Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/05/2024 - 11/05/2024
9:00 am - 4:00 pm

What is the Design Your Science Career program?
Design Your Science Career helps you approach career planning and development through design thinking while cultivating lifelong practices for thriving. By reflecting, learning how to reframe problems, embracing wild ideas, and engaging in radical collaboration, you’ll be equipped with tools and frameworks to create, prototype, and test your life and career visions for the future. Alongside ~20 peers, you’ll engage in collaborative and individual activities that will redefine your science career.

Date: May 4th and May 11th 
Lunch and snacks will be provided for free! 

Register here: tinyurl.com/designyoursciencecareer

What will you learn? 

• Building Your Compass and Finding Your True North
  
  • Develop and explore your view on work and on life. You will practice strategies that will help you build a framework that creates alignment and supports both your views.

• Let’s Problem Solve Together
  
  • Learn how to expose dysfunctional beliefs, frame, and reframe problems you are having to help you get unstuck! You will generate ideas, while creating multiple options to explore for your career and life journey. Additionally, you will be introduced to prototyping and testing, two key steps in the design thinking process that will help you build your way forward.

• Create Balance in Your Life and Build Your Energy Map
  
  • Balance & Energy are key elements of Life Design. They help us to understand which weekly activities and tasks provide us with high energy and which ones drain us of energy. When we are aware of our energy, we can implement strategies or make incremental changes that make our low energy activities/tasks more manageable.

• Visions for Your Future | Create Your Odyssey Plans
  
  • You will create 3 alternate versions of your life over a 5-year period. You will reflect on these 3 versions and decide what elements you want to further explore, prototype and test.

• Decision Making Made Easier | Tools & Techniques
  
  • We understand that making decisions can be hard. We will help you look at various tools and strategies that will be helpful in making decisions, reducing anxiety, and increasing confidence.