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Designing Transformative Experiences: A Toolkit for Leaders, Trainers, Teachers, and other Experience Designers Byline: Brad McLain, PhD
Offering a new lens on leadership and living, this research-based guide shows how to design experiences that can touch hearts, provoke minds, and change lives in powerful ways.
Transformative experiences are life events that change our sense of self in important ways. How do they work? What elements do they require? How can we learn to design them intentionally?
By embracing the research-based approach of ELVIS (the Experiential Learning Variables and Indicators System), this book details how to recast yourself as an Experience Design Leader, one that can provide those in your organization with the opportunities needed to reflect and grow as individuals.
Beginning with the ELVIS Framework, you will gain deep foundational insight into how transformative experiences work. And then with the ELVIS Toolkit, which includes seven practical design elements, you will have the key to unlocking these powerful experiences for yourself and others.
Whether you are new to the idea of designing experiences for others or are a seasoned veteran, ELVIS shows you how to tap into the psychology operating behind the most powerful and important experiences of our lives—those that shape who we are.
Transformative experiences are life events that change our sense of self in important ways. How do they work? What elements do they require? How can we learn to design them intentionally?
By embracing the research-based approach of ELVIS (the Experiential Learning Variables and Indicators System), this book details how to recast yourself as an Experience Design Leader, one that can provide those in your organization with the opportunities needed to reflect and grow as individuals.
Beginning with the ELVIS Framework, you will gain deep foundational insight into how transformative experiences work. And then with the ELVIS Toolkit, which includes seven practical design elements, you will have the key to unlocking these powerful experiences for yourself and others.
Whether you are new to the idea of designing experiences for others or are a seasoned veteran, ELVIS shows you how to tap into the psychology operating behind the most powerful and important experiences of our lives—those that shape who we are.
288 pages, Paperback
Published May 30, 2023
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April 16, 2023
I only spent 20 minutes with this book.
When I review books that I plan to read, I usually spend 20 minutes in 5 random parts of the book and evaluate the quality of the content (information) and the easiness of reading it (ability to remain focused).
The book seems solid, packed with interesting information and it was fairly easy to read. I found it hard to see 2-3 to put in practice but this might be due to the limited time I spent on reading it.
I plan to expand the time spent on it to 40 more minutes in the near future.
When I review books that I plan to read, I usually spend 20 minutes in 5 random parts of the book and evaluate the quality of the content (information) and the easiness of reading it (ability to remain focused).
The book seems solid, packed with interesting information and it was fairly easy to read. I found it hard to see 2-3 to put in practice but this might be due to the limited time I spent on reading it.
I plan to expand the time spent on it to 40 more minutes in the near future.
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November 11, 2025the examples would have helped
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