UX for Change | London

This is the second session of The Unlearning Room | Season One, a series of eight sessions (two seasons) running fortnightly on Friday mornings until the end of November. You are welcome whether or not you came to the first one.
In this session, Sandra Gonzalez founder of UX for Change, tells a story about her own process of unlearning the concept of meritocracy when she realised that merit was not the mechanism to get far and instead she started to design her own path.

The format of this session is unchanged for our first one. You come ready to be present for the full hour, with no checking email or doing other work during the session. Sandra opens with a ten-minute story. No fancy slides, just a human sharing a story with other humans. She then frames it from an unlearning angle, and opens it to the group for first impressions, questions and observations. To close, she asks a single question, with the intention of giving you an unlearning device to take to work that very same day.

There are only 8 seats. We keep the groups small and intimate, nothing is recorded, and nothing leaves the room, because we want this experience to be unique and to honour the intentionality it deserves.
Friday 4 September, 08:00–09:00 UK time. The early start is deliberate: an hour of thinking before the day kicks in, because this is the kind of activity that gets squeezed out if you leave it until later.

Season One of the Unlearing Room continues every other Friday at 8:00 am on 18 September and closes on 2 October.
We hope to see you in the room.

We treat authority as what makes leadership possible. Often it's what lets us skip the harder part: figuring it out together.
Most leadership advice assumes you have authority to use well. But a great deal of leading happens without it: no title, no reporting line, nobody obliged to follow you.
This is the third session of The Unlearning Room | Season One, a series of eight sessions running fortnightly on Friday mornings until October. You are welcome whether or not you came to the earlier ones.
In this session, Sandra Gonzalez, founder of UX for Change, tells the story of leading without managerial power, and what that absence turned out to help her unlearn and how sometimes we treat authority as the thing that makes leadership possible, when it is often the thing that lets us skip the harder part. Deciding alone is faster than figuring it out together.
The format of this session is unchanged for our first one. You come ready to be present for the full hour, with no checking email or doing other work during the session. Sandra opens with a ten-minute story. No fancy slides, just a human sharing a story with other humans. She then frames it from an unlearning angle, and opens it to the group for first impressions, questions and observations. To close, she asks a single question, with the intention of giving you an unlearning device to take to work that very same day.
There are only 8 seats. We keep the groups small and intimate, nothing is recorded, and nothing leaves the room, because we want this experience to be unique and to honour the intentionality it deserves.

Friday 18 September, 08:00–09:00 UK time. The early start is deliberate: an hour of thinking before the day kicks in, because this is the kind of activity that gets squeezed out if you leave it until later.
Season One of the Unlearing Room continues every other Friday at 8:00 am on 18 September and closes on 2 October.
We hope to see you in the room.

Join us on this unique UXers Nature Walk and learn about the area we are focused on this year to drive social impact through our Responsible Design for Change Fellowship.

Get a chance to meet our founder, Sandra Gonzalez, and some of the fellows who graduated from The Responsible Design for Change Fellowship.

This is a very lovely opportunity to connect with nature and our community. You are welcome to bring your pet and/or your children.

We will start and end the walk at the Princess of Wales to share a drink and network a bit.

We look forward to spending a lovely morning with you.

The difference between designing at people and designing with them. One is faster, more flattering, & removes the agency it meant to restore
Pity and empathy look almost identical from the inside. Both feel like care. Knowing which one we are leaning into could be the difference between designing at people and not with them.
This is the final session of The Unlearning Room | Season One, a series of eight sessions running fortnightly on Friday mornings.

You are welcome whether or not you came to the earlier ones.
In this session, Sandra Gonzalez, founder of UX for Change, tells the story of unlearning how her commitment to become a servant leader during her early UX for Change work, showed up as pity hiding under the disguise of empathy, despite her best intentions.
The format of this session is unchanged for our first one. You come ready to be present for the full hour, with no checking email or doing other work during the session. Sandra opens with a ten-minute story. No fancy slides, just a human sharing a story with other humans. She then frames it from an unlearning angle, and opens it to the group for first impressions, questions and observations. To close, she asks a single question, with the intention of giving you an unlearning device to take to work that very same day.
There are only 8 seats. We keep the groups small and intimate, nothing is recorded, and nothing leaves the room, because we want this experience to be unique and to honour the intentionality it deserves.

Friday 2 October, 08:00–09:00 UK time. The early start is deliberate: an hour of thinking before the day kicks in, because this is the kind of activity that gets squeezed out if you leave it until later.
This closes Season One. Season Two runs from 16 October to 27 November: two sessions on power, then strategy, gratitude and reciprocity.We hope to see you in the room.