Video Review

Lots of times!

I learned this workshop review technique from Dave Meier (now deceased), founder of The Center For Accelerated Learning.

You video little snippets of your participants and session content as your workshop emerges. I've been lucky to run numerous 3 day or longer workshops, but I've done a video review with a 1 day workshop too.

At the very end of your workshop you play the video snippets with no sound but put to music. I often used Variations on a Theme from Pachelbel's Cannon in D Major by David Lanz for longer workshops. I'm listening to it now as I type this!

It takes a bit of practice since you don't have time for editing or anything like that but the impact is awesome!

The music winds down, people have just witnessed themselves learning with colleagues; snippets of them being amazing!

The music ends, the video ends. Silence; then you hear a cough, a sniffle, someone reaches for something to dry their eyes. Me too! You often have to tell people the workshop is over and then they'll start to leave. Still pretty quiet.

But you just know lots is going on; and you feel really good!