Postdoc-Workshop: Design Your Life and Your Career

Details

Time: Thu, 6 March 2025, 14:00–17:00 h
Location: online via Zoom
Target group: Postdocs of all research fields of the UA Ruhr universities (max. 25 participants)
Trainer: Dr. Joann Halpern
Registration deadline: 21 February
Contact for organizational questions: Dr. Ursula Justus (RUB Research School)

Description

Design your life can support you in your vocational wayfinding. The workshop offers processes and techniques that help you to find out which career you want and how you can plan your career coherent with your life plans. 

The workshop uses the design thinking process to help you to develop a constructive and effective approach to designing your career by bringing together workview and lifeview and to align your career planning with your values and personal aims.

The following topics will be covered during the workshop:

• Reframing Negative Thoughts
• Energy-Engagement Maps
• Workview and Lifeview Reflections
• Coherence of Workview and Lifeview
• Ideating Work and Life: Preparing Odyssey Plans
• Prototyping 

The workshop uses Design your Life methodologies developed at Stanford University by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.

Download workshop description (PDF)

Trainer

Dr. Joann Halpern is the Director of the Hasso Plattner Institute, New York (HPI) and an adjunct professor of international education in the Department of Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities at New York University. Prior to joining HPI, she was founding director of the German Center for Research and Innovation (GCRI), which was created as a cornerstone of the German government’s initiative to internationalize science and research.

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