PLAY TO BUILD COMMUNITY - Mary Chris Escobar

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BUILDING OUR SALVE COMPASS - Kathleen Farley

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COMBINING COGNITIVE INFORMATION THEORY AND DYL - Amy Kozlarek

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LIFE DESIGNING ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT - Leslie Streissguth

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LIFE DESIGN FOR THE BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF FEMALE LEADERS - Katerina Stanisavljevic

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Session #1: Building on Existing Life Design Tools:

• VOCATIONAL INHERITANCE OF FIRST-GENERATION STUDENTS: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THEM ABOUT WORK, EDUCATION, AND PURPOSE? with Christine Kampen Robinson of Canadian Mennonite University

  In this session, you'll hear insights from an ongoing international research project on first-generation students' conceptualizations of work and how they construct work and education in relation to meaning and purpose. You will have an opportunity to apply our analytical framework through a mini-workshop to examine the complexities and nuances of how understandings of work can shape perceptions of possibilities and learn how you can get involved in the research!

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• LIFEFINDING: HARNESSING YOUR VITALITY TO TAKE PURPOSEFUL ACTION with Michelle D. Jones, Ph.D. & Jonathan Gibson of Sonder Collaborative

  Lifefinding is a customizable workshop offering that helps participants re-engage, navigate uncertainty, and choose next steps at a transition moment in life, all rooted in their life purpose.  In this taste of Lifefinding, participants will clarify their personal sources of life energy (Vitality) and begin to identify where and how to put them into action immediately.   Interactive take-aways will include a vitality-based decision making tool and a dynamic framework to Mosaic your daily life.

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• DESIGN FOR RESEARCH with Hannah O’Day of Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, Stanford University

  Learn tools to help researchers build resilience using a design mindset and core research skills - emphasizing creative confidence, embracing failure, and bias toward action. We'll provide a toolkit to help you quantify and communicate the impact of your life design practices, essential for convincing stakeholders, securing funding, or complementing qualitative reviews. Get ready to transform the way you showcase your work and ignite excitement in your community and leave with exercises that you can share with your own student researchers.

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SESSION #2 : INCREASING ADOPTION AT YOUR INSTITUTION

• DESIGNING FUTURE CAREERS AND LIVES: WEAVING LIFE DESIGN ACROSS THE INSTITUTION with Adrienne Ausdenmoore​ of Bowling Green State University​, Carol Crosby​ of Bridgewater State University​ and Nathan Langfitt​​ of The University of Texas​ at Austin

  How might you implement Life Design on a larger scale? Join this breakout session to hear the stories of 3 Universities who are infusing Life Design across the entire institution and student experience. Then put their tips into practice as we workshop together the ways you might scale your own efforts by connecting to your institution’s strategic goals and aligning to the needs of your students and campus.

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• THE MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF YOU: MAKING LIFE DESIGN “STICKY” (EVEN IN JUST ONE SESSION) with Jenn Baytor, Brent Boles, and Kate Barnes of Ivey Business School

  Experience a one hour session that helps students realize they are already life designers! We start by having them reflect on the different career ideas they’ve had at various points in their lives (i.e., what they wanted to be when they "grew up"), then record where those ideas came from, who or what influenced them, the steps they took toward those paths, and why they ultimately moved on. Once we introduce Design Thinking (Stanford style), participants revisit their reflections and map them onto the design thinking process. That’s when they realize hat they’ve already applied design thinking to career choices without even knowing it. This shift in perspective makes DYL feel both practical and familiar, showing them how to use it intentionally moving forward.

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• EMPOWERING FUTURES: LIFE DESIGN'S IMPACT ON THE UNLV COMMUNITY with Kass Moore, M.Ed. of University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)

  This session explores how UNLV strategically integrates Life Design principles into the student experience, catering to diverse demographics through both synchronous and asynchronous methods. We'll delve into the campus's history with Life Design, showcase current integration efforts, and outline future plans to embed these principles within the student leadership, academic, and community spheres. Participants will gain practical insights into implementing adaptable Life Design strategies on their campus in unique and creative ways.

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SESSION #3 : NEW TOOLS AND CURRICULUM

• HEAD + HEART ON THE SAME PAGE: NEW TOOLS FOR DECISION-MAKING w/ Michelle Florendo of Powered By Decisions, LLC

  When stuck in analysis paralysis and fear of making a "wrong" decision, pen and paper can be the best tools for moving forward. Join Michelle Florendo to learn how to use simple frameworks to turn a swirl of thoughts and feelings into a clearer path forward.

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• SEEING THROUGH NEW EYES: ACCESSING INNER WISDOM THROUGH METAPHOR with Deepak Ramola of the Stanford Life Design Lab

  This workshop explores why we often give better advice but can't take our own, a phenomenon known as Solomon's Paradox. Participants will learn to use metaphor as a tool for self-distancing and cognitive reframing, gaining new perspectives on personal challenges. Through a creative exercise involving metaphorical storytelling, you'll discover how to access your own inner wisdom and find clarity.

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• EMBODIED DISCERNMENT FOR DECISION-MAKING with Mariel Rosic of the Stanford Life Design Lab

  Join us for a taste of a new Life Design module! In this workshop, we'll be doing an active and embodied activity that helps us identify and articulate what we authentically & specifically want, spend more time learning about our embodied and emotional ways of knowing, and refine our sense of discernment between our true “Yes's” and “No's”.

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• HYDRA OR HAPPY? RETHINKING OVERWHELM IN HIGHER ED with Heather N. Martin, Ph.D. of University of Denver

  Feeling stretched thin or stuck in a cycle of overwork? This session explores professional overwhelm—from the draining “hydra overwhelm” to the meaningful but exhausting “happy overwhelm.” Session participants will reflect on how overwhelm shows up in their work, and identify small changes to protect their energy and better support themselves and their students.

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