Workshops to learn Experience Design

Odyssey Works has been perfecting the craft of transformation for over twenty years. We understand that making a meaningful life, business, or creative practice involves challenges and breakthroughs, not simply divine inspiration.

Short Workshops

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.

Empathy + Experience Design

Audience

Teams, Designers, Product Managers

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.

Duration

2.5 hours | 4 hours | Full Day

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Collaborative Innovation: Making Meaning

Audience

Co-Founders, Sr. Team Members, Collaborative Pairs

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.

Duration

2.5 hours || 4 hours

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Diagramming

Audience

Designers, Project Managers

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.

Duration

2.5 hours

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Two Day Intensives

Audience

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.

Duration

2 Full Days

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Custom Workshops

Audience

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.

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Lectures & Book Talks

Audience

Co-Directors Abraham Burickson and Ayden LeRoux frequently give lectures about experience design, collaboration, and empathetically-driven work. They are available for book talks and book signings.

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“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).”

“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.”

“Attended an @OdysseyWorks workshop last weekend and it was the best team building experience I’ve ever had. #saynototrustfalls”

KATIE GREEN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, TWIN ALCHEMY

ELLEN LUPTON, CURATOR AT COOPER HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM AND DIRECTOR OF GRAPHIC DESIGN DEPARTMENT AT MICA

KEVIN HALE, PARTNER, Y COMBINATOR

Master Class

Learn our secrets from to design a transformative experience for an audience of one as you join a cohort of artists from diverse backgrounds studying the life of our chosen participant and designing an interdisciplinary experience for them.

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