For the past 10 years, as a co-founder of Amity, I’ve been working with groups and creating programmes and workshops. Along the way, I’ve encountered brilliant peers and colleagues in the transformation arena who wanted to make a difference and work with groups. However, when I bumped into them months or years later, they still hadn’t taken the opportunity to do so. They often told me they didn’t know where to start when it came to creating a workshop or programme, or they doubted they had the necessary skills or experience.

For some time now, I’ve been fascinated by what sets apart practitioners who are making an impact and doing what they love from those who are still dreaming about it. What I’ve found is that the “impactful” practitioners aren’t necessarily more skilled than the “dreamers”, they simply take action and experiment their way forward. By doing so, they not only receive feedback from potential clients and improve their services, but they also become better at their craft and create momentum. They’re in the game, playing, instead of thinking about it.

And this is what prototypes are all about. For me, prototypes are experiments that make our ideas tangible. They move concepts from our heads into the world, where others can react to them. Prototypes help probe the unknown, they’re created to explore, investigate, or understand something unfamiliar or not yet fully understood 

I love prototypes and experimenting, and I’m truly excited about this experiment I’m calling PROTOTYPE YOUR WAY FORWARD. It combines two of my passions: supporting people in making a difference and living from their hearts, and workshop design and facilitation.

PROTOTYPE YOUR WAY FORWARD is a 6-week container for wayshowers to design and test a Minimum Viable Workshop, propelling them forward toward making the contribution they dream of.