BBBN: Designing Your Life, Transforming Your Career

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 — 6:00pm
until 8:30 pm
RSVP by Friday, September 21
The Langham Hotel, Wilson Ballroom
250 Franklin Street
Boston, MA 02110
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Designing Your Life, Transforming Your Career will focus on self-leadership and the exploration of career and life design through mental models, design thinking, goal setting, and professional learning.

The program is inspired by the popular Bates Purposeful Work course, Life Architecture. It will feature Rebecca Fraser-Thill and Kathy Whelan P’05. It will be moderated by Alexander Martin ’08.

Hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be provided.

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About the Presenters:

Rebecca Fraser-Thill

Rebecca Fraser-Thill is the director of faculty engagement and outreach for Purposeful Work and visiting instructor in psychology at Bates.  Her primary interests are public communication of psychology research, socioemotional development in infancy, and eyewitness testimony. Rebecca teaches the Life Architecture course during Short Term.

Kathy Whelan P’05

As a young professional, Kathy Whelan was an attorney practicing corporate and securities law on Wall Street. Forty five years after launching her career, Kathy returned to the classroom at Duke Integrative Medicine reinventing her career, becoming a Certified Integrative Health Coach and ultimately launching Whelan Health and Wellness Coaching.

Alexander Martin ’08

 Alexander Martin is a leadership educator and a world adventurer. As a Fellow of the Explorer’s Club and Senior Faculty members at the National Outdoor Leadership School, he seeks to share his unique perspectives on both team and self-leadership.

Becky Bermont

Becky Bermont is a Portfolio Director, Design for Change at IDEO Cambridge. She is passionate about the intersection of creativity and leadership, and how design-led approaches can help organizations thrive in a highly dynamic world. At IDEO she has worked with startups, in higher education and across industries, developing integrated programs and team-based interventions that unlock new ways of working and new sources of growth.

Life Architecture

Life Architecture is a Short Term course that supports students as they prepare for a lifetime of work. In the course, students are encouraged to consider the philosophical components of their plan including identifying and developing personal attributes correlated with career well-being, exploring the context of vocational decision making, and contemplating how meaning and purpose can be infused into any work. This course is sponsored by Purposeful Work and taught by Rebecca Fraser-Thill.

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Please contact the Office of College Advancement at alumni@bates.edu or 888-522-8371 with questions.