With advance notice our staff can provide life design and other workshops for campus organizations or groups.
Join us for these stand-alone workshops on Wednesdays from 12-1 pm
Meh to Motivated: Understanding What Energizes You and What Drains You (Sept 3, UCE 116)
Running on coffee and chaos? We’ll help you identify what fires you up and what exhausts you so you can figure out how to do more of the first, and less of the second. Warning: Side effects may include crushing your to-do list and actually feeling like you’ve got your life together (sort of).
What’s Your Vibe? Identifying What’s Important to You (Sept 10, UCE 116)
Lost in the chaos of college life? It’s time to figure out what really matters (besides free food and Wi-Fi). We can help you decode what drives you – beyond TikTok trends and procrastination. Come curious, leave with your true north!
Building Your Personal Compass: Identifying Your Workview and Lifeview (Sept 17, MUC 101)
Knowing what’s important to us in our work and in our lives can help us make decisions in better alignment with who we are as people, which leads to us having greater happiness. In this exercise, we build a personal compass that can guide us as we make choices in our day-to-day lives and consider career options.
Dysfunctional Beliefs 101 - Reframing Ideas That Could Be Holding You Back (Sept 24, MUC 101)
Think you’ve got life figured out? Think again! We’ll unpack (often hilariously misguided) thoughts holding you back. From ‘I need to have it all figured out’ to ‘Success = Money,’ - we’re calling out the bluffs and reframing problems to create a path forward. We’ll build an understanding of life as a process that may be messy but takes us where we need to go – failures and hardships included. Laugh, learn, and leave with a clearer head (and fewer all-nighters).
Failing Forward: Becoming Immune to (the Feelings of) Failure (Oct 1, MUC 101)
Failure at school and work and in life comes in all flavors – missing deadlines, awkward emails, or that time you ‘revolutionized’ the coffee machine only to end up breaking it. The key is to treat failure as your unpaid mentor – it’s messy, blunt, and oddly insightful if you’re willing to listen.
Reverse Engineering Your Career (and Your Life!) (Oct 29, MUC 101)
Planning from career goal to actually getting hired is like trying to solve a puzzle where half the pieces are missing, the other half keep changing shape, and maybe you’ve even lost the box with the picture on it. Don’t worry! We can help you identify steps you can take to achieve career and other life goals – starting with gaining clarity about what you want. (Psst – we'll practice on some easier projects first – think of it as training wheels for your dream job.)
Beyond 'Good Job': Real Feedback for Real Growth (Nov 5, MUC 101)
Tired of group project feedback that's basically "you did fine, I guess"? Sick of critiques that amount to "make it better" with zero helpful specifics? You're not alone. Most people learned feedback skills from high school teachers who wrote "good effort!" on everything and college professors who circle random sentences without explaining why. You'll learn how to give feedback that makes your classmates’ projects better instead of making them hate you. We'll cover how to receive criticism without spiraling (spoiler: it's a skill, not a character flaw) and how to ask for the specific feedback you need instead of getting generic advice.
Building a Resume and Finding Your Way (Nov 12, MUC 101)
Everyone knows that a resume is for finding a job, right? Sure, but it's also a tool we can use to identify our skills and talents. Additionally, a resume can help us evaluate what we’ve done in the past to understand what we liked and want to do more of and what we don’t ever want to do again if we can help it. This exercise will aid you in crafting a resume and use it to chart your path at USD and beyond.
