Event details

What is work? Or career, success, achievements? And how do our current work paradigms and norms relate to the massive challenges we face as a humanity? In this “Reinventing Work” course, we will expand the perspectives and ideals we have on our working world and its seemingly unavoidable mechanisms. This course inspires to leave known thought- and planning patterns, scrutinise the structures of work, time and life, and provides impulses and ideas how to develop and live new work- and life models.

We will learn about utopias and options of alternative work arrangements and will use agile learning methods to establish a daily balance between self- and “world”-optimization. The topical spectrum of the impulses and exercises in the course will equally develop skill- and mindset: from cultivating emotional intelligence and mindfulness, to dealing with mental load, setting priorities and negotiating. 

++Literature for preparation: see below under Literature++

Workload for ECTS:

1 ECTS: literature for preparation, participation in the workshop, written reflection report.

Lecturer:

Elly Oldenbourg has been working in marketing & sales for international companies for 18+ years. She is also involved in voluntary work and is an independent entrepreneur. Elly encourages us to question the norms of our working and business world and to make bolder demands of ourselves, our employers and politicians. In early 2024, she published her book “WORKSHIFT. Why we need to work differently today to save our tomorrow” (campus Verlag).