Design Your Future: Navigating Career Transitions for Fulfillment
Many academics and researchers struggle with making the right decisions for their next career steps while ensuring sustainable long-term satisfaction and fulfillment at work. Have you ever questioned how your current professional path could evolve and what is truly right for you? Do you seek to align your values and goals with your current professional project inside or outside academia? Do you seek to clarify your long term professional vision?
General information
This workshop is designed to help you address doubts, and help you define your next steps in your professional journey towards sustainable fulfillment. Through guided introspection and teamwork in an open environment that encourages discussion, you will explore your values and strengths. You’ll identify discrepancies between your full potential and your current career path, and actively work to close this gap by adapting your career trajectory.
Engage in group exercises, provide feedback to one another, and integrate theory and insights into your learning and professional design. As you explore a reliable orientation model that offers a structured approach to making career decisions, this workshop will help you take meaningful steps toward your true self and a satisfying professional life.
Engage in group exercises, provide feedback to one another, and integrate theory and insights into your learning and professional design. As you explore a reliable orientation model that offers a structured approach to making career decisions, this workshop will help you take meaningful steps toward your true self and a satisfying professional life.
By the end of the workshop, you will:
- Understand the key elements of sustainable satisfaction and fulfillment at work.
- Identify your core values, strengths, and areas for personal growth, getting closer to your "true self".
- be equipped with a framework to make informed career decisions that help you achieve greater professional satisfaction and personal realization.
- Create generic sketches for professional paths that would be "right" for you, tailored to your values and aspirations.
- Actively design and develop your current professional project in a way that fosters sustainable fulfillment, focusing on concrete steps and progress based on where you stand now.
- Understand the key elements of sustainable satisfaction and fulfillment at work.
- Identify your core values, strengths, and areas for personal growth, getting closer to your "true self".
- be equipped with a framework to make informed career decisions that help you achieve greater professional satisfaction and personal realization.
- Create generic sketches for professional paths that would be "right" for you, tailored to your values and aspirations.
- Actively design and develop your current professional project in a way that fosters sustainable fulfillment, focusing on concrete steps and progress based on where you stand now.
Interactive, practical and reflexive seminar comprising group, pair and individual exercises, plenary discussions, personal preparatory and process work between the dates, coaching via e‐mail, feedback, as well as theoretical input on the relevant topics.
ECTS: 1.0. PhD students of the Life Science Zurich Graduate School have priority. External students can register to the waiting list and will be accepted if the course is not fully booked.
Dates
| Facilitators | Dates | Available seats | Venue | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afi Sika Kuzeawu | 6 & 13 October 2025 (9:00-17:00) | 13 | University of Zurich | Register |