Designing Your Life Kickoff!!

“You don’t need to know your passion to start designing a life you love. You just need to start with curiosity.” ~Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

Shari and Rhonda hope you can join us for a bi-weekly deep dive exploring and practicing application of Life Design principles from Bill Burnett and Dave Evans' original New York Times Bestseller, "Designing Your Life."

"Designing Your Life" offers a practical approach to applying design thinking principles to one's personal and professional life. Through exercises and reflections, the book encourages readers to actively design their lives with creativity, curiosity, and openness, allowing for growth and evolution along the way. Shari and I have used this process and will be RE-Designing Our Lives. We would love for you to join our adventure as we create a container for conscious connections and personal growth!

We will use this first meeting to connect, share a brief intro about design thinking concepts and discuss the introduction to the book, and a practice exercise to set the stage on using a Designer's mindset to launch our life redesign projects.

We will meet every two weeks online with optional in-person co-working and social gatherings to deepen connections. All women are invited to join from wherever they are! Attendance at all sessions is not required, although people in previous series have attended most sessions to get the most out of it.

A copy of the book will be required for participation in this Meetup. The book can be reserved at the local library or ordered from your book store of choice. Attendees are invited to read the Introduction of Designing Your Life prior to the meeting so that they will have some exposure to concepts discussed, but all are welcome.

We have created a WhatsApp channel outside of Meetup for all members to collaborate and share content, whether attending the live events or not. If you'd like to join the WhatsApp channel, please join here.

ABOUT YOUR ORGANIZERS:
Shari is an energetic and dynamic freelance Facilitator, Workshop Designer, Trainer, and Coach passionate about helping people thrive at work. She views everything through the lens of design thinking, based on 20 years of designing innovative digital products for the Fortune 500. When she’s not facilitating or practicing personal development, she’s snuggling with her four little rescue pups or traveling the world in search of another beautiful sunrise. Connect with Shari on LinkedIn.

Rhonda is an Executive Recruiter/Career Strategist that has transitioned from a successful corporate career to running her own business, helping professionals connect to meaningful work. Rhonda is an outdoor enthusiast, digital nomad and recognized expert in remote work and building engaged distributed teams. She also is passionate about and volunteers with refugees, racial justice and women’s empowerment groups. Connect with Rhonda at: https://imaginework.com, LinkedIn or on Instagram.

CONSCIOUS COMMUNITY:
What do we mean by Conscious Community?

• We are building an active, harmonious community of diverse, interesting women by offering a container for meaningful conversations, self-discovery and personal growth.
• Our intention is that this investment of time and energy will make it easier for us to open ourselves to forming new connections that lead to lasting and meaningful relationships.
• Our goal is that every member feels comfortable and able to become further integrated into the Women’s Work Playground community, and we welcome participants stepping forward to share their expertise by co-leading events with the community.
• To engage and nurture our Conscious Community, we request the following:
• Join events with a curious, compassionate and playful mindset refraining from judgement, welcoming all views into the conversations.
• Only sign up for events that you plan to attend, and if your plans change please cancel your RSVP as many of our events will have waiting lists.
• All members are asked to not post or push promotions or sales pitches in order to protect authentic connection and openness.
• We further remind all members to keep personal conversations and details shared at events confidential.