Empathy Accelerator Workshop
What It Is
The Empathy Accelerator is a high-impact, hands-on workshop that challenges teams to go beyond checklists and compliance and start designing for real people with real needs. Through immersive experiences, accessibility simulations, and rapid prototyping, this workshop fosters deep understanding and sparks breakthrough ideas around inclusive design.
Built on the belief that accessibility is a mindset, not a metric, the Empathy Accelerator helps your team feel the friction others experience... and empowers them to fix it with creativity and care.
Ideal For
Special needs and disability inclusion advocates
Online accessibility teams and UX designers
Nonprofits enhancing program access
Service-based businesses focused on inclusive delivery
Organizational leaders committed to meaningful DEI work
Workshop Goals
Build empathy through immersive, perspective-shifting exercises
Reveal hidden accessibility gaps in current offerings
Reframe design problems through a human-centered lens
Generate bold, inclusive solutions rooted in lived experience
Prototype and test inclusive improvements in real time
Embed inclusive thinking into culture, not just checklists
Best For
Teams, creatives, developers, service providers, and decision-makers who want to move beyond compliance and build with every user in mind.
Real-World Applications
A nonprofit redesigns its donation platform with visually impaired users in mind
A business revamps its onboarding flow to support neurodiverse clients
A digital team prototypes better tools for users with limited mobility
Why It Works
The Empathy Accelerator gives your team the insight and momentum to deliver inclusive solutions that actually work... and resonate.
This workshop blends design sprint methods, experiential learning, and emotional intelligence to unlock genuine understanding. When your team sees, hears, and feels the barriers others face, solutions shift from checkbox to breakthrough.
We move from empathy to action fast... with time built in for both emotional processing and tangible prototyping. The result: real change.
Duration
This experience is designed as a 1.5-day session (~10–12 hours total). That gives us space to slow down, zoom in, go deep... and still build something meaningful before the end.
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