workshops
Odyssey Works has been perfecting the craft of transformation for over twenty five years. We understand that making a meaningful life, business, or creative practice involves challenges and breakthroughs, not simply divine inspiration.
Upcoming workshops
Weekend INtensive - London
This is a chance to 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 creates community, cultivates communication, and uses rigorous design methods so that you can leap head-first into intimate experience design. Tickets available starting January 11.Sat-Sun, April 25-26, 2026 10:00 PM – 5:00 PM
£525 for the weekend. All materials included. Limited partial scholarships available. £50 early bird discount until April 1. Contact us for scholarship info.
Designing With Diagrams - Online
The Diagram is the crown jewel of visual thinking. As a communication tool, it allows audiences to quickly and directly understand complicated relationships. As a design tool, it allows practitioners to understand the bigger picture as they dive into the details. In a few short hours, you'll be using diagrams to design experiences in a totally new waySunday, June 23, 2024. 2-5pm Eastern (New York) $79
Discount tickets available
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Master Class
Our workshops begin with empathy because it is the best tool for creating truly collaborative teams, effective design, and a positive impact on the world.
Short Workshops
“Attended an @OdysseyWorks workshop last weekend and it was the best team building experience I’ve ever had. #saynototrustfalls”
— KEVIN HALE, PARTNER, Y COMBINATOR
“The workshop was AMAZING! All week students came to me to say that the workshop had opened up their thinking about their thesis work. The attention from Abe and Ayden was thoughtful, kind, informed, and fresh.”
— ELLEN LUPTON, CURATOR AT COOPER HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM AND DIRECTOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN DEPARTMENT AT MICA
“The Odyssey Works Experience Design Intensive...was probably the most compact, relevant, valuable professional development training I’ve done in my life (and I’ve done quite a few).”
— KATIE GREEN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, TWIN ALCHEMY
Incubator
Experience Design Certificate Program
Join us for a 10 month, low-residency program providing both comprehensive understanding of the principles of experience design and introduction to an engaged and dynamic community.
Develop Your Experience Design Portfolio
Build Creative Community
Tap into your Purpose