Envisioneur Courses

Learn the art and science of being an Envisioneur! How do visuals and narratives activate our creativity? How can they help us produce programs and services that are effective and enjoyable? How might we apply and integrate creative thinking alongside the reasoning skills we often use in the workplace?

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What can you do to develop deep Insights about your stakeholders?

Learn Human-Centered Design techniques to observe behavior and needs. Consider the senses, emotions, and rationales that your clients may experience when they use your services and when they are in everyday life situations. Develop skills of interpretation, too, so you can overcome your own biases when you interact with your audiences.

What can you do to generate new Innovations?

If you struggle to think of fresh ideas, learn how you can stimulate creative thinking for both yourself and your team. An Envisioneur Course teaches how to set up an environment for creativity and use ideation methods from the field of Design Thinking. You can have a lively and creative mind!

What can you do to Integrate promising solutions into the everyday work of you and your team?

Have you ever come up with a promising idea…and then done nothing with it? Learn and apply quick methods and systematic processes to turn ideas into actionable solutions. Become skilled at blending your new innovations into the flow of your team’s work, too.

How can you use a mindset that is ripe for Insights, Innovation, and Integration?

Each of us tends to apply a dominant form of thinking and acting in our work. Some of us need to feel a sense of control or predictability. Others among us thrive in conditions of uncertainty or improvisation. Learn to cultivate a mindset that opens you to new opportunities, and that also equips you to consider the practical realities to build and sustain an innovation.

When and how can you apply visuals, narratives, questions, and other tools to excel as both a strategic thinker and an ideator?

70% of people are primarily visual learners and thinkers, but few of us make full use of our visual/spatial intelligence. Many of us love stories, too, but rarely apply the power of narratives to our everyday work. Some of us are naturally strategists, but for many people, “strategy” is a mysterious or misunderstood concept. Through an Envisioneur Course, hone your abilities and knowledge so that you can bring visual, narrative, and strategic insights to your team and your field.

Become an Envisioneur

You will receive short readings, practical exercises, and narrative and visual toolkit items that you can learn and use during and beyond the course sessions. 

Contact us to learn about more about our courses and to discuss your team’s professional development goals.

Is It for You?

An Envisioneur Course may be most useful for you if you serve in a role such as the following:

      • Vice President or Senior Manager of Community Development, Outreach, Strategy, Programming, or Special Initiatives

      • Committee Chair or Member

      • Program or Service Design Task Force Member

      • Social Impact Fund Manager

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