Session details

Your cohort’s join link, date, and time appear here once the schedule is confirmed. After the session, the recording will be posted here too — along with office hours, if your cohort has them.

The session runs up to three hours, including a break.

Before you join

Bring your saved trace from last week’s field experiment, and have your workbook open. See Studio 5 Overview for the full list.

How the session runs

  1. An arrival warmup — start it as soon as you join, below.
  2. Orientation: what did our work reveal?
  3. Group review of the warmup transcript.
  4. Trace review, round one: drift and assumptions.
  5. Debrief.
  6. A break.
  7. Trace review, round two: leverage and mirrors.
  8. Choosing the micro-habit worth keeping.
  9. Individual reflection, the closing harvest, and course feedback.

Arrival warmup — start when you join

Read this short exchange. Mark two to four moments using the labels below. Then pick the one that best answers: what did this reveal about how the human and the AI were thinking together?

Human: We need a lightweight workflow for tracking work items.

AI: Great. I can create a Kanban board with backlog, in progress, review, and done.

Human: Yes, but the main issue is stale work. We need to know when items have gone quiet.

AI: I will add a stale flag after seven days.

Human: Why seven days?

AI: That was an assumption. A better next step is to ask what counts as activity and whether different item types age differently.

Human: Good. Summarize what we know and what remains unknown before proposing rules.

The labels

  • CLARITY — the problem, intent, or next step became clearer.
  • ASSUMPTION — a belief entered the work without being named or tested.
  • DRIFT — the conversation moved away from the actual goal or evidence.
  • LEAP — someone jumped ahead faster than shared understanding could support.
  • MIRROR — a question, assertion, test, example, or summary reflected understanding back.
  • RESET — context was restored: intent restated, decisions summarized, the next move narrowed.
  • INSIGHT — the trace revealed a reusable lesson about how someone thinks.

Be ready to share one label and one sentence of evidence. There is no single right answer — the disagreement is where this gets interesting.

The Trace Review Canvas

You will use this in the breakouts. Have it ready in your notes or workbook:

  • Trace reviewed
  • Moment of drift
  • Assumption or leap
  • Missing evidence
  • Moment of leverage
  • Mirror that helped
  • AI role that would help next time
  • Micro-habit to try

During the session

Two norms. Drift is evidence, not failure — nobody’s trace is being judged, including yours. And ask for specific moments, not general impressions: “it got confusing” teaches nothing, while “right here, when nobody asked what activity meant” teaches a lot.

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