“Why are we doing this?” Help volunteers know: clarify purpose for community engagement.

I often use a simple lightbulb sketch during meetings, brainstorming, and notes. It’s quick to draw and easily conveys meaning, even if it’s not perfect!

I think of engagement as choosing to care and give time & attention. So, as community managers, conference organizers, trainers, and leaders, how can we help people choose to engage with our organizations?

How audience, facilitation, and interactivity created three unique presentations.

How do schools iterate, adapt, and innovate in the current moment while reimagining and preparing for the future of learning?

With children and adults, I’ve seen a pattern with this type of conversational drawing. There’s something captivating about seeing your ideas appear on paper; of knowing that someone is really listening to you because it’s captured right there. 

Ever left a conference with notes scattered between your phone, business cards, handouts, computer, and your brain? Me too! Here's what worked for me.

A resource by transdisciplinary leaders and practitioners from 11 countries!

We spent 45 minutes in silence on Zoom…and had a great meeting! Here’s the idea: create the core content for a resource in a single meeting, using a visual collaboration space.

We challenged ourselves to design an educational escape room concept in just 15 minutes based on randomly generated parameters. Our dice roll gave us: community (context), conference organizers (learners), and business process (purpose).

Laura & Maddie roll three custom dice and design an escape room in 15 minutes. In this first video, we rolled “community organization,” “trainers,” and “compliance.”

How can escape rooms make professional learning engaging? Designers Maddie Shellgren and I (Laura) share how educational escape rooms can be designed for experiential learning. We also talk through a simple 5-part framework for designing virtual and in-person escape rooms for learning & development.

A blog & email publication all about creating engaging learning experiences and using visuals to facilitate collaboration. And having fun along the way.