Design Your Life for Non-Digital Connection
Dec
12
12:00 PM12:00

Design Your Life for Non-Digital Connection

UPDATE: *** relocated to Gerrit Rietveld Academie *** email or call me for details.

Ping, ping, and another ping from another messenger. While social tools are meant to connect us more, interfacing with them can drain resources like time and attention. How can we design connectedness and a sense of belonging with an optimal amount of effort and engagement? While there is no one-fit-all solution, each participant will allocate her time to proactively shape how she wants to relate with people. For instance, a silly prototype like a “whatsapp balloon that flies to my girlfriend” can allow for more creativity and lead to your best solution. From serious to silly and back again to serious solutions can work!

€40 excl. VAT per participant

Pixel Story Studio developed the systemic “Design Your Life” workshop series in 2014 in San Diego. It combines systemic therapy with design thinking and was inspired by Stanford’s Bill Burnett & Dave Evans approach

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Design Your Life for Mindfulness in the Day to Day
Nov
27
9:00 AM09:00

Design Your Life for Mindfulness in the Day to Day

  • The Student Hotel (TSH) Collab (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

At the end of the day, you are accountable for all your choices and actions. A shift towards a mindful presence in the moment - whether at home or work or in between - is a good start. It can lead to more satisfaction at the end of the day. Participants will explore playfully the spectrum of mindful and mindless experiences, apply proven “narrative therapy” techniques and be of help for their co-learners. For instance, describing a decision process from a third person perspective will expand your mind.

€40 excl. VAT per participant. 10% off for Collabsters

Pixel Story Studio developed the systemic “Design Your Life” workshop series in 2014 in San Diego. It combines systemic therapy with design thinking and was inspired by Stanford’s Bill Burnett & Dave Evans approach

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Design Your Life for Healthy Work Habits
Oct
31
12:00 PM12:00

Design Your Life for Healthy Work Habits

  • The Student Hotel (TSH) Collab (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Standing in good health is not self-understood, isn’t it? Especially when you work hard, self-care is a top priority. Participants will break down their desired health routine into manageable steps. It is step-by-step “chaining” of behavior to compose a smooth performance - just like circus artists do. Participants will literally walk a rope - a representation of a future timeline with health challenges to their left and right. How can you maintain a daily meditation practice when work demands frequent travel? Planning for multiple scenarios is part of that good plan.

€40 excl. VAT per participant. 10% off for Collabsters

Pixel Story Studio developed the systemic “Design Your Life” workshop series in 2014 in San Diego. It combines systemic therapy with design thinking and was inspired by Stanford’s Bill Burnett & Dave Evans approach

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Design Your Life for Work-Life Balance
Sep
26
12:00 PM12:00

Design Your Life for Work-Life Balance

  • The Student Hotel (TSH) Collab (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The same tools (think email, messenger, cloud services) that make work easy, sometimes make life after work harder. In this 2 hour workshop, participants will examine their unique work and life demands and needs. Then, by applying 1-2 exercises from Pixel Story Studio’s systemic design thinking tool box, participants will prepare and try out the changes they seek. For example, a journey map of a device-free evening starting at 8pm is in theory a good idea, yet role playing the routine with other participants who witness it, truly consolidates change.

€40 excl. VAT per participant. 10% off for Collabsters

Pixel Story Studio developed the systemic “Design Your Life” workshop series in 2014 in San Diego. It combines systemic therapy with design thinking and was inspired by Stanford’s Bill Burnett & Dave Evans approach

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Kick Off Talk - Design Your Life
Sep
23
8:00 AM08:00

Kick Off Talk - Design Your Life

  • The Student Hotel (TSH) Collab (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

The workshop series “Design Your Life for X” is an innovative combination of design thinking with systemic therapy. It applies creative problem solving guided by design thinking principles - empathy, bias to act, experimentation, playfulness - on cognitive, emotional and behavioral issues of daily life.

Join this free kick off talk first thing of the week. Then decide, if you have an appetite for a series of workshops this fall to make small changes with big effects for your professional wellbeing.

This is a free event. Bring a friend. Learn more about the fall series “Design Your Life”, each last Thursday of the month in 2019.

  • September Talk - Thursday, 26.9., 12-14.00: Design Your Life for Work-Life Balance

  • October Talk - Thursday, 31.10, 12-14.00: Design Your Life for Healthy Habits for Smooth Work

  • November Talk - Thursday, 28.11., 12-14.00: Design Your Life for Mindfulness in the Day to Day

  • December - Thursday, 12.12., 12-14.00: Design Your Life for Non-Digital Social Connection

Pixel Story Studio developed the systemic “Design Your Life” workshop series in 2014 in San Diego. It combines systemic therapy with design thinking and was inspired by Stanford’s Bill Burnett & Dave Evans approach

And what does design thinking feel like? Like a banana. Read more here in Tim Brown’s original post from 2008 at the beginning of this approach.

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Design Your Life for Family Wellbeing
Jun
20
12:30 PM12:30

Design Your Life for Family Wellbeing

Growing and changing as a family comes with its own challenges. Each family member has unique physical, psychological and social needs. One parent may be a night owl while the other is an early bird. One child needs quiet while the other thrives on social stimulation. All need a certain level of processing busy days and positive reflection. In the end, each day only affords us with 24 hours of time - a fixed factor and good constraint to massage. Our hopes to sync as a family do face the harsh reality of ragged rhythms.

The systemic design thinking approach offers a unique angle on setting up family life for more well-being. It is a playful and curious method to view family growth and changes as a possible joint activity.

Pixel Story Studio stands for sustained experience with working with families to improve mental health, mindful well-being and #GSD (getting shit done). In this small-sized workshop, the focus will be on narrative therapy techniques and role play.

  • The narrative therapy approach uses storytelling to attain desired outcomes. How can a parent speak differently about daily challenges so that he or she feels in control and inspired to make necessary changes? This approach also uses letter-writing and awarding of prizes as a tool to empower a person. Imagine each day in a family ending with a round out gratitude for one another?

  • Being in a group allows for a unique type of learning: social learning and imitation. Each participant is a resource for the other group members. We will prepare short role plays of selected challenges to experience another member’s point of view and then collect feedback on the role play for learning. After that, each participant will plan concrete changes to try out at home..

  • Throughout the workshop, key markers of design thinking - curiosity, empathy, experimentation, process-orientation, radical collaboration - are interwoven. The workshop is learning about the design thinking approach by doing it yourself.

To sign up, email: info@pixelstorystudio.com with subject line “Design Your Life for Family Busy-ness”. Tickets are €60 excl. VAT, incl. refreshments, non-refundable and paid digitally.

Pixel Story Studio developed the systemic “Design Your Life” workshop series in 2014 in San Diego. It combines systemic therapy with design thinking and was inspired by Stanford’s Bill Burnett & Dave Evans approach

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Design Your Life for Health
May
23
12:30 PM12:30

Design Your Life for Health

Standing in good health can be understood as smooth functioning in areas such as physical and mental health, maybe also emotional and relational health. Smooth also meaning that everyone will face certain conditions and bounce back differently - depending on resilience and other factors.

In this small-sized kick-off workshop, we will utilize systemic therapy combined with design thinking and doing to grasp the concept of “health” better. This means that we will look beyond the individual and include the role of family and context. We will borrow from the toolkit of open-minded creatives for playful problem solving. Without much lecturing, the focus is on embodied experimentation and the goal is to create a few actionable outcomes. Sound intriguing, right?

  • The rope method is a wonderful tool for externalizing your path from past to present with enough give to your future destination in terms of health.

  • Scenario planning and sketching is great for visualizing the most likely, dominant expected future, yet also other possible journeys.

  • And design thinking’s key markers - curiosity, empathy, experimentation, process-orientation, radical collaboration - will be interwoven into the workshop experience.

To sign up, email: info@pixelstorystudio.com with subject line “Design Your Life for Health”. Tickets are €50 excl. VAT, incl. refreshments, non-refundable and paid digitally.

Pixel Story Studio developed the systemic “Design Your Life” workshop series in 2014 in San Diego. It combines systemic therapy with design thinking and was inspired by Stanford’s Bill Burnett & Dave Evans approach

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Reading Group - How to thrive in the next economy by J. Thackara
Aug
14
8:00 PM20:00

Reading Group - How to thrive in the next economy by J. Thackara

Reading is just such a wonderful way of uploading knowledge into our brain and heart. It connects between pages and people.

Join PixelStoryStudio's Reading Group to share and discuss in a small curated group material about design thinking & coaching.

For this event, we will read "How to thrive in the next economy" (2015) by John Thackara yet feel free to bring your recent discoveries to suggest and share about as well.

I met John in 2015 during his visit at the Domus Academy/ New School for Architecture & Design in San Diego and was floored by his informative talk and humble yet humorous persona.

RSVP by email to info@pixelstorystudio and you will receive the exact location with your confirmation.

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Reading Group - Starting with why by S. Sinek
Jul
2
8:00 PM20:00

Reading Group - Starting with why by S. Sinek

Reading is just such a wonderful way of uploading knowledge into our brain and heart. It connects between pages and people.

Join PixelStoryStudio's Reading Group to share and discuss in a small curated group material about design thinking & coaching.

For this event, we will read "Start with Why - How great leaders inspire everyone to take action" (2009) by Simon Sinek yet feel free to bring your recent discoveries to suggest and share about as well.

RSVP by email to info@pixelstorystudio and you will receive the exact location with your confirmation.

The inspiration came from a fellow coach who recently did "a deep dive into what leadership really means" plus the title has been floating around US startup and entrepreneur spheres.

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Reading Group - All about Design Thinking & Coaching
Jun
10
7:00 PM19:00

Reading Group - All about Design Thinking & Coaching

Reading is just such a wonderful way of uploading knowledge into our brain and heart. It connects between pages and people.

Join PixelStoryStudio's Reading Group to share and discuss in a small curated group material about design thinking & coaching.

For this event, we will read "Metaskills: Five Talents for the Robotic Age" by Marty Neumeier yet feel free to bring your recent discoveries to suggest and share about as well.

Here is my "secret" list of books to read: https://whitneyhess.com/bookshelf/

RSVP by email to info@pixelstorystudio and you will receive the exact location with your confirmation.

The inspiration came from Caracta's academy: https://www.caracta.com/academie

 

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Face Your Dreams
Mar
23
2:00 PM14:00

Face Your Dreams

You have an idea, but you don’t dare to share it. You want to start your own business, but that’s too risky. You long to make a career move, but talk yourself out of it. You want more time for yourself, but that's impossible.

What if one day of exploration took you safely from a hushed MAYBE to a resolute YES to starting your new project?

Acknowledge your inner whisper. It matters so make the time now to explore it. Give it full attention.

This is an opportunity to take a step towards what it is you really want. We are putting together a fabulous group of people with ideas - like you - who are ready to face their dreams. We will lead with experiential, creative exercises to help you work through your fears and move you towards an actionable plan. You will also walk away with survival skills to help you along the way.

Led by two experienced coaches & creative professionals.

Avital Shernoff is a certified coach and leadership consultant working with ambitious professionals and purpose-driven organizations. Prior to becoming a coach, Avital was an accomplished leader in the creative industry, developing brands such as Nestlé, Red Bull and Philips. Now she develops conscious leaders and teams, helping them to discover the depth of their potential and the steps they can take to achieve it. Avital believes there's a leader in all of us. People only need to tap into their brand of leadership to play big and create impact.

Julika Lomas is a Systemic Designer & Coach combining her experience and expertise from psychology, family therapy, mindful body work and startup. She empowers clients to increase self-direction and well-being. In her sessions, Julika draws from a wide range of methods such as design thinking, emotion-based therapy and narrative work. Her clients praise her culturally competent  insight, vigor and reliability.

Sign up here on Eventbrite.

90 Euro per ticket, refreshments included.

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Design Drinks - Invite Only
Feb
17
8:00 PM20:00

Design Drinks - Invite Only

  • Krammerstraat Amsterdam, NH, 1078 Netherlands (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Gathering creative minds and hearts to hatch actionable ideas.

Slow food, novel drinks, social experimentation,.

  • 8.30pm: meet & greet 
  • food, drinks
  • bring a broken thing, unfinished project, unbaked idea or new friend
  • then night cap & lights off! 

Reminders will be sent 1-2 days before

RSVPs are always appreciated so we can tailor the mini experiences to the number of heads and hearts.

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Journey Mapping Our Days - A Design Doing Workshops
Dec
2
10:00 AM10:00

Journey Mapping Our Days - A Design Doing Workshops

Pixel Story Studio is all about fusing design methods with systemic positive psychology to make us stronger.

In this workshop for the young and the old, we will craft an oversized chart out of wood, nails, and some hit and miss hammering. Then we will add paint, labeling and stretchy ropes and we are all set to discuss our journey mapping canvas.

  • How do our days unfold?
  • What can I learn from data?

While crafting the maps, we will talk and ask and listen. The focus is just as much on the artifact - the map - as it is on learning how to build awareness for the highs and lows in our days, correlations with events, and our power to steer the course. There is room to navigate your days more mindfully.

  • What does my day consist of?
  • What gives me energy and engages me?
  • What drains me and makes me feel unhappy?

Join us for an experimental journey mapping event!

For ages 6+ and all the way up. Parents are welcome, too. Seats are limited and available at 40 Euro per person, including materials & refreshments. Instruction in English yet Dutchies welcome as we all will help out. Email info@pixelstorystudio.com to save your spot. 

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Feeling the Other - A Mask-making Design Doing Workshop
Nov
18
10:00 AM10:00

Feeling the Other - A Mask-making Design Doing Workshop

Pixel Story Studio is all about fusing design methods with systemic positive psychology to make us stronger.

In this first workshop for children, we will craft full- or half-face gipsum masks and help one another taking this very personal picture. Already, children will build trust with one another during this step.

While crafting the masks, we will talk and ask and listen. The focus is just as much on the artefact - the mask - as it is on learning a new skill as well as about ourselves.

  • What does it feel like to be me?
  • Wat do others not see?
  • What might it feel like to be the other?

Join us for an experimental empathy building event!

For ages 5+ and up. Parents are welcome to phase in & out. Seats are limited and available at 25 Euro per child. Instruction in English. Email info@pixelstorystudio.com to save your spot.

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Design Your Life For More Happiness
Nov
10
4:15 PM16:15

Design Your Life For More Happiness

Workshop: A focus on challenges with and solutions for finding more happiness in life. This workshop is made for motivated, creative and curious starters during this era of "new work".

  • Do you have a compass to follow your true North? 
  • How do you manage digital distractions, unhealthy habits, and the wealth of information?
  • Do you end your day and week still feeling calm, content, and optimistic?

By using systemic therapy and design thinking methods, you will learn how to be aware of where you are at, design healthy habits for happiness, and step out with actionable solutions.

The starters for community program boosts ambitious starter in the labor market aged 22 to 35 years. Mid-November, the S4C alumni network of 500+ starters is gathering to celebrate progress and community.

Pixel Story Studio was invited to bring the millennials actionable and inspiring tools to design more happiness into their life. Easier said than done, I mean, easier done if you apply systemic therapy tools and a design thinking mindset.

While this is a closed event, the workshop can come to you, too. Curious? Contact me at info@pixelstorystudio.com

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Design Your Health - Ein guter Plan für mehr Kraft
Aug
30
3:00 PM15:00

Design Your Health - Ein guter Plan für mehr Kraft

“Design Your Health”, ein Workshop, der die Gestaltung der eigenen körperlichen und mentalen Gesundheit zum Schwerpunkt macht. Die Balance im Alltag zu finden und zu halten Bedarf mutiger Reflektion, Faktenwissen und viel Übung. Dabei hilft es oft, wenn andere Menschen einem bei der Arbeit Aufmerksamkeit schenken. Das Ziel ist Erschöpfung und negative Prozesse zu Vermeiden (Stichpunkt Burnout) und vorbeugende Muster zu gestalten.

Im ersten Schritt werden die Workshopteilnehmer ihre individuellen Muster betrachten, um zu verstehen, was Kraft gibt und was erschöpft. Im Anschluss werden Ideen produziert und Gewohnheiten durchdacht, die auch ausprobiert werden. Am Ende hält jeder Teilnehmer umsetzbare Ideen in den Händen.

Im Workshop werden Methoden des Design Thinkings und der systemischen Arbeit kombiniert, um Teilnehmern mehr Klarheit darüber zu verschaffen, wo sie Einfluss nehmen können.

Design Thinking, ein Denkansatz aus dem Norden Kaliforniens und mit innovativen Resultaten bestätigt, nutzt die Kreativität des gestalterischen Denkens um neuartige Lösungen zu generieren.
Systemische Arbeit ergänzt die traditionelle Psychotherapie mit Einbezug des Systems, und dessen systemischen Wirkens. In Kombination beider Ansätze eröffnet sich ein spannendes Spielfeld um wichtige Themen unseres Lebens proaktiv, präventativ und kreativ anzugehen.

Anmeldung & Vorbereitung

Anmeldung per julikalomas@gmail.com oder via XING Event
Teilnehmerzahl auf 12 Personen beschränkt, dann Warteliste.
Nach erfolgreicher Anmeldung erhalten Teilnehmer eine Email zur Vorbereitung.
Kosten 20,00 € je Teilnehmer
Workshop Serie
"Design Your Health” ist ein Bestandteil der "Design Your Life” Workshop Serie, die in San Diego, Kalifornien, entwickelt und erprobt hat. 

Die Referentin
Julika Lomas, ausgebildete Psychologin, systemische Therapeutin und Erfahrung in und mit mehreren US-amerikanischen Start-ups, Bildungsunternehmen und Einrichtungen wie Duolingo, Coveymom, Udemy, und dem Design Lab der University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Sie hat auch eine 200-stündigen Yogalehrerausbildung und Erfahrung mit Hatha und restorativem Yoga.

Disclaimer
Dieses Coaching-Angebot dient der Verbesserung der Lebensqualität, und der Entfaltung des Potenzials. Falls Interessierte unter akuten gesundheitlichen oder psychischen Erkrankungen leiden, empfehle ich einen Arzt oder Psychotherapeut der Wahl aufzusuchen. Meine Arbeit ersetzt nicht den Arztbesuch oder eine therapeutische Behandlung.

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Design Drinks - Invite Only
Jul
7
7:30 PM19:30

Design Drinks - Invite Only

Gathering creative minds and hearts to hatch actionable ideas. The goal is to slow food, socially experiment while using design techniques.

  • 7.30pm: meet & greet 
  • activity 1 & drink 
  • activity 2 & coupling drink & food 
  • activity 3 & coupling drink & dessert 
  • 11.30 pm: night cap & lights off! 
Man soll aufhören wenn es am schönsten ist!
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Design Your Career - Ein guter Plan für den Werdegang
Jul
5
3:00 PM15:00

Design Your Career - Ein guter Plan für den Werdegang

“Design Your Career”, ein 2-stündiger Workshop, kombiniert Methoden des Design Thinkings und der systemischen Arbeit um Teilnehmern mehr Klarheit über ihren beruflichen Werdegang zu verschaffen.

Design Thinking, ein Denkansatz aus dem Norden Kaliforniens und mit innovativen Resultaten bestätigt, nutzt die Kreativität des gestalterischen Denkens um neuartige Lösungen zu generieren.

Systemische Arbeit ergänzt die traditionelle Psychotherapie mit Einbezug des Systems, und dessen systemischen Wirkens. In Kombination beider Ansätze eröffnet sich ein spannendes Spielfeld um wichtige Themen unseres Lebens proaktiv, präventativ und kreativ anzugehen.

Gemeinsam werden wir mit der Seilmethode den bisherigen Werdeganz als auch den angestrebten Abschnitt erfahrbar machen. Dann wird mittels Scenario Planning die jeweilige berufliche Zukunft für verschiedene Eventualitäten durchdacht. Per Storytelling erfahren wir die Auswirkung von aufmerksamen Zuhörern. Und Anhand von lehrreichen Übergängen lernt ein jeder mehr über die vorgestellten Ansätze.

Anmeldung & Vorbereitung

  • Anmeldung per julikalomas@gmail.com oder via XING Event
  • Teilnehmerzahl auf 12 Personen beschränkt, dann Warteliste.
  • Nach erfolgreicher Anmeldung erhalten Teilnehmer eine Email zur Vorbereitung.
  • Kosten 10,00 € je Weserwork Mitglied und 20,00 € je Nicht-Mitglied

Workshop Serie
"Design Your Career" ist ein Bestandteil der "Design Your Life” Workshop Serie, die in San Diego, Kalifornien, entwickelt und erprobt hat. 

Die Referentin
Julika Lomas, ausgebildete Psychologin, systemische Therapeutin und Erfahrung in und mit mehreren US-amerikanischen Start-ups, Bildungsunternehmen und Einrichtungen wie Duolingo, Coveymom, Udemy, und dem Design Lab der University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

Disclaimer
Dieses Coaching-Angebot dient der Verbesserung der Lebensqualität, und der Entfaltung des Potenzials. Falls Interessierte unter akuten gesundheitlichen oder psychischen Erkrankungen leiden, empfehle ich einen Arzt oder Psychotherapeut der Wahl aufzusuchen. Meine Arbeit ersetzt nicht den Arztbesuch oder eine therapeutische Behandlung.

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Design Your Life - Your Relationships
Oct
18
6:30 PM18:30

Design Your Life - Your Relationships

DESCRIPTION

LAB 5: YOUR RELATIONSHIPS

Relationships are the backbone of humanity. Why is it then, that talking about and planning your career is far easier than planning your marriage, dealing with your sister, or creating healthy friendships?

In this lab you will use design thinking to develop a strategy to accomplish your relationship goals, by:

  • Mapping your relationships
  • Learning about your approach to your relationships
  • Developing your own Hero's Journey

Design Your Life Series

The Design Your Life hands-on design thinking workshops are aimed at transforming participant’s lives through purposeful decision making. Participants will spend their evenings tackling their future, using the latest methods for design thinking and doing, future foresight, and strategy. This 5-workshop series supports a whole-life plan by leveraging design thinking methods to articulate the who, what and why across the personal, professional and social life. At the conclusion, participants will emerge with a handful of master plans to realize the person they want to be with skills that they can apply on the job.

Duration: 2 hours 

Disclaimer: These workshops are not a substitute for psychotherapy or other mental health care.

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Design Your Life - Social Life + Community Involvement
Oct
11
6:30 PM18:30

Design Your Life - Social Life + Community Involvement

LAB 3: YOUR SOCIAL LIFE + COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Life can get out of control. Before you know it you’re being pulled in 10 different directions and everyone’s asking you for help.
In this 2-hour lab you will use what you know about yourself to focus your commitments and drive towards a rewarding, fulfilling and enjoyable social life. We will identify the things that make you tick and the skills that you need to learn or expand upon to build strategies that support focus and a healthy life balance. 

Prerequisites:
This is the second lab in a 5-part series. Did you miss the first workshop? You can still attend. We will reach out to you with some simple tasks that will enable you to participate fully.

Design Your Life Series
The Design Your Life hands-on design thinking workshops are aimed at transforming participant’s lives through purposeful decision making. Participants will spend their evenings tackling their future, using the latest methods for design thinking and doing, future foresight, and strategy. This 5-workshop series supports a whole-life plan by leveraging design thinking methods to articulate the who, what and why across the personal, professional and social life. At the conclusion, participants will emerge with a handful of master plans to realize the person they want to be with skills that they can apply on the job.
Duration: 2 hours

Upcoming workshops
5. Design your Life: Your Relationships 10/18

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Design Your Life - Your Career
Oct
4
6:30 PM18:30

Design Your Life - Your Career

A career that is integral to who you are.

Lab 3: Design your Life: A Successful Career

In this two-hour workshop (or lab) you and other participants will shape the future of your work life. We'll juxtapose trends in your career and industry against global trends to plan ahead. We will review activities that create industry leaders and evaluate them against your own career and life goals. At the end of this workshop you'll have a career master plan and the steps you need to take to get you there.

Skills to take forward:

  • Career coaching
  • Future forecasting
  • Product strategy
  • Roadmap

*Bring your most recent resume. 

Design Your Life Series

The Design Your Life hands-on design thinking workshops are aimed at transforming participant’s lives through purposeful decision making. Participants will spend their evenings tackling their future, using the latest methods for design thinking and doing, future foresight, and strategy. This 5-workshop series supports a whole-life plan by leveraging design thinking methods to articulate the who, what and why across the personal, professional and social life. At the conclusion, participants will emerge with a handful of master plans to realize the person they want to be with skills that they can apply on the job.

Duration: 2 hours 

Workshops

3. Design your Life: A Successful Career -10/4

4. Design your Life: Social Life + Community Involvement - 10/11

5. Design your Life: Relationships - 10/18

Disclaimer: These workshops are not a substitute for psychotherapy or other mental health care.

 

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Design Your Life - Your Future
Sep
27
6:30 PM18:30

Design Your Life - Your Future

Design the life that you want. 

Lab 2: Your Future Self

Is the market you're working in stagnating or in transition? Gain confidence in your choices by using alternative futures to develop your next steps and plan for an unknown future.
In this two-hour workshop (or lab) you will develop a roadmap to your future self.
Hopscotch Labs will introduce design thinking and future forecasting methods to help you take control of your future. As a group we'll come up with alternate futures—both the Utopian and Distopian worlds we often see in the movies—and place ourselves within those futures. We will use Narrative Therapy and Body Storming methods to give us a sense of our potential futures. As we work, we will uncover challenges, needed skillsets, and a future more resilliant self. You will leave this workshop with key milestones, and decisions that you need to pay attention to—your very own master plan.
What you'll learn:

  • Brainstorming
  • Product Roadmapping
  • Future Forecasting
  • Competing Narratives
  • Ideal Experience Narratives
  • Body Storming

Prerequisites:
This is the second lab in a 5-part series. Did you miss the first workshop? You can still attend. We will reach out to you with some simple tasks that will enable you to participate fully.

Design Your Life Series
The Design Your Life hands-on design thinking workshops are aimed at transforming participant’s lives through purposeful decision making. Participants will spend their evenings tackling their future, using the latest methods for design thinking and doing, future foresight, and strategy. This 5-workshop series supports a whole-life plan by leveraging design thinking methods to articulate the who, what and why across the personal, professional and social life. At the conclusion, participants will emerge with a handful of master plans to realize the person they want to be with skills that they can apply on the job.
Duration: 2 hours

Upcoming workshops
3. Design your Life: A Successful Career 10/4
4. Design your Life: Social Life + Community Involvement 10/11
5. Design your Life: Your Relationships 10/18

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Design Your Life - This is You
Sep
20
6:30 PM18:30

Design Your Life - This is You

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” -Maya Angelou

Time is too precious to just let life happen. Just as you plan an event you can design the life you want, one that recharges you with every action you take. 

Lab 1: Design your Life, This is you

In this two-hour workshop (or lab) you will chart your life to develop a foundation for personal development. In a team effort we will identify trends, label ‘eras’ and work to describe what characterizes the things that get you jazzed. Note, this is a foundational workshop—planning happens best when you can own your story inside and out.
Skills that transfer:

  • Era analysis
  • Story telling techniques
  • Experience mapping
  • Product development

We recommend Lab 1 as a prerequisite to all following 4 labs.

Design Your Life Series
The Design Your Life hands-on design thinking workshops are aimed at transforming participant’s lives through purposeful decision making. Participants will spend their evenings tackling their future, using the latest methods for design thinking and doing, future foresight, and strategy. This 5-workshop series supports a whole-life plan by leveraging design thinking methods to articulate the who, what and why across the personal, professional and social life. At the conclusion, participants will emerge with a handful of master plans to realize the person they want to be with skills that they can apply on the job.

Duration: 2 hours

Workshops
1. Design your Life: This is you
2. Design your Life: Your Future Self
3. Design your Life: Successful Career
4. Design your Life: Social Life + Community Involvement
5. Design your Life: Relationships

Disclaimer: These workshops are not a substitute for psychotherapy or other mental health care.

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A focus on female & family, research methods for product development
Jun
15
1:30 PM13:30

A focus on female & family, research methods for product development

San Diego Startup Week 2016:

The Hopscotch Labs team led a multi-discipline group in exercises designed to elicit empathy and curiosity about specific user groups.

When was the last time you got a call while leaving the house, or parking the car? Did you have children with you? A couple of toys, a bag, a stroller? Were the kids screaming at each other? Refusing to put on their shoes? Did you also have low blood sugar and have to use the bathroom? 

Your product doesn't exist in a vacuum. It gets used in the context of everyday life. Learn how to use context to derive product ideas or features and functions. 

Start from a place of real user need to ...
align your product team,
prioritize development decisions,
make your product sticky, and
find market success.
This human-centered lab will focus on field research techniques to understand urban experiences from a female and family perspective. We'll start from a hypothesis; head out into the wilds of downtown San Diego to practice field research methods; before coming back to brainstorm solutions for these specific target audiences. 

What is a woman's experience in the urban jungle?
How does one child or multiple children affect a simple trip to the mall? 
How does the environment support or hinder desired or necessary activities?

You'll need:
a smart phone or camera to capture pictures
a notebook and pen
sunscreen, sunglasses and layers

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From Design Research to Concept in 1 Day
Jun
11
9:00 AM09:00

From Design Research to Concept in 1 Day

Design based on real customer needs and motivations.

In this intensive, 1-day workshop you will learn from Hopscotch Labs' experts—experts versed in helping companies leverage human experiences to build better products and services for over 15 years. 
We will use human-centered research to diagnose the unique problems faced by your clients' customers. You will get hands on experience developing customer insights that lead directly to design development. Ending the day with conceptualized solutions that directly solve the problem you identified.
Afterwards, you’ll have the ability to guide the creation of products and services that your customers will love. Most of all you’ll have new skills to lead your organization.

RSVP: http://bitly.com/June11-lab
Cost: $180 (first 5 people $150)

Breakfast will be served. 

 

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