Why use Ketso?

Meetings and workshops often suffer from the same problems: a lack of energy and enthusiasm, the frustration of people not having their say, and no clear sense of purpose, let alone fun! With Ketso, you can:
- Gain more productive and effective use of people's time in meetings or workshops - with everyone involved
- Improve communication and understanding - visual & tactile toolkit means people just 'get it'
- Unleash creativity – moveable pieces help people make connections and see alternatives
- Support learning and deeper engagement with ideas
- Have fun!
Hear what people have to say about Ketso in this introductory video.
Ketso enables everyone to create effective and enjoyable workshops - virtually anywhere and in any setting. As well as supporting people to be creative and share in productive dialogue, Ketso is about also generating real results that can be put into action.
In addition, look at the particular benefits for specific users:
For facilitators:
- Enables you to deliver an effective workshop quickly and easily (provides a ‘workshop to go’)
- Supports high-quality interaction and discussion, even with large groups of people
- Harnesses the power of visual communication for everyone (without drawing skills)
- Helps manage communication for productive dialogue (eg. the person who speaks the loudest doesn’t dominate the discussion)
- Provides easy way to capture and take home ideas from a workshop; it is easy to carry away without losing people’s ideas
For workshop providers:
- Harnesses the creativity of people at all levels
- Gains 'buy-in' - people feel invovled and engaged
- More effective engagement - people enjoy the workshop, so their contributions are more creative and meaningful
- Helps engage people socially – leads to greater inclusion
- It is ageless and all inclusive (people from different backgrounds can work together; everyone feels they have had a say)
- Encourages innovation and new ideas through 'hands-on' and visual process
- Results of the workshop are more structured and easy to use than traditional forms of note taking
For participants:
- Enables better use of time, as all participants are involved in writing and organising ideas at the same time
- Everyone can be involved
- It ‘puts the pen in the hands of the people’, so that participants feel they have a say and can get their ideas across
- Workshops are more enjoyable
- Enables participants to learn from each other
For trainers and teachers:
- Provides a way to animate lessons or training sessions
- Incorporates multiple intelligences, engaging people with different learning styles
- Encourages active discussion amongst learners
- Enables learners to see different perspectives and points of view
- Can be tailored to different topics, subject areas and lesson plans
For students and learners:
- Encourages deeper learning
- Lessons and training sessions are more enjoyable
- Enables everyone to have a say
- You can see your ideas in relationship to everyone else’s thoughts
- Helps develop skills in communication, collaboration and creativity