The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time

Discussion topics can facilitate this (“discuss the consequences of sexual harassment complaints in the broader organization”), but you generally get better results if you give groups a more concrete purpose. They could: • Create something • Work together to teach something to the rest of the class • Argue different sides of a debate • Investigate

you generally get better results if you give groups a more concrete purpose.

Immediacy. In learning environments, we tend to focus on future consequences and outcomes, but the elephant is a creature of immediacy. Things that are going to happen in the future, regardless of how dire they are, are less compelling to the elephant than things that are happening RIGHT NOW. That’s why “You may need to know these safety evacuation