Designing Your Life for Everyone-Digital Journey (Fall 2024)

Many of us experience life transitions — planned and unplanned, periods of feeling stuck, and changes within ourselves, our relationships, and our communities.

Designing Your Life (DYL) provides an opportunity to learn the skill of life design© — a hands-on approach to applying the creative, iterative, human-centered design process to crafting a life you love.

Based on the work of Stanford Professors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, Designing Your Life (DYL) demonstrates how design thinking can help you create a life in which you can flourish.

Taught by a team of DYL certified facilitators from Fieldbrook Advising, this innovative workshop 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 supportive and engaged community.

Designing Your Life for Everyone - Workshop schedule (live workshops, via Zoom):

• Friday, October 18, 2024
• Friday, October 25, 2024
• Friday, November 11, 2024
• Friday, November 8, 2024
• Workshops held 1 - 4:30 pm ET on all dates

Registration Fees:

• $799 early-bird registration fee
• $950 regular registration fee

Designing Your Life For Everyone - Digital Journey Objectives

Learn and apply Life Design skills through highly interactive virtual workshops where we will:

• Explore the social and personal narratives that shape you.
• Work together to identify and reframe dysfunctional beliefs.
• Heighten a mindful awareness of where you are now.
• Use design tools for balance and energy improvements in your daily and weekly routines.
• Frame and reframe problems or areas where you’ve been stuck
• Engage in radical collaboration and ideation for new solutions.
• Design three possible future paths – Odyssey Plans – for your life.
• Learn how to prototype (or do small experiments to learn more) the parts of these lives that are most compelling you.
• Plan prototype conversations to enlist the support you need for your life design.
• Use design tools to action plan for real change, accountability, and momentum.
• Increase your creativity and confidence.
• Use breakout discussions to share and collaborate.

The following items are included in the experience:

• Four (4) highly interactive Zoom sessions where you will talk with other participants about your life and life design tools. (details below)
• Digital workbook of worksheets to support your assessments and reflections.

Designing Your Life For Everyone - Digital Journey Session Outlines

Session 1: Building Your Compass - Friday, October 18, 1 - 4:30 pm ET

Kick off your DYL experience. Meet the instructors and your community, share your goals, and be introduced to design thinking and the life design framework. Explore the narratives that drive your life design, and identify and discuss what matters to you most in your work.

Session 2: Enhancing Your Balance & Wellbeing - Friday, October 25, 1 - 4:30 pm ET

Discuss your definition of a well-lived life and consider how you to connect the dots between what you do, what you believe, and who you are. Reframe then assess your sense of balance, and consider design strategies to enhance balance and energy in your daily life. Then explore factors that enhance or detract from your satisfaction with various work and life roles.

Session 3: Imagining New Possibilities - Friday, November 1, 1 - 4:30 pm ET

Rejoin the community to consider how designers frame problems, and engage in a popular exercise to reframe problems and get new insights and ideas from classmates. Then engage in Odyssey Planning -- an innovative way to envision three alternate life paths. Your classmates will help to reflect back where you have the most energy and common themes as you describe your ideas.

Session 4: Designing Your Future - Friday, November 8, 1 - 4:30 pm ET

Learn the art of prototyping and use collaborative idea boards to surface ideas to get started - in practical, accessible ways. Reflect on and discuss what supports you in making decisions. Discover the science of change and draft a designer's action plan to set yourself up for success in pursuing the changes you seek.

Please note that the virtual journey requires the use of technology, so before you sign up for the experience, be sure you have each of the following:

• A laptop or desktop computer that will allow you to connect to Zoom with a microphone, camera, speaker, track pad or mouse and keyboard.
• An internet connection of sufficient speed and stability to allow you to join Zoom meetings with your video on.

Questions?

Please reach out to Catherine Dalipe, Community Relations, Fieldbrook Advising with any questions: [email protected]

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

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