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.
2 PM ET Moving Through Fear
Hosted by Sahar Chung (formerly Naderi) & Erin White
Fear, anticipation, and excitement all activate the nervous system the same way — we'll explore how to tell them apart, and whether that distinction even matters.
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 Making Sense of Facilitation
Hosted by Chloe Westman & Lea Rouhiain
A vibrant group exploring the various perspectives and contexts of effective facilitation.
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.
What’s going on?
Week of August 24, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week opened with Monday's AI Field Notes, where an icebreaker about cringe-worthy AI jargon pivoted into Claude's new text watermarking and what "AI-generated" even means. Tuesday's Making Sense of Change asked members what change feels like right now and spent time separating intentional change from the mere passage of time, including some hard conversations about ending long friendships. Wednesday's Ethics Open Mic dropped its usual prompt format and let the group follow the energy in the room, which landed on job-hopping, contractor treatment, and job titles that no longer describe the actual work. Thursday brought two sessions back to back: Shitty Maps DoJoe, a practice hour of drawing deliberately bad, disposable maps of personal mental models around money and feedback, followed by Systems Lab, where they road-tested a flexible "daisy" framework for building personal systems that bend without breaking. The week closed with Friday's Collaborative Sensemaking, which dug into the trade-offs teams make, often invisibly, between productivity, quality, consensus, and satisfaction.
Themes from last week:
- Binary labels keep failing to describe a spectrum reality.
- Sensemaking is a practiced craft, not a system you get right on the first try.
- Knowing when to let go of a relationship, job, or piece of work that no longer earns its keep.
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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