Available Classes
Virtual + Live + Instructor-Led
Unlock the theory, tools, and techniques essential to fostering belonging in your work. Our courses are designed to equip designers, facilitators, and leaders with practical strategies to create more inclusive, engaging, and meaningful experiences.
Whether you're looking to deepen your understanding or apply new frameworks in real time, our courses provide the knowledge and skills to make a lasting impact.
Storycraft CoLABoratory
The Storycraft CoLABoratory is a rotating, cross-industry focus group of event and marketing experts harnessing a set of proprietary collaboration tools to advance team building and collaborative ideation in their organizations.
Date: Second Wednesday of Every Month
Time: 12-1:30 PM ET
The CoLABoratory is open to the public, with limited seats available.
Building Belonging
From story-telling to story-sharing, we’ll learn why stories are so powerful and how dialogue is essential to building understanding. This class looks at the important functions of scaffolding, and bridging, for models of collaboration — and architectures of choice that support neuro-inclusion.
Date: May 15, 2025
Time: 12-2 PM ET
Part of the Belonging Experience Designer (BxD) Certification.
The Collaboration Tools
Collaboration and Connection are essential components — and outcomes — of Belonging. In the second hands-on tools session we’ll explore personalization for preference using the Experience Profiles™ quiz builder tool and the Storycraft Lab Book of Sessions for educational engagement.
Date: June 5, 2025
Time: 12-2 PM ET
Part of the Belonging Experience Designer (BxD) Certification.
Belonging Centered Design
This first class in the BxD certificate course will introduce key facts supporting the value of Belonging. And provide communications frameworks for integrating into your design process from the outset of your project — to ensure Belonging as an outcome.
Date: May 1, 2025
Time: 12-2 PM ET
Part of the Belonging Experience Designer (BxD) Certification.
Benchmarking Belonging
From dialogue to data, this class will cover the relationship between time and measurement, as well as the tools we have for quantifying success — Recommendations, Sentiments and Resonance / Dissonance. We’ll share frameworks for balancing qualitative and quantitative data, as well as adaptive applications and goals alignment.
Date: May 22, 2025
Time: 12-2 PM ET
Part of the Belonging Experience Designer (BxD) Certification.
Empathy Lab
This technique workshop takes participants on a deep dive to build out audience personas. We will examine barriers to action and identify insights that can illuminate the paths to conversion, loyalty, and ultimately advocacy as audiences progress along the ‘ladder of engagement’.
Date: June 12, 2025
Time: 12-2 PM ET
Part of the Belonging Experience Designer (BxD) Certification.
Idea Jam Workshop
Using a “Yes, And...” format, attendees bring pitches to the session that others then “Jam” until they reach epic proportions! This workshop leverages collaborative ideation and encourages divergent thinking, with the group responding to questions
and using colleagues to expand concepts for the pitch.
Date: June 26, 2025
Time: 12-2 PM ET
Part of the Belonging Experience Designer (BxD) Certification.
Belonging Journeys
Learn about the shift from event to experience, from ladders of engagement to ladders of belonging, and the transformation of timelines from linear to loop. We’ll look at the importance of partnership and provide guidance on how to use the process of mapping as a great connector.
Date: May 8, 2025
Time: 12-2 PM ET
Part of the Belonging Experience Designer (BxD) Certification.
The Belonging Tools
Discover the framework and app that enables the capture of an organizational Belonging DNA™. Including pathways, touchpoints, keywords, and best practices. Participants will explore The Belonging Playbook through hands-on exercises and receive access to the Wheel of Belonging app for use with their teams.
Date: May 29, 2025
Time: 12-2 PM ET
Part of the Belonging Experience Designer (BxD) Certification.
Journey Architectures
This technique workshop uncover behavioral drivers behind consumer decisions at the different touchpoints of an experience or campaign idea. We’ll walk in the shoes of the audience to consider key moments in the narrative journey and express this using the Storycraft Lab map template.
Date: June 19, 2025
Time: 12-2 PM ET
Part of the Belonging Experience Designer (BxD) Certification.
The Big Pitch
Following a hackathon model, participants pitch their end to end design utilizing Belonging theory, tools, and templates to design an experience. Activities include stakeholder assessments, persona development, site and space planning, measurement, and Journey Mapping.
Date: July 1, 2025
Time: 12-2 PM ET
Only available as part of the Belonging Experience Designer (BxD) Certification.