Renew You
Introspective workshop
Renew You is a workshop I co-created that focuses on creating a space for introspection, sharing, and reflection. As designers and enterprise design thinking facilitators, we wanted to use the skills we have developed for product teams and use them to help transform ourselves and the people in our community.
Contributors: Andi Lozano, Ploy Buraparate
Design thinking principles
Everything is a prototype.
By opening the space for creation and radical candor, we begin to realize that we are makers of our own lives. If we treat our journeys as prototypes, we can accept the change.
Yes, and!
It’s easy to say no and shut ideas down. We encourage our participants to come with an open mindset and adopt the thinking that the only bad idea is the one left untold.
Speak less, write more.
Externalizing our own emotions can be difficult, but we aim for our participants to do the damn thang and write as many stickies as they can. WRITE. IT. DOWN. And then write it down again.
The heart of the workshop
Take the things that inspire you to figure out a pathway for yourself based on your defined values. We help our participants do this by four activities:
Circles of inspiration allow participants to identify the people who have inspired them to be the person they are today.
Growth themes are active reflections on what factors or qualities about these people inspire participants.
Statements of intent are written in complete sentences and are an actionable way to express the growth themes identified.
Declaration to oneself is simply choosing the first statement of intent you’d like to focus on this month.
“Renew You is a must-do workshop for people who want to know exactly what drives them and then use that to help keep them moving forward into a future they want to build for themselves.”
