Understanding the Landscape
What AI and emerging tools can do today, what they cannot do, and what is real, exaggerated, or still uncertain.
Facilitated AI workshops
AI in Human Hands
Helping groups navigate AI, technology, and change with clarity, curiosity, and human judgment.
Facilitated workshops and conversations for organizations, professional communities, and teams making sense of emerging technology.
What this is
Practical, human-centered exploration.
AI in Human Hands offers facilitated workshops and conversations for groups navigating emerging technology and organizational change.
What new tools can and cannot do
Where human judgment still matters
How technology affects work, trust, quality, and communication
What skills may become more important
How groups can move forward thoughtfully
This is not hype.
This is not fear.
This is practical, human-centered exploration.
Why this matters
The deeper questions are human.
Many technology conversations focus on tools. But groups also need space to ask what the tools mean for decisions, trust, quality, and change.
- How do we make good decisions when the future is uncertain?
- How do we support people who are curious, worried, skeptical, or overwhelmed?
- How do we preserve quality and trust?
- How do we adapt without losing what matters?
AI in Human Hands creates space for those conversations.
What happens in a session?
Facilitated learning experiences, not lectures.
The goal is to help people understand the technology, explore its implications, and connect it to their own work, values, and decisions.
Clear explanations
Practical examples
Guided discussion
Reflection
Participant questions
Real-world applications
Common workshop themes
Clear frames for complex change.
Human Judgment and Expertise
Where context, discernment, care, creativity, and accountability continue to matter.
Practical Use and Workflow
How technology can support work while keeping humans responsible for quality and decisions.
Ethics, Trust, and Quality
How groups can think through accuracy, bias, privacy, transparency, and appropriate use.
Navigating Change Together
How organizations can adapt without leaving people behind.
Who this is for
Adapted around each group's context.
Workshops can be shaped for professional associations, nonprofits, educators, accessibility professionals, communication access providers, faith communities, small businesses, civic and community groups, and teams exploring AI adoption.
Each session is shaped around the group's concerns, questions, goals, and real working context.
Possible formats
Start small or go deeper.
Introductory Session
A facilitated introduction for groups beginning to explore AI, technology, and human judgment.
Conversation Series
A deeper format designed for reflection, experimentation, and discussion over multiple sessions.
Custom Workshop
A session or series focused on your organization's specific questions, workflows, risks, and opportunities.
Recent pilot work
Built from real conversations.
Early work is shaping the workshop model around community learning, communication access, professional practice, and practical human judgment.
Community Workshop Series
AI in Human Hands began as a three-part community workshop series with UUCF, where participants explored AI basics, ethical questions, practical uses, community concerns, and the role of human judgment in a changing technological landscape.
TypeWell Pilot Series
A pilot conversation series is currently in development for TypeWell practitioners, focused on AI, speech-to-text, communication access, professional judgment, and the future of meaning-centered transcription.
View TypeWell pilotWhat participants are saying
Reflection and consent come first.
About Dan Sommer
Language, access, technology, and thoughtful change.
Dan Sommer has spent more than fifteen years working across accessibility, real-time transcription, captioning, communication access, language, and technology.
His background also includes more than a decade as a professional classical singer and diction teacher, where his work centered on language, listening, interpretation, collaboration, and helping people develop confidence in complex skills.
Across these different fields, Dan's work has often focused on the same core challenge: helping people understand one another, adapt to change, and make thoughtful use of the tools available to them.
His approach is grounded in curiosity, practical exploration, and respect for the expertise people already bring to their work.
Interested in a workshop?
Trying to make sense of AI, technology, or change?
Let's talk about a workshop or conversation series for your organization, team, or professional community.
Contact Dan