1-Day Design Thinking Blitz
November 15, 2020
$250
Our 1-Day Design Thinking Blitz is an 8-hour challenge
to shed behaviors that prevent us from moving projects forward. Over the course of the day you’ll complete design cycle; hone your ability to innovate, collaborate, and advance by working in small teams while addressing a real world problem. Throughout the day you’ll learn new tools while trying on the behaviors, methods, and mindsets that yield innovation. Afterwards, we’ll reflect on the implications of these behaviors in your personal and professional environments.
Spaces Available
25
Location
David D. Hunting YMCA
Price includes workshop, all materials, and meals (breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack). Contact us for special group pricing.
*Cancellation Policy
15+ days prior: 100% refund
7-14 days prior: 50% refund
<7 days prior: No refund, but ticket can transfer to another person
Our 1-Day Design Thinking Blitz is an 8-hour challenge
to shed behaviors that prevent us from moving projects forward. Over the course of the day you’ll complete design cycle; hone your ability to innovate, collaborate, and advance by working in small teams while addressing a real world problem. Throughout the day you’ll learn new tools while trying on the behaviors, methods, and mindsets that yield innovation. Afterwards, we’ll reflect on the implications of these behaviors in your personal and professional environments.
Spaces Available
25
Location
David D. Hunting YMCA
Price includes workshop, all materials, and meals (breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack). Contact us for special group pricing.
*Cancellation Policy
15+ days prior: 100% refund
7-14 days prior: 50% refund
<7 days prior: No refund, but ticket can transfer to another person
Who Should Attend?
Learning meets Innovation and meets Fun! I went through an amazing workshop at WMCAT — great content and outstanding facilitators that keep you engaged and excited about becoming an innovator. Highly recommended if you are starting, in the middle or are an expert in Design Thinking!
Marlene Hernandez
Steelcase Learning Group
Leaders
For open-minded energizers responsible for tackling strategic challenges and driving innovation
at their organization.
Doers
For action oriented contributors looking for a shared language and resilient framework for problem solving.
Collaborators
For pro-active problem-solvers looking for a resilient framework for working together and moving projects forward — rapidly.
Change Instigators
For pro-active problem-solvers looking for a resilient framework for working together and moving projects forward — rapidly.
What to Expect
Innovation is a byproduct of people who think and act differently—they are empathetic, experimental, action oriented, creative, and critical. Our workshops focus heavily on these behaviors and during our time together you have the opportunity try them on. After all, “It’s easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than it is to think your way into a new way of acting.”
Empathy
Empathy is the foundation of a human-centered design process — by deeply understanding people we are better able to design for them. You will take on a “People first” approach, and will be challenged to let go of assumptions and biases as you interact with others.
Flexible Thinking
Throughout the process you’ll work through spaces requiring divergent thinking (the generation many potential paths) and others of convergent thinking (the strategic limitation of possibilities). You’ll learn when to embrace ambiguity, and when to push for clarity.
Optimism
We have a saying, “Everything is a prototype.” At the core of this is a conviction that all things could be better. This hope and imagination is foundational to design thinking; a better option is available, and you have the capacity to find it.
Experimentation
Design Thinking requires behaviors and mindsets that don’t always come naturally; when experiencing it for the first time it can be uncomfortable. You’ll come to see experimentalism as opportunity rich with insight into your projects and personal development.
Collaboration
Multiple perspectives help teams push ideas further and enable breakthroughs that couldn’t happen in a culture where everyone thought the same thing. You’ll learn to contribute your best while leaning on the insight of your team.
Courage
When we have new and different ideas it’s easy to keep them locked up; safe from the possible rejection of the public. You’ll learn to embrace this friction, and the resulting traction and progress that follows when people encounter real objects, not concepts.
Facilitators
Adam Weiler
Adam is a passionate community organizer, tireless social entrepreneur, and talented designer. Over the last 10 years he has leveraged his diverse background in fine art, mathematics, design, and business to bring a whole-minded approach to problem solving. He is a Design Thinking coach at Stanford’s d.School, and has consulted with, and facilitated workshops for, businesses, schools, and non-profits across the globe.
Kirk Eklund
Kirk is a program manager of Social Enterprise at WMCAT. He is most interested in how to support equity and empathy wherever it can be found. Using his experiences coaching at Stanford‘s d.School, Cornell’s design thinking program, and on the Stoked team out of Nashville, Kirk works to bring Design Thinking into all aspects of his work. He has over 15 years of experience in the non-profit sector, and has worked all over the country with teams to bring a more human-centered approach to all they do. He and his wife teach a 9-month class out of their home, turning that same empathic approach towards personal growth.