A few weeks after joining us at a DYL for Women workshop, Anu Rao of Cambridge, Massachusetts shared this reflection on her DYL experience... "Last month I joined 50 women at the DYL for Women workshop in New York, where...
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Mary Charles read Designing Your Life, and began doing the exercises on her own in service of designing the next phase of her life and career. She found mindmapping particularly helpful and in fact breaks out the pirate cocktail napkin example...
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Both Debbie Weil and her husband Sam Harrington dreamt of taking a gap year when they were eighteen, but their parents put the kibosh on the idea. So, they did everything that was expected of them: went to prestigious universities, worked hard...
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Donatella Caggiano was born in Buonalbergo, a small town in the south of Italy, grew up in the North, and went to college at Luigi Bocconi university in Milan. She started working in the corporate world right after graduating from University....
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One outcome of the retreat is the conviction that community and radical collaboration are hugely helpful as women support each other in making changes in their lives. Another is the realization that we need that community to continue to hold...
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Patty Woods and Stacie Hagenbaugh, DYL for Women alumnae from the summer of 2017, have taken life design back to the Smith campus, and are sharing what they learned at the workshop with their students. Take a look at the…
“When you rest in mindful awareness, you are participating intimately in life as it is unfolding, seeing what happens, experimenting, allowing the original beauty and mystery of the world and of yourself to speak to you…” 1 In our…
We were hammering out a restructuring plan, which of course included layoffs. Our mission was to lead a new business strategy for growth, and then drive the execution over three years. I felt nauseous – the “I have to leave…
Bill and Dave did a short Designing Your Life workshop for over 500 Stanford Alumni at the Stanford+Connects event on May 21st in the Ford gymnasium at Stanford.
Watch Bill’s interview with the Stanford Worldview team on the ideas behind the Designing Your Life classes.