Designing Your Life for Women - One Month Virtual Journey

Why come?
Women join us at an inflection point in their lives to get unstuck and design possible futures. We form a life design community that works together to explore the social and personal narratives that shape us, reframe our dysfunctional beliefs, use design tools to increase our energy and balance, frame and reframe problems to get unstuck, hone our choice making process, and design three possible future paths - Odyssey Plans - for your life. Our alums tell us, "DYL for women is a safe space for women to design their next chapter. The facilitators shared their expertise and their stories which made it easy to connect with each other. I am inspired by the energy that women generate when they see, hold and support each other.”

Who's the faculty?
Taught by Kathy Davies, Managing Director of the Stanford Life Design Lab, Susan Burnett, DYL Consulting CEO and longtime business executive, and Shanice Webb, Lecturer and founder of the Designing Black Experiences course at the Stanford Life Design Lab, this innovative digital solution gives you the opportunity to learn and practice ideas and tools contained in the NYT bestselling Designing Your Life, How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life in a life design community.

What's included?

• 3 highly interactive Zoom sessions where you will collaborate with other participants about your life and life design tools, building your life wayfinding skills. and creative confidence(details below).
• A digital workbook unique to this program, complete with worksheets and journaling to support your assessments and reflections.
• A 1.5 hour post workshop bonus session with the instructors and fellow participants for follow-up and coaching.

What do you need to participate?
The virtual journey requires the use of technology, so before you sign up for the experience, be sure you have:

• A laptop or desktop computer that will allow you to connect to Zoom with a microphone, camera, speaker, trackpad or mouse and keyboard. Since we will be using Google sheets, joining with an iphone or Ipad phone doesn't work.
• An internet connection of sufficient speed and stability to allow you to join a Zoom meeting with your video on.

What are the details?

May 11, 2024 8:30 am - 1:00 pm PT Live Session 1: Design Your Compass: Kick off your DYL experience. Meet the instructors and your community, share your goals, and commit to the norms for an effective life design community. Learn design thinking and the life design framework. Explore the narratives that drive your life, and surface your own dysfunctional beliefs, ripe for reframing. Build your life design compass, sharing and refining your view of work and life's purpose.

May 18, 2024 8:30 am - 1:00 pm PT Live Session 2: Get Unstuck: Assess your balance and energy and identify the areas you want to improve. Design an incremental change you are willing to prototype the following week. Practice framing and reframing problems, define a problem you have been stuck on for a while, and engage in radical collaboration and ideation to identify possible solutions. Consider how your compass and assessments inform three versions of your future, and design three potential Odyssey journeys going forward.

June 1, 2024 8:30 am - 1:00 pm PT Live Session 3: Design Your Future: Rejoin the community to share your assessments and Odyssey journeys, gaining insights from your fellow participants. Together use generative listening and idea boards to design tangible ways to move forward and realize your future dreams. Leave with a "Designer's Action Plan" to build your way forward - the essence of design thinking.

Note: The last 30 minutes of each session are designed to be an open space, just like you would have if we delivered live. You can use this time to connect with the instructors, connect with women you have met, discuss some topics of interest with others (e.g. changing careers, designing your next chapter, redesigning your work etc.). This time is optional.

BONUS FOLLOW-UP WORKSHOP

July 13, 2024 9:00 am - 10:30 am PT Live Session 4: Get Support For Changes: Design the support you need to continue your life design practice. Discover the science of change to set yourself up for success when you are making small or large life changes. Celebrate progress, share obstacles and get insight into how others have handled similar challenges.

We look forward to meeting you and to engaging in this journey together!