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
Our discussion groups meet on video live every weekday, below is this week’s schedule. See full calendar.
11 AM ET From Human-Centered Design to Heart-Centered Design
Hosted by Jasmine Ibrahim
A community for those with profound questions about existence, seeking to explore the depths of humanity and navigate the complexities of life together.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Your Values in Tech
Hosted by Audrey Ross & Cass Fellerman
A hopeful group navigating the challenges of maintaining your values in the tech industry while balancing the need to make a living and make a difference.
1 PM ET Shitty Maps: The Trojan Horse for Real-Time Sensemaking – IAC Dry Run
Hosted by Joe Elmendorf
Learn to share rough maps of your thinking to invite better input and collaboration before the work is finished.
2 PM ET Making Sense of the Future
Hosted by Mohammad Khan
An interactive workshop that utilizes constraint-driven fiction to uncover professional blind spots and develop actionable strategies for shaping the future we desire.
3 PM ET [Premium] Sensemaking Lab
Hosted by Abby Covert
A monthly session for Premium members to collaboratively share and refine their work in a supportive environment.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Neurodiversity & Inclusion
Hosted by Maring Eberlein & Sammy Voelkel
A supportive gathering for neurodiverse individuals to share experiences and enhance their neuroinclusion toolkit in a safe environment.
2 PM ET Seekers Who Make Sense
Hosted by Jasmine Ibrahim & Sam Sanford
A community for those with profound questions about existence, seeking to explore the depths of humanity and navigate the complexities of life together.
2 PM ET Making Sense of Language
Hosted by Clair Rock & Emily Nimsakont
A supportive group focused on skill-sharing and fostering inclusive language practices to enhance communication and create a safe space for difficult questions.
3 PM ET Anniversary Celebration
Hosted by the Sensemakers Club
Join us to celebrate another year of sensemaking together.
What’s going on?
March 23, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week AI Field Notes hosted a conversation about what tools members are actually using, what's working, and what still scares them. Making Sense of Change asked how we respond when change feels bad rather than good — the deer in the headlights versus the deer in the open field. Ethics Open Mic hosted a wide-ranging conversation about community, dignity, and the courage to speak up. Making Sense of Other Humans explored the brain as a story-making machine and introduced tools like the Fundamental Attribution Error and the Ladder of Inference for interrupting snap judgments about people. Shitty Maps Workshop Part 2 shifted from solo to collaborative visual thinking, offering a simple three-step framework for using rough, hand-drawn maps to bridge the gap between discussions and diagrams. The week closed with Making Sense of Complexity & Chaos, which dug into decision-making under uncertainty, drawing heavily on Annie Duke's framework for separating the quality of a decision from the quality of its outcome.
Themes from last week:
- Community as the infrastructure of courage.
- The guiding metaphor problem: tools, humanity, and what we're actually automating.
- The gap between knowing and doing and the grace required to sit in it.
SPECIAL EVENT
May 15, 2026
12 to 3 PM ET
Sensemakers Salon
The Sensemakers Salon is a FREE half-day of soulful activities, mutual aid workshops & discussions that matter to our members, but open to the public.