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LNI Lunchtime: Designing the Emotional Experience of Learning

  • 19 Mar 2026
  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Wellington Chamber of Commerce - Vodafone on The Park Level 13/157 Lambton Quay, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011
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Registration

  • HRNZ, AITD, CDANZ, FLANZ, ICF, NZOQ, PSANZ, TechCommNZ members can attend at member rates. When registering, use the 'Online Affiliate' promo code to access the member rate. Contact your affiliate administrator for this code.
  • For NZATD Committee members

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Learning outcomes don't just land through great execution of learning objectives — they land through how people feel along the way. 

In this hands-on session, you’ll use the Emotional Culture Deck to intentionally shape the emotional arc of a learning experience — choosing what you want learners to feel throughout a session and creating the conditions for those feelings to emerge. 

You’ll walk away with a simple Emotional Experience Design worksheet and a sharper habit of attention: designing not just what people learn, but how their experience supports it. 

Bring your curiosity. Leave with a new design lens. 

Doors opening at 12.15 to allow networking time before the session starts

Competency Framework

  • Core (Pokapu): Adult Learning Principles, Learning and Development Practice, 
  • Specialist (Nga Pūkenga): Instructional Design Facilitation 

Speaker:  Xiao Zhang

Xiao Zhang is co-founder of Orion Group, where she builds “Leadership Gym” — a practice-based community where leaders strengthen the human skills needed to navigate constant change together. A 2025 20 Under 40 recipient from the NZ Chinese Entrepreneur Association, Xiao blends games and human-centred design to create learning experiences that stick. 

Host: Lower North Island

Event eligibility: This event is open to NZATD members, affiliates and non-members.

Registering for this event:

  • Prices exclude GST.
  • Members can register for this event by logging in using their member login details.
  • Affiliates: (HRNZ, AITD, CDANZ, FLANZ, ICF, NZOQ, PSANZ, TechCommNZ) can attend at member rates. When registering, follow the non-member registration process and use the 'Online Affiliate' promo code to access the member rate. Contact your affiliate administrator for this code.

Cancellations and Attendance:

  • Please give 48 hours notice of cancellation.
  • Once registered, you will be expected to pay regardless of attendance.
  • Substitutions permitted if transferred to someone holding the same
  • ticket type e.g. member. Non-members are not permitted to attend in place of a member.

New Zealand Association for Training and Development (NZATD)

Address: P O Box 9319, Waikato Mail Centre, Hamilton 3240

Phone:  021 794 277

Email:  nzatd@nzatd.org.nz

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