What

Inspiration Breakfast was an hour-long experience I held every three weeks. I would craft an activity that would have people experiencing the world through their senses, building in unfamiliar mediums, and empowering their inner child, with a bonus of homemade breakfast for creative food fuel. Sessions included activities like “Smell Adventures” – a smell scavenger hunt around San Francisco, paired walk-and-talks with maps of questions to follow, artist date share-backs, and fantastical hat haberdashery.

Why & Who

I started Inspiration Breakfasts for my team at IDEO U – a group of almost entirely non-designers, when many were feeling both creatively depleted and like imposters within a design-centric organization. Over time, different folks began stepping up to co-host sessions inspired by questions they had stumbled upon, mediums they were curious about, or experiments they wanted others to embark on with them.

Emergent questions

• How do you inspire people who don’t yet identify as creative? 

• How do you build ritual around creative expression? 

• How do you help people play – with the world, with one another, and with themselves, in a culture that feels under-resourced with time?