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RE:VALUE — Professional Design Lab
Wed, Oct 21, 4:00 PM### **RE:VALUE your skills** *Rethinking your professional value when your job, country, or direction changes.* **Are you navigating a career transition, moving to a new country, or redirecting your professional path?** Changing careers, relocating, or taking your first steps into a new market often comes with the same challenge: figuring out how to translate your past experiences into new value. The hardest part isn't starting over—it's realizing you **don't** have to start from scratch **RE:VALUE** is an interactive **Professional Design Lab** created to help you map your existing skills, redefine your professional positioning, and build a clear strategy for your next move. ### Who is this lab for? * **Career Switchers:** Shift into a new industry without losing the value of your background. * **Expats & Newcomers:** Translate your local or international experience to thrive in a new country or market. * **Students & Recent Graduates:** Enter the job market with clarity and a strong professional identity. * **Aspiring Entrepreneurs & Freelancers:** Define your value proposition before launching your activity. ### What we will cover in 90 minutes: * **Skill Mapping:** Identify your core transferable skills and see how they apply to new contexts. * **Value Positioning:** Reframe your story so employers, clients, or partners immediately get what you offer. * **Actionable Next Steps:** Leave with concrete, practical actions you can take right away. * **Berlin Network:** Meet professionals navigating similar transitions in a supportive environment. ### Agenda (18:00 – 19:30) * **18:00 - 18:15:** Welcome & Intro * **18:15 - 19:15:** Interactive Professional Design Lab & Exercises * **19:15 - 19:30:** Q&A, Wrap-Up & Connections The workshop will be held in English but it is possible to have it in Italian too, as well Spanish and German if needed **Note:** Spots are limited to ensure a high-impact, interactive session. Please keep your RSVP updated! 👉 **Reserve your spot now and start redesigning your professional path.**

Meetup for laid off folks in Berlin :: Talking about VISIBILITY
Fri, Oct 23, 1:00 PM**Please RSVP on Luma: https://luma.com/j2i1phep** # **Laid off? Same!** Barely anyone I know hasn't been laid off at least once. This meetup is for everybody in Berlin who is pre-, during, or post-layoff and for whom simply applying for the next role feels odd. It's for people who sense they've ended up living the wrong life and are now ready to ask themselves: "What should my next step be?" 👑 **WHO THIS IS FOR** 1. **The ones who feel that "yet another job" won't do it for them.** 2. **The ones who feel the layoff coming:** Restructuring rumours, a sudden "quick sync" in your calendar, or a gut feeling you can't shake. 3. **The ones in the middle of it:** You just got the letter, you're negotiating your exit, or you're trying to figure out what Kündigungsschutz and severance mean for you. 4. **The ones on the other side:** Job-hunting, dealing with the Agentur für Arbeit, or thinking about starting something of your own. 🫂 **WHAT WE DO** We meet at Amano Hotel [which one + day/time]. No agenda, no judgment, no pressure. We share where we're at, what we're going through, and what's coming next. What to expect: → A chill, safe space to talk about next steps → Kind accountability check-ins → Shame-free real talk about your challenges → Insider tips and tricks on severance, negotiation, Agentur für Arbeit, Krankenkasse, Sperrzeit, and more → People helping people: contacts, leads, and opportunities shared freely 🦹🏽♀️ **ABOUT THE HOST** I'm Anna, a Berliner for 16+ years. My background is in UX research and Research Ops in EdTech. After I was laid off, I decided not to look for another job and explore self-employment. Now I run Pollo Digital, where I offer freelance UX research, help internationals navigate layoffs in Germany, and talk openly about negotiation and what happens behind the scenes. I also offer Visibility Mentorship and a Layoff First Aid program, and I'm happy to figure out the next chapter together with you. ☕ One coffee is included in the fee.

A Talk on Career & Personal Insights with Torsten Waack van Wasen
Thu, Oct 29, 9:00 AM**CEO of GERRY WEBER, Managing Director at Internetstores, COO of Marc Cain, Operating Partner in private equity: on paper, Torsten’s career looks like a classic success story.** But that’s not the story he is coming to Visionary Voices to tell. Instead, he will talk about what rarely makes it onto a CV: decisions that didn’t work out, unexpected detours, moments of doubt — and why some of his biggest mistakes became some of his most valuable experiences. His path to senior leadership was anything but conventional. Rather than starting out in finance or business, Torsten began his career in communications and marketing. He will take us back to the marketing world of the 1980s and reflect on just how much the way we work has changed since then. What have we gained — and what might we have lost along the way? Does everything we call progress actually move us forward? And what role do the latest digital tools and AI play in all of this? After decades in international business and senior leadership, his perspective ultimately leads to a much more personal question — one that no CV can answer: What truly matters in the end? Which experiences and values stay with us? How does our understanding of success change over the course of a career? And what can we learn from the moments that didn’t go according to plan? An invitation to look beyond titles, positions, and polished success stories — and discover a more personal and reflective perspective on a remarkable career.

Art Career Workshop: Open Calls & Other Artist Opportunities
Sun, Nov 1, 3:00 PM**Please note:** To participate, you need to have an active CUSTODIA membership. **[You can learn more about the CUSTODIA membership and the workshops here!](https://www.kunstraum-heartspace.de/kurse-workshops/kunst-karriere-support-art-career-support) The fee for *both workshops* including more resources on CUSTODIA is $77.** Find relevant programmes, avoid expensive mistakes and decide which opportunities are worth pursuing. * Discovery: Where can I find opportunities relevant to my work? * Evaluation: Which programmes are credible, and how do I recognise scams and vanity galleries? * Professional Return: What could I actually gain in recognition, relationships, artistic development or income? We’ll examine exhibitions, residencies, grants and commissions, including eligibility, fees, hidden costs, contracts and organisers’ track records. Using the Six Capitals of an Artistic Career, you’ll learn to assess the professional value of different opportunities and distinguish those worth pursuing now from longer-term possibilities. Vanity Galleries, Scams & Artist Safety * Are all paid open calls vanity projects? * How can you distinguish legitimate participation fees from exploitative offers? We’ll investigate vanity galleries, questionable residencies, misleading awards, hidden expenses and suspicious invitations. You’ll receive an Artist Safety Checklist to help you verify organisers, assess costs, contracts, insurance and image rights, and recognise warning signs before committing your money or artwork. Your AI Art Opportunities Manager You’ll build your own personalised AI Art Opportunities Manager using ChatGPT and my curator-developed research method. It begins with an adaptive interview about your artworks, professional experience, ambitions and practical circumstances, creating a Personal Opportunity Profile for your searches. Your manager will help you: * Find relevant opportunities across exhibitions, residencies, grants, commissions and other programmes. * Check eligibility, deadlines, fees and organisers against current official sources. * Evaluate opportunities according to your artistic goals, available resources, costs and potential professional return. * Identify what to pursue now, what to prepare for next and what deserves further investigation. * Keep searching over time, with updated research on demand and recurring checks where your ChatGPT account supports them. You’ll also learn to use it to investigate individual open calls and recognise information that needs further verification. You’ll take away: Your Personal Opportunity Strategy, Opportunity Decision Sheet, Artist Safety Checklist and reusable AI Art Opportunities Manager.

FLINTA Talk Night: Mental Health in Tech
Wed, Oct 28, 5:30 PMWorking in Tech can be mentally challenging with little room for pause. And adding the normal stresses of life and the state of the world can become too much. Join us for an honest and open conversation on protecting your mental health and building a career that doesn’t cost you your well-being. You’ll leave with tools to recognize the signs of burnout early and how to protect yourself and others around you. Our speakers will share personal stories and evidence-based strategies for navigating high pressure situations,when and where to ask for help and what we can all do better for healthier work environments. Whether you’re early in your career or leading a team, this event is a space to connect and learn from each other. **🗓️ Agenda** 6:30 Arrival and networking 7:00 Welcome and Intro 7:10 The Sweet Spot: Burning Bright Without Burning Out - Aga Gałaj 7:35 Mental Wellbeing at DigitalService Break 8:20 The art of perspective - Liz Engel 9:30 Event ends **🍕 Food and Drinks** There will be vegetarian and vegan food and beverages sponsored by our host DigitalService. 🗣️ **Our Speakers & Talks** **The Sweet Spot: Burning Bright Without Burning Out** This session is an open, empowering invitation to build awareness and explore the balance between high performance and well-being. We’ll examine what burnout is, look closely at systemic factors and the subtle drivers that push us into chronic stress, as well as the psychological patterns that keep us stuck there. Together, we’ll dive into actionable strategies to break these stress cycles, reclaim our energy, and cultivate lasting balance in both our professional and personal lives. **Aga Gałaj** Aga is an ECA-certified systemic coach, mentor, and psychologist dedicated to guiding people toward sustainable well-being and career fulfillment. Grounded in expertise across resilience, burnout prevention, and neurodivergence, she works fluently across cultures and languages. Aga brings a holistic approach to human development, she’s currently in her final year of training as a Biodanza Facilitator, growing her passion to help others lead vibrant, balanced lives. **The art of perspective: how systemic awareness can help transform your work and life** In today’s fast-moving world, clarity and resilience come from \*how\* you see things not just \*what\* you do. This session introduces systemic awareness: understanding our challenges through four “flight levels”: cultural, structural, relational, and individual. Drawing on systems theory and neuroscience, we'll explore how these perspectives can help navigate complexity, make better decisions, and create meaningful change in both professional and personal life. **Liz Engel** Systemic Coach at Regenerative Mind 📍**About DigitalService** DigitalService is a wholly owned subsidiary of the German federal government and an internal digitalization partner to the country’s public administration. It has been designing, developing, and operating cloud-native digital solutions since 2020. Its work is focused squarely on users in an effort to create digital products aligned with the needs of the public, businesses, and the administration. Aside from developing products, DigitalService also advises the federal government on all aspects of the digitalization of the administration. It runs numerous projects and programs to empower administrative staff in their digitalization work and foster a strong and modern digital culture within the administration. **☂️ About the FLINTA label** This event is labeled as FLINTA (women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender) as we make it a mission to empower women and other underrepresented minorities in the tech community. 💗 **Code of Conduct** We are dedicated to providing a safe and welcoming experience for everyone who participates in our events. By attending our event, you agree to the Berlin Code of Conduct: https://berlincodeofconduct.org/en 📸 **Media Consent** We may be taking photos of this event for social media posts. If you do not want to be photographed, please let the organizers at the event know. We will make sure to respect your privacy. 👋 **About Empowered in Tech** We are a local community in Berlin dedicated to empowering FLINTA (women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender) people to excel in their tech journey. Our events offer study groups, technical workshops, hackathons, networking events, panel discussions, lightning talks, and social events. Stay in touch with the community! Join our Slack: [https://bit.ly/EmpoweredInTechSlack](https://bit.ly/EmpoweredInTechSlack)

Art Career Workshop: Artist Documents & Applications
Sat, Nov 7, 8:30 AM**Please note:** To participate, you need to have an active CUSTODIA membership. **[You can learn more about the CUSTODIA membership and the workshops here!](https://www.kunstraum-heartspace.de/kurse-workshops/kunst-karriere-support-art-career-support) The fee for *both workshops* including more resources on CUSTODIA is $77.** Prepare your application and learn how curators and juries make their decisions. * Application: What does the organiser expect, and how should I present my work? * Selection: Why was I selected or rejected? What does the jury’s decision actually mean? Working from real programme requirements, we’ll examine: * Portfolio selection, artwork documentation and presentation. * Artist CVs and biographies. * Artist statements and project proposals. * Selection criteria, jury decisions and common application mistakes. I’ll explain how curators and juries assess submissions, why strong artwork can still be unsuitable for a particular programme, and what a rejection can—and cannot—tell you. You’ll take away: An Application Blueprint for a selected opportunity, including the artworks to submit, required documents, working drafts or outlines and a submission checklist.
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