Two near-identical year-planning workshops on the same weekend

Wow, we've nearly sold out the first two sessions of our online Goal-Crafting Intensive workshops this weekend! 🚀 (Still a few tickets and ~15 hours to buy one, if you want to join us for planning your year: complice.co/event/plan2019…) Also, a thread 👇👇

Jan 4, 2019

Also only about 24 hours to buy @fortelabs' & @TaylorPearsonMe New Year's bundle which includes... a remarkably similar event—that's also this weekend! My jaw dropped a bit when I saw Tiago's announcement email, because of the similarities: praxis.fortelabs.co/theannualrevie…

Similarities • virtual workshop • Zoom video call • hours of Slack-based Q&A etc • time for private reflection • group accountability • much more course content than you can actually use during this one event ...and of course the purpose: review last year & plan next year

Is this a coincidence? I'm genuinely not sure. I do know that last year I emailed @fortelabs and told him about our event, because I thought he'd appreciate the pedagogical approach we were taking, which (as far as I know) is a rather unique structure:

I was thinking it was likely he wouldn't be interested in coaching, but figured our workshop format was something he'd appreciate anyway and that maybe I'd see him try it for his PKM content. I was surprised that it's... the same concept/purpose, the same weekend.

As the surprise wore off... I wondered if I was upset... or... was I supposed to be upset? But then on reflection, I felt mostly a mix of: • curious (was this intentional or did it bubble up from his subconscious?) • flattered ("imitation is the sincerest form of") • excited!

I wasn't worried about losing customers (huge space, ~separate mktg channels). So instead, this is a cool opportunity for us to compare variations and see how they each go! Main differences: • duration (5h vs full-day) • # coaches (many vs 2) • $ / PWYW • the actual content

So yeah! I'm hoping to get a chance to talk with @fortelabs & @TaylorPearsonMe about their experience running this structure of event, as part of learning how to design future video/chat/solo hybrid workshops.

I would also be down to help somebody else design or execute a similar workshop structure for something they know how to teach and think would work well with this format 🙃 It works particularly well for things where people want accountability, but could be anything really.

Oh and here's another link to our event: complice.co/event/plan2019… And another link to theirs: praxis.fortelabs.co/theannualrevie… Happy New Year whereever you are this weekend 😎