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Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality

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Dr. Tolu Noah knew she wanted to be a teacher since fourth grade, sparking a career across K-12 and higher education.
Dr. Tolu Noah discusses her book on designing and facilitating workshops with intentionality, sharing her journey from K-12 teaching to higher education and key principles like active listening, empathy, and inclusive practices. She emphasizes creating engaging, multidirectional learning experiences for adult learners in professional settings.

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A measured case for designing workshops around active listening, empathy, and the people they are meant to serve.

An episode like this treats workshop design in higher education as a matter of attention more than technique. It follows the path from listening tours, surveys, and casual instructor conversations to a plain but important question: whether design choices help people trust, use,…

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A workshop-design conversation that starts with listening, not templates.

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