Event details

Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

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. Weather permitting, this 1-day workshop (1 ECTS) will be held in a location (semi-) outside.

 

 Workload for ECTS:

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

 

 Lechturer:

Brief Personal Description (for HoC website): Elly Oldenbourg has been in marketing & sales for international companies for 17+ years. She has been a manager at Google for 10+ years, 4+ years of which were part-time and mostly jobshare, currently in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for EMEA. On the side, she also volunteers, and is an independent entrepreneur – hosting salons, consulting, speaking, or co-founding the “New Work Online Course”.

The common thread in Oldenbourg’s areas of impact:

She encourages questioning the norms of our work and business world and making bolder demands of ourselves, our employers and policymakers. Not as a means to an end to optimize outdated ideals, but to put people, community and planet at the center of all our “work.”