Discover proven strategies to break free from stagnation and design a more meaningful, balanced, and successful Life and Career path.

Objective

The ‘Get Unstuck’ Masterclass is designed to offer actionable strategies to help participants break free from stagnation and design a more meaningful, balanced, and successful career path.

 

Audience

Working professionals, who may be experiencing career stagnation, overwhelm, or uncertainty about their next steps.

 

Key Outcomes

Participants will:

1. Gain clarity on their current career and life situation.
2. Identify specific areas where they feel stuck or stagnant.
3. Learn how to reframe challenges and obstacles as opportunities for growth.
4. Develop a personalized action plan to move forward with confidence.
5. Build a mindset focused on experimentation and proactive problem-solving.

 

Register

Register for the 'Get Unstuck' Masterclass happening on Thursday, September 12th 2024, between 7:00 PM and 9:00 PM using this link - https://forms.gle/n5hQTvKfPENHFwi99

Program Structure

The Get Unstuck Masterclass is a comprehensive 2-hour session that combines interactive learning, group activities, and individual reflection. The program is divided into the following sections:

1. Introduction to Designing Your Life (DYL) Framework (30 minutes)
   • Overview of the DYL framework and its application in overcoming career and life challenges.
   • Understanding the concept of “Getting Unstuck.”
2. Understanding Constraints and the ‘Trapped Self’ (30 minutes)
   • Guided exercises to understand how constraints can be a boon and how they can be restrictive to progress.
   • Identify specific areas of life and work where participants feel constraints are holding them back and how they can break free from them.
3. Reframing – The New Superpower (30 minutes)
   • Learning how to identify and reframe problems, failures, limiting beliefs and obstacles.
   • Case studies and examples of successful reframing in professional contexts.
4. Getting Over Overwhelm (15 minutes)
   • Introduction to the concept of overwhelm.
   • Practical exercises to identify the source and type of overwhelm and exercises to overcome it.
5. Building a Bias to Action (15 minutes)
   • Developing a proactive approach to tackling challenges.
   • Creating a personalized action plan with clear next steps.
   • Q&A and discussion on maintaining momentum post-masterclass.

 

Methodology

The masterclass is designed to be highly interactive, with a mix of presentations, hands-on exercises, and group discussions. Participants will be encouraged to share their experiences, collaborate on solutions, and actively engage in the learning process.

Meet Your Facilitator

• Junaid is a 'Designing Your Life (DYL)' certified Coach and a Stanford Life Design Educator for Universities. 
• Junaid has been enabling individuals (through 1:1 coaching) and university students (through workshops & courses) to design and create a rewarding life and a fulfilling career using Stanford's Life Design framework.
• Junaid has extensive industry experience as a Design Practitioner working with organizations such as Adobe, Oracle, ABB, IBM and Intel (among others) during his career spread over fifteen years.
• Junaid has a couple of MS degrees - one in Psychology and the other in Electrical Engineering – both from the US while his undergraduate degree (BE) is in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Bangalore. He is also the author of the book 'Creating Your Life in 101 Steps'.
• Junaid is also an entrepreneur and is a co-founder of the Organisation ‘My Chat Lesson (MCL) Pvt Ltd’ - enabling learning through 'Chat Stories'. 

Contact: Junaid can be reached at asadjunaid (at) gmail (dot) com or schedule a time with him for a 1:1 session through this link.

  Testimonials

Life Design  1:1 Coaching and Workshops

 

Junaid has coached a number of individuals and conducted several Life Design workshops. Some handpicked testimonials below-

 

Thank you so much for doing this! It has found me at the perfect time, when I'm starting my career in this industry. I was definitely overwhelmed if not only excited. But now I'm feeling much more confident that I'll be able to navigate this new chapter of my life. My biggest takeaway is the reiteration that I could quite literally design my life. Even though I am a designer myself, I had always separated it from my personal life. - Product & Experience Designer, Titan Company Ltd.

 

You are one of the best coaches I have come across. This wouldn't have been possible without your support and guidance - Organisational Change Strategist, NITI Aayog 

 

Junaid was a great coach and has brought up quite some things where I can change my approach towards problem solving – GM, Brookfield Properties.

 

Now I will think about my life situation from different angles & perspectives by using reframing. I love how you integrated many quotes for every concept. - Sr UX Researcher, Tech Mahindra

 

It helps you plan your life and career with space and consideration for your health and social life. It's well rounded and useful. – Student, Final Year, Design, PES University. 

 

It gave a lot of new perspectives towards the way we approach decision making with regards to life and career planning and more of a practical approach with actual active activities we can engage in to measure our growth in both skills and mental well-being. – Student, 1^st Year, Dayanand Sagar University

 

It was a wonderful experience. It gave me a sense of clarity about myself and my life. - Student, 1^st Year, Dayanand Sagar University

 

The last two weeks were extremely meaningful. I have been a little stuck (in life) for a while now. This class helped me get closer to finding my own voice. It gave me the clarity I so badly yearned for. The tasks we did, were helpful in building a realistic vision for myself. The process of building a vision, more than the plan itself, helped me understand myself/ conflicts better. Overall, this course was very "whole", or better said "unabridged". In the sense that it helped me get closer to myself, which was fun and a little scary. Thank you for the formative two weeks! It truly meant something to me. – Student, Year 3, Human Centred Design, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology

 

I feel like I have a better sense of direction. I remember talking about how worried I was about not knowing how my life will turn out to be and just yesterday, when I was telling a senior about my work plans, I noticed a sense of clarity and noteworthy lack of anxiety. I know a little better about what I want out of life and what thought pattern to follow when I feel lost again.  – Student, Year 2, Human Centred Design, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology

 

Over the course of the two weeks, I found myself deeply involved and engaged in the larger discourse of this workshop. The content introduced to us addressed our deepest concerns and conflicts, and this is perhaps the reason behind my enthusiasm and engagement. Overall, one of my biggest takeaways from this course was the clarity, it brought into my process. Class discussions were very meaningful. – Student, Year 3, Human Centred Design, Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology.