The Sensemakers Club is a community-powered education space where curious people come to grow without performing or pretending to have it all figured out.
Are you a sensemaker?
A sensemaker is someone who helps people understand complex, messy, or ambiguous situations and turn that understanding into better decisions and action.
It’s not a job title.
It’s a role someone plays when clarity is needed. Some people make sense for a season, and some of us are professionals and hobbyists.
You might be a sensemaker if you...
- Translate between teams
- Fix structural issues no one else sees
- Clock patterns others don’t
- Care deeply about clarity and inclusion
- Question what’s next
- Maintain systems that prevent chaos
- Document what others skip
This week at the club
We are on our end of season break this week! No sessions are scheduled. Season 2 starts next week!
Browse our discussion groups or check out our full calendar.
All Day Closed for Yom Kippur
The Sensemakers Club is closed today in observance of Yom Kippur. No sessions are scheduled — see you tomorrow!
2 PM ET Making Sense of the Future
Hosted by Mohammad Khan
Use constraint-driven fiction to surface professional blind spots and build strategies for the future you want to create.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Neurodiversity & Inclusion
Hosted by Maring Eberlein & Sammy Voelkel
A safe space for neurodiverse folks to talk about their experiences and build out your neuroinclusion toolkit.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Facilitation
Hosted by Chloe Westman & Lea Rouhiain
Explore what it means to facilitate well from a variety of viewpoints and contexts.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Language
Hosted by Clair Rock & Emily Nimsakont
Practice inclusive language skillsharing in a safe space for questions that can be hard to put into words.
What’s going on?
Week of September 22, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week our members covered a lot of ground. AI Field Notes looked at what people are and aren't afraid of when it comes to AI. The Analog Leap: Sketching to Expand Your Sensemaking was a hands-on workshop in mindful handwriting, signature-making, and sketchnoting a favorite quote. Making Sense of Change used Frank Lloyd Wright's philosophy of designing with the nature of a material to ask what happens when the "material" is a person who won't change the way you want them to. Ethics Open Mic opened with a free-form conversation on organizational justice — decision fairness, information sharing, and outcome concern — and widened out into who gets to define poverty and what makes any profession's authority legitimate. Systems Lab worked through members' live problems using Holly Schroeder’s Daisy framework. Shitty Maps DoJoe had members sketch quick, messy maps of their morning commute and then of how they decide what's true and who to trust. And Collaborative Sensemaking dug into trust as the foundation of team performance, asking where in members' work histories trust was present, absent, or actively being rebuilt.
- Trust is built moment by moment through small, deliberate acts.
- Working with the material you're actually given, rather than fighting it.
- Confidence is not the same as correctness, and the discernment gap is where the real work now lives.
Gaps between our capability and our confidence create discomfort.
Take our FREE 24-question assessment to reveal the gaps in your unique sensemaker shape.
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