What

This in-person playshop was an opportunity to dive into the interrelationships between values and feelings, ground in an emotion core to an organization’s values, gather inspiration, and lean into physical making as a way of exploration and connection.

Why & Who

This experience was the closing of New_ Public’s in-person retreat, held at the Headlands Center for the Arts. After two intensive days focused on strategy, planning, and a newly-synthesized values unveiling, the leadership team wanted a final moment that felt inspirational and nourishing. I built this workshop to hold space for the softer, quieter types of conversations, to get to ask and really spend time with the question of “What does it mean to feel hopeful?” and to invite in meaning making and reflection across mediums.

Emergent questions

• What is the relationship between values and feelings? 

• How do you create space for play, connection, and reflection? 

• How do you design for a feeling?