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What Brian Eno knows about learning (that we've forgotten)
The ambient music pioneer's new theory about art as "adult play" reveals why case studies don't stick - and what does.
Workshop Design
Practical guides on workshop design, facilitation, and learning experience design. From session structure to engagement psychology - everything you need to run sessions that work.
I've spent over a decade designing workshops, training programs, and learning experiences for companies like EY, Publicis, WeTransfer and The New York Times. These posts cover everything I've learned about what actually makes people learn - from session design and facilitation to the psychology of engagement.
Whether you're running your first workshop or your five-hundredth, there's something here for you.
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The essential reads on workshop design
Best of...
I struggle horribly as a student. So I rebuilt the class. Here's how.
I had a horrible experience in a class recently. So I tried to figure out why - and what I could do to remedy it.
Best of...
Fitness and Education: from IRL to URL
8 lessons for the new era of learning
Give your social media timelines a cursory scroll and it probably won’
How-To Guides
How I do Morning Pages
The theme of my most recent newsletter was New Wine, Old Oak
[https://howardgray.substack.com/p/adventures-49-new-wine-old-oak];
encouraging readers
Resources
How to create an interactive workshop in Zoom
A step-by-step guide to setting up and running an interactive 90-minute workshop
in Zoom.
Note: This is part 1 of
Learning, Education & Growth
Why the future of learning is in the middle
Become a workshop creator and magical things can happen
The view was spectacular and the light poured in.
In a
How-To Guides
Step-by-step playbooks for better workshops
Creative Business
How to run a retrospective that actually works
Six months after a project you can barely remember what you learned. Here's a one-hour framework that fixes that - using conversation, transcription, and AI to capture the insights that usually vanish.
A.I.
Pascal's Wager for AI (and why you should bet on Scenario 2)
Dan Hockenmaier just cut through all the AI noise with a simple framework. Here's why his "scenario 2" bet makes perfect sense.
A.I.
The 80-hour reality check: What actually happens when you build with AI
Everyone's talking about AI magic, but what's the messy reality behind actually building something? Here's my 6-week journey through format fails, bad vibes coding, and the breakthrough moments that made it all worth it.
Creative Business
Two ways to define 'Good Enough'
Ever found yourself endlessly tweaking a project, chasing that elusive perfection? Yeah, me too. But here's a thought.
Future Of Work
Soft Skills are dead. Let’s talk Character Skills.
Forget buzzwords—how do we build environments that make developing Character skills exciting, impactful, and irresistible?
Learning Innovation
Why Learning Beats Education (and Why It Matters to You)
Education mandates; learning invites. Discover the key differences and why flipping education into learning unlocks serious growth and fun.
Resources
Tools and templates
Learning, Education & Growth
Worksheets and Worksheets
Dealing with the tension of using physical and digital assets in learning environments
Learning Innovation
Always do a run-through. No exceptions.
24 hours before our big workshop, we spotted a problem that could've killed the room. One case study had to go. Here's why the final check saved us from disaster.
Storytelling
Live at CMX Summit 2021
Here's the recording of the workshop I ran on storytelling at CMX Summit
[https://cmxhub.com/summit/] a
Learning Innovation
8 shifts in the future of learning & education
Over the past few weeks (ok, months) I’ve been working on a big article on how
fitness and learning
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Everything on workshop and learning design
How-To Guides
How I do Morning Pages
The theme of my most recent newsletter was New Wine, Old Oak
[https://howardgray.substack.com/p/adventures-49-new-wine-old-oak];
encouraging readers
Storytelling
7 podcast hosting lessons
The last few weeks have been filled with writing scripts, relearning software,
and rigging up soundproofing materials.
It’s podcast
Resources
18 elements of the Zoom revolution (remix)
In the latest instalment of his ‘Akimbo’ podcast, Seth Godin switched it up.
On the surface, nothing was different.
As
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
The Rough Edges
The photographer who infuses their biology degree into the art.
The fashion stylist who spent time as a national-level rower.
How-To Guides
How to transform a webinar
Let’s be honest. You’re probably sick of webinars by now.
And if you’re not sick of them
How-To Guides
How to introduce yourself
Like it or not, first impressions count.
Regardless of whether you’re running a workshop [http://www.wavetable.net/wc]
How-To Guides
How to calculate the time you need to create a workshop
Using time and magic to bring workshops to life
Time & Magik: The first video game I got hooked on
Resources
How to run a workshop for the C-suite
An underlying theme that comes up our Workshop Creator program is what I simply
call THE FEAR.
THE FEAR is
Learning Innovation
A Workshop Canapé
In week one of the first edition of our Workshop Creator program, we sent out a
few thought starters to
Learning Innovation
Workshop Creation: Any Questions?
Imagine yourself telling a story. Any story you like.
Picture where you are and what’s happening.
Perhaps you’re
Learning Innovation
How to turn up the dials in your next workshop
One of the best things about workshops is the ability to mix and match ideas,
formats, activities, and themes.
We
Learning Innovation
How to cook up a tasty workshop
Whether your culinary skills are Michelin star or you’re limited to toast, you
don’t need much to be
Learning, Education & Growth
Crossing the online course chasm
The path to becoming a creator in the future of learning can be fraught.
Luckily, there’s a place to
Learning Innovation
This ain’t no webinar
Our world has changed quickly.
Many of our social interactions have almost immediately shifted to be
exclusively online, and for
Resources
How to create an interactive workshop in Zoom (Part 2)
In the first part of this guide
[https://howardgray.net/2020/04/02/how-to-create-an-interactive-workshop-in-zoom/]
, I covered the advance setup of
Resources
How to create an interactive workshop in Zoom
A step-by-step guide to setting up and running an interactive 90-minute workshop
in Zoom.
Note: This is part 1 of
Learning Innovation
How to design a workshop slide deck
We’ve probably all sat through classes, lectures, workshops, and courses where
we’ve encountered Death by Powerpoint.
Cluttered slides.
Learning Innovation
The Workshop Stack
Here at Wavetable [http://www.wavetable.net] we’re very excited about the future
of learning.
We believe two of