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Ved Shankar's avatar

I 100% needed to read this right now while planning workshop. The tendency to squish many things into a window of time is quite tempting.

I guess part of the live workshop is creating the space in the first place

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Rik's avatar

Awesome! I'm so happy that this is helpful right now. I hope I made clear in the piece that this wanting to fill it up is coming from a good place, but yes, to make it breathe is (and keeps being, for me at least) the challenge :)

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Ved Shankar's avatar

Yup for sure it is clear. I think it's almost coming from a place of nervousness even (oh god, I have a lot of people's time - better use it well)

Letting it breathe sounds counterintuitive but is also a forcing function to ask 'what's actually useful and a good takeaway people should have?'

(kind of like a good essay)

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Rik's avatar

Yes! When I just started building courses/workshops I learnt a lot from other course creators and people in 'modern' education. They called why you're describing (I think) 'learner perspective'. Which is obviously different than your own (be it nervousness, or 'passion' for your curriculum).

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