Struggling with why, when, and how to use all those workshop activities you've collected? Me too! That’s why I’ve created the RELATE framework: a practical approach to selecting and implementing purposeful engagement and learning activities that actually serve your participants' needs. I’ll share how to match activity purposes with participant actions, adapt them for different contexts, and consider elements like timing, transitions, and debriefing. Whether you're designing workshops for 5 or 500, online or on-site, you'll leave with ways to create more engaging, impactful learning experiences.

Learning Objectives

After this session, you'll be able to:

• Use the RELATE framework to identify clear purposes for workshop activities
• Make intentional decisions about which activities will best serve your learners' needs and when to plug them into your sessions
• Consider key factors like group size, timing, and delivery format when planning activities
• Connect activities to learning goals through effective transitions and debriefing

Sheila B. Robinson, Ed.D., of Custom Professional Learning, LLC, is a speaker, educator, and consultant with a passion for the science of teaching and learning. She helps coaches, consultants, and business owners create their own high-quality workshops and courses.

Through her other talks and workshops Sheila teaches people about asking good questions, learning strategies, course creation, audience engagement, program evaluation, survey design, data visualization, and presentation design.

Sheila is author of Designing Quality Survey Questions, 2^nd Ed., a text focused on a respondent-centered and research-based survey design process that focuses on how we ask questions of our respondents, and Professional Development Program Evaluation for the Win: How to Sleep Well at Night Knowing Your Professional Learning Is Effective, a free eBook on training program evaluation.

Sheila is a Certified Presentation Expert (CPE)™ and Past President of the Presentation Guild.