Navigating sessions, templates and methods

A session in SessionLab represents a workshop or agenda. It's where you outline the flow of activities, allocate time slots, and add detailed information for each part of your event. You can edit sessions you own or work on shared sessions with collaborators.

You may have created a session which is a standard blueprint for a training you run regularly (e.g. a module of a learning program, or a monthly team meeting). In this case, you might like to turn your session into a template.

Templates are session structures designed for reuse in future workshops. They provide a consistent framework, helping you replicate the structure across similar sessions.

To create your sessions and templates in the first place, you’ll design the outline using blocks in the session planner. These individual blocks can represent methods; the actual exercises within your agenda.

Each activity in your session is represented by a block in your session. Each block can include details like objectives, instructions, duration, and required materials.

You can type directly into your blocks in the agenda planner to add as much detail about the exercise as you’d like.

Just like you can save Sessions as Templates, you can also save single Blocks as Methods. These Methods live in the Library of workshop activities.

The library is where all methods / exercises are stored and organised. It includes:

You can create your own methods directly in the library, or add them to the library from an existing session plan. You’ll build up a collection of activities, methods and exercises for you to utilise in your planning process.

You can save any individual method to the library, but what if you have a group of blocks in your session which should remain together? You can add this to your library too.

Below you’ll see how a group of blocks looks in your library. Each block within the group is marked with a number and you can click on the sideways arrow to open each block’s detailed information.