Pre-Work
Priming, cold-to-warm conversion, and pre-work ratios.
DESIGN
Most workshops get the planning right and the session wrong. The creator names the specific participant, the specific problem, and what the participant should be able to do at the end — and then builds the session itself as a list of topics to…
April 28, 2026
Spaced Repetition & Retrieval Practice
Spaced repetition and retrieval practice are the two evidence-based techniques for turning short-term exposure into durable memory. Spaced repetition revisits material at widening intervals.
April 28, 2026
Warm vs. Cold Information
Warm information is material a participant already has some prior knowledge of and can recall when prompted. Cold information is material they have no prior exposure to — or exposure so thin that it can't be retrieved under the cognitive pressure of…
April 28, 2026
The Guiding Principles of Active Learning
A workshop can deploy every visible marker of active learning — breakouts, think-pair-share, live polls, roleplay — and still produce the passive-learning outcomes the approach is supposed to eliminate.
April 28, 2026