Method. Mindset. Mastery.
The idea of this course is to give you tools to better navigate personal change in your life. You’ll learn by experimenting practically, and you’ll get your head more confidently around change. By the end of the course, you should be more ready and able to navigate change – and to do so with confidence and optimism.
Guideposts and Mindsets.
Guideposts
Throughout your journey, different guideposts will prompt you to “learn”, “do” and “reflect”. You’ll also find fundamental design thinking guideposts: “people”, “place” and “process”.
Explore Course Mindsets:
Learn
Refers mainly to learning material - theoretical concepts or other information about design thinking approaches.
Do
Prompts for you to engage in some action to practically experience the approaches or mindsets of a design thinker.
Reflect
Invitations to quietly contemplate, journal or think about an experience or information you’ve encountered.
People
Course participants and facilitators, as well as people in your community.
Place
Including the course landing pages, the thinkingspace you’ll access from them, WhatsApp Community, and other places outside this immediate learning space.
Process
The design thinking methodology used to facilitate your learning for the next four weeks.
Design thinking mindset prompts
Throughout this journey, you’ll be made aware of the mindsets applicable to the specific location on a design thinking map. Look out for these prompts!
The overarching mindsets applicable to this journey are:
Be curious
Be empathic
Learn by doing (take action)
Growth mindset
Be collaborative
Be honest and reflective
Be flexible and adaptive
Course summary
Outline:
Module 1: Introduction to Design Thinking and Defining a Personal Design Challenge
Module 2: Developing Empathy and Conducting an Expert Interview
Module 3: Reframing the Learning as a Design Opportunity
Module 4: Reflecting on Change from Initial Challenge
Outcomes:
By the end of the course, you will have:
Identified a change that you’re navigating.
Used design thinking tools to look at the change challenge in a new way.
Come up with a small, practical action to take forward.
Reflected on your learning, mindset and approach to change.
Learning Objectives
The learning objectives linked to the modules of this course is to:
Identify a change currently in life or work.
Use design thinking tools (empathy and reframing) to look at the change challenge in a new way.
Come up with a small, practical action to take forward.
Reflect on learning, mindset and approach to change.
Learning Outcomes
The following learning outcomes are associated with this course as set out per live session and/or module.
Module 1: Framing the change challenge
After completion of this module, participants will be able to:
Articulate a personal change into a design challenge
Live Kick-off Session (midway in week 1)
After attending this kick-off session, participants will have:
An overview on how to use Design Thinking for Personal Change
An overview of the: ○ online learning community;
- learning platforms associated with this course;
- learning journey ahead and first task.
Module 2: Empathise and Explore
After completion of this module, participants will be able to:
Build empathy with themselves and others
Engage in an empathic interview
Module 3: Reframe and Ideate
After completion of this module, participants will be able to:
Reframe what they have uncovered into a few “How might I…?” questions
Generate small, low-stakes learning experiments
Engage in a micro experiment
Module 4: Prototype an Action
After completion of this module, participants will be able to:
Log what they learned from the experiments
Create an action plan of micro steps and markers of success
Live Reflection & Wrap-Up Session (Friday of week 4)
After attending this wrap-up session, participants will be able to:
Reflect and make meaning of this learning experience and what shifted for them
Reflect and participate in feedback with the learning community on final take aways
Call to action after landing page
Save the date for live session.