EXPERIENCE DESIGN WORKSHOPS FOR
COLLABORATION
Odyssey Works has been PERFECTING the craft of transformation for over twenty years. We understand that making a meaningful life, or creative practice involves challenges and breakthroughs, not simply divine inspiration.
UPCOMING
Collaborative Innovation: Making Meaning
How do we work with one another to have a MEANINGFUL impact on the world? When embarking on creating a business or collaborating in a lasting way, it is critical to ENGAGE in the question of what drives you and your mission. This workshop builds strong communication by engaging pairs in one-on-one investigation into the essence of what is most significant to each and to their work together.
Empathy + Experience Design
Our signature workshop emphasizes the concepts of EMPATHY and the gift as springboards for the design process, and teaches the art of asking powerful questions that open dialogue. Using Odyssey Works’ singular interview PROCESS, these workshops explore how to develop a space of curiosity and intimacy to foster real collaboration and to develop a culture of common PURPOSE. Each attendee designs and receives a bespoke designed experience.
Short Workshops
Empathy + Experience Design
Our signature workshop emphasizes the concepts of EMPATHY and the gift as springboards for the design process, and teaches the art of asking powerful questions that open dialogue. Using Odyssey Works’ singular interview PROCESS, these workshops explore how to develop a space of curiosity and intimacy to foster real collaboration and to develop a culture of common PURPOSE. Each attendee designs and receives a bespoke designed experience.
Collaborative Innovation: Making Meaning
How do we work with one another to have a MEANINGFUL impact on the world? When embarking on creating a business or collaborating in a lasting way, it is critical to ENGAGE in the question of what drives you and your mission. This workshop builds strong communication by engaging pairs in one-on-one investigation into the essence of what is most significant to each and to their work together.
Designing with Diagrams
This workshop TEACHES participants how to use diagrams both as a process tool and as a communication strategy. Beginning with the intended affect, we work backwards to create a map of the arc of an experience, whether that's the user experience of your latest product, an organizational structure, or a bespoke event for a loved one.
Two Day Intensives
Dive deep into the complete curriculum of Odyssey Works' INTIMATE and inspiring process on how to create transformative experiences. This class combines the content of our core offerings of empathy & experience design, diagramming, and making MEANING workshops, into one intensive that radically changes the way you think about making anything you make.
Consent Workshop
How do we design experiences that are INTIMATE and responsive to participants' boundaries and needs, while still allowing for risk? Experience Design is fundamentally built around RETHINKING the relationship between creator(s) and their audience. Establishing consent is integral when developing interactive works. In this course, we consider a host of ways to gauge consent, capacity, and WILLINGNESS to participate in various kinds of experiences. How can designers create a sense of hospitality and care so that participants can have transformative experiences?
Custom Workshops
We will work with you to develop workshops geared toward your SPECIFIC goals. Our workshops can help focus a team on concept development at early stages or on developing general collaborative practices. We can work with teams as small as 5 and as large as 150. Workshops can be as short as 2 hours and as long as a weekend. Contact us below to discuss in greater detail.
