A real skill, in a lunch break 
Five standalone 90-minute sessions on creative thinking, clearer presentations, photography, design and the value of design work in an age of AI. Each one is built to shift how people think, then send them back to their desks with something they can actually use.
- Rethink what creativity means beyond art and design.
- Recognise everyday opportunities to think differently and solve problems.
- Explore simple ways to generate ideas and challenge assumptions.
- Apply creative thinking to a familiar workplace or everyday challenge.
- Understand why clear messages matter more than decorative slides.
- Structure ideas using simple storytelling and presentation techniques.
- Explore how layout, visual hierarchy and simplicity improve understanding.
- Identify practical ways to make your next presentation clearer and more persuasive.
- Discover how composition, framing and perspective influence a photograph.
- Explore how lighting, angles and backgrounds can improve everyday shots.
- Learn to notice photo opportunities in ordinary surroundings.
- Apply simple techniques to capture more engaging photos with your smartphone.
- Understand the principles behind clear and effective visual communication.
- Explore how colour, typography, layout and imagery work together.
- Discover how to use Canva templates without making designs look generic.
- Identify practical ways to improve everyday visuals for work, community or personal projects.
- Separate what AI genuinely absorbed from what it did not.
- See where design value has moved: judgement, taste and framing the problem.
- Critique AI output as a designer, not as a user.
- Leave with one skill to deepen and one task worth delegating.
- Introduction to Canva
- Design Impactful Presentations with Canva
- Mobile Photography for Beginners
- TikTok Essentials for Teams
Tell us the skill gap, and we will tell you honestly whether we can build a 90-minute session around it, or whether you need something longer.
Request a topicEvery session includes
- Design of the session outline for your team
- Delivery by the trainer who designed it
- A digital workbook for every participant
- QR-accessible templates and resources
Module by module
Every session follows the same four-part arc — shift mindsets, plant new convictions, spark new perspectives, inspire action — then breaks into four short modules and a Q&A. Open a session below to see both. Workshops 01 to 04 are the four we recommend starting with.
“I’m not the creative one on the team.”
Creativity gets treated as a personality trait — something some people have and the rest of us watch. This session takes that apart and rebuilds creativity as a set of habits: noticing, questioning, experimenting. Participants practise them on work that is already in front of them.
What this session sets out to do
- Shift Mindsets
- Challenge the belief that creativity belongs only to designers and artists.
- Plant New Convictions
- Build confidence in everyone’s ability to generate ideas and solve problems creatively.
- Spark New Perspectives
- Discover how small changes in observation, questioning and experimentation can lead to fresh ideas.
- Inspire Action
- Identify one everyday challenge and explore a creative approach to solving it.
The 90 minutes, module by module
| Module | Hands-on activity | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Who Gets to Be Creative | Unpack where the ‘creative type’ belief comes from, using everyday workplace examples. | 15 min |
| Notice, Question, Experiment | Three habits that generate ideas, demonstrated by the trainer on a challenge the group suggests. | 20 min |
| Ideas on Demand | Participants take a familiar problem through a simple idea-generation sequence, working in pairs. | 25 min |
| One Challenge, One New Approach | Each person picks one real challenge and maps a creative approach to solving it. | 20 min |
| Q&A | Open Q&A and discussion. | 10 min |
Takeaway: A repeatable way to generate ideas, and one real challenge already approached differently.
Enquire Now“The deck was finished at 2am. Nobody remembered a single slide.”
Most presentation problems are thinking problems wearing a design costume. This session starts with the message rather than the template, then shows how structure, storytelling and a few restrained design decisions carry that message to an audience.
What this session sets out to do
- Shift Mindsets
- Move beyond thinking of presentations as slides to fill, and see them as ideas to communicate.
- Plant New Convictions
- Recognise that clear, effective presentations come from strong thinking and structure, not just attractive visuals.
- Spark New Perspectives
- Explore how storytelling, visual hierarchy and simple design choices can make complex ideas easier to understand.
- Inspire Action
- Identify one way to improve an upcoming presentation by making its message clearer and more purposeful.
The 90 minutes, module by module
| Module | Hands-on activity | Time |
|---|---|---|
| The Message Before the Slide | Find the single idea an audience should leave with, using a workplace scenario. | 15 min |
| Structure That Carries an Argument | Apply a simple narrative structure to information the group brings to the session. | 20 min |
| What the Eye Reads First | Visual hierarchy, contrast and restraint, demonstrated on real slides. | 25 min |
| Fix One Real Slide | Participants rework a slide from a presentation they have coming up. | 20 min |
| Q&A | Open Q&A and discussion. | 10 min |
Takeaway: A clear message, a structure that carries it, and one slide fixed before you leave the room.
Enquire Now“Same phone, same place. So why do their photos look better?”
Phone cameras are already good. The gap is rarely the device — it is where you stand, what you leave out, and which way the light is falling. Everything in this session is done on the phone already in the room.
What this session sets out to do
- Shift Mindsets
- See smartphone photography as more than taking snapshots — it is a way to tell stories and communicate ideas.
- Plant New Convictions
- Build confidence in taking better photographs with the phone already in your pocket.
- Spark New Perspectives
- Discover how composition, lighting, angles and perspective can transform ordinary subjects into compelling images.
- Inspire Action
- Apply one or two simple photography techniques to capture a more engaging image in everyday life or at work.
The 90 minutes, module by module
| Module | Hands-on activity | Time |
|---|---|---|
| It Was Never the Camera | Compare photographs of the same subject and name what actually changed between them. | 15 min |
| Frame, Angle, Perspective | Composition demonstrated live, then practised on subjects in the room. | 20 min |
| Reading the Light | Work with available light, direction and background. Participants shoot and compare results. | 25 min |
| Shoot, Review, Reshoot | Participants photograph a short brief, review as a group, then shoot it again. | 20 min |
| Q&A | Open Q&A and discussion. | 10 min |
Takeaway: Composition, light and perspective applied on your own phone, with photos to prove it.
Enquire Now“It was made in Canva. And you can tell it was made in Canva.”
Templates are a starting point, not an answer. This session covers the handful of decisions — layout, colour, typography, imagery — that separate a template someone filled in from a visual that actually communicates.
What this session sets out to do
- Shift Mindsets
- Move beyond using templates as they are, and see Canva as a tool for communicating ideas with purpose.
- Plant New Convictions
- Build confidence in creating attractive, effective visuals without needing professional design skills.
- Spark New Perspectives
- Explore how layout, colour, typography and imagery influence what people notice, understand and remember.
- Inspire Action
- Identify one visual communication task and apply a practical design improvement using Canva.
The 90 minutes, module by module
| Module | Hands-on activity | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Beyond the Template | Look at the same template used well and used badly, and name the difference. | 15 min |
| The Four Decisions | Layout, colour, typography and imagery, demonstrated on a live example. | 20 min |
| Build It in Canva | Participants create a real visual for their own work, with the trainer circulating. | 25 min |
| Make It Clearer, Not Busier | Group review focused on what to take out rather than what to add. | 20 min |
| Q&A | Open Q&A and discussion. | 10 min |
Takeaway: Four design decisions you can apply to any visual, and one piece of work improved in Canva.
Enquire Now“If AI can generate it in seconds, what exactly am I being paid for?”
An honest look at what AI has genuinely absorbed, what it has not, and where the value of a designer has moved rather than disappeared. The session is built around judgement, taste, framing the problem and taking responsibility for the result.
What this session sets out to do
- Shift Mindsets
- Move past the question of whether AI replaces designers, and look at which parts of design work have actually changed.
- Plant New Convictions
- Recognise that judgement, taste and problem framing become more valuable, not less, as production becomes cheaper.
- Spark New Perspectives
- Explore where AI output falls short — context, intent and accountability — and how designers fill those gaps.
- Inspire Action
- Identify one part of your own practice to strengthen, and one task worth handing to AI.
The 90 minutes, module by module
| Module | Hands-on activity | Time |
|---|---|---|
| What AI Actually Took | Separate the production work AI does well from the judgement it does not. | 15 min |
| Where the Value Moved | Framing, taste and decision-making, through before-and-after examples. | 20 min |
| Working With It, Not Against It | Participants run a brief through AI and critique the output as designers. | 25 min |
| Your Next Six Months | Each person names one skill to deepen and one task worth delegating. | 20 min |
| Q&A | Open Q&A and discussion. | 10 min |
Takeaway: A clear-eyed view of where your value sits now, one skill to deepen and one task to hand over.
Enquire NowLearn with just your mobile.
Many organisations restrict AI tools on work devices, and some agencies restrict internet access on them entirely. We kept hearing this, so we curated a series of sessions that run entirely on participants’ own phones. No company device, no network access, no IT request.
- QR-accessible templates and frameworks from the session
- A digital workbook to download and keep
- Activities using non-confidential examples, public information or realistic scenarios
Who runs your session
Charmaine Lee
ACTA-certified trainer and curriculum designer with 13 years in digital marketing and more than 4,000 training hours. Associate Adult Educator (IAL). Has developed more than 25 curricula, and serves as CTE/TVET Curriculum Designer and Master Trainer on a World Bank-funded education initiative in the Federated States of Micronesia.
Shirley Lim
PLACEHOLDER — two or three sentences: what Shirley practises day to day, and what she brings to a Lunch & Learn.
Creative and digital skills education for workplaces, schools, TVET systems and communities.
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