One-Day Workshops
One-Day Workshops
Better Business Decisions from Within
Can you make better business decisions by trusting your internal compass? Most books about making good business decisions involve rationality, logic, and hard data. But most important decisions call for more than just reason or logic. They need the discernment of people fully paying attention to what’s inside.
Learning the secrets of the perfect pizza with Handsome Pizza
This hands-on pizza workshop will take you from powdery flour to crisp crust. Learn the basics of dough, stretching and topping pizzas, and how to use a wood-fired oven. We'll also pass on tips and tricks for getting the best results in your home oven. In just a few hours we'll cover everything you need to know to make some truly excellent pizza! The best part: dinner + a drink is included in your tuition.
How to Teach So People Learn
American companies spend enormous amounts of money on professional development ($187 billion in 2007) and for the last 25 years, studies have shown that less than 10% of it is ever used. Why is that? Because most corporate education programs still use on the content-driven, top-down, hierarchical modes of training, which have been proven not to work in modern workplaces. In this one-day workshop, you'll learn how people really learn, design great curriculum, and figure out how adult pedagogy would apply in your workplace. The knowledge and practices would be invaluable to staff managers, parents, or anyone who has to communicate knowledge to others in their lives.
Learning to Put First Things First
Life happens — and our truest priorities can quickly feel lost or out of place. But good news: that experience doesn’t need to be your norm. This workshop will equip you with the tools needed to become the boss of your work, time, and life... instead of them being the boss of you.
Transitioning from Individual Contributor to Manager
Being a manager requires a fresh mindset and different abilities than being an individual contributor. This course offers vital skills to managers who have been promoted in the last few years and don't have an MBA.
Tools for Developing Accessibility Technology
This workshop provides an introduction to digital accessibility standards and practices and gives participants hands-on experience with assessing, testing, and implementing accessibility practices in the physical and digital realm.
The time, talent, and energy of your staff is your organization's most valuable resource. How well do you invest in it? The top-down, hierarchical model of training no longer works. In this one-day workshop, you'll build skills in teaching of others at work and everywhere else . You’ll learn a progressive model of pedagogical theory (how people learn), how to teach to where your learner is, and how to implement it in your professional and personal life. Designed for managers, parents, or anyone who has to communicate knowledge to others in their lives.
Healing Wounds, Mending Relationships
Apologies have been all over the news recently, reminding us there are both good and bad ways to apologize. Good apologies heal the world. They mend wounds, transcend egos, bolster justice, and foster peace. Bad apologies fester and deepen wounds. Learn how to seek understanding of the wronged person’s perspective and why their perspective—not your sincerity or remorse—is the key to healing a relationship.
Do you do any training of others at work? Teaching is a fundamental life skill. The majority of value in any organization is the knowledge of its workers. How do you pass it on and make it more effective?
In this one day workshop, you’ll learn the basics of pedagogical theory (how people learn), how to teach to where your learner is and what they need to know, and how to implement it in your professional and personal life. Designed for managers, parents, or anyone who has to communicate knowledge in their lives.
Transitioning from individual contributor to manager
Being a manager requires a fresh mindset and different abilities than being an individual contributor. This course offers vital skills to managers who have been promoted in the last few years and don't have an MBA.
How did bitters go from traditional digestive medicine to quirky cocktail ingredient? Reclaim ancestral digestive medicinal knowledge and make your own bitters in this hands-on workshop.
We lead hectic, disconnected, and busy lives. Even when we are supposed to be relaxing it can feel like we're just trying to check something off our to-do list. Creating Meditative Plant Art is a practice for getting out of that "always-going," goal-oriented mode and slowing down to notice the Sacred in the ordinary all around you.
Teaching is a fundamental skill, as well as one of life's great joys. What sex is to genes, teaching is to knowledge, culture + values--it's the only way we humans can pass it on. This one-day workshop explores the fundamentals of great teaching, specifically, focusing on your audience + their learning needs.
Make your own animations, view historically important clips and learn about the past, present + future of animation, all in one fun day. You'll go home with your own original animations and a list of recommended viewings. This is a great fit for teachers who want to integrate animations into course material, students considering animation as a career path, and those fascinated by animation.