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
A space to explore fear and how it shapes our decisions, relationships, and growth, bringing tools and peer support to move through it together.
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 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.
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 July 27, 2026
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Last week we had AI Field Notes (7/20) asked how members are teaching themselves AI and launched a shared resource-tracking spreadsheet; Making Sense of Change (7/21) opened the season with a wide-ranging exploration of what change feels like and means; Ethics Open Mic (7/22) waded through questions of workplace power and civic responsibility; Shitty Maps DoJoe (7/23) ran its inaugural dojo, practicing process-mapping on coffee routines, workspaces, and phone habits; Systems Lab (7/23) unveiled a personal framework for tackling messy real-life problems; and Collaborative Sensemaking (7/24) opened a new season by examining how teams build shared meaning amid volatility and uncertainty.
Themes from last week:
- A structure for the unstructured
- Where human judgment still does the real work
- The cost of saying the true thing
Gaps between our capability and our confidence create discomfort.
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