Designing Your Life: In-Person Experience

Event Overview:

This in-person one-day intensive workshop is designed to help you navigate life's choices with clarity and confidence. Whether you're evolving your career, exploring the complexities of relationships, or balancing caregiving responsibilities - this workshop is for you! Conveniently located in downtown San Francisco, this workshop provides a unique chance to immerse yourself in design thinking in collaboration with others. This powerful approach empowers you with actionable insights and practical tools to tackle change with confidence and clarity. Join us to design your journey with intention.

Who are your Facilitators?

• Shanice Webb, Lecturer & Fellow at Stanford's Life Design Lab and founder of Transcend-Thought
• John Armstrong, Founder of Leadership Labs and former Lecturer & Fellow at Stanford's Life Design Lab
• Dustin Liu, Lecturer & Fellow at Stanford's Life Design Lab and founder of fuhzool

What to Expect:

This workshop is all about collaboratively applying design thinking principles to your life, career, and community. It is structured as a highly interactive workshop that includes reflection, discussion, and a series of thoughtfully designed exercises to help you get un-stuck and bring new creativity and energy to designing your future.

Key Activities:

• Collaborative Exploration: Kick off the day in community, setting the stage for a day full of collaboration and shared insights.
• Design Thinking Principles: Dive into the core principles of design thinking, learning to apply empathy, define problems, ideate solutions, prototype ideas, and test solutions within the context of your life.
• Ideation Sessions: Through guided ideation, we'll uncover a spectrum of possibilities for tackling life's wicked challenges.
• Bias-to-Action: The day culminates with identifying tangible actions to move you forward following the workshop.

Outcomes:

You will leave with:

• A clearer vision of future possibilities
• Practical design thinking tools to help you get un-stuck
• Greater creative confidence to navigate change and ambiguity
• A clearer articulation of your own sense of meaning and purpose at work and in life
• Concrete actions steps you can take immediately following the session to explore your curiosities, interests, and goals.

Who Should Attend:

This workshop is ideal for people at an inflection point, whether considering a career change, seeking personal development, or simply looking for a fresh perspective on life and work.

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What Past Participants Say:

“This was one of the best (if not THE best) workshops I have ever attended, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Again: transformative.”

“I would definitely recommend this program for someone who is in a pivotal career or life moment."

"The session gave me the opportunity to "dream big" regarding where I want my life and work to go, and to consider how to make some of those dreams reality."

"I am less afraid of the future now because I have the tools to make more informed decisions about where I want my life to go. Thank you!"

"I had a significant "Aha!" moment during the session."