Building Play Into Your Design Team's Remote Collaboration
Have you ever felt your creative energy being drained in virtual brainstorms?
Maybe you’ve struggled with getting people to share their thoughts or ask questions?
Or perhaps, you’ve found it difficult to run collaborative sessions that gets everyone inspired to create something extraordinary?
Wonder what would happen if you took a breath, and intentionally designed sessions that energize and spark play in your team collaboration?
As creatives, we 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 on your team 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 workshops and facilitation, and tackle actionable methodologies and tools to encourage more creative ideas – and get your team excited for them.
What you’ll get out of this session:
? See Butter in action, and discover new techniques to design and run engaging sessions that encourage a playful and open space.
? Learn how to use Ice Breakers (or as we like to call them Ice Melters) to create trust and head into sessions with a creative mindset — where fun can also inspire function.
⚡ Pick up some creative (and fun!) brainstorming techniques that gets the group away from the blank page trap, which we affectionately call the “swan in the snowstorm”
?Learn other methods to get people absorbed in collaboration — walkshops, bringing the physical and digital together, looking for inspiration in unique places.
About Rachel
Rachel is a workshop experience designer and facilitator. She has over 17 years experience across design thinking, brand and creative strategy, workshop creation, and facilitation. She’s an avid reader, and probably has way too many books on her reading list right now; don’t ever hesitate to ask her for a book recommendation—she will probably have one at the ready! As a life-long learner she’s always learning something new every day—even about Miro. She also loves sharing what she learns or even just her every day insights—you can read some of her thoughts over on her Medium Page.