Learning Playground 🏀 Designing joyful brainstorming experiences
Brainstorming! Yes, there are actually ways to make it productive AND fun 😉 Together we will learn approached to purposefully build effective and, dare I say it, exciting workshop activities to generate new ideas.
😩 Have you ever felt your creative energy being drained in brainstorming sessions?
😖 Maybe you’ve struggled with getting people to share their thoughts or ask questions?
😭 Or perhaps, you’ve found it difficult to run workshops that get everyone inspired to create something extraordinary?
Wonder what would happen if you took a breath, and intentionally designed sessions that energize and spark play? Opening up minds for even better ideation. 🧐
Many of us know the importance of both generating a lot of ideas and narrowing down to the most promising ones. Doing this in a way that unlocks creativity and joy requires purposeful thought around designing experiences that both stretch us and can be playful at the same time. 🥳
In this session, we’ll dive into the joyful side of brainstorming, and tackle actionable methodologies and tools to encourage more creative ideas – and get your team excited for them. 💪
About the host:
Meet Rachel, a Workshop Experience Designer and Facilitator based in the United States. She has over 18 years experience across design thinking, brand and creative strategy, workshop creation, and facilitation. She’s a firm believer that play is the doorway to our wildest ideas, and as a result, she’s built her own consulting company to help others bring that joy and energy into their workshops.
Coming from an environment where being creative was like pulling teeth, she’s worked throughout her career to help others move past the thoughts that they are ‘just not creative. or they ‘don’t have good ideas.’ Community is also a huge part of her journey. Rachel leads a Miro Community Group and helps run the ButterMixers, a twice monthly session with the curious minds over at the Butter Community.
She looks for inspiration everywhere and one of her favorite things to explore are books. She probably have way too many books on her reading list right now, so don’t ever hesitate to ask her for a suggestion on what to read next! Check-out some of her projects here.
The Butter Learning Playground is a series of seven sessions exploring practical applications of play, playfulness, and creativity to learning experience design, employee experience design, collaboration, workshop design, and facilitation.
For the smoothest experience, do join using Google Chrome on a laptop or PC or download our desktop app. Since we're usually using MURAL or Miro in our workshops, we recommend joining in with your ad blockers turned off (temporarily) and not in incognito mode.