Kaospilot Experience Design

I love the days when work looks like this! 😻. This group of superstars spent three days last week learning the mindsets, tools and leadership practices of meaningful experience design. And now... they are going to unleash this power on the world! Check the comments 👇 for links to forthcoming Kaospilot Experience Design programs near you 🌎. Foto: Julie Comfort 🫶. KAOSPILOT #experience #design #purpose #learninganddevelopment #events #changemakers

This is how we turned 100 Nonference participants into artists. 👩🎨 Any experience you create should have an extension = A way to prolong the impression of your experience on the participants and encourage re-engaging or sharing the experience with others. (Thank you, Andy for your superb 5E of Experience Design Framework: https://lnkd.in/eymbY7WF) These are so many cool ideas for extensions. Which one will you pick? Here is what helps me craft one that works: 🌱 Make sure it's rooted in a meaningful intention. 🌱 For Ideas in Motion, we wanted to touch on three core meanings: —Community —Wonder —Creation We followed a set of five principles: —Engagement follows emotion—work the emotional arc first —Embrace messiness, let go of the need to control —Create SOMETHING! —Connection first —Be bold Our extension was born in the closing of the experience, which had two parts: 1️⃣ A sound-bathing meditation [kudos to Mark van der Heijden] 🥁 Singing bowls, chimes, gongs, and other instruments help induce alpha and theta brainwave states associated with relaxation, creativity, and deep reflection. These states foster a reflective mental space ideal for synthesizing new insights. This relaxed mental state allows participants to consolidate what they've absorbed throughout the day, making it easier to connect new insights. As a transition, we invited everyone to imagine a blank canvas in their mind's eye. On that canvas, they could paint their a-ha moments, insights, and essence of the day in colors and shapes. "What would you create?" 2️⃣ Painting as a creative expression of insights 🖼️ Once participants removed their sleep masks, they found little canvases and colours ready for them to use to bring that vision to life in a drawing. The act of visualizing and then creating something tangible taps into both cognitive and emotional processing, deepening the connection to the experience. Creative tasks also allow participants to interpret their insights, increasing their ownership and retention of the material. At the end of the day, participants created an exhibition of their works of art and shared their reflections over a drink, deepening their connection. Participants left with a little colorful artifact that encapsulates the emotions and insights of the day, transporting them back to that experience each time they look at the painting. In other words, we moved from: "We want them to take something PRETTY and put it on their desk." to "We want them to take something MEANINGFUL and put it on their desk." And we tapped into the sense of wonder, creation, and community, just like we intended to. 💛 ____________ If you're planning to bring together a group of people and are keen to design an intentional gathering that will leave an impression long after they return home, reach out! Let's collaborate and create something meaningful that matches your desired outcomes.✌

RECAP: The peak end🎢 of our powerful 3-day Kaospilot Experience Design journey! 💥 What was the most meaningful part for you? 💭 #experiencedesign #socialgood #socialdesign #design #designer #socialchange

Every business is now a design business; it's about imagining a vision and systematically working to realize it. Design is entrepreneurial — it disrupts, innovates, and reinvents entire industries. To thrive, businesses must embrace design as an entrepreneurial force. Look at Apple, which transformed the music and entertainment economy, or Samsung, which went from being a parts supplier to a global technology leader. These are companies that didn't just innovate once and coast; they continually reimagine what is possible. Constant innovation is the future of business. If your business isn't driven by design, it might not survive. It's no surprise that less than 5% of MBA graduates start new businesses — many are trained for an old administrative model aimed at maintaining the status quo, which no longer fits our rapidly changing world. Fortunately, we have prototypes for how business graduates can be immersed in design-thinking. Take for example, the MMM program in the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern University, which combines an MBA and MSDI (Masters in Design Innovation). I had the pleasure of delivering a lecture in life-centered design to MMM students a couple weeks ago, and seeing the students so deeply engaged, reinforced my belief that a new generation of business leaders who will design for all of life — not just humans — across all ecologies. What do YOU think when you hear, "Every business is now a design business?" Best, Bruce #design #innovation #business #MBA #leadership