Before you start
A familiar audience, a shared fictional example and access to a chat assistant. Participants can work in pairs.
Why this lesson exists
Patrick’s Saturday-event experiments became a place to practice facilitation, marketing and AI workflows. A useful workshop makes participation and feedback visible.
Do the exercise
Choose one practical result
Pick rewriting an event invitation, organizing meeting notes or comparing two options. Avoid a tour of twenty tools. State what participants will leave with.
Prepare a worked example
Show the raw input, a weak request and an improved prompt. Include one believable error so participants practice checking instead of admiring the answer.
Plan the session
Use five minutes for the problem, ten for a demonstration, fifteen for paired practice and ten for sharing results. Reserve five minutes for a next action.
Collect a useful debrief
Ask what participants finished, where they got stuck and what they corrected. Revise the exercise using those observations, not just satisfaction ratings.
A prompt to adapt
Replace the bracketed parts with your own practice details.
Design a 45-minute beginner workshop for [audience] where everyone produces [artifact]. Use this fictional example: [example]. Include a worked demonstration, paired exercise, review checklist, accessibility options and a five-minute debrief. Keep the lesson to one repeatable skill.
What this looks like
For an invitation exercise, the finish line is an accurate date, clear location and one RSVP action. An eloquent invitation with the wrong venue fails.
Check your result
Use evidence from your output. A confident explanation from the AI is not enough.
- The exercise works without specialist accounts.
- Participants create rather than only watch.
- The review catches a seeded error.
If it isn’t working
If people get stuck signing in, pair them with someone who has access and keep a printed example. If discussion drifts to model rankings, return to the artifact.
Optional. Progress stays in this browser.
Where this came from
Adapted from the archived LinkedIn theme “The Saturday Laboratory.” See the post coverage and editorial method.
Prepared September 2026. Tools and interfaces change; use current official setup instructions. Session lengths are estimates.