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Designing Your Future Gurugram

Published on February 27, 2024

Designing Your Future Gurugram

An In-Person event

Designing
Your Future

Based on the Framework by
Stanford Professors
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

Workshop Venue:

Gurugram

Apply now! Brochure

5 Day Life Design Workshop for Highschool Students

9:00 am to 5:00 pm IST

10th - 14th June 2024

Grade 8 -12

INR 80,000 +18% GST

Priority Deadline

31st March 2024

Early Bird Fee

INR 60,000 + 18% GST

8th - 12th June 2024

10am - 4 pm IST

Grades 9 -12

INR 50,000 +18% GST

A special course fee of - INR 45,000 + 18% GST is available exclusively
for the Early Bird Applicants Till 1st May 2024

Based on the Best-Selling Book
and Life Design Framework by

Stanford

Professors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

Bill is the Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford. He holds a number of mechanical and design patents, and design awards for a variety of products including the first “slate” computer. 45 years, five companies, and a couple of thousand students later Bill is still drawing and building things and teaching others how to do the same.

Dave is a lecturer and co-founder of the Design Program at Stanford. Having an extensive experience of 30 years in management consulting, being a cofounder of Electronic Arts and he also introduced the computer mouse to the world while at Apple.

Together, the two have created and started a global movement through with their framework for life design - "Designing Your Life" to strive, thrive and flourish. The “Designing Your Future” programme uses and is built on this proven and celebrated framework.

Curriculum Co-Creator
Program Advisor

Kathy Davies

Managing Director,
Life Design Lab,
Stanford University

Managing Director, Life Design Lab, Stanford University

What is Life Design?

Life Design harnesses
design thinking methods to tackle key questions and major decisions surrounding key facets of a person’s life including education, career, and overall life’s ambitions and purpose.

Workshop Curriculum

Defining

Day 1:

Defining.

Defining Your ‘Next Quest’

Overview

Unpack ‘purpose’ and ‘passion’ to cultivate a more conscious awareness of your aspirations and passions.
Create a coherent story aligned to who you are and what you want to do in the world.
Explore concepts such as ‘wayfinding’ to discover your next quest.
Identify limiting beliefs and narratives that influence or stop you from pursuing your aspirations. Strategize on how to overcome them.
Chart, track and reflect on energy-gaining and draining activities in different aspects of life.

Activities

Defining your Next Quest
Workout to identify and tackle limiting beliefs
Energy Mapping - Charting and tracking energy

Designing

Day 2:

Designing.

Thinking Like a Designer and Building Creative Confidence

Overview

Understanding the Design Thinking process
Developing empathy for self and others
Adopting the Designer’s mindset and methodology
Learn to think like innovators
Building ‘Creative Confidence’
Learning to tackle and deal with ‘problems’ through creative problem solving
Uncover your assumptions

Activities

Marshmallow Exercise
Stanford design school’s ‘Wallet Exercise’

Self Reflection

Day 3:

Self Reflection.

Defining Your ‘Next Quest’

Overview

Unpack ‘purpose’ and ‘passion’ to cultivate a more conscious awareness of your aspirations and passions.
Create a coherent story aligned to who you are and what you want to do in the world.
Explore concepts such as ‘wayfinding’ to discover your next quest.
Identify limiting beliefs and narratives that influence or stop you from pursuing your aspirations. Strategize on how to overcome them.
Chart, track and reflect on energy-gaining and draining activities in different aspects of life.

Activities

Self Work Day

Dreaming

Day 4:

Dreaming.

Dreaming Up Possible Futures and Crafting and Visualizing Your Next Quest.

Overview

With your hopes and goals, dream and create 3 distinct quests/adventures you see unfolding in your future to explore what’s exciting. Visualize and manifest these adventures.
Learn the principles of Storytelling.
Gain clarity for your quests and dreams by defining,refining and telling your story with impact through the principles of storytelling.

Activities

Envisioning Your 3 Life Odysseys - Envisioning adventures and possibilities
What’s my story through the principles of storytelling
Looking back on and manifesting your quest

Doing

Day 5:

Doing.

From Ideas to Action — Bringing Ideas to Reality.

Overview

Practice ‘learning by doing’ to apply concepts
Reach out and have ‘prototyping’ conversations
Identify influencers /stakeholders to support your quest
Collaborate and brainstorm ideas to generate lots of options and good solutions.
Learn how to bring your ideas to reality through ‘prototypes’ and iterate as you move forward.
Adopt decision making methods to discern which ideas to take forward and learn ways to test these ideas in the real world for maximum impact.

Activities

Ideation through radical collaboration
Use brainstorming techniques to generate ideas to prototype

"I leave this course
as a completely
changed man”

- Sushruta Nandy

Ashoka University

Live a life of "AND" not "OR"

-Navyug Mohnot

Certificate

Certificate signed by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, the Stanford professors who engineered the DYL framework and the authors of the best-selling book, Designing Your Life, and Navyug Mohnot, Stanford Life Design Trained Educator and India Program Director for Designing Your Life.

Students
leave with:

A Designer’s Mindset
Life Design Tools, Methods and Techniques
3 Mapped out Adventures/Next Quests
A Workbook with their next quests and adventures documented
A Certificate signed by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans and Navyug Mohnot
A community of Life Designers

Become more sensitive to context
Develop empathy for self and others
Learn creative problem solving techniques
Gain creative confidence
Failure immunity with a generative mindset
Develop a bias to try stuff

Live a life of "AND" not "OR"

-Navyug Mohnot

Your Program Facilitator

Stanford Life Design

Trained Educator : Navyug Mohnot

Designing Your Life Facilitator & Coach
Visiting Faculty: IIT Jodhpur & Ashoka University
IIT Delhi Alum

Get Opportunity to Earn an LOR from Stanford Life Design Educator, Navyug Mohnot

Our Mission

Every person, a flourishing life.
Every life, designed intentionally.

A global movement, Designing Your Future (DYF)’s mission is to empower people to use the innovation principles of Design Thinking for life and work—to build a future that is both meaningful and fulfilling.

Engineered at Stanford, the Life Design framework, tools, and mindsets allow people to design future possibilities for their lives and careers, and build a life that works for them—regardless of who or where they are, what they do (or have done) for a living, or how young or old they are.

Don't want to commute?

Stay at the finest Boarding school in the country
(Open to all the school students)

Boarding at Lancers International School

Envision Your Future Today

Join this Stanford-inspired journey to design a
future that resonates with your deepest aspirations.

Are you ready to
take the first step?

A special course fee of - INR 45,000 + 18% GST is
available exclusively for the Early Bird Applicants

Workshop Curriculum

Envision Your Future Today

Join this Stanford-inspired journey to design a
future that resonates with your deepest aspirations.

Are you ready to
take the first step?

You have Questions? We have Answers!

Can’t find an answer? Email us at info@thebigredgroup.com

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