Your first week as a kindler

Go to whydoyoucreate.com and complete the full experience. You can't hold space for someone naming their deepest creative fear if you've never sat with that question yourself.

Go to whydoyoucreate.com/kindler and apply. Include your organization and why you want to lead workshops. We review new kindlers by hand, usually within a day; once you're approved you'll get a sign-in link to your kindler dashboard.

Log in to your kindler dashboard. Create a room, give it a name, and get your join link. This is what participants will use to enter the experience.

Your dashboard links to a comprehensive hosting guide covering three session formats (assign & discuss, single session, checkpoints), discussion prompts, and how to read the room data.

Assign & discuss (45–60 min): they do it before, you debrief. Single session (75–120 min): they do it in the room. Checkpoints (60–120 min): you pace them through it. Start with assign & discuss if unsure.

Use the email template from the brand materials folder. Include the room link, what to expect, and privacy assurance. Send at least 48 hours before if using assign & discuss format.

Use the kindler cheat sheet during the session. Open with acknowledgment, debrief with the prompts, use the room data for group patterns, close with forward momentum. Sweet spot: 10–25 people. After your room closes, you'll get a data-driven recap with follow-up discussion templates, and a day or two later a short check-in email with next steps. Participants only get a check-in if they asked for one during their journey. Manage your email preferences anytime from the dashboard.

If you'll run the same workshop format again, save your room as a template. Check the "also save current name & capacity as defaults" box next to "Save as template" — future rooms loaded from this template will prefill name + capacity automatically. Templates can be renamed or deleted later from the dropdown. Even simpler: hit "duplicate" on a past room in your dashboard to clone its name, capacity, checkpoints, and skip-screens in one click.

Every closed room generates a public, aggregate-only recap link that lives 30 days. Share it with participants as a takeaway. If you ever want to end sharing early, click Revoke link on the recap-share panel — toggleable, so you can re-share later. Reachable from any past room in your dashboard, not just the one you just closed.

If you also have a guide profile, you can opt in to showing your guide-invite link to workshop participants on their closing screen. Flip "Show my guide invite to participants in my workshop recaps" in your email-prefs panel. Off by default; preview link in the panel shows what they'll see.