TBC, these test sessions are a good place to volunteer an hour of your time if you want to help us with curriculum development (and we appreciate it!); but I think they’re a lot worse than what the workshop will be like, and don’t provide a very good idea of it; we are often eg interviewing people about their cognitive patterns, trying stuff we haven’t tried before that mostly then does belly-flops, etc.
At workshops, IME, there’s somehow a magic that comes from having left behind “work mode” and entering “retreat mode,” where you and everyone you’re seeing in person all have space at once for thinking through things freshly, and also where there’s a critical mass of seeing new ways to make progress on bits of peoples’ lives that they’d assumed “just have to be this way,” such that people begin to look around with hope, and to notice and try things.
TBC, these test sessions are a good place to volunteer an hour of your time if you want to help us with curriculum development (and we appreciate it!); but I think they’re a lot worse than what the workshop will be like, and don’t provide a very good idea of it; we are often eg interviewing people about their cognitive patterns, trying stuff we haven’t tried before that mostly then does belly-flops, etc.
At workshops, IME, there’s somehow a magic that comes from having left behind “work mode” and entering “retreat mode,” where you and everyone you’re seeing in person all have space at once for thinking through things freshly, and also where there’s a critical mass of seeing new ways to make progress on bits of peoples’ lives that they’d assumed “just have to be this way,” such that people begin to look around with hope, and to notice and try things.