A Practice Group is like a book club … but instead of a book, it’s one of Indi’s courses! See how it works & scheduled dates.
Planned Practice Groups:
- 2026-June Finding Thinking Styles (all new!)
- 2026-Sep/Oct? Making mmSkylines Part 1: concepts & summaries (also for AI supervisors)
- 2026-Nov/Dec? Making mmSkylines Part 2: emergent patterns (also for AI supervisors)
- 2027-Feb/Mar? Frame Your Study (when self-paced course is complete)
Practice Group Meetings – Finding Thinking Styles
Group A – Wednesdays @ 9am San Francisco time
Kickoff: 27-May-2026 (2 hours)
Meeting #1: 03-June (2 hours)
Meeting #2: 10-June (2 hours)
Meeting #3: 17-June (2 hours)
Meeting #4: 24-June (2 hours)
Meeting #5: 01-July (2 hours)
Group B – Wednesdays @ 6pm San Francisco time
(Thursday on the other side of the dateline from SF)
🤞If at least 8 people want Group B, then Indi will host it! We may not know until the end of May.
How Many Seats Available
Countdown Available Spots:
Group A: 5 seats taken, 11 available (min 8, max 16)
Group B: 1 person on the hope-for list
Price Levels to Enroll in the Practice Group
Required
before you take this course:
Self-paced Course Listening Deeply
-or- Book Time to Listen (Ch. 2, 3, 4, 6)
see if you are ready
Regular
US $ price per person
| Course | Practice | 10% off | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bundle | $500 | $600 | $990 |
When your employer is covering your cost
Union, University, Government
US $ price per person
| Course | Practice | 10% off | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bundle | $375 | $450 | $742.50 |
When your union, university, or government is covering your cost
Out of Pocket
US $ price per person
| Course | Practice | 10% off | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bundle | $250 | $300 | $495 |
When you will NOT be reimbursed for the cost by anyone (e.g. unemployed, self-employed, contract worker, student, boss hopeless getting budget)
Extreme Currency Exchange
US $ price per person
| Course | Practice | 10% off | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bundle | $50 | $60 | $99 |
Only for people who live, earn, and pay in a country that has very limited purchasing power in the USA (e.g. Argentina, Brazil, India, Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, Serbia, South Africa, Ukraine)
FAQ – Finding Thinking Styles
at least read the bold face 😁
What Will Happen
- Finding Thinking Styles Practice Group is a series of working sessions where we work with real data as a team.
- We have 90 short stories from people in the study, with permission. (a study we use frequently)
- The study is about what went through people’s minds as they decided whether or not to go out to a performance. Movies count.
- By the last meeting we will have a set of thinking styles and ideas how to use them
Your Participation
- Each of you will be assigned about 6-9 stories.
- You are expected to represent people’s cognition from these 6-9 stories in each meeting.
- If you miss the Kickoff, you might be able to beg several others to give you one of their people.
- If you prefer to just watch during the meetings (there are reasons for this), please let Indi know that you decline the assignments.
Prepare for Each Meeting
- There are specific lessons assigned between each practice meeting. (about 2-3 hours of lessons each week)
- A decent plan is to watch the associated course lessons 30-minutes a day for 6 days before each practice meeting.
- Life tends to mess up plans, so watching the videos the night before also works.
- You can start watching videos as soon as you enroll, to get a head start.
- Ask questions about the lessons on the Slack channel #course-thinking-styles.
Meeting Info
- Eating during the Zoom calls is welcome. Please bring whatever energy form you need!
- Find the links for Zoom and Mural under each “lesson” in My Courses – Practice Group here on the indiyoung.com website.
- Each meeting is 2 hours.
- Check your local time for when to start. (Here is Group A 9am San Francisco and Group B 6pm San Francisco.)
- Zoom calls: We use a different link for the Kickoff and each of the five meetings.
- Mural boards: We collaborate using stickies on a set of boards in Mural over the whole 6 weeks.
- Check Slack if the meeting doesn’t seem to be happening. If Indi’s internet or electricity are down, she will let you know on the channel and postpone the meeting by a week. If the problem is on your side, we will be watching the channel and respond to you.
Can’t Make a Meeting
- We will set up an understudy for each person in the Kickoff. This understudy will take over your people’s stories in addition to their own.
- Contact your understudy, and let us know on Slack if you will not make a meeting.
- Try not to surprise your understudy at the last minute.
- Try not to miss more than one meeting.
- A recording of the meeting will be available for you on the page where the Zoom & Mural links are.
- Recordings will be available for six months.
- Certification depends on your participation in meetings, so Indi can see how you are doing.
Before the Kickoff
- There are some lessons that will be helpful to watch them before our Kickoff Meeting. (encouraged)
- Section 1 (only first two lessons, 41 minutes)
- 1.1 Think Bigger
- 1.2 Define Thinking Styles
- Section 2 (all four lessons, 1 hour 2 minutes)
- 2.1 Validity = Team
- 2.2 Represent Your People
- 2.3 Split Stories or Not?
- 2.4 Note the Essential Cognition
Discounts
- Employees of the same org can form a Private Practice Group with Indi of 6-16 people and set your dates to suit your schedule. (or team discounts are available for the courses without the practice group)
- If your circumstance doesn’t fit any of the four price-levels above, Indi wants to hear from you. She has been in your shoes frequently. Let her know what you can afford.
Refund Policy
Refunds are possible up until 94 hours (4 days) prior to the Practice Group kickoff date.
About the Practice Groups
Each Practice Group is associated with one of Indi’s self-paced courses. Indi leads exercises and discussion that provide practical experience, augmenting the self-paced course materials.
- Join a Practice Group with Indi and a small group of 8-16 people.
- Indi guides each practice session. You will get personal feedback from her.
- The session exercises are different from the exercises that come with the Self-Paced Course.
- This is how you may qualify for Certification: Practice Group + Self-Paced Course for all courses.
- 6 months access to Practice Group canvas & recordings
“Most beautiful exercises I’ve seen!”
Testimonials
The Practice Group has been an absolute delight — your kind and intentional approach in running it all is genuinely wonderful and has been inspiring to see.
— Mazen Abusharkh, Apr-2026
Go for it! Definitely bundle it with the self-paced course (or book) for maximum learning.
— Katherine, May-2024
Thank you for the supportive atmosphere at live practice meetings and all your energy.
— Yulia, Ukraine, 1-Aug-2022
Indi’s class allows you to practice research rigor and apply what you learn in a real-world setting. A class like this is hard to come by, where you learn tactical tips to do strategic research right. You walk away learning that questions are a powerful tool of clarity and that the skills you’ve just practiced with Indi will guide you to a deeper understanding of people as people, not users.
If you don’t know which…— DJ Heo, 15-May-2020
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Thank you for sharing your sparkling and kind energy with us. I learned a lot just observing your communication style in the practice sessions. I cannot wait to attend next practice group with you.
— Alla Seleznova, 9-May-2024
I started off as a way to do something refreshing, just have conversations with people and to practice what I’m learning in real life. But I got so much more out of it. Just by trying these practices I learned so much about how to do the deep listening. I don’t think doing just seeing the course alone would have given me this level of enrichment that I got from the live practice on top…
— Mennatallah Saleh, Dec-2023
Read moreLearning how to listen alongside others to talk it over with — what you find, how amazing it is, and what you find out about yourself (and how hard it is – whoa). This practice series experience was all of it.
— Alex, 28-Nov-2020
Really great course with good interaction. Make sure you dont have anything booked during the 4 live classes. I missed a class and watched the backup recording once, which wasn’t quite the same.
— anonymous, 26-Aug-2019
Enroll as soon as a new live practice is open. It is so rich, with so much knowledge to improve not just our work as UX Researchers, but also to use in our own lives as well.
— Benício Pereira, 8-May-2024
I think the associated Practice Group should be mandatory for anyone looking to achieve the certification or even just learn. Practice makes the master, but I would like to say that this kind of practice makes you a great listener.
— Miguel Baeza, 17-Oct-2023
I really enjoyed the dynamics of the practice group meetings and the way Indi brings together people from some many countries who learn together as a knowledge-hungry team. The exercises were extremely helpful, and honestly I did not expect an online experience to be this productive and skill-boosting.
— Maria Mishchenko, 1-Jul-2020
If you really want to understand what listening deeply is and a safe place to practice, take this course and practice group.
— Francesca Barrientos, 21-Aug-2019