It sounds like you enjoyed the seminar you led with your team. Teaching is a noble art and takes much thought and work to get it right. I understand worrying about what will stick. When I told a retired marine and co-owner of a local gift shop that I was teaching at the university, he told me the following story.
Each time the professor came to class, he drew a coat hook on the blackboard and put his coat up to the hook and it fell to the floor. He ignored it, then picked it up at the end of class. Every class, he drew the hook and his coat fell to the floor. On the last day of class, he drew the hook and put his coat up and it stuck. (He must have planned something in advance). The class erupted into applause and cheers.
Then he said, "Some of the things you learned in this class will stick, if you are persistent and persevere. Remember that."
So remember, learning is a two-way street. It takes effort to do and effort to get something from it.
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