23.05.2025 - 13.06.2025
13:00 - 16:30
Fri., 23.05.2025;13.00-16.30 (online)
Fri., 30.05.2025;13.00-16.30 (online)
Fri., 06.06.2025;13.00-16.30 (online)
Fri., 13.06.2025;13.00-16.30 (online)
A registration for individual dates is not possible, as they are part of a consecutive programme that builds on the previous sessions.
A workshop by the FIT project of Goethe University
The „Design Your Life: Navigate Your Future“ program offers a dynamic and interactive approach for international students who want to shape their professional and personal development actively.
Working in international/academic teams requires flexibility, agility, and, above all, empathy. Empathy, and thus empathic leadership, requires skills in self-awareness and self-leadership, shaping one’s life and career. A structured design process can help develop and grow these skills while enhancing focus and accelerating personal development.
The Design Your Life process supports participants in finding out what they want and how to design a satisfying and successful life. By applying and developing the methods of Design Thinking combined with fundamentals from Psychology and self-leadership, this program aims to learn and use tools and techniques to improve self-awareness, recognize one’s own behavioural patterns and values, reflect on and expand one’s context of experience to make self-efficacy a reality in the future; building on this, to explore, prototype and test new options for a successful future.
Scheduled throughout January 2024, this program includes three virtual sessions, held every Friday for three hours, culminating in a fourth in-person session where students will present the results of their journey.
Overview of the Program:
Virtual Sessions:
These will be held every Friday starting May 23th, 2025, and ending June 13th, 2025. The four interactive online sessions are 3.5 hours in duration. The time will be spent to delve into Design Your Life, a proven career and life planning methodology developed at Stanford University. These sessions are designed to guide students in designing meaningful paths in their personal and professional lives.
Session Content:
● Week 1: Introduction to the Design Your Life framework — Understand core concepts and begin the self-assessment process.
● Week 2: Ideation — Generating life and career options.
● Week 3: Prototyping — Turning ideas into prototypes that allow a first experience of the future.
● Week 4: This session will be an interactive presentation. Gerhard Helmeister (Student Counselor/PBS and head of “Goethe Life Design Lab”) will host the event on-campus. Students will share the results of their life prototypes and insights gained from the journey, showcasing their prospective life designs. This final gathering is a presentation day and a celebration of the students’ strategic foresight into their futures.
Additional Support:
Throughout the program, participants will have access to the instructor for individual counselling to personalize their experience further and address unique challenges. Enrolling in the course will give students access to additional tools and material to aid them during and beyond the course. This program is tailored to accommodate a broad spectrum of international students, recognizing the varied challenges and stress levels faced by today’s students. Whether reentering academic life or seeking to redefine their future trajectories, „Design Your Life: Navigate Your Future“ empowers students to forge resilient and fulfilling paths forward.
About Your Instructor:
Dr. Ingo Rauth is a distinguished educator with a Ph.D. in design management and career development and a broad international background. His career spans several continents, enriching his teaching with diverse cultural insights and practical applications in design thinking and life design. An expert in innovative education, Dr. Rauth has taught at prestigious institutions worldwide, focusing on empowering students and executives to tackle life and career challenges through creative problem-solving. Most notably, Ingo has taught at Stanford University, Rotman Business School, Harvard Business School, IE Business School, Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, Stockholm School of Economics and the University of St. Gallen.
His research has been featured in leading academic journals and applied in global workshops and corporate settings, including IBM, BNP Paribas, Bell, and P&G, highlighting his ability to blend theory with real-world application. Dr. Rauth’s multicultural experiences and academic expertise make him the ideal instructor for the „Design Your Life: Navigate Your Future“ program, where he guides students in crafting fulfilling and resilient life paths. His empathetic and tailored teaching approach ensures students from various backgrounds find valuable guidance in his sessions.
Max. number of participants: 50
Date and time:
Fri., 23.05.2025;13.00-16.30 (online)
Fri., 30.05.2025;13.00-16.30 (online)
Fri., 06.06.2025;13.00-16.30 (online)
Fri., 13.06.2025;13.00-16.30 (online)
Location:
The workshop will be held online. You will receive a link before the first session.
Interested? Sign up here!