If Chapter 1 welcomed you into the field, this post invites you to step into your power within it. Let’s start with a truth many Instructional Designers feel but rarely say out loud: We are often treated like order takers. Someone sends a request that says, “We need training on this,” and the expectation is simple:Build it. No questions. No analysis. No conversation about whether training is even the right solution. If that’s been your experience, I want you to know two thing

As we continue exploring The Way of Alignment, I want to spend some time with the text that shaped the foundation of this entire framework: Genesis 1 through 2:1 . These verses are often read as a historical account of creation, but when I began to see them as teaching parable , everything shifted. Moses wasn’t simply telling a story.He was teaching a people how to understand themselves, their world, and their God. And when we read Genesis that way — as instruction rather tha