Designing Your Life Workshop Series

5807 South Woodlawn Avenue,Chicago IL 60637

18 May, 2022

Description

Life After Your MBA? Are you interested in a well-designed life? Do you think of work-life balance? What excites you about your work? Explore these questions and much more in a brand new series of workshops, Designing Your Life, offered by the Booth Leadership Development Office. Design engineers at Stanford Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, the co-authors of NYTimes bestseller Designing Your Life, once observed that a well-designed life is a “rich portfolio of experiences, adventures, and failures that teach us important lessons.” Drawing on the insights of design and engineering thinking, the theoretical apparatus of Designing Your Life examines the questions of self-discovery, self-awareness, and self-knowledge by teaching us what it means to be curious, mindful, reflective, and how to solve simple to complex problems by prototyping. More importantly, it helps us figure out what we want to do now, at any age, and how to answer who we want to grow into tomorrow. Led by Atiya Singh, Booth LEAD coach & a Stanford certified DYL facilitator, this series offers 5 sessions covering different topics. Please register for each session separately. All sessions will be held in the Harper Center. See details below. Session 1: April 20, 2022 (12:00-1:00 PM) Location: Booth School of Business, Harper Center-C09 Introduction to Design Thinking | This first session will introduce the participants to the conceptual paradigm of design thinking based on the notions of Designer Mindset and Design Process. With this knowledge in hand, participants will be ready to engage in life design and begin to experience how something extraordinary happens. Session 2: April 27, 2022 (12:00-1:00 PM) Location: Booth School of Business, Harper Center-C09 Designing Your Compass | Building on the conceptual framework of design thinking, this session will address the notion of meaning-making by examining two views that are central to all lives: Workview and Worldview. Participants will learn how developing these views is essential in designing one’s compass to lead a meaningful life. Session 3: May 4, 2022 (12:00-1:00 PM) Location: Booth School of Business, Harper Center-C09 Designing Your Practice | Informed by the theory of design, this session will key into the practice of designing a meaningful and joyful life. We will discuss the psychological approach of the University of Chicago’s former faculty Mihály Csíkszentmihályi articulated in his conception of Flow. Participants will learn about a variety of practices that would potentially lead to changed behaviors and habits coupled with a high degree of self-awareness. Session 4: May 18, 2022 (12:00-1:00 PM) Location: Booth School of Business, Harper Center-C10 Ideation and Prototype | This session will tackle the technical understanding of ideation and prototype as understood by designers and engineers. Participants will learn the rules of structured brainstorming to generate lots of ideas and extract insights. The exercise of ideation will be followed by approaches to simple prototypes to reduce the risk of failure by designing a series of small prototypes to test the waters. Session 5: May 25, 2022 (12:00-1:00 PM) Location: Booth School of Business, Harper Center-C09 Designing Your Future | This final session will culminate in what is termed the Odyssey Plans—an adventurous journey into the future. Participants will create three very different life plans for the next five years, choose one of their most delightful plans to ideate collaboratively, and extract insights for prototyping.