Mozilla Festival 2021 (March 8th – 19th, 2021)

Mozilla Festival 2021 (March 8th – 19th, 2021)

Connecting with others and creating understanding through the power of Personal User Manuals

In this workshop you'll learn about the power of personal user manuals, and how to create your own!

Normally we learn about one another’s likes, dislikes, and unique aspects through trial and error over time. A personal user manual is a shortcut to a deeper understanding of one another so we can communicate and collaborate in a much more effective, efficient, and enjoyable way!

I'm the EMEA Chair of Red Hat's Neurodiversity community and I have ADHD. One of my favourite things to do is chatting with organisations and people about brains! I want to help people find tools and practices that allow others to understand who we truly are. (Without any of the uncomfortable emails or fears of judgement and stigma!)

The techniques used in this workshop hopefully won’t just make work easier, they’ll make life better :)

Link to slides: https://tinyurl.com/MozfestPUM


We're hoping that many efforts and discussions will continue after Mozfest. Share any ideas you already have for how to continue the work from your session.:

I'm continuing to refine best practices for talking about personal user manuals and have a fully open source website where people can openly use and share these topics/workshops. Personal user manuals become more and more useful the more that they're used!

How will you deal with varying numbers of participants in your session?:

I've run this with as little as 4 people, and as many as 20 (but could easily do with more!). Varying numbers of participants allows me to go more in-depth with less people, or keep things at a higher-level for greater numbers of people. Some people may not finish in the 60 minutes and that's okay, I want to ensure that everyone has the tools to start but I'd love to go deeper if people have the time!

I'm the EMEA chair of Red Hat's Neurodiversity Community. I've got ADHD and I love chatting about Agile, Mental Health, and Neurodiversity!