Life Design: „Walk’n’Meet“ to stimulate analytical process and brainstorm

My blog will reflect my thoughts and experience with Life Design that I would like to share with you. I write about anything that stokes my pas-sion. It presents and describes the tool: “Walk’n’Meet”, which is devel-oped and created by the following certified Life Designers: Christian Roth, Elke Mehl, Carina Goffart and Yvonne Kania. „Walk’n’Meet“ is a tool to stimulate analytical process and brainstorm.

Walk’n‘Meet

Background: Already in antiquity, Aristotle developed a teaching and thinking tech-nique which made use of nature: he had a habit of wandering through the grand halls of Athens with his students and discussants in order to pass along his philosophical ideas. This was his way to discovering and maintaining his inner balance, which is a direct enabler of undulated cre-ative thinking.

Task: Imagine, as Aristotle did so many centuries ago, you are free to philoso-phize as you literally walk (and work out) your questions.

• Formulate your question, which you want to figure out during your Walk’n’Meet.
• Find a partner. While walking, consider your views and approaches from everyone’s point of view. At the end of the walk, spend about 10min writing down your thoughts on PostIt notes.
• Repeat with another partner.
• Collect all ideas on a wall.
• The ideas should be grouped or clustered based on their similari-ties. Complete the exercise by defining from one to three ideas incl. Solutions.

Result: Visualized overview of a team’s thinking process and ideas on a given subject.
Time: 30 min. / in the group

Maybe you can find the tool useful for you and your team.

Thanks for reading! And should you get inspired or moved to drop me a line – with any sort of feedback, thoughts, etc. – I’d be happy to receive it.

Let’s get inspired and be creative today!

Sources

• Video in german about the tool: Stairway to heaven
• Webside to Workliferomance
• Amazon: Durch die Decke denken. Design Thinking

This is the story of how I became a life designer

First of all I would like to say thank you to Robert and Marius from Workliferomance and to all the wonderful people I got to know in the workshops.

My story

At the age of 16 I left my home to find my way. I wanted to learn how a fulfilling life live. I knew that there was a much bigger life was waiting for me outside of the confinements of the world I lived in. Did you ever find yourself asking the questions “What am I doing?” or “How did I get here?” “Who am I”? I ask myself these questions quite often and to be honest with you, now, at a different point in my life, I would definitely recommend my younger self to give the idea of life design a try. I would suggest taking a look at designing my life.

I went to the university and got a degree in educational science and computer science. I have been working in different industries, e.g. in the music and entertainment industry, in an insurance company and most of time in the automotive industry. I asked myself the questions “What am I doing?” or “How did I get here?” “Who am I?” all the time. There were ups and downs and a lot of learnings. I ended up to find myself falling in love the automotive industry and I discovered my strengths. I build up a strong network, I created audio books and I have a family and deep relationships. I built a well-lived and joyful life.

Think like a designer and build a well-lived, joyful life. As a believer in dreams [reference to Stairway to heaven] and thoughts I am a maker, strong-willed and persevering. My (Business-) Life is designed to be dynamic and successful.

How did I become a Life Design Facilitator?

Books can help me to find purpose in life. When I read „Thinking through the ceiling: design thinking in practice“ I fell in love with Design Thinking. I did a few workshops and was inspired and fascinated by the mindset and the process.

The meaning of values

As a Life Design Facilitor one of the biggest adventures I can ever take is to build a creative culture. What does that mean? That fact that there are values to get me there. As a Life Designer I am optimistic. I try to make mistakes often and early and I believe everything is possible. I learn from failure over and over again. Writing this blog is a new experience for me. I ask myself: how do I start writing a blog? In that case a Life Designer says: first act, think later, which is another value of Life Design.
My blog will reflect thoughts and experiences with Life Design that I would like to share with you and I am writing about something that stokes my passion. I envision my blog to be a tool to connect us – you and I and I want to provide you with helpful information about Life Design. In the next couple of weeks, I will publish/post stories from coaches and customers. You will learn more about them, their jobs and how we achieved their goals with Life Design tools.

Iteration or a step-by-step approach is another core value of Life Design: While writing this blog post, I started over and over again. I asked myself different questions like: how can I help people? Are there other blogs about Life Design? Who can support and help me to get ideas about writing a blog? Which brings me to another value of Life Design: to co-create and to collaborate with others and to act in a group or a team and use the team intelligence in creating ideas.

Stairway to heaven

During my Life Design Facilitator training I have mastered many different tools – among them „Stairway to heaven“. It instilled the vision of a Life Design Revolution in me. My dream is that everybody lives the life he or she wants to live and I believe this life design process will easily earn a place among career-finding classics.

Let us get inspired and creative today!

Sources

• Video in german about the tool: Stairway to heaven
• Webside to Workliferomance
• Amazon: Durch die Decke denken. Design Thinking