11th Annual Teaching and Learning Institute 2024
Longwood University
Consider Life Design
Monday, May 13
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Designing Your Life Virtual Event
Friday, May 10
The Center for Faculty Enrichment (CAFE) and the Quality Enhancement Plan Advisory Board invite ALL faculty and staff to discover life design, a framework of the new Post-Graduate Success Initiative QEP. Life design combines insights from career education, psychology, and design thinking. It is about building your way forward to a vocational and life path you can thrive in. Julia Lang, our Institute Keynote Speaker, describes life design as "a creative, iterative, human-centered problem-solving methodology that can be applied to navigate change and transition throughout life". This year's Institute will feature workshop-style sessions that connect life design ideas and tools to the core roles and relationships we have with students, including course instructor, advisor, mentor, and employer. By the end of the Institute, all participants should be ready to prototype activities and discussions that help students consider their life design.
On Monday, May 13th, Institute participants will explore ways to implement Life Design in the varied contexts of work with students, including 1:1 mentoring and advising, small and large group co-curricular support, and teaching in general education and in academic majors. The schedule will include a keynote, concurrent learning sessions, implementation work sessions, and a celebratory reception to end the day.
All are invited to also attend a pre-Institute virtual event on Friday, May 10th. Inspired by Stanford’s Life Design Studio, participants will immerse themselves in life design as students, applying life design to their own life and vocational wayfinding.
The Institute is free for all Longwood University, Hampden-Sydney College, and Southside Community College faculty and staff.
Registration is open @ https://forms.gle/NFVQCnUpLhcvtSb69 . The first 20 people to register will receive a copy of the book, Designing Your Life.