Overview
Working in higher education now requires navigating remote, hybrid environments and supporting overextended students and colleagues while navigating institutional complexity and resource precarity. To show up for this kind of work, you must intentionally center your well-being to thrive in this ever-changing environment.
Our Actualize Your Purpose series offers you the rare opportunity to take stock, reflect, and intentionally craft a career vision and plan that centers your well-being and aligns with your values. Under the guidance of faculty and leadership coach Jennifer Askey, you will:
- Assess the current state of your well-being and reflect on the factors that most contribute to it.
- Explore how inherited norms shape your definition of success, so that you can create your own definition based on your values and the impact you want to have in the world.
- Document a practical and tangible plan that outlines the goals and tasks you’ll need to craft the meaningful life and career you desire.
- Develop practices and strategies that you can utilize in your everyday work to realize your purpose and achieve your desired impact.
How it Works
This program consists of two coordinating workshop recordings. The first workshop, Actualize Your Purpose, Part 1: Connecting Your Well-Being to Your Work, walks you through aligning your values, priorities, and work. You'll assess your well-being, identify values and priorities, define success on your own terms, and begin building a roadmap for success. During the follow-up workshop, Actualize Your Purpose, Part 2: Everyday Strategies for Staying Connected to Your Well-Being, you'll develop practices and strategies for how you can actualize your purpose in your day-to-day life through techniques such as creating a model calendar and time tracking.
If you attended prior versions of this workshop series live, you are welcome to watch the recordings to further hone your purpose and learn new strategies.
Many past participants have lauded these workshops for granting them the accountability and “luxury of time” to focus on how their well-being and professional goals can align more holistically.
Who Should Attend
This series is designed for all higher education professionals, including faculty, staff, and administrators who want to connect their everyday work with their life’s purpose to find greater well-being.
Actualize Your Purpose, Part 1: Connecting Your Well-Being to Your Work
During this 3-hour workshop, you will assess your well-being through the research-based Resilience @ Work framework. Then, you will explore how you can redefine success in ways that support your values and the impact you want to have in the world. You will conclude the workshop by drafting an initial plan for how you can do this in your everyday work.
Actualize Your Purpose, Part 2: Everyday Strategies for Staying Connected to Your Well-Being
This 1.5-hour workshop builds on the previous workshop by providing strategies to help you stay connected to your larger purpose in your everyday work. Jennifer will show you time-based and mindset strategies for reaching your goals, such as: creating a model calendar, time tracking, thinking medium- and long-range, and more.
SPEAKER
Jennifer Askey, Ph.D., PCC
Faculty & Leadership Coach
Jennifer Askey is an individual and group academic coach with over 25 years of experience in higher education in the U.S. and Canada. Her career has included work experience all over the academic map as support staff, sessional/adjunct lecturer, tenure-track faculty, tenured faculty, and professional administrative staff. As a coach, she helps her clients achieve clarity around the impact they want to have as an academic and the habits they need to develop to reach their goals.
Questions About the Events?
Alicia Miranda
Associate Director for Learning & Development,
Academic Impressions