The first thing most people do when planning a workshop?
They open PowerPoint.
Keynote. Google Slides. Doesn’t matter.
They jump straight into slide-making.
Big mistake.
That’s how you kill your workshop before it even starts.
Because when you start with slides, you get stuck in details.
You obsess over fonts, transitions, bullet points…
instead of asking the only questions that matter.
So if you’ve already opened your deck, close it.
Yes, right now.
Grab a blank doc.
Or the back of a receipt. Doesn’t matter.
What matters is you get clear on these three things first:
1. Who is it for? (Audience Profile)
2. When do they need a break? (Schedule Chunks)
3. What do they take away? (Learning Outcomes)
That’s it.
Who / When / What.
No slides.
No layout.
No design system.
Just the bones.
The Workshop Skeleton.
The Workshop Skeleton is easy to draft.
Built to evolve.
And it always starts with one question: who’s in the room?
Thank you.
And Free Palestine.