Product Description
What to expect during Catalyst:
Our first Catalyst course ran from February 10th– 20th in 2014 (images above).
Catalyst is a sequence of 4 workshop sessions over 2 weeks, with short tasks to do in between, so essentially this means you’ll have two weeks to work through a challenge yet only 4 of those days will require your attendance at workshop sessions. The short tasks will happen in your own time outside of the workshop.
Stage 1: full day + half Awaken Agency |
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During 2-3 days away from course:2 hour task in your own time Research + Gather inspiration |
Stage 2 full day Insights + Imagine/Dare to Dream |
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Stage 3 full day Imagine + Experiment |
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During a week away from course 3-4 hour task in your own time Design Testing (gather feedback)
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Stage 4 half day + lunch Plan the Evolution |
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You can use Design Thinking to approach any challenge
Design Thinking is a structured approach to generating and evolving ideas. It has distinct phases that help navigate the development from identifying a design challenge to finding and building a solution. It’s an approach that relies on your capacity to engage with something new, be willing to explore, experiment, observe carefully, interpret what you observe, be intuitive, and develop ideas that respond to what you’re learning.
The process of design thinking gives structure to the stages of creating change. It starts with research, then engages in interpretation of the insights you gather, generating creative responses to your insights and then experimenting, testing your design on others, evaluating and evolving your ideas.
During catalyst, you’ll discover what is possible if you embrace experimentation and allow yourself to:
Embrace your beginner’s mind.
Have an abundance mentality.
Start with, “What if?” instead of “What’s wrong?”
Step out of your zone of comfort and learn from and with others.
Collaborate with others
For any questions regarding the course- please use the contact details below
The most valuable part of the Catalyst workshop was learning the ability to think laterally about an issue and come up with an outcome that was completely different than I originally imagined
The most valuable part of the Catalyst workshop was having a structure for the process of design thinking so that the creative and challenging elements were in a context of the overall process- this allowed me to go with these elements more easily
The most valuable part of the Catalyst workshop was Experience mapping and the importance of revisiting this several times throughout the design process
The most valuable part of the Catalyst workshop was that it enabled shared creativity and some risk taking while applying a fairly rigorous process for understanding and developing a response to a problem. This helped us to arrive at an unexpected and exciting way to approach the issue.