The Leap with Active Sensemaking program begins on February 27th, 2025 and consists of three sequential courses: Design, Survey, and Analysis. Participants can take these courses consecutively or at staggered times to accommodate their schedules. Completing all three courses is required to earn the full program certificate.

Leap with Active Sensemaking

Praxis Unfolded - Active Sensemaking in a Real-World Application

Overview

Active Sensemaking as a key to wise decisions

Your Path, Your Pace

Each course is designed to deliver valuable, standalone skills that you can use immediately. You can take one course at a time, or, if you're ready to commit to the full journey, enrolling in all three will provide a more thorough understanding of Active Sensemaking. Whether you opt for individual courses or the complete program, you can move at a pace that works best for your goals.

Design Course: Designing Sensemaking Questionnaire

Course Overview

In this foundational course, participants work in faculty-created teams to design Sensemaking Questionnaires using the Spryng.io platform. You'll explore a given "sticky situation" which facilitate stakeholder conversations, discover modulators, and develop effective Sensemaking Questionnaires.

Course Details

  • Dates: February 27 - April 10, 2025
  • Duration: 6 weeks
  • Prerequisites: None. This is the foundational course of the program.
  • Outcome: Gain the ability to design relevant and actionable Sensemaking Questionnaires.

Weekly Schedule

  • Week 1 (Feb 27 - Mar 5): Introduction to concepts and tools
  • Week 2 (Mar 6 - 12): Asynchronous teamwork on Discovery/Design
  • Week 3 (Mar 13 - 19): Mentor review and brainstorming
  • Week 4 (Mar 20 - 26): Creating signifiers for story template
  • Week 5 (Mar 27 - Apr 2): Conducting paper tests for clarity
  • Week 6 (Apr 3 - 9): Presenting work to the entire cohort
Individual Course Price

Regular Price: $1199

Early Bird: $1079

Super Early Bird: $959

Super Early Bird Ends In:

Inter-course Period: Design to Survey

Between the Design and Survey courses, participants will develop story templates for their individual projects with mentor support.

  • Watch videos on Active Sensemaking and Sense-Making Methodology
  • View interviews with Spryng.io users
  • Review completed designs for sticky situations
  • Participate in forums for discussions

Survey Course: Surveying and Data Collection for Real-World Applications

Course Overview

Participants bring their real-world "sticky situation" and draft a Sensemaking Questionnaire to refine within the group. The focus is on utilizing Spryng.io's Survey tab to distribute templates, collect data, and run pilot tests.

Course Details

  • Dates: July 31 - September 25, 2025
  • Duration: 8 weeks
  • Prerequisites: Completion of the Design Course or equivalent experience.
  • Outcome: Refine and deploy Sensemaking Questionnaires for impactful data collection.

Weekly Schedule

  • Week 1 (Mar 27 - Apr 2): Introduction to concepts and tools
  • Week 2 (Apr 3 - 9): Peer reviews of story templates
  • Week 3 (Apr 10 - 16): Final revisions to story templates
  • Week 4 (Apr 17 - 23): Develop collection plan/strategy
  • Week 5 (Apr 24 - 30): Present work to cohort
  • Weeks 6-7 (May 1 - 14): Pilot test distribution and collection
  • Week 8 (May 15 - 21): Final presentations to cohort
Individual Course Price

Regular Price: $1199

Early Bird: $1079

Super Early Bird: $959

Super Early Bird Ends In:

Inter-course Period: Survey to Analysis

Between the Survey and Analysis courses, participants will continue data collection with their teams.

  • Watch videos on data collection tips, tactics, and strategies
  • Use checklists for ensuring quality data collection
  • Participate in forums for brainstorming
  • Review completed reports for Active Sensemaking projects

Analysis Course: Analyzing Data and Generating Insights

Course Overview

Participants explore Spryng.io's Analysis, Spot Patterns, and Publish tabs, learning to extract deep insights from narrative data and develop plans for stakeholder engagement.

Course Details

  • Dates: January 8 - February 19, 2026
  • Duration: 6 weeks
  • Prerequisites: Completed survey design and data collection (minimum 200 data points recommended).
  • Outcome: Master narrative analysis and pattern recognition for decision-making.

Weekly Schedule

  • Week 1 (Jan 8 - 14): Introduction to concepts and tools
  • Week 2 (Jan 15 - 21): Exploring data and determining analysis approach
  • Week 3 (Jan 22 - 28): Asynchronous team review for patterns
  • Week 4 (Jan 29 - Feb 4): Designing story packs for data presentation
  • Week 5 (Feb 5 - 11): Developing stakeholder engagement plans
  • Week 6 (Feb 12 - 18): Final presentations to cohort
Individual Course Price

Regular Price: $1199

Early Bird: $1079

Super Early Bird: $959

Super Early Bird Ends In:

Your Transformative Sensemaking Journey: Learn, Apply, Lead

Embark on a transformative journey that will revolutionize your approach to complex challenges. This comprehensive program guides you through the entire Active Sensemaking process, empowering you to learn cutting-edge techniques, apply them to real-world scenarios, and ultimately lead your own initiatives with confidence.

By enrolling in the full program, you'll save up to $1000 compared to taking individual courses, while gaining a complete understanding of the Active Sensemaking cycle—from designing questionnaires to collecting and analyzing data. Each course builds on the previous one, deepening your mastery of the process. Completing all three courses earns you a Completion Certificate, enhancing your professional credibility.

Your Transformative Sensemaking Journey: Learn, Apply, Lead

By enrolling in the full program, you'll save up to $1000 compared to taking individual courses, while gaining a complete understanding of the Active Sensemaking cycle—from designing questionnaires to collecting and analyzing data. Each course builds on the previous one, deepening your mastery of the process. Completing all three courses earns you a Completion Certificate, enhancing your professional credibility.

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Combined Offer Price (All Three Courses)

Regular Combined Price: $3597

Early Bird Price: $2,957 (Extra $100 off!)

Super Early Bird Price: $2,598 (Extra $100 off!)

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What Our Participants Say

"I think it was as much a personal growth and a personal opportunity for us as it was professionally."
- Adina B
"We really felt like this training gave us the opportunity to strengthen our team's capacity to use Spryng." "We also really have appreciated all the insights and inspiration from others coming from different backgrounds and perspectives on their journey. And so, that has actually had quite a bit of value. And just really something we appreciated from the training was hearing from others, their experiences and their goals and what they've been learning along the way."
- Jenny B
"I think this journey has been really helpful in gaining perspective, to how we approach the people we want to serve and for us to serve them better. I connected with this methodology. There's a lot to learn, and I think that I enjoyed that experience. I think I was the most excited about that piece, about the new learnings. It's been helpful learning in a community because it prompts you to think differently."
- Denisse H,
Sprynging into Action is like a gourmet nine-course meal where you get to experience soup to yummy dessert.
Even better -- you are able to watch the skilled chefs prepare your Active Sensemaking meal, seeing all that is involved.
- Laurie Webster
In the face of massive upheaval and uncertainties, wise leadership of our organizations and institutions has never been more critically important.
But the foundation of wise leadership is deep awareness and insight into context—a meaningful understanding of what's going on.
- Barrett Horne

Program Highlights

Learn

  • Design Sensemaking Questionnaires using the Spryng.io platform
  • Facilitate stakeholder conversations and develop effective prompts
  • Utilize Spryng.io's Survey, Analysis, and Spot Patterns tools
  • Extract deep insights from narrative data

Apply

  • Refine and deploy Sensemaking Questionnaires for real-world applications
  • Conduct pilot tests and iterate based on incoming data
  • Develop plans for stakeholder engagement in analysis
  • Create dialogues for community insights and praxis

Develop

  • Practical thinking in navigating complexity with confidence
  • Creative approaches to crafting unbiased questions that elicit meaningful stories
  • Skills to connect ideas and information across people and fields
  • Appreciation for the power of stories and thick data in research

Skills You'll Gain

  • Sensemaking Questionnaire design
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Facilitating stakeholder conversations
  • Developing effective question prompts
  • Managing a research initiative schedule
  • Data collection and survey distribution
  • Survey strategy development
  • Facilitating pilot tests
  • Narrative analysis and pattern recognition
  • Facilitating insight generation and presentation
  • Use of Spryng.io platform (Initiate, Discovery, Design, Survey, Analysis, Spot Patterns, and Publish tabs)
  • Research plan development
  • Dashboard creation and interpretation
  • Community engagement and praxis development

Frequently Asked Questions

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Our Faculty

Jenny Flinders

Jenny Flinders

Jenny Flinders, MSE, is a Research Project Manager at the Center for Public Partnerships and Research at the University of Kansas. Her work over the past decade includes leading grant-funded initiatives that center community voice in the policymaking process by leveraging complex sensemaking processes as well as indigenous community partnerships that seek to strengthen intergenerational wellbeing. Her vast experience with sensemaking projects—from design to next-wise actions—has supported democratized data ownership and community-led change in communities across the United States. She is currently a PhD candidate in Education Policy at the University of Kansas, with a research focus on how American political discourse is leveraged for control and privileged access to the education system.
Dr. CarrieLynn Reinhard

Dr. CarrieLynn Reinhard

Dr. Reinhard is a Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Dominican University. She studied with Brenda Dervin, creator of the Sense-Making Methodology (SMM), for her doctorate at Ohio State University. She has since used SMM in various research studies, such as understanding the virtual world Second Life to conflicts within fandoms. The latter project was published as Fractured Fandoms: Contentious Communication in Fan Communities (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).
Ajay Reddy

Ajay Reddy

Ajay Reddy is recognized for seamlessly integrating ethical, human-centered design with modern AI to drive positive outcomes and societal impact. Holding a Master of Science in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he leverages Active Sensemaking to uncover deep insights and emerging patterns within organizations. This approach enables the identification of significant opportunities and challenges, guiding wise decisions and policy changes in complex and uncertain environments. His expertise lies in Active Sensemaking research and leading AI/ML product teams.
Dr. Glenda Eoyang

Dr. Glenda Eoyang

Dr. Eoyang is a pioneer in the applications of complexity science to human and organizational systems, and developed the concept of human systems dynamics (HSD) based on her theoretical and practical research. She is founder of The Human Systems Dynamics Institute (HSDI), an organization devoted to developing the theory and practice of human systems dynamic, and helping individuals and organizations cope with complexity and uncertainty.
Barrett Horne

Barrett Horne

Barrett Horne has built on a lifetime of insights into human systems internationally. Barrett's organizational development and management expertise has developed around helping clients access their own unique wisdom, turning those insights into practical actions to achieve the outcomes that are important to them. Since 2011, Barrett has worked with narrative sensemaking as an invaluable method for understanding the current disposition of an organization or community's situation.
Fisher Qua

Fisher Qua

Fisher Qua is based in northern New Mexico. His primary areas of focus and professional involvement have been in education (postsecondary, with an increasing familiarity in K-12), community health & wellbeing, and supporting scientific research organizations. Fisher is deeply committed to developing participatory approaches to working with complex problems that tap into more of each person's intelligence, imagination, and creativity. His expertise brings a valuable perspective to the Active Sensemaking program, particularly in fostering innovative and inclusive problem-solving methodologies.

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