop helps participants explore using powerful questions. Developing this key skill can help open conversations, increase creativity, make better decisions, build stronger teams, and help focus. This workshop will take you through a series of reflections and activities that will help you practice asking powerful questions.

Giving and Receiving Feedback

This workshop will teach you how to understand effectively give and receive feedback leveraging the Johari Window model.

Bring the Bling - Creating Awesome Slides!

Learn how to create beautiful presentations by creating the slides for an ignite deck.

Participants in this module will will plan an ignite slide deck, 20 slides that auto advance in 20 seconds, in order to practice the visual medium. We will take you from storyboarding your slides, to searching images, and finally to creating the deck.

Storytelling 101

Stories have a specific shape and we follow people as they overcome problems. When telling stories to mobilize we direct people on to pathways that lead to action. Stories help us build, teach and protect the web. In this session we identify parts of a story. You will then create a space for your organization to tell a story and then craft your story of your goals.

Know Your Audience

Empathy for your audience allows you to craft messages that empower others. In this task we will take a user centered approach to designing our messages. We will role play and then you develop user personas for your upcoming campaign.

Structuring your Message

Code, speeches and poems all have particular shapes. They are woven in ways to tell stories. By examining and then using specific text structures you can greatly enhance the impact of your messaging. We will trace the shapes of past campaigns to Protect the web, We will identify patterns we see in the messaging and techniques used by the designers and creators.

I Hear You! (Pathway)

This series of course modules will help you develop key skills that build trust, empathy and understanding  – in listening to, and generating feedback from diverse voices.

Presenting Ideas (Pathway)

This series of course modules,  will help you visualize, design for and successfully present ideas that engage  listeners.

Deep Listening

This workshop helps participants explore their  listening talents and tendencies, to emerge with a new sense of what it means to bring others in, by truly hearing them.