# Stormz

> Stormz is a facilitation-first SaaS platform for running live collaborative workshops at scale. These pages are practical, method-first guides for facilitators, trainers, team leads, and workshop designers.

## Core pages

- [Stormz home](https://stormz.ai/): Stormz v3 product overview.
- [Activity guides](https://stormz.ai/activities): Published workshop activity guides with facilitation steps, examples, and visual previews.
- [Events](https://stormz.ai/events): Upcoming live Stormz and ecosystem events for facilitators, trainers, and workshop leaders.
- [Stormz blog](https://stormz.ai/blog): Product and facilitation articles from Stormz.

## Published activity guides

- [Expectations Cloud Workshop Activity Guide](https://stormz.ai/activities/expectations-cloud): Learn how to run an Expectations Cloud activity with clear questions, debrief steps, common mistakes, and Stormz word cloud tips.
- [If I Were an Animal Creative Icebreaker Activity](https://stormz.ai/activities/if-i-were-an-animal): Learn how to run If I Were an Animal, a creative icebreaker where participants use metaphor prompts and optional AI images to introduce themselves.
- [Know / Wonder Activity Guide for Workshops and Learning](https://stormz.ai/activities/know-wonder): Learn how to run a Know / Wonder activity with KnoWonder, KWL-style inquiry, facilitation steps, examples, and follow-up tips.
- [Sailboat Retrospective: How to Run It](https://stormz.ai/activities/sailboat-retrospective): Learn how to run a Sailboat Retrospective using Wind, Anchors, Rocks, and Island prompts, then turn the discussion into concrete actions.
- [Stop / Keep / Start Retrospective Activity Guide](https://stormz.ai/activities/stop-keep-start-retrospective): A practical guide to running a Stop / Keep / Start retrospective, with examples, facilitation steps, variations, common mistakes, and action-planning tips.

## Published blog articles

- [Stormz V3: A Rebirth Story](https://stormz.ai/blog/build-in-public-post): I built Stormz in 2012. Back then, I was a facilitator who couldn't find a tool that worked the way I needed. So I built one...
- [Why Workshop Clustering Fails (And How to Fix It)](https://stormz.ai/blog/why-workshop-clustering-fails): Clustering is a powerful tool for creativity workshops, but it can fail if not done correctly. This post explores why clustering fails and how to fix it.
- [The Power of Objects in Facilitation](https://stormz.ai/blog/the-power-of-objects-in-facilitation): Tangible objects help groups enter abstract conversations, say difficult things, and create useful distance from sensitive topics.
- [Stormz v3: What's New for Stormz v2 Users](https://stormz.ai/blog/stormz-v3-whats-new-for-stormz-v2-users): A practical guide for Stormz v2 users covering what changed in Stormz v3: content, views, card types, AI, participant flows, and facilitator tools.
- [The 10 Movement Patterns Hiding in Every Workshop](https://stormz.ai/blog/the-10-movement-patterns-hiding-in-every-workshop): A practical framework for ten in-person and three remote-native movement patterns that facilitators can use to understand, adapt, and invent workshop activities.
- [Stop Adapting Your Workshop to Zoom. Your Body Is Still There.](https://stormz.ai/blog/stop-adapting-your-workshop-to-zoom-your-body-is-still-there): Three remote-native movement patterns that get participants physically moving instead of merely moving cursors between digital workshop spaces.
- [What Science Actually Says About Movement in Workshops (Including Three Things It Doesn't Say)](https://stormz.ai/blog/what-science-actually-says-about-movement-in-workshops): Five evidence-backed findings about movement in workshops, plus three popular facilitation claims that research does not support.
- [Signal rituals: a field guide to workshop objects](https://stormz.ai/blog/signal-rituals-a-field-guide-to-workshop-objects): A practical field guide to using small objects as shared signals for courage, drift, pacing, and unspoken tensions in workshops.
- [How to Design a Workshop, Step by Step](https://stormz.ai/blog/how-to-design-a-workshop-step-by-step): A practical step-by-step method for designing workshops by defining outcomes, decomposing the process, and choosing activities last.
- [How to Make Training and Workshops Fun (Without Losing the Plot)](https://stormz.ai/blog/how-to-make-training-and-workshops-fun-without-losing-the-plot): Nine practical levers for making training and workshops more fun while keeping every activity tied to the outcome.

## Activity guide editorial stance

Stormz activity pages are designed to be useful even without Stormz. Each guide explains the method first, then describes practical ways Stormz can help with live remote, hybrid, or large-group facilitation. Public pages only include published activity guides. Draft or private workshop material is not exposed.

## Useful Stormz feature docs

- [Joining a workshop](https://stormz.ai/docs/participants/joining-a-workshop)
- [Kanban view](https://stormz.ai/docs/views/kanban-view)
- [Auto-tagging](https://stormz.ai/docs/automations/auto-tagging)
- [Word Cloud view](https://stormz.ai/docs/views/word-cloud-view)
- [Tag cloud view](https://stormz.ai/docs/views/tag-cloud-view)
- [Dot Voting](https://stormz.ai/docs/voting/dot-voting)
- [Meeting Bot](https://stormz.ai/docs/remote-meetings/meeting-bot)

## Author and product context

Stormz was created by Alex Eisenchteter, an experienced facilitator specializing in large corporate workshops, in person and hybrid.