Design Your Future (217)

16 June 2020 - Online

Dr Sebastian Kernbach

Create more productivity, meaningfulness & resilience for your PhD research journey. Make progress by managing your energy and make use of your prime-time. Increase your sense-making by sharing what really matters to you. Develop mental strength by building a portfolio of resilience strategies.

This is a short, highly interactive session with Dr Sebastian Kernbach who is sharing his insights from workshops at Stanford, ETH Zurich, and University of St. Gallen.

Learning Outcomes:

- Know and design your energy throughout the day to get things done, e.g. protecting your prime-time
- Create a portfolio of resilience strategies to use when the going gets tough, e.g. lack of motivation

ONLINE !

Date: Tuesday 16th June 2020

Schedule: 15h00 to 17h30

Place: Online

Trainer:

Dr Sebastian Kernbach is a lecturer, project manager and researcher at the University of St. Gallen and a Visiting Fellow at the d.school at Stanford University. He is the founder of the Visual Collaboration Lab (vicola.org) and the Life Design Lab Switzerland (www.lifedesignlab.ch).

His activities in research, teaching and consulting focus on the role of visual thinking and design thinking to support individuals, teams and organizations in their thinking and communication efforts, in particular knowledge workers, such as researchers, lecturers, consultants, coaches, etc. His seminars and lecturers at Bachelor, Master, MBA, PhD, and Executive level are highly interactive and set doing and action at the core of participants' learning experience.

His latest book "Creativity in Research – Cultivate clarity, be innovative and make progress in your research journey" with Cambridge University Press will come out in the fall 2019. It is based on the work of the Stanford team "Research as Design" of which Dr Sebastian Kernbach is a team member: www.cambridge.org/core/books/creativity-in-research/0B3892AFC8E0D36B0B6176B5FCD8F1B7.

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