What you will bring home
- Strengthened critical thinking skills and the ability to detect not only misinformation, but also the underlying manipulation that influence many other aspects of our lives and work - both consciously and unconsciously
- A new analytical approach and deeper understanding of human motivation and sense-making, which can be applied broadly and create value wherever people interact.
- Small concrete actions or adjustments to improve motivation, collaboration, communication, decision-making, and more
From deception to positive change
Misinformation is often more successful than the truth. Both online and in any other place where people interact.
By exploiting our brain’s way of making sense of the world, misinformation can manipulate and mislead us, damage collaboration, and derail conversations and decision processes.
But for that very reason, misinformation can also teach us a great deal about how to strengthen our critical thinking, increase motivation, and improve collaboration and the quality of our decisions - both at work and at home.
Based on brain research, communication, and manipulation strategies, the first part of the workshop focuses on the manipulative DNA of misinformation through an active hands-on simulation where you work as new employees in a fictional propaganda company.
International research shows that we learn best to recognise and counter misinformation and manipulation by actively working with it ourselves.
In the second part of the workshop, we focus on human motivation and way of understanding the world, which is exploited by misinformation, but can also guide us to small actions or adjustments, that can help us improve motivation, collaboration, communication, and decisions.
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Workshop structure
The workshop is an add-on to the Truth Warrior talk, which serves as an introduction to misinformation, the underlying manipulation, human motivation and understanding, as well as the heaviest scientific weapons against misinformation.
Participants then deepens their knowledge through group work with various examples, cases, and exercises. There is time for immersion, inspiration, collaboration, creativity, and humor.
Finally, the new knowledge is used to drive positive change in life and work. This part can focus on different themes:
- Create a positive and motivated team
- Build stronger collaborations
- Increase the quality of your decisions
- Calmly handle external media pressure
- Communicate science in a way that allows truth to overcome manipulative misinformation
Based on research on misinformation
- The workshop is based on internationally recognised research on the use of active learning games to build resilience against misinformation and manipulation
- There are ample opportunities for tailoring the workshop to your needs
- Can run for 3 to 6 hours, including the talk
- Suitable for up to 40 participants
- Can be conducted in Danish or English
- Participants receive a certificate with a summary of the key points from the day
Technical needs for the talk
HDMI-plug for a 16:9 projector system with good sound (I bring my own computer)
Headset or clip-on microphone so there is free movement and free hands
Normal power socket for the computer
Please let me know if this causes any trouble.
