Designing your way through life: Design thinking for personal growth

Join us for this hands-on and interactive workshop in which you will discover the value of embracing a design attitude to planning your future. You will have the opportunity to apply the principles of design thinking to your own life and career. In doing that you leave behind entrenched thought patterns and create space to develop your individual ideas of a life that is both, meaningful and fulfilling to you. We will leverage creative approaches and critical mindsets of the design thinking process. In particular, we will use some of the tools proposed by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans in their book Design Your Life, to help you create your inner compass.

We believe that the skills and knowledge you will gain from this workshop will be useful, no matter where you are in your life and career. It is also a great opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and expand your network.

This workshop is hosted by CEBRA, a student-led initiative from the Masters in Impact Entrepreneurship and Innovation in collaboration with the DESIS Lab (Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability). CEBRA was founded last year with the mission to accelerate systems change from within through responsible leadership education.

We look forward to seeing you at this first pilot workshop!

Register now to secure your spot, seats are limited.

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Free

Location: Room B132

YOUR FACILITATORS

The workshop will be facilitated by Anne-Laure Fayard and Marielen Winter.

Anne-Laure Fayard is the ERA chair Professor in Social Innovation at Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE). She is the founder and coordinator of the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Lab @Nova SBE. Prior to joining Nova SBE, she was faculty at New York University as well as INSEAD. She also held visiting positions at Imperial College Business School, London School of Economics and Ecole des Mines. At NYU, she was the faculty founder for the Design Lab @NYU MakerSpace and for the Design of America of NYU studio. Her recent research focuses on cross-sector collaboration and open innovation for social innovation and the future of work. She is passionate about human-centered design that she researches, teaches, and practices and is always looking for leveraging a design mindset in order to create sustainable and meaningful experiences and innovations.

Marielen Winter is a Master’s student from the Impact Entrepreneurship & Innovation program and the founder of CEBRA. Prior to joining Nova SBE she finished her Bachelor’s with a major in Sustainable Leadership and was working in the global CSR department at Beiersdorf. Marielen is also a certified yoga and meditation instructor and is currently leading the MindSpace student club at Nova SBE.

The DESIS (DESIGN for Social Innovation and Sustainability) Lab @ NOVA SBE is the programming and community engagement arm of the ERA Chair in Social Innovation. We believe that to innovate with purpose and develop sustainable solutions to complex social issues requires creative collaboration and a design thinking mindset. It is part of the DESIS International network, a group of academics, researchers and students who orient their design and research activities towards social innovation. If you want to know more: https://socialinnova-chair.com/desis-lab/