Alice in AI-Land: Co-Creating the Future of Learning in a Three-Chapter Interactive Storytelling Workshop
The Challenge: Learning & Development in 2025
In 2025, Learning and Development (L&D) for facilitators, trainers, educators and coaches faces the challenge of personalising learning at scale while ensuring engagement and adaptability. With evolving skills requirements and diverse workforce needs. AI and creativity together offer powerful opportunities for solutions to bridge skills gaps and create dynamic, learner-centered experiences.
The Power of Storytelling & AI
Storytelling is a proven method to engage, inspire, and enhance general knowledge retention. The Alice in Wonderland metaphor reflects the uncertainty, curiosity, and transformation that learners experience in today’s world. AI amplifies storytelling by enhancing Chapters, personalising content, and generating immersive experiences, making learning more adaptive, interactive, and impactful.
Workshop Experience
This 90-minute interactive session blends human creativity with AI to explore how storytelling can solve L&D challenges. Participants will co-create new Alice in Wonderland metaphor stories integrating AI-generated prompts.
Chapter 1: BEGIN – The Human Wonderland: Welcome to the Rabbit Hole! Participants will complete an Alice-inspired Story Map based on real learning and development (L&D) challenges, actions, results and
insight.
Chapter 2: MIDDLE – The AI Mirror: Let’s enter a world where your story is “reversed” using AI prompts to refine, expand, and personalise your creative expression.
Chapter 3: END – Co-Creating the Future: Congratulations! You have free-falled safely and exited AI-Land. Humans and AI collaborate to create final stories that showcase the power of co-creation.
Key Takeaways
- Unleash Creativity – Develop engaging stories that reflect modern L&D challenges.
- Enhance Creativity with AI – Use AI prompts to personalise and refine storytelling.
- Co-Create the Future – Understand how human-AI collaboration elevates learning design.
- Step into a new Wonderland and discover how AI and human storytelling co-creation can transform
- learning for the future!
WHAT TO BRING TO THE SESSION:
- Wear your Creative Hat (literally and figuratively)
- Fully charged laptop
- Download and test ChatGPT app on your laptop, prior to session
Anriët’s Bio
Dr Anriët Van Deventer is an academic, researcher, and arts education specialist with a PhD in Humanities Education from the University of Pretoria, where she was awarded Full Academic Honorary Colours. She lectures at the University of South Africa (Unisa), specialising in Design, Dramatic Studies, and Visual Arts Methodology, and is passionate about the Arts, curriculum transformation, ODeL, and emerging educational technologies. With over 30 years of experience, her career includes leadership roles as Head of Department for Creative Arts at the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls, Curator at the Polokwane Art Museum, and International Art Gallery Manager. Her expertise includes Design Thinking, Creative Arts Education, and Cultural Heritage. Furthermore, with a research focus on applied creativity, and technology in the Arts, the focus is on innovative pedagogies and empowering the community at large.
Anriët holds multiple certifications, including in Art-Based Therapy, Project Management, and Curriculum Design & Planning, and has contributed to national education initiatives. She has developed a South African-focused Design Thinking tool and advocates for creativity’s transformative role in education. Outside of academia, she is a black belt martial artist and former dancer, embodying the philosophy of growth through experience. Her work continues to inspire teachers, students, researchers, and creatives to embrace innovative, boundary-pushing approaches to teaching and learning.
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Marihet’s Bio
Marihet is a globally recognised Creativity and Learning & Development (L+D) Expert, dedicated to helping professionals thrive in the evolving digital learning landscape. As the Founder & Managing Director of In Full Colour, she blends creativity, neuroscience, and digital transformation to upskill educators, facilitators, coaches, and learning consultants. With over 30 years of experience in Creative Arts Education, Entrepreneurship, and Learning & Development, she has designed and led nationally accredited training programs, leadership development workshops, and intentional creativity experiences that empower professionals to navigate change with confidence.
She holds various Postgraduate degrees in Psychology and Education, Marihet is currently completing her Phd in Higher Education with the title: Integrating AI Storytelling in Creative Arts Education: Directives for Teacher Education. Marihet is a qualified Intentional Creativity Teacher, TEFL Educator, NLP Coach, and Whole Brain Practitioner, she collaborates with global organisations and universities to foster innovation, strategic learning, and personal growth. As an independent academic contractor and thought leader, she bridges the gap between traditional education and the future of learning. Passionate about creative intelligence, digital fluency, and mindset mastery, she equips professionals with the tools to lead, adapt, and innovate in an ever-changing world.